Injury Excuse Propaganda

I have been reading this forum for a while now and finally felt like I needed to post. I am just sick of this false injury excuse that is being pushed by all the local media. Injuries are part of the game. When your 2 best players are still healthy getting paid 80 mil per year and you are 5 games below .500 close to mid season this is a pathetic excuse to eliminate accountability and for Neil to keep the status quo.

1) Nurk injury was baked into cake. Blazers made western conference finals without Nurk, and actually replaced him with arguably a better player in Whiteside. So going from no Nurk, to adding Whiteside is actually a big upgrade. And the team was talking title knowing Nurk would be out this season.

2) Zach Collins was averaging 9 points and 4 rebounds before injury this year. If Collins doesn’t get injured, Carmelo probably doesn’t sign with Blazers. Carmelo’s inside game and scoring arguably provided a bigger impact than what Zach was giving.

3) Blazers had a below .500 record with Rodney Hood.

4) Teams with injury’s to better players have beaten the Blazers. Losing to Warriors with Steph, Klay... Kings without Fox, Bagley... Cavs without Love... I could go on. So they are making excuse for losing 4th or 5th best player while losing to teams missing 1st or 2nd beat player.

This team caught lightning in a bottle last year. Being dead last in NBA in passing and assist is not a recipe for success, yet Neil doubles down. This ISO ball style is the true culprit and until CJ is traded I just can’t see anything changing.

 

Lol wut?

 

Hey man! Long time! How's LA?

And let me guess: Dame is lazy.

(And not to nitpick, but seeing "injuries" written as "injury's" hurts bad, real bad.)

 

I love Dame... I think he has ability to win a title with a balanced team around him. I just don’t like him paired with CJ and committing 70% of our salary cap to an undersized backcourt. Pairing Dame with ISO ball CJ is why we are dead last in assists. A full assist per game worse than the Knicks. Unfortunately, Neil will not even entertain the idea of trying something different. His ego is to big and he will go down with the sinking ship before offering CJ in a trade.

 

Dang it Sly! Stop doing that!!!

 

As a Mod that's how you welcome a new member to the forum whos respectfully sharing his opinion?

 

We all know this is tunchi right?

 

Thanks man. I thought I made some valid points. This feels like a communist forum where everyone has to agree with the company talking points. No one disputed anything I said and just disregards my post because it’s not all rainbows and butterflies.

 

I agree this forum is filled with commies but you get used to it after a while.

 

Get with the program. All new posters are tunchi. At least according to some of the posters on this forum.

 

Another way to look at it... 85% of Neil’s salary cap allocation is available to play. So missing 15% of Neil’s salary cap allocation is excuse for being 5 games under .500 for a team who was in western conference finals last season. Even if you take away Nurk, Zach, and Hood completely... Neil is way over the salary cap for a team that is 5 games under .500.

 

I know this much: when a dog come at you in a welcoming way, grinning and wagging his tail, don't turn your back or expose your leg

 

Thanks!