Yeah, this is one of those articles that gets written without much thought to meet a deadline, but in hindsight looks absurd. Reminds me of all those articles I read back in the day about Darko Milicic.
Aldridge just didn't have that dog in him. He would occasionally go into Beast Mode™ but it would almost always require a hot poker in the ass, which was all too infrequent. Nurkic seems to actually enjoy banging with other bigs, which is hugely refreshing to me. Imagine yesterday's Miami game, where it gets tight and they put Whiteside on Aldridge--you could almost guarantee a late fade from LaMarsha.
Definitely. You can't teach mean. Watching Nurk move Whiteside around was just so damned impressive. And I love knowing there are NBA guards looking at the schedule and saying to themselves, "Oh shit, we got Portland tomorrow? I always get clocked by that big Euro."
My only worry is that Stotts could Nice the Nasty' out of him while he's a Blazer. Somehow I doubt the players wouldn't be smirking if Stotts ever tried pulling a Pop on them like this... (and oh the irony of the music on the P.A. during the timeout)
Pretty sure I have been consistently critical of him since the beginning of time. You do realize that this is a collection of different people making posts, right? It's not one hive mind. We disagree with each other from time to time. You act as though RC2 is one person....... wait...... do you think that RC2 is one person?
I mentioned that his assists and blocks went up, but scoring, rebound and fg% was it's almost exactly the same per 36.
Neil slammed him a couple years ago by basically putting him on blast in the middle of a press conference for essentially making a name for himself by "copy/pasting" other people's news. In fairness to Ben, that has been the internet shtick since the late 90s and he was just carrying on the tradition. Find news related to the Blazers and then write articles talking about that news. Never really breaking your own news. Neil maybe didn't intend for it to come across as a slam, but it looked bad. So we make fun of Ben for taking other people's work by saying "By Ben Golliver" after everything.
While I hate to be the zombie-raiser of a BlazerFanatic thread (poetic justice, though, maybe)... http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/by-ben-golliver.251569/
She was a bit overly combative and incapable of letting anything go, but I miss the energy she brought to the forum.
And...it's not all about his individual stats. He has his flaws, and his ups and downs, as young players do, but the team as a whole is visibly better, as predicted by nearly everyone here, since adding Nurkic's style and attributes. And more fun to watch. I've been dreaming of a Nurkic type player on this team for YEARS. Sometimes dreams do come true.
