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Which of these players is currently your favorite non-blazer?

  1. Luka Doncic

    9 vote(s)
    18.8%

  2. LeBron James

    2 vote(s)
    4.2%

  3. Giannis Antentekoumpo

    18 vote(s)
    37.5%

  4. Kevin Durant

    1 vote(s)
    2.1%

  5. A former Blazer (CJ, Trent Jr, Connaughton, etc)

    4 vote(s)
    8.3%

  6. Zion Williamson

    2 vote(s)
    4.2%

  7. Joel Embiid

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  8. Nikola Jokic

    2 vote(s)
    4.2%

  9. Jayson Tatum

    5 vote(s)
    10.4%

  10. Other

    5 vote(s)
    10.4%
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  1. THE HCP

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    You can post all the numbers you want. He’d be our 2nd best big on the team right now.
     
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    Sure wish the Blazers had him right now.
     
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    Zach would probably be better than Eubanks. I'm not sure he'd be so much better that it would make any difference in Portland's record. I've seen him play a couple of times. He's still very foul-prone and he still has problems guarding on the perimeter...which is where he picks up a lot of his fouls. He has gotten stronger at rebounding though
     
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    I wasn't thinking instead of Eubanks. Was thinking as well as Eubanks. More like instead of the Tall Lanky kid that will never play. Can't even remember the guys name?
     
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    I'm still getting over the pain of only having one draft pick last year.
     
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    probably thinking of Butler or Badji. Couple of years ago, Harry Giles; year before that, Moses Brown and Skal Labissiere. And of course, before that, the Meyers Leonard era...those were the days!

    I'm fine with Eubanks as a backup C. He's physical and he hustles his ass off. Yeah, he's flawed but he's also a minimum contract. For me, the problem with Zach is Zach isn't really a PF...he's a C. He doesn't have the mobility to cover the perimeter. So, if the Blazers were fitting another real big on the roster, I'd prefer they have a guy equally adept at PF as at C. A couple of ex-Ducks fit that bill, Bol Bol and Chris Boucher. Or somebody like a Jarred Vanderbilt or a Naz Reid

    Length AND versatility outside of the C position. Like I said in another thread, watching the Blazers against the Raptors just drove home the big advantages there are to having lots of length & mobility to plug into the SG-SF-PF rotations, and how disadvantaged Portland is by only having Grant fit that mold
     
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    If we got Collins, we should start him in a front court with Nurk and Grant.
     
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    Joe Ingles sure would look nice coming off our bench
     
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    Kings got a nice looking young team. I’m jealous
     
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    Only took them 16 years of tanking.
     
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    Only because they drafted poorly, the talent was there If they had better insight.
     
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    Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
     
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