It seems that every time I see him play he has at least one beautiful outlet pass. I wasn't able to watch last night's game, but it sounds like he delivered again!
Agreed. He has good fundamentals for his position, and obviously has decent court awareness given the passes he's making. It just appears he's over-thinking on the court sometimes. In another 2 years he'll be a heck of a player.
I don't know if it's just me but I'm not remembering this passing ability that you guys are. I remember him making bad passes more than good ones.
He's a young athletic freak who has tons of potential and a lot to learn......oh yeah, and we gave up what amounts to 5 cases of Gatorade to land him. Let's just sit back and enjoy the ups AND downs and hope what we saw last night is just the beginning.
He actually is a pretty damn good passer. His outlet to Nic last night after a tough def rebound was "Love-esque".
I don't agree. I've seen some very skillful passes from him. He's raw, but I've seen Batum make plenty of careless passes too. When Nic makes a good pass, is that skill or luck?
He has rushed some passes in the past. The whole team has for that matter. But I also remember him making some nice passes early on too. Bottom line is his passing is not an issue IMO. Hell his BB IQ is not an issue. He just needs playing time. When he slows slows down he is fine. When he gets the ball up top his teammates need to move to get open so he does not feel the need to shoot or drive as a last resort. If they stand around, bad things happen. .
Yup - and unfortunately most everyone does freeze when he gets the ball at the top of the key. It's obvious that Stotts put him in this position, as we routinely see the ball being passed to Robinson in the same spot in pretty much every game. Stotts needs to figure out what to do with the other players once that pass is made. If the guy in the weak side corner moves up to set a screen for the weak side wing they could dive to the basket for a lay-up.
I agree. To me it appears that they run the same offense with or without LA in the game. How many PF's can shoot like LA? TRob played his best last night at.......center. When Lopez was out. Coaches need to help him stay down low when he plays PF too.
The 2nd unit really doesn't play "together" too well. I think the miracle cure for this is to play Will Barton more. I know people don't think he's all that great, but he is a energizer he changes the pace of things often. He plays very good team ball and really gets other guys involved well. I would love to see more Will and less Mo.
Really good article on TRob. http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...ttle_venting_and_a_little_heart-to-heart.html
Sadly I agree. Either Watson or Will should be the back-up PG. What makes things even worse is that it seems CJ plays nearly all of his minutes with Mo, which is really hampering his ability to get involved in the offense. Stotts has got to stop playing CJ and Mo at the same time.
I agree. They do not play well together at all. The bench has talent. If you add any of them to the starting line up they are fine. But together as a group.....it gets ugly. Terry is trying different things to find that winning combination. I hate to put all the blame on Mo because he plays better with the starters too. But so far it has not gelled. Playing Will at PG won't help though.
Nate has been dissed for years for not changing his offense when Roy was injured yet Stotts does the same thing in regards to LMA and gets a pass. It's really hard to change the offense when a guy gets injured. Do you go with what all the players know or try to accommodate the one guy who is coming in to fill in for the injured player? It's not easy to change the playbook in February.
