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Lack of confidence? Yes, probably so. But the good players fight through that and figure it out. The fact that Simons hasn’t figured it out in three seasons is telling. He’s got some skills, but I’m not sure he’ll ever have an NBA game.

Yes, and that’s after 3 years in the league. If he hasn’t taken a jump by now, he’s not going to.

Or a guy who can’t shoot.

I don’t think Olshey would make that trade, but I could be wrong. Olshey knows how close Dame and CJ are, and he wants to bring them both a title in Portland

Yep, I thought the same thing. Olshey now thinks he’s patched enough holes that he doesn’t have to move CJ. This is his last trade. The roster is set.

Good trade. Who cares about the first round pick? If we don’t get to the finals this year, Lillard is probably gone, and we’re going to suck next year anyway. Nance by himself won’t get us to the finals, of course, but Olshey is hoping that all these little deals may add up to something big...

I posted the same thing awhile back. It’s what I call “magical thinking.” Blazer fans indulge in it because management can never really improve the team. It’s just one group of unremarkable players after another, with a few getting swapped out each year. I would argue that even our hope for...

82 games is far fewer.

You missed my point. I wasn’t arguing that Lillard is better than Curry. I was pointing out that the edge in high scoring games that he holds over Curry is even more impressive when you realize he did it while playing far fewer games than Curry.

Let’s see if Billups does any better. I’ll take bets right now that he won’t bench Lillard for not playing defense.

When your starting backcourt, including the best player on the team, refuses to play defense, it limits what a coach can do.

It’s even more lopsided in Lillard’s favor than those stats suggest. Curry was drafted in 2009, while Lillard was drafted in 2012.

Magic Johnson was a winner. And a terrible coach.

So Dame played good defense in the Olympics but hasn’t been able to do it for the last 9 years in Portland? Kind of a head scratcher, isn’t it?

Sorry, but I don’t buy it. The idea that the Blazers didn’t play defense because Stotts didn’t stress it is ridiculous. It’s much more likely that Stotts couldn’t get Lillard and McCollum to play defense, so he just made the best of it.