With two words, Damian Lillard might have taken hold of the Trail Blazers' franchise

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Yeah, but LA has a long way to go before he's Tim Duncan. A looooooong way to go.

 

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I think the article makes Stotts look pretty bad.

 

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Pretty much just confirms my suspicions. We don't need a Sarge, but Terry is too nice to be head coach.

 

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Everything Quick writes is dramatic, & every win/loss is like a game 7. In the last week he's called out the "big 3" LA/Dam/Nic in an article. Then he writes about how LA has always had to prove wrong his detractors, and states he suspects LA will answer the challenge. Then he writes about how "unstable" Blazers are no longer aiming at HCA and just fighting to get in the playoffs. Now Damian Lillard's "two words" take hold of the franchise. It's bipolar analysis. I don't dislike Quick like some of you do. But I don't buy into the deeper meaning psychobabble that he reports in each win/loss. Good for Dame for speaking up. Not sure that we need to make a movie about it though.

 

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Well sure. But the point isn't that at all. The point is that woo fucking hoo we beat some shitty teams without LA, and because there were 20 shots and 11 rebounds not getting hoovered up by our main star, other people's numbers improved.. Big fucking deal. If this brave new offense survives 20 games of scouting and actually beats a team above .500, call me.

 

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I'm fine with a Good Cop as head coach, if he has a Bad Cop assistant with the authority to make things painful.

 

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Dame did! after the game he said that with LA out they play with a different sense of urgency. There's the crux of the problem right there. They need to play that way always if they want to make a strong playoff push.

 

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Great, but that's the "win one for the Gipper" effect. If we traded LA we'd lose that.

 

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We run a different offense with LA though. That's really my point. Throw the ball down to LA and stand around. It's really frustrating to watch, and more often than not it results in a bad shot from LA. He is shooting a career low 46% from the field this season. Every other year he's been between 48-50%. He's also averaging a career high 20.8 FGA, which is 3 FGA more than his previous career high of 17.8 which was last season. So he's taking more shots and he's making less of them.

Now, I'm sure this has a lot to do with Stotts' offense, but with LA out it has forced Terry to open up the offense a bit more and rely on Lillard to carry the scoring load. My opinion is that the team plays a better overall offense without LA because they don't feel like they have to feed him the ball every time down the floor. It's pretty obvious that Dame defers to him, so it's not surprise that Lillard has flourished in the games with LA out of the lineup.

 

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And my point is that this different offense hasn't been proven. It hasn't been scouted and it hasn't beaten anyone good yet. I like different, and I like the scrappy play we show when we're trying to win without LA, but I have a feeling that this different offense would fall over pretty quick (maybe 15 games).

 

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Don't you dare diminish the many accomplishments of the Jazz and the Nuggets!!!

 

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I love hanging with you, man.

 

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Who says we would have to replace him with another elite 4? I'm sure we could a hell of a package deal for Mr. Aldridge and the Blazers would be foolish to not take offers just to see what's on the table. Even if Cleveland offered their pick in this draft and a solid big like Varejao I'd look into it. Around Cleveland's pick I'm sure guys like Julius Randle, Aaron Gordon, McDermott, etc. would be available.

 

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On the flip side, the offense with LMA hasn't proven capable of beating good teams now that it's been scouted.

 

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Because any time you can trade a player like Aldridge for a package of Varejao and McDermott, you just have to look into it.




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Yes. So net/net the team is no better or worse. Why then, other than personal preference, do we have opinions about whether LA should be on the team or not? Once again this conversation comes down to one side kinda liking LA and one kinda not.

 

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Lol just giving options. McDermott might be a really solid player like Wally Szczerbiak though. Plus I think if T-Rob got more run he'd easily be a double-double guy who plays his ass off on both ends.