Eating Crow about Scoot

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  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I'm guessing the other one was Tyrese Haliburton. Numbers are slightly different today, but I think it's about right.
     
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  2. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Yup. I guess on the bright side we're not paying over $200 million for that production lol
     
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    When can we start calling him Sterling? Not sure what the story is as to the nickname Scoot?
     
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    Did you read the title of the thread?
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    So is he just not a point guard anymore? 2 assists is pretty terrible.
     
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    He was never a true pg. that must have been a joke in the first place
     
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    Anyone can play well in 4 games. Heck, Harrison Fucking Barnes just won Western Conference Player of the Week.
     
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    It’s a trend though. The guy is really picking it up.
     
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    when a Blazer does it, he's a future superstar...when a player on another team does it....shrugs
     
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    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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    all I see is our fanbase shitting on its own players, it’s wild.
     
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    Now is the time to be realistic. Before we traded Dame we had an excuse to engage in hopium.

    No more.
     
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    Weird.

    I’m eating Scoot about Crow
     
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    It’s a sign that your franchise sucks
     
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    Eat Scoot and die, mudafukka.
     
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    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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    but even then you usually see some <team x> exceptionalism takes, right? in there somewhere? because it’s sports?

    with portland, oddly enough, most of the takes are like ‘hey guys, COUNTERPOINT: player x is bad. we are bad. and ill go you one more—the ‘team custodian’ (!) is bad.’ it’s some real ‘let me explain capitalism to you’ energy.

    can we just celebrate that scoot had a nice game? 17 points, go blazers. go basketball.
     
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    Gotcha. Yeah, I'm good with the young guys. Just want them playing big minutes.
     
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    Scoot's game was celebrated a lot in the game thread. People certainly noticed that and commented on it. I know I did. But in the 3 games prior to that, Scoot was 10-29 on FG's (34.5%)), 2-11 on three's (18.2%), and scored 26 points on 29 shots. He averaged 6.7 assists in those 3 games, but also averaged 4.3 turnovers. People are going to notice that as well, and comment.

    The "bust" chatter was premature and I think Scoot is climbing out of the he's-a-bust cellar. But clearly the pre-draft hype about him overshot the mark, by a lot. He's been a disappointing 3rd pick; a backup PG in his 2nd season with shooting and turnover issues. Those can be corrected obviously, but I think a lot of us want to see that those corrections last longer than a game or two
     
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    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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    I see a lot more doomerism in the fanbase than wild optimism. a ‘lot” more. if people want to celebrate a one-off good scoot peformance, I’m cool with it. no one is conflating a 17 pt game for ‘HE HIM’ or a realization of the garden variety hype cycle that top 3 picks get.

    are you seeing that? Are you seeing wild optimism? That sounds nice, actually. No?
     
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    "wild optimism" about what? Scoot? There was plenty of wild optimism about him before he started playing NBA games. Then reality barged thru the door

    "wild optimism" about the team? They traded away the franchise player and started a full rebuild....without seemingly committing to a full rebuild. Right now they seems locked in that nearly hopeless limbo of late-lottery-maybe-playin-if-lucky. Not bad enough to land high draft picks and not good enough to reach the playoffs without getting swept in the 1st round. The worst type of purgatory for an NBA team

    they have 3 high draft picks that are all young players. But Scoot is one. Sharpe is in his 3rd season without having established he can consistently do anything well except occasionally flash some major upside before falling way back down the optimism scale. And Clingan lasted 17 games, only averaging 18.5 minutes, before falling prey to Portland's big man curse

    there is reason for some optimism, none of it wild. But I think there are legitimate reasons for pessimism at the same time
     

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