Meyers Leonard is garbage. He's a one trick pony. He doesn't play defense. He doesn't rebound. He certainly doesn't block shots. The muthafucka just wants to shoot threes. We got guards who can do that. If anyone is not long for this team it's him not CJ. Edit: Frazier is a garbage time, fringe player, who more than likely won't be on the team next season.
CJ had a tough shooting night because he was going against one of the premier two-way SG's in the league. Thompson can stroke it from '3' with the best of them and is capable of being a lock-down defender. CJ is very good at creating his own shot but Thompson is longer, more athletic, and just a much better defender and that will make for some long nights for McCollum. Proud of Dame's effort. If he doesn't have one of the best games of his career, It's a 30+ point embarrassment. Sadly, even after losing 3 in a row at home, the Blazers are still at #9 in the Lottery rankings. It's what I was talking about earlier. Just a couple of wins here and there can make a huge difference between being a #4/5 seed with a shot at a really good pick, and being #9/10 where you may get someone decent but not a likely the game changer that is available earlier. There just aren't that many of those each year.
When I look at records, which is the only thing that matters, it tells me that Golden State is by far the best team in the NBA.
Meyers is getting better on defensive awareness which is his one big weakness. He's a very athletic 6-10 big with a great shooting stroke for 3. If he's not playing well it's the coach's fault
-That Stotts doesn't have what it takes. 20 easy points by Rush? come on now, our players looked lost against their offense tonight, they were shocked by their offensive plays like they've never seen any of them before. -That if you miss a lot of easy shots then you have a bad night. -That a finished team with the 4th highest payroll in the league cannot beat a new team,with no power forward with the cheapest payroll in the league (50mil vs 95mil). Don't worry, someone will take Paul Allen's money.
Meyer's ceiling is nothing more than Channing Frye, but right now he's a poor man's Channing Frye. Channing is a lot more smooth and comfortable getting his shot off, whereas Meyers doesn't seem to one to shoot unless people leave him alone. He can be a decent backup, but I'm glad he didn't sign that big contract. But we'd be better off playing another guard or wing, or a tough nosed interior guy IMO. I'm not a fan of those soft 7ft jump shooters.
Oh, okay. So if Stephen Curry dropped dead tomorrow, Golden State would still be the best team because they have the best record? And if they'd played all their games at home against patsies and another team had played all its games on the road against much better competition and lost just one more game, Golden State would still be better? I never knew it could be so simple!
All his weaknesses are big - he's 7'1". You know, I almost wish we'd've drafted Royce White instead of Meyers, because we wouldn't still be kidding ourselves that he just needs a little more time to become good. Call this the "better to draft Len Bias than Greg Oden" rule.
I'll admit that Thompson is a terrific player and, obviously, he really had his shot going last night. He's also a gifted defensive player, but to say that CJ's tough shooting night was because of Klay would mean that you'd have to believe that Klay possesses Jedi-like defensive abilities. I mean, CJ missed wide-open 3 point shots, he missed uncontested floaters, he missed shots off the glass that he normally gets to spin in. He missed some of those shots when Klay was on him and he missed some when Klay was out of the game and some when Klay was covering another player or when he'd simply lost his man. It takes a special defensive kind of defensive ability to cause your man to miss even when you're nowhere near him.
