Anonymous Scouts Takes: PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS

Our third best rebounder will be missed (second best ORB's). Jury's out on how bad it will hurt us.

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Rk                          FG%   2P%  eFG% ORB DRB TRB
1            Jusuf Nurkic  .505  .508  .505 2.4 6.6 9.0
2         Al-Farouq Aminu  .395  .432  .503 1.4 6.2 7.6
3                Ed Davis  .582  .584  .582 2.3 5.0 7.4
4             Noah Vonleh  .490  .500  .500 1.1 4.0 5.1
5          Damian Lillard  .439  .501  .519 0.8 3.6 4.5
6             CJ McCollum  .443  .465  .506 0.7 3.3 4.0
7            Zach Collins  .398  .455  .458 0.7 2.7 3.3
8             Evan Turner  .447  .485  .484 0.4 2.7 3.1
9        Maurice Harkless  .495  .547  .577 0.8 2.0 2.7
10         Shabazz Napier  .420  .450  .497 0.4 1.9 2.3
11         Meyers Leonard  .590  .673  .660 0.4 1.8 2.1
12        Pat Connaughton  .423  .506  .518 0.4 1.5 2.0
13         Caleb Swanigan  .400  .442  .408 0.6 1.4 2.0
14           Wade Baldwin  .667  .625  .762 0.1 1.0 1.1
15   Georgios Papagiannis 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.0 0.0 1.0
16            Jake Layman  .298  .370  .340 0.1 0.3 0.5

 

Curry was on a much worse team. Stats were about even with Napier (one stat a little higher, another a little lower, etc.). I expect Stotts will create in Curry what he created in Napier.

I appreciate Napier because he was the best substitute PG we'd had in years.

 

Speaking of Draymond, Google the Blazers roster and his picture is STILL there above Turner's name. Seriously WTF? Thought it was a Wiki joke at first.

 

Davis ranked among league leaders in rebounding--per minute, per possession, and percentage. His "awful" FG% was .582. In PER and other summary stats, he was our 4th-best player. His replacement, Collins, ranked near the bottom of the team, and barely improved per minute in the season's second half.

 

I loved it. Don't see why they couldn't still run it actually.

 

There's bad bad, and there's good bad. Remember the Aldridge car commercials? Very very bad bad. The Shabazz is the man commercials were well done good bad. IMO

 

yep Ed was a smart player. He rebounded and passed it. He rarely took a bad shot. But there are different ways to spin his offensive production. At at 5.3 pts per game for Ed I think Zach may have a little more upside. He had a 12 point game in the playoffs. That doubled Ed's high.

Interesting that on ESPN they have Ed listed as 225 lbs and Zach at 235 lbs. Wasn't it you that was saying Zach would get hurt at his weight playing center?

 

This is still your opinion. Your feelings. I feel differently. I know others do as well.

I will say this though, the team that beat Houston was not a treadmill team. That was a team that legitimately had the talent to advance. If Matthews hadn't gone down, who knows what would have happened the following year.

And then the team blew up. Aldridge left. Batum was traded. Wes and Rolo were basically told to hit the bricks. And then what? What has the plan been? This roster has peaked. It has gone as far as Dame can carry it. Nothing has changed in three years. My issue is with not having a cohesive plan. What the hell is Neil's plan right now? He's not going to sign any big free agents. We know that. He will have to trade CJ if he hopes to bring in any kind of significant talent. It seems like the plan is to just keep drafting 19 year old kids and hope one of them blooms into a superstar while Dame and CJ slowly age.

The other unfortunate issue is that we are in the middle of the most boring period of time in the history of the NBA. Golden State is dominating the league, and the only teams that seem to contend with them have possibly the best player of all time on them (personally I don't think LeBron is the best, but some people do.)

 

Agree

 

Alrighty then!! Let's do just that!! I'll compare Shabazz best year to Curry's last.

Newsflash, It's not even close:

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Agreed....but tell that to the guy who had his truck set on fire for having a Trump bumper sticker. The people that disagreed with him attacked his truck with extreme prejudice.

 

That's the point I was attempting to make. Apparently, not very well.

 

10 pounds heavier doesn't meet the eyeball test. Collins looks more flimsy.

 

As I said, I did the same. (And on the same site, which I didn't say.) As you see, Curry, who started half the games all season on a bad team, was ahead on shooting 2s and 3s. Napier, confined to being assistant to 2 star guards, led in everything else (FTs, rebounds, and hustle stats).

 

I want to know why it is that every year the “anonymous scout” sounds like @Gronk Brady.

 

Or maybe this was in Detroit after they won... I don't know... something.

BNM

 

Was the truck's owner Trump? That would explain a lot.