Unless his +/- was also with Dame, CJ, Hood, and Whiteside, then I can't take that stat too seriously. Not crazy about it. but I think he will play better.
Is it my imagination, or are there a disproportionate number of white-ish bigs suffering shoulder injuries in recent years? Zach, Enes, Meyers, Love...I feel like there were one or two more I had in mind when I started typing this, so maybe it was my imagination. White Men Can't Bump.
This lineup has played 3 minutes for a +/- of 0 However, switch Hassan for Collins (still Tolliver + 4 starters) and they are -13 in 3 minutes. Switch Tolliver for anyone else and you get great results. Additionaly, Tolliver has shared the court with Dame, our best player by a wide margin, for 22 minutes. He is -28 in those Here are our other bench players with Dame in comparison: Simons: +6 in 18min Hezonja: +11 in 25min Bazemore: +11 in 53min Labissiere: +5 in 7min He is also -17 in 10 minutes shared with both Dame and CJ
Thanks for this. Was about to post the same. Enough sample size for him to not see the court ever again.
I've checked the starters too just to be sure, but no one is close to being in the minus while playing with Dame. -28 in 22 minutes is really an impressive feat. On a more positive note, our starting line-up is +23 in 46 minutes ! Let's hope Collins can come back quickly
BBRef doesn't have lineups yet so I got them here https://stats.nba.com/lineups/traditional/ I'm not used to using any of those sites so they may be a better way to do this, but I just searched for all the lineups they were in and combined all the +/- myself
Tolliver was a -15 in 3 min last night. i would prefer him nowhere near the court, but injuries happen and hopefully he can turn it around.
Does this mean Tolliver is starting? I think Stotts view Skal as a C, and won't start him along Whiteside. Hoping I'm wrong. I don't think our defacto backup point will be starting, either, as it means we have no bench playmakers.
Mario should play PF before Tolliver. He might even play more under control. Nothing against him but Tolliver was a bad signing. It's up to Stotts to glue him to the bench
Faried is unsigned at this point also unsigned: Dante Cunningham Channing Frye Amir Johnson Jon Leuer other minimum contracts signed this last summer: Jeff Green Kyle Korver Tyson Chandler Wilson Chandler Ryan Anderson Patrick Patterson Kyle O'Quinn Mike Muscala Nerlens Noel Noah Vonleh Jahlil Okafor JaKarr Sampson (averaging 20 & 8 so far) Christian Wood Furkan Korkmaz Jordan Bell I never understood why the Blazers signed Tolliver considering who else was available as a minimum contract signing. Just about all of those guys above would have been better options. Even two former Blazers, Cunningham & Vonleh would have been better. Or even Channing Frye who averaged 14 & 6 per36 last season while shooting over 40% from three it made little sense then, and even less than little now
We need someone who can play on the perimeter. Faried definitely could not do that. They wanted a shooter to backup Collins. We already know that Whiteside can't shoot, and Skal actually doesn't have horrible shooting stats. Fuck it... start Skal.