The one thing about Clinton is he seems fundamentally pretty solid. When he gets rebounds the ball stays up at his shoulders. His screens are set wide and solid. He really directs defense from the low post well. His offense is a massive work in progress though. He also gets out of position on rebounds
Yes - I have my doubts he'll ever be much of a scorer, but he's such a force on defense that it'll be hard to justify taking him out ever.
I know I said only positive, but I'm really struggling after last night. Serious question: is Rupert a keeper?
Bro this thread is for positive assessments only. If you have anything negative to say maybe you should start a thread called “negative assessments of Blazers summer league players” or just post it in the Blazers summer league thread. Please don’t derail conversations, this is your final warning. If he wasn’t on this team his NBA future would be much more grim. But given the situation I think we will keep him on the roster to judge improvement. He is young and raw. I think time could do him well, but I don’t think he will be a starter and he may be overseas before long. Reason a lot of could be players which go overseas and do well are bounced out of the league is simply to make room for youth like him who you hope can be a good player on a great contract.
DC is a man mountain. After a couple of years of conditioning he will look like a 7ft2 Dwight Howard. If you wanted a defensive big he was the best in the draft.
If your concern is his 0-9 on 3's. I would not worry about it. He shot 44% from there with the Remix and 36% with the Blazers. He just turned 20 and his potential on D (7'3" wing span) is enough to keep him for another year.
The narrative shouldn’t be Clingan Vs Edey, it should be Clingan Vs Holmgren Eventually maybe it will just be Clingan
That’s Jaleel White AKA Steve Urkel. Must have been at some kind of celebrity game. Does look like Reggie Miller. Will smith is on the left. I found that photo online and thought it was funny. Top photo is CJ in Highschool
For those that watched last night's game, lots of Blazers looked good for a change. The backcourt of Kennedy Chandler and Terquavion Smith were the scoring heroes (and Smith had a highlight block, and both of them got steals), but I'm more interested in Olivier Nkamhoua. He's not a star-in-the-making, that's for sure, but he got SIX blocks, one of them of a driving dunk attempt that most players would've ducked out of. Invite him to camp! I imagine he didn't get minutes before because Alex Reese was taking them (and Kris Murray), but Reese bumped his head last night and Nkamhoua capitalized. He also had a wrist injury his last year of college, which probably hurt him in the pre-draft process.
True. He's even older than Dalton Knecht! (Which is fitting, because Knecht more-or-less replaced him in Tennessee.)
Pretty positive assessment of Clingan's SL https://www.youtube.com/live/Wi8_oq8-GEw?si=kJaHWKvFG-itMvAB
