I think it hurt Cleveland that we had so many players at his position. When he did play, he was the most athletic SL Blazer by far.
Stokes was drafted in 2014 but he's still only 23. He showed occasional lapses (he bobbled a few passes that should've been easy buckets) but he does so many things that we need. He could be a Chuck Hayes type. However, he could also be a Kyle Hines type, which means he might get a Euro-offer that beats NBA minimum.
One thing worth watching: we all saw how much better some of our D-League Summer Leaguers were than people who already have contracts (especially Pat). If we keep Pat and just let Stokes and Gutierrez walk, I will be a little bit pissed. That's Olshey making the sunk cost fallacy and stubbornly sticking with His Guys.
OK. I'll give you all that. Quarterman replacement? Sure. If there is a roster spot. But I didn't see him as NBA level. He's in the late 20's too. I bet he'd be great in Europe.
I learned that if you do something good in summer league it means something, but if you struggle it doesn't.
One thing that irked me in the Olshey interviews is that he never missed a chance to condescendingly bash and dismiss and disrespect summer league players. It was the fast talking Olshey version of "every one of these summer league guys suck turds that's why they're in summer league". I mean really, was that necessary? What a prick.
Yeah, the more I hear Olshey the less I like him. Trader Bob had many flaws but at least he kept his trap shut.
It's interesting... I look at every poster on this forum as a balance of worth. Every poster has good posts and bad posts. Sometimes I agree with each poster, and sometimes I disagree with them, and I like that. I don't want to always agree with everyone, but I don't want to always disagree either. I just hope that every poster offers up opinions, actual opinions, about the Blazers and the NBA. What gets tiresome are the people who don't post much about the Blazers. They post about the forum. They troll. They try to be funny. Zero substance. Nothing of value. Nothing worth reading. Sly rarely posts anything about the team. It's usually just him trying to be funny, and he can be funny, but I wish he would write about the team more. Jlprk posts..... I don't even know what the hell he posts. It's usually nonsense and I just skip right over it. And you post almost exclusively about the forum itself, which gets tiresome. You are consumed by the meta of this forum, which is of little value. Why should anyone read what you post? What worth does it have? In the end, we all come here to offer up opinions for others to consume. If nobody read or cared about what we wrote, we wouldn't come here. You should keep that in mind.
I learned biggie is a fucking beast whose shot is butter and his passing is smooth. Hes going to look good next to Nurk. Or even off the bench when Nurk is resting to keep the offense moving. I love how how he always heads to the rim on shots to get rebounds. Guy is a workhouse.
One thing about Trader Bob, he was very pleasant to talk to at the Rocky Mountain Review summer league in SLC. Some coaches and GM's are not as friendly, but Bob would always give me the time of day. Mo Cheeks on the other hand was a prick to most fans IMO. Even if he did help the young singer with the National Anthem.
It's actually pretty rare for a 34-year-old to make an MLB debut. I mean there are some guys who toil in the minors for ages, but most players quit or are released before reaching such a point. As well, the players that do last normally have at least AAAA talent which means that they've also likely played at some point in the Majors already.
That's interesting about Mo. I always found him to be a nice guy.... but I wasn't interacting with him as a fan. Maybe he was just nice to the media?
Olshey explicitly demeaned the importance of such an event, so the best you can do is say that about the fans. I'd also say Stotts toned down the hyperbole.
That's what he's talking about. MM has made it his personal crusade to educate us. He has taken it upon himself to keep us in check and remind us how we are too fanatical about our team.
