Okay well here's something extremely funny I heard from the commentators last night. They were justifying Blake being on the court for his excellent defense. No lie!
I heard Kerr say that at the beginning. Then after awhile he was questioning why Jackson was leaving him in. Blake wasn't stopping Barea's penetration at all. It was funny a time that Barea ball faked Blake so bad that he was whining to the ref that Barea carried the ball.
Blake has the image and look of a gritty, hard-nosed, lunch bucket player. And that is, in a sense, what he is...offensively. People just assume that also means he's a good, hard-working defender. He might be hard-working, but he's not good. It's the same fallacy that people had with Derek Fisher.
I get the point, but you're forgetting the very important component of Usage. Without that, offensive rating and PER can not be put into a better context.
Fine, add them in and Blake still sucks, err... is not as good as Andre Miller. Blake's AST%, any way you slice it (career, current season, career playoffs, current playoffs) is way lower than Miller's, yet his TOV% is signicantly higher. He can't create for himself, and he can't create for others. He's a spot up shooter whose shot has abandoned him when his team needs him the most. I find it ironic that Andre Miller is a horrible 3-point sooter for his career, yet he shot the 3 better (0.400 vs. 0.308) in these playoffs than Blake. BNM
You spent a lot of time and did a lot of research to refute an argument that nobody in this thread made, including me. So, good job, I guess.
Andre Miller 3 point percentage in the the playoffs is higher than Steve Blake, therefore Miller must be a better 3 point shooter than Blake.
I Blakes last 3 games where he has had about 48 min of playing time he has ZERO POINTS 0/9...7 OF THOSE BEING FROM 3PT RANGE
There was a reason why we pawned him off on you. But at least he's still got his youthful good looks. barfo
I don't think his passes were good looks even in his youth. I guess he had some okay looks for Roy on the wing once in a while.
Actually, shouldn't we as Blazers fans want Andre Miller to go to Dallas, Memphis, or OKC? He's the kiss of death in terms of winning in the playoffs. Send BLANKY to Dallas, and Miller to OKC. That takes care of two rivals.
Hey, if BLANKY makes teams lose, the same evidence says the Miller makes teams lose. Why do you hate the Blazers? Shouldn't you want both Dallas and OKC to have proven losers on their roster, even if they're just a back-up?
BLANKY doesn't make teams lose. He makes himself play badly. If teams were so good, they wouldn't let BLANKY's bad play drag them down. Miller, on the other hand, plays well. Again, though, the logic applies: if the teams were so good, they wouldn't let Miller's good play drag them down. Numerous reasons.
Someone should make a sign next year, for the first Laker/Blazer game in Portland. On it it should read: "Well Done Steve. You helped destroy the Lakers. All is forgiven"
