Bro... He USED Kuzma on that baseline drive with the spin to left hand... THAT is not what I was expecting...
I loved the way POR as a team attacked the basket whenever the Lakers went small. It's interesting that Hart and Kuzma combined for 35 points off the LAL bench, but they were also -13 and -12 and a big reason why our bench out scored theirs by 9 points. Which also happened to be our final margin of victory. Their starters played our starters even, but their bench could not stop ours (to the tune of 55 points). BNM
You and me both man. He has legit skills that I wasn't aware of. I guess Sac was so poorly run there for a while that it could make any prospect look bad. It didn't help that he went to Philadelphia when they were purposely trying to lose as many games as possible. He got lost in the shuffle, big time.
This is exactly the reason why Collins is going to be so important going forward. We can put him at the 5 to counter small ball lineups, with Chief or Moe at the 4. But, we lose no rim protection with Zach at the 5, and he can stay with most 3's and 4's as well.
And then last year in BRK, he barely played as he was one of 12 players they had on their roster between 6'6" and 6'8". BNM
Today might be an aberration, but I'm definitely interested in seeing how he competes throughout the season now. Could be a Diamond in the rough kind of pick up.
Yup. We can defend against small ball and big ball lineups while keeping roles relatively constant by simply swapping Collins/Nurk and Meyers/Forward(Moe, Chief, Jake).
Stauskas is definitely looking like a bargain basement deal and I think he will, like most players off the bench be a little inconsistent but over all he should be a nice plus for this team. The kid can shoot.
Okay, anyone who thought we’d be looking at a Nik Stauskas highlights package from the first game of the season raise your hand. If your hand is up you’re a stinking liar, but I love you anyway because I’m still basking in the glow of yet another Blazers win over the Lakers. That just never gets old, and the LeBron media frenzy made it that much sweeter.
But can he do it when the other team is actually making a concerted effort to defend him? I think it fair to say he caught the Lakers by surprise.
