Exclusive Ayton is agreeing to buyout

Hard to imagine Blazers winning less than 35 games and equally hard to imagine Lakers winning 70+ games. Explain your math.

 

The way its currently constructed id be shocked if we won 35.

We have inconsistent scoring everywhere lol.

 

Camara, Avdija, and Sharpe are trending up. Simons and Ayton were negatives last year and now they are gone. And team went 23-18 to close season last year. Defense should be improved. We have 3 All NBA Defense players. We’ll see. Prepare to be shocked.

 

Scoring and winning are not the same thing. Jrue in down year had almost twice the ws/48 of ant, replace ant's minutes with jrue and you are more likely to win.

A rookie DC had a higher ws/48 than DA, Assuming DC plays more now that DA is not ahead of him in the rotation is a good thing. The real question is what happens when DC sits. If RW3 can play. You win a lot more (again. Higher ws/48 than DA). If Duop plays. You lose a bit more (a lot closer to DA than you would think)

So, the real question is, how ready HY is...

 

it's not plain, but it's simple....minded

 

This is what is so perplexing. I agree with what you have typed here, but why the fuck did Management trade Ant for Jrue. Buy him out. If he doesn't want that then have him do what is best for the team, come off the bench. I haven't heard anything about him being a bad teammate or malcontent like Ayton is reported to have been. Seems Grant will not be going anywhere any time soon unless Portland gets lucky and maybe gets in on this possible 7 team trade being rumored. I understand they have to reach the salary floor, but that is not a consideration here.

 

To close out last season? Two of those reasons are gone. Last year means nothing.

We will be under 35 wins if we dont address the shooting.

 

It’s one of his strengths I thought. Guy nailed tons for us coming off a Scoot pass.

 

Will shoot it better than any center we got right?

 

If you think this current roster is winning 35 games…… god help ya Uber Driver.

 

When Heath Ledger lost the best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman (for his portrayal of Truman Capote) he had a good line: "I thought it was for the best acting, not the most acting."

Ant was our MOST scorer.

 

Addition by subtraction. Look at our three worst +/- (apart from Taze Moore, that is)

 

Ride those numbers nerds, RIDE ‘EM!

 

If the piss and purple do it, it must be golden.

 

Computer nerd >>> Audio visual

 

Reminds me of that old excedrin commercial where the ordinary working Joe say “Don’t show me charts and graphs. I don’t believe them!”

 

Ayton missed most of the second half of the season. We played better when Simons was on the bench. The two main reasons we had a surge were Camara and Avdija who are still here and primed for a leap.

 

Holiday, Camara, who is the 3rd all nba defender?

Edit: So Matisse is the 3rd

We also have
Williams and Clingan both good defenders

Deni and Jerami are not bad either

Overall we should be above average defensive team

 

The bottom line is the team has its work cut out for them. My dream is a 500 season. It’s a reach but you never know how the year will play out.

 

Not sure if true, but seems plausible to me.