Blake's 71.4 win percentage leads team.

<Blake took a bad shot in a game he otherwise balled his ass off in. Use this as evidence of Steve Blake's entire value. That'll show 'em.>

 

I must be reading a different thread, because from your posts, you actually provided proof for why Blake should play MORE (he apparently improves the play of LMA/Roy), and after being busted on this, you said the stats don't matter.

 

What's new? You try to skew the stats to show they play better when in fact the reason the unit is playing better is because Aldridge and Roy are in it. Not Blake. I could throw in a white guy in overalls in that slot and that unit would come out on top in the stats.

 

Repped ... but what do those stats show us?

 

Waitaminute. Let me make sure I have this right.

Blake is highly mediocre and hence, Blake = Mediocre Man
Blake Leads the team which means....

Mediocre Man leads the team.

And all this time I thought it was Roy's team.

Am I missing anything????

Gramps...

 

C-Note literally tried to /end thread. When it was pointed out that the stats he posted actually contradicted his claim, he ignored them and said they don't mean anything.

Classic thread.

 

"James Harden is playing better than Brandon Roy."

Your own BB IQ self-imploded at that moment.

 

PapaG had to come in and regulate!!!

 

Reading comprehension 101. My stance this whole thread was its impossible to prove one way or the other.

And i pointed out there are a multitude of ways of looking at this topic. ONE OF WHICH supports your claim.

 

Well, now it's your stance. Earlier, it was that Blake had a high win% because he played with Roy/LMA 71% of the time.

I don't have a claim other than that Blake has the highest win% on the team. That's a fact, not a claim. Dissecting why, such as you unsuccessfully tried to do, is a "claim".

 

Everyone else gets the joke. Not my fault you don't.

<---- (signature papag shrug emote)

 

What's the joke? Your intent seemed clear to me.

 

How long have you been posting on this board? You don't know Eric's style?

 

The arguement really isn't about Blake being a championship quality point guard.

He probably isn't.

Rather is Blake the lesser of three evils in the starting unit?

As of right now it appears the answer is yes but only because the other back court starter's defense is pretty bad. If Roy picked it up on the defensive end then Blake's contributions wouldn't be as pronounced which in turn would open up the spot for Bayless.

There are many, many point guards in the league who would be a better option for Portland then Blake is. Unfortunately they all play for different teams.

The odd man out in all of this is Miller. He is playing bad defense along with bad offense. Pretty much a waste of 21 million dollars. Give Bayless Miller's minutes, start Blake and have done with it. Everyone wins while Bayless picks up the finer points of team defense (we hope).

 

Unless I am mistaken Synergy Sports generates their finds via analysis of individual play through all games. I believe Tince did that for them for awhile. That's why I would give their observational analysis far more credit then I would +/- and the like.

I would hope that in order to get such a job you would have to know far more about basketball in general then most folks on this board. As such I would have to bow to their expertise rather then remain convinced of my ignorance.

 

Alls I know is that I was pissed when we resigned Blake after his stint at Denver. I was glad the Blazers had moved on.
Resigning Blake always struck me as a personal favor to Steve by the Blazers front office, and not the best move the FO could have done at the position.