Ben Golliver the ex-writer for Blazers Edge gave this signing a D plus -- but i am gonna be honest i am not a fan of Golliver AT ALL but i thought the haters of this might like seeing this as a way to justify how they feel.
Turner isn't that athletic. His max vertical wasn't that impressive and his wing-span is almost exactly the same as his height which is abnormal for most NBA players. He's not that explosive and more of a space-creator versus an elevator. His game is more like CJ's than Dame's.
Considered by whom? You? That's fair. I don't know that 139 shots is definitely enough to establish that the guy has suddenly become a decent three point shooter but a few dozen is not. *shrug*
We signed a role player. It's yet another C in the long line of free agent signings. It's like Neil's back in high school and taking a multiple choice test he didn't study for.
Portland signed a bench player that will now be the 2nd highest paid player on the team. He can't shoot, isn't as good of a defender as Aminu, Harkless or Crabbe (although better than Parsons) and needs the ball in his hands to be effective. This team needed a reliable 3rd scorer or a rim protector....he fills neither of those and looks more like a replacement for Gerald Henderson who was the 3rd string SG behind CJ and Crabbe. Given all the money the Blazers had to spend and the what was needed, this is a C- /D+ to me. Hopefully that is proven to be very incorrect.
Maybe you want him to take 1000 shots with Tony Allen guarding him... stats are not science, they are just a baseline to make assumptions on.
Free Agency is not over and Olshey may have more tricks up his sleeve. I think it's fair to give him that time before I analyze it to death. Perhaps more people will like the signing a few months from now. By then we'll see how Stotts intends using Turner for the benefit of the team. In Stotts I trust.
He's a very good player. Stevens loved him. Stotts will love him. You will love him. If we needed a starting SG, I'd grade it a B/B+. Because of team need, I knocked it down, somewhat, but not as much as you.
Neil's press conference from last year was fucking epic, he sold everything so well, i was just happy he was the GM.
Actually I came into this free agency with zero expectations. Letting NO surprise me and he's done that so far.
Yes he can shoot. He is a good mid range shooter. Yes he was a bench player, but one could argue he was one of the best bench players.........finishing 5th in the 6th man of the year voting. You guys all wanted someone else, but the funny part is no matter who we were rumored to be after........we still could not agree that the guy was any good. We scoffed at Whiteside, Parsons, and Dwight....all for different reasons. So in the end would any of those guys made us contenders without other moves? it seems to me that we all agreed last month that we needed a third ball handler in the starting line up. He came cheaper than Batum, and quite frankly I like him better since he likes to get in the lane.
