OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA MADNESS: MARCH 2025

When Ant gets traded, we'll see the super saiyan version of Scoot

 

I guess I missed something. I never heard about any threats. Is there some sort of article or link you can direct me to?

 

The Bucks scored 44 in the first and still lost by 20 to Atlanta? They can't blame Dame for this defensive when you give up 82 first-half points to a sub 500 team at home.

 

The Bucks scored 44 in the first quarter and still lost by 20 to Atlanta? They can't blame Dame for his defense when they give up 82 first-half points to a sub-500 team at home without him.

 

It’s on the Twitter link here on this page and also in the Dallas morning news article from about a year ago.
Main reason is he wanted to put his effort into real estate and remove his family from the constant social media bombardment.

 

Rest his soul, we'd be a better team with him off the bench. And about Drazen not being Drazen yet, nah, he was he just didn't get minutes. He immediately went to the Nets and averaged 20.

We lost out on 2 great players because of Drexler. Jordan and Drazen.

 

Not exactly true. He averaged 20 during his first full season there, but in the half season after the trade he averaged only 12.6 per game. That's a modest 5 ppg increase from his rookie season (his minutes increased similarly; points per 36 were remarkably steady throughout), so he was gradually ramping up. The first full year with NJ is when he saw the big bump in minutes, so he probably had to prove to them, as well, that he was ready for the bigger role.

 

You just invented that. He went from averaging 7 MPG to over 20. He'd already been given a bigger role. Had he gotten those minutes in Portland, he probably wouldn't have been so disgruntled.

Again, Kersey should've came off the bench and Drexler should've moved to the 3. I'm sure Drexler had a reluctance to doing that, which is why we lost out on both Jordan and Drazen.

Edit in red: did you do this disingenuously? Bringing up his rookie season? Because he was only averaging 4.4 PPG for that portion of the 90/91 season and he upped it to 12.6 PPG.
That's an 8.2 PPG increase mid-season. He was pissed because he saw his playing time dwindle. He got more MPG his rookie season.

 

I already know it's pointless to discuss anything with you, so this will be my last reply. I compared his first half+ season in NJ to his rookie season, because the scant 18 game period in between saw him play only 7.4 minutes per game. And his shooting percentage plummeted. It was the periods immediately before and after that that best indicate if he changed as a player as soon as he got more opportunity.

 

You can't stand being disagreed with. I simply bring facts to the argument and don't settle for half truths... You haven't brought anything to this portion of the discussion that backs your argument.

His numbers alone, and hindsight is 20/20, prove we should've given him more minutes. Hindsight also proves that we should've chosen Jordan over Bowie and moved Drex to the 3.

WE DIDN'T.

My contention is that all of that is Drexler's fault. We couldn't even keep Ainge because he didn't want to come off the bench.

 

Clyde is a bitter little bitch. Always has been. Expects to be treated like royalty and thinks the world revolves around him. I've heard so many stories from very reliable sources, that if they were more well known around here in Portland, he wouldn't be nearly as beloved as he is by fans.

 

It feels like GA will ask out sooner or later. The Trade Machine shows that GA + Portis for Grant + DA works. Give them back their picks.

Will you do that?

 

Who stole the rebound that would have given him 20-10 -5 for the month?

 

This doesn’t hold up. Ainge left us to play for Phoenix where he didn’t start a single game in the 92-93 season. In two more seasons with Phoenix, he started twice. In Portland, he started 6 games in one season.

 

lol yes! How many of their picks do we have?

 

Scoot/Shae/Giannis/Deni/Clingan

 

He led us to two NBA Finals. Even Walton didn’t do that despite the win. Drexler deserves to be beloved,

 

Including swaps, 3 I believe