C'mon.... Aminu is an active defender who plays hard. He comes up with some great defensive plays. Aminu can hit a three when he is set and open but not consistently. Even tired if a good shooter had the looks he had last night the Blazers are in that game. He shot 1-13 last night and ZERO for NINE from three point. Wide open looks all night because the Bucks knew he would keep shooting them. Layman missed two threes yes but the Bucks wouldn't let him get the ball to shoot it. Lillard had a hand in his face for every shot because they didn't have to guard Aminu. Only pure blind fans cannot see that when Aminu can't make a shot this team loses and loses bad. Been this way for three years. Do not think this is going to get better. Soon he will will start to struggle and decide to try to make plays putting the ball on the floor. We have seen it year after year. The TRAINWRECKS are a coming!
Aminu is an Energy Bunny, the picture of Heisenburg's uncertainty principle. He is everywhere all over the court. See the poll. http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/ga...-20-2018-tuesday-4-30-pm-nbatv-nbcsnw.338109/
I really disagree. Any championship contending team would love a guy like Aminu coming off the bench. I expect Aminu to have some good value at trade deadline.
Agreed....off the bench. Which sadly, has not been the case for most of his time here. It creates a 4-on-5 offense on most nights.
The last 4 years where Dame and CJ both started, what was the other common denominator.......no one at either forward position could handle the ball or create their own shot. The result was the opposing D was left to focus on Dame and CJ. The fact that CJ is 2 inches shorter that other SG's is not anywhere close to the top of my list why the Blazers struggle in the playoffs. SF, PF, and the bench has been a much bigger issue.
Of course that is a big issue...but it hasn't been nearly as much of an issue during the regular season. But no matter what, it becomes a much bigger issue in the Playoffs and Dame/CJ's normal advantage (at least on offense) quickly disappears. Aminu's production has actually gone up in some of the Playoff series and Nurk has been added instead of Plumlee.
Sooner or later Collins will get the start because Olshey going to make that happen by trading Aminu at deadline or he won't sign him next year.
It's not the size. CP3, Steph Curry, Mike Conley, Rondo.......... not big guys. But yes in the playoffs the rosters are better than ours. That is my point. Our best players are not the problem. Get 5 good scorers on the floor and no one will be doubling Dame and CJ.
I call bullshit. Aminu is our Draymond. He's a great modern stretch four and our most versatile defender. Sure he had a shitty game, but name one Blazer who didn't. Aminu is actually way underpaid and we should all worry that he'll leave in free agency.
Let's see: which of our starters is in the negative and can't defend against anybody? Give you a clue: he's a forward and he's not called Aminu. Another problem: Stauskas has been quietly awful since he played his best game as a Blazer on his first game as a Blazer.
Pat Con has pretty much been the exact same player but with a little better shooting percentage. Both giving about 17-18 mins a game but Pat has a little higher overall Per at 17.2 and Staukas sitting at 12. Both have a pretty comparable win share. The Blazers should have kept Pat Con in my opinion.
