Jeezus, I just noticed Crabbe's 3FG% is down to .358 (league average .362) and his PER is at 10.6. Both have plummeted since BRK made him a starter. Looks like we're not the only ones they fucked with that toxic offer sheet - kind of a contractual murder/suicide. BNM
No, he's the taint. Actually, didn't we used to have a poster with the username Taint in one of the previous incarnations of the Blazers forum? BNM
Still not sold on Nurkic ... tonight was a prime example of why I'm leery of signing him long-term. He lost his touch from last spring on the block, he doesn't finish with authority near the rim, and is sloppy with the basketball. Did he play solid defense? Absolutely. I wouldn't move him for just any player but he's definitely not untouchable as was the case during last spring's Nurk Fever.
The Taint acted tough, the opposite of HCP. One time he mentioned he had accidentally sat on his loaded gun that day. He disappeared. Maris tried to make contact, but couldn't.
I’m with you, for similar reasons. As much as anything just because I still don’t think this team, even with some added wing help, has a ceiling higher than the second rd. And while he provides defense and every other game some offense I think it can be replicated with a mix of Davis and Collins while also being better equipped for today’s NBA and Stotts offense. I wouldn’t be mad if we resigned him but I think he could be part of a package that brings the level of roster change we need. I like Nurk the player and the teammate, but I’ve seen enough to believe trying to flip him to improve other areas of the roster would be more beneficial than tying us down to him long term for 14-18 mil a year.
I was at the NYK/BKLN game tonight. Crabbe is common. He was better under Stotts. Remember people here thought he'd average 18-20ppg with Brooklyn? Well, Brooklyn wishes. He wasn't horrible tonight. He was decent but he's not worth the money at all. Not sure what Brooklyn thought of him.
Only the delusional that AC would be great in Brooklyn. There were a lot of us that could see this coming
Crabbe should be valet parking Olshey's car for LIFE for giving him that contract. How Neil thought it was a good idea to give Crabbe AND Turner AND Leonard such contracts is beyond imagination.
Anyone other than Leonard I suspect happened because of PA - the Blazers were not willing to let assets walk. I suspect that losing LMA had PA spooked - and he made it a priority.
It wasn't Olshey's decision: "And then there was the matter of the four-year, $75 million offer sheet Brooklyn handed Crabbe. Sources told ESPN that Blazers owner Paul Allen never thought twice about matching. There was no dialogue, no consultation. Crabbe was being retained." BNM
That part is on Olshey. He's responsible to make sure the dialogue happens & they talk through things before making a stupid decision. Not speaking up is the same as supporting it (in this situation).
Even if PA has the final say, we need to remember that part of Neil's job description is making sure the owner makes the right decision. If NO was strongly against that matching, then he should have been able to convince PA that letting him go was the right choice. All this is hindsight. It happened under Neil's watch, so he's partly culpable. That being said, the Turner move was the more egregious signing and nearly all signs point to NO being the main culprit for that one.
