A Canzano piece I actually agree with

"Meyers can become a 7-1 Blake Griffin with the ability to knock down 3's"

Um.....no

 

It's close to zero in proportion to the pie chart of skills a center needs. So I rounded the percentage off. Zero.

 

meh w.e

 

I agree. My hope is he gets to a level of consistent rebounder, spreads the floor with his shooting and can have a few monster games a month. I just don't see him as a leader type.

 

So, is the contention still that nards can't play man defense?

From what I've seen he seems to be doing good on the block

 

Leonard looked great in SL considering he didn't have a real PG playing with him.

 

It's not bad when he's on one guy. It's when there are back picks or cuts. He seems to lose his man when are moving without the ball.


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Pretty much spot on about Blazer fans and this forum in general.

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Fans frustrated with an extended string of front office fuck-ups and/or the worst luck imaginable? How DARE we expect better of the team?

If Mr Acker (whoever he is) wants to grab his ankles and chant "thank you sir, may I have another" - that's his choice. I don't swing that way.

 

I don't like how they are developing him.

Funny that someone brought up Griffin because that's exactly how they should be developing Meyers -- strictly P&R!

 

He's a decent man defender in the post. Where his inexperience shows is in his weakside shotblocking.

 

Aren't you doing that by still following the Blazers, their front office 'fuck-ups', and/or bad luck? Most of the ideas I read here to "improve" the team are so ridiculous or unrealistic, it defies logic if that fan really wants the team to win.

 

Yeah his instincts and reaction timing is a little slow. If he could improve on that, then he will make a huge improvement.

 

I think he's too concerned with boxing out, at least in terms of being a great rebounder. A big part of rebounding is seeing the flight of the ball and being able to have a solid idea of where the ball is going to miss, be it short, long, left, or right. What I see with Leonard a lot is him looking back to his man to body him when the shot goes up. Then again, that is "fundamental" basketball, but I think with his size and leaping ability he'd be more effective watching the shot and learning where misses are going to miss.

 

I agree as well.

I don't think he will ever be an all-star, but I do think he will be a solid center in the league. He is a project player and was when we drafted him. He has the tools to be good. Now it's up to him.



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That pic shows how the refs screw us over. That was no foul.

 

Coming right after fanboy posts criticizing realists, that post was hilarious!

 

I'm hoping that Leonard turns into a top-flight center, but Canzano gives no evidence in his article that this will happen. It's strange, actually. You'd think that if he was this convinced of Leonard's potential greatness that he could point to a few evidences of it, but he seems unable to.