Free Agent B/R: Brook Lopez Is a Realistic Blazers Free-Agent Target

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  1. BigGameDamian

    BigGameDamian Well-Known Member

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    Ya if the game is on the line I wouldn't want Nurk with the ball either. He really needs to work on his offensive game. I like Nurkic but I do think the guy is overrated. Calling him "The Bosnian Beast". LoL
     
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    Somebody needs money.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Did you not see, or perhaps comprehend, what I wrote? Over the last 4 months of the season, Nurk's FG% was .547, which would have been 12th in the entire league, if he'd shot that well for the entire season. After the first two months of the season, when he averaged 3 TOV/G, he cut his TOVs to less than 2/G.

    He is a 23-year old work in progress, but made significant improvement in both increasing his FG% (from .450 the first 32 games to .547 the last 47 games, including .563 in 24 games post All Star break) and reducing his TOVs from greater than 3 to less than 2.

    Yes, he needs to continue to improve, but given how much he improved over the course of the season (his first as a full time starter), and his relatively young age, to assume he won't continue to improve is incredibly short sided. He'll either improve here, or if we let him walk for nothing (stupid move IMHO, given our cap situation and inability to pay an adequate replacement) , he'll improve elsewhere.

    BNM
     
  4. BonesJones

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    Hit the nail on the head.
     
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    I would still stuck with Nurkic, just need to continue his development and reap the rewards. Brook seems to be on a path of just being an outside shooting big, which seems more like a situational role player.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Especially given that Nurk is already better overall, and monumentally better defensively at 23 than Lopez is at 30. Nurk is literally twice the rebounder and twice the defender Lopez is. Nurk will continue to improve. Lopez will continue to decline.

    I'm sorry, someone please remind me why are we talking about this???

    BNM
     
  7. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Nurkic shot around 55% for the last 50ish games of the season.
     
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    Also you have to factor in last year was his first year of starting for the whole season. He is still relatively inexperienced and has lots of room for growth.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Yep.

    .547 for the last 47 games and .563 for the last 24.

    BNM
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Yes, he values experience over youth, even if that experience has never won anything, has been injury prone most of his career, has never been a good rebounder (very Bargnani-like) or good defender.

    BNM
     
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    I'm 100% sure he'll be back. The fact that we're discussing other centers is rediculous.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I think the only real question is: will Ed Davis be back as Nurk's backup. If not, then who? PapaG? Meyers (ducks for cover)? Who???

    BNM
     
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    I guess the question to me is could you bring in Lopez as a back up center to Nurkic? He’s basically the total opposite of Ed Davis.
     
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    Ed will be back. We need vets, Olshey even admitted it. Why would we let a guy go who wants to be here, and who's one of the most effective back up bigs in the leagimu who will also come pretty cheap?
     
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    No. Lopez wouldn't settle for that.
     
  18. TorturedBlazerFan

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    Do we know how cheap Ed will be? He’s been a really good back up center for Portland, wouldn’t be shocked if someone else offered him 10m a year?
     
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    Who has the cap space to offer him $10M a year that wouldn't offer it to other, better free agents first?
     
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    Well after the Lakers strike out again who knows what they’ll do heh
     

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