Notice Trail Blazers and guard Anthony Morrow agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal

Our old pal Sergio Rodriguez return to the nba only lasted a year. I'd have liked him to compete here as a 2nd or 3rd string PG

 

He's also suspended for drug use.

 

It's like you can't see the forest because of all the trees.

We paid for Crabbe's potential. We paid for what we thought he could become. Then we cut our losses when it was apparent Crabbe wasn't gonna earn that money here.

I'd be interested to know how you voted.

 

He's numbers weren't that bad tbh . per36:

That's not horrible efficiency.
Plus - he's cheap, Pacers offense sucks and he was a 15 points starter just a year before.

 

And now we'll be paying Andrew Nicholson 3 mil through 2023. So Olshey didn't get off it Scott free. And this is like saying an investor made a crappy investment with your life savings, but he really did a good job because he only lost 10% of your money before getting out of it, and it was about the POTENTIAL of the investment. The fact remains that he made a bad investment.

 

Glad to see you back on here, you didn't miss much this summer. Maybe you could have two teams to root for?

 

Agree with you here. It was a very bad move.

Dviss1 is a big NO supporter. It's like he can't do anything wrong.

One can understand why the move was made, but not agree that it was a good move.

 

Or two fan bases to torment

 

I think I can do that well.

 

.417 career 3FG%. Can you do that?

BNM

 

Probably not. But then apparently he can't either.

 

Actually he can, and has. That is his career 3FG%. One season playing in a system designed to highlight the most ball dominant player, by far, in NBA history does not change that. OKC's offense was heavily dependent on Westbrook creating chaos. Chaos and havoc are not conducive to good 3-point shooting, especially for rhythm shooters like Morrow. It wasn't just Morrow, OKC was dead last in 3FG%.

Even after that sub-par season, Morrow has the 5th best career 3FG% among active players and 13th best all time. Put him in a system with ball movement that creates plenty of open catch and shoot opportunities and he will likely to return to his career norm.

BNM

 

Can't be easy taking Russ' bail out shots

 

So he was crappy last year but not his fault. He will be great this year because it will be his responsibility. Thanks for helping me.

 

Time will tell, but he has only shot below .371 3FG% once in his 9-year NBA career. He has also shot ≥ .423 3FG% five times. He played last year in a system that was not conducive to good 3-point shooting. This season, assuming he makes the roster, he will play in a system that is much more favorable to good 3-point shooting. He will get better shots, but it's still up him to make them - something he has done very successfully in the past.

There is no way to predict with 100% certainty how well Morrow will shoot this season, but based on his past performance, combined with other Blazer role players posting career highs in 3FG% in the Stotts' system, I'd say the odds are good that he will shoot better this season than the .308 3FG% he shot last year.

BNM

 

Like the Afflalo deal.... Hindsight is 20/20. They took a risk that Crabbe would improve enough to be an asset to the team or an asset that could garner value in return. You win some, you lose some. I don't expect our GM to be right every time.

 

At least Crabbe was reasonably healthy and continued to do well the one thing he is good at. There were other much worse signings last summer (Joakim Noah, Chandler Parsons, Timofey Mosgov, Luol Deng, etc.).

So yes, given Crabbe's lack of overall improvement, combined with the actual 2017-18 salary cap being much less ($99 million vs. $108 million) than projected at the time the Blazers matched BRK's offer sheet, it absolutely was a bad signing and the Blazers would have been better off long term not matching. But, that's the benefit of hindsight, it's almost always 20/20.

BNM

 

He just simply is not, never has been, and never will be, a quality NBA player. He was gifted the starting PG role on a shitty team and promptly lost his job to T.J. McConnell. Lather, rinse repeat (see SAC/ Beno Udrih and NYK/Toney Douglas for other examples).

Anyone who ever advocates signing Sergio Rodriguez automatically forfeits their right to ever complain about Damian Lillard's defense.

BNM

 

Leave it to you to try to put a negative spin on the Nurk trade.

He was not forced to trade Plumlee. He could have kept him and let him walk for nothing and drafted a center with our lottery pick, or, since apparently we are allowed to apply hindsight to all transactions, he could have signed Plumlee to a qualifying offer and kept him around on the cheap for another season.

And, he didn't have to trade him to DEN for Nurkic AND a 1st round draft pick. He could have traded Plumlee for Jahlil Okafor, Roy Hibbert, or any number of other crappy centers. It was a great trade that turned this team's season, and their future, around.

Funny that you are now a Jazz fan. Wasn't Gobert also injury prone until last season?

BNM

 

But the thing is, hindsight was not needed in either of those cases. I thought both were bad moves at the time.

After each deal was completed, I was hopeful for the best (as a fan) - but neither were moves I would have made because there was enough evidence (scouting / advance metrics) to assume that they were going to be bad bets.