How does that mean his latest tweet talks about Portland? He tweeted that he's going to a classy organization "minny". It has no relevance on his previous team "Portland".
Good for Mo, and good for us for not bringing him back. I hate Blake's game almost as much as I hated Mo's game before he came here, but Steve is most definitely a better fit for our second unit. Blake plays slightly better d and actually passes the ball-- he's not as good of a scorer on his own, but that role should be filled by CJ/Willy this season. I don't think we'll miss Mo at all. Now how about we get something of value for Wright/Vic/Joel/Leonard?
Try reading it again, he explicitly ("1/2," "2/2" etc) broke it up into two tweets to account for the 140 character limit.
If you read the two tweets together, he was talking about the Blazer organization. He does also tweet he is happy or excited to be with Minny now. I wish Mo the best. He came to Ptd, embraced the organization, his teammates and the fans. He gave it his all on the court, had a unique bond with Lillard and helped the Blazers to a successful season. Wish he was coming back and think he will be missed on and off the court. But it does seems Blazers weren't really interested in bringing him back, which makes me think I overvalued Mo. Mo will be a player I will be rooting for wherever he goes.
I think you can look at the scoring and think we will deeply miss it. But I think it was at the expense of the other team. He tend to break the flow, which would make it so much harder for the other bench to score. Blake isn't anything to go goo goo after, but he's like the reliable engine that is a great cog. As a starter, he wasn't a great fit. But as a bench player, he can really help this squad.
I never had "bad blood" for the player. I thought he loved the team and players. I just hated his style of play. Just like I hated crawful's game. When either of the players were on, they were amazing scorers. Problem was, they weren't on most nights.
I know I quoted your post, but I was just speaking to Mo thanking the Blazer organization. FWIW-The rest of the post was more my thoughts on Mo . . . not commenting on your thoughts about Mo. I don't think you have been harsh on Mo and many share your thoughts about Mo's style of play.
I never had any animosity toward Mochuck the way I hated (still hate) Crawchuck. I can forgive his horrific defense -- we all have our limitations -- but on two nights out of three, he was a net negative on offense as well with his mistakes and style of play. I won't miss him.
What makes you think he's in a much worse situation? I mean, team success is great and all, but he's much more likely to get minutes there IMO and I think nearly every player in the league places a higher priority on actually, you know, playing.
I'll miss Mo. Truly undervalued by many posters. He was brought in to be a scorer off the bench since the team had just broken the record for bench futility the year before. He was never going to put up 6 assists a night, he was supposed to shoot. This year however I agree that a guy like Blake is probably a better fit. CJ, Barton and TRob I think are ready to improve and contribute more on offense, plus Kaman is much better on offense than our backup bigs last year. Blake isn't Steve Nash but he'll be solid and allow the other guys to get into a rhythm, plus he should be a great 3 point shooter in Stotts offense when guys kick the ball back out to him.
The crazy thing is, he did put up 4 assists a night, which in 25mpg isn't a bad number. His per/36 number of 6.3 is better than Lillard (5.6). As I posted earlier, I feel a lot of the frustration from posters toward Mo had to do when he'd play hero ball, which I can't really blame him for, even if I didn't necessarily enjoy watching it. For comparison's sake, Crawford as the back-up PG in Portland averaged 3.2 apg/4.3 per36. Veterans are what they are, for the most part, especially bench players. This season, I expect to read about how Blake is terrible because he can't create his own shot.
He was saying that Mo could have had the same deal if he hadn't opted out. If Mo had decided not to opt out, I doubt Neil would have signed Blake, and Mo's minutes would have stayed relatively the same. They might have gone down a bit to make room for CJ, but I doubt he would have gone under 20 minutes. Instead, he opted out and now he has to play on a Timberwolves team that most likely won't have Kevin Love.
