A Positive for this Loss: Meyers Leonard

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B-Roy said:
His defense was still nonexistent but he showed much more awareness on offense. One step at a time I guess.
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He only let a pass bounce off his head while it was turned once!
 
i was happy with his performance last night. Meyers is definitely a project but I see a light at the end of the tunnel. He just needs to keep working and hopefully he'll get there.
 
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1honestfan said:
He truly should have stayed in college and if not college then he should be playing down in the D-league because he's just that raw.
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He came into the league to support his mother who is crippled and cannot work. His father died when he was under the age of 6 I believe. His only brother is in the Marines, and probably doesn't make enough to support both himself and mother. Yes, Meyers needs to work on his game, but he is clearly athletic.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
There are no positives in a loss. Only doom and gloom.
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Exactly. Just like there are no negatives in a win. Just sunshine and unicorns. Just ask some of the thought police on this board.
 
Nards is a beast child with the hair of a greek god and the sad eyes of a heartbroken teenager. He is a kind soul with a flair for the dramatic, an introvert yet substantive, and he was born with a innate ability to display exaggerated facial expressions.

plus he's tall like a ladder
 
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BBert said:
Exactly. Just like there are no negatives in a win. Just sunshine and unicorns. Just ask some of the thought police on this board.
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Please; there have been no positives in our wins either if you read the threads. Since driving off Mags and banning Blazer Fanatic, there's nothing approaching optimism in this forum. And now the "realists" are turning on each other, tripping each other up in a race to see who's the most pessimistic about the team, hoping they will be the first to accurately predict the obviously looming disaster.

There is no thought police that you don't already control.
 
Yeah mags. We need some sunshine and unicorns in this dreary burg.
 
The HCP has been pretty scarce too. It was a lot more lively around here with Mags and HCP's wife's husband around.
 
BBert said:
The HCP has been pretty scarce too. It was a lot more lively around here with Mags and HCP's wife's husband around.
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HCP is actively pissed off at this forum for the reasons I wrote about. I don't blame him.
 
I was at the game last night. You knew the outcome was coming. cP3 is a difference maker in close games. The Clips got good shots in the end. We took horrible shots at the end.

Leonard certainly is not a stereotypical "big white stiff". He actually can get better with experience. I guess we will have to suffer through his growing pains.

The Clipper fans were impressed with CJ..... as was I. By next year he may not start, but hopefully he will finish. We need his skill set on the floor at the end of games. It can't be just Damian. We need at least two guys on the floor that can create their own shot. Neither Wes, nor LMA, nor Nic can in that situation. Wes is still a better overall player, but not in that scenario.

Just absolutely horrible shot selections in the last 90 seconds. That and stupid turnovers were the difference. 16-8 in the turnover department.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
HCP is actively pissed off at this forum for the reasons I wrote about. I don't blame him.
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You mean nit picking the negatives when the team is playing well, and the conflagration of angst and pessimism when they aren't? I haven't actually counted, but it does seem like there are more posts and more emotion when a player makes an error than when the team is rolling. Human nature? IDK.

Personally, I tend to view our project players with optimism and patience, and I'm glad to see a positive Meyers Leonard thread. I'm not convinced he's a hopeless cause. For example, he got roasted for letting his man run the court for a dunk while he was stupidly trying to challenge the ball. I have to believe he's smart enough to learn from that mistake. He needs time. I like Meyers and I hope he succeeds.

Then there is CJ. Most of us have to be ecstatic with his overall performance. I think. Then there are those who will continue to argue his negatives, and they have stats to prove it! Oh, well. If there was no disagreement, there wouldn't be much activity here, I guess.

I have ignored posters before who had such a single-minded view of a player that it clouded their rational thought and rendered their posts generally useless. But I'm not going to try to censor them and tell them how to post. Telling others how or what they are allowed to post, positive or negative, bothers me more than any other thing on this board.
 
I wouldn't say I'm pissed, mostly because I can't talk with a mouth full of frothing rage
 
BlazerCaravan said:
HCP is actively pissed off at this forum for the reasons I wrote about. I don't blame him.
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I find myself reading less of this board, too. The constant negativity of a handful of posters is overwhelming this site, and pro-Blazer posters are run off the board.

It's almost like budging from an opinion is considered a sign of weakness. I was down on CJ a few weeks ago. He gets benched for the Knick game, Mo leaves the team, and CJ looks like a completely different player. He can create offense, and that's all the team needs from him now. He's filling the role asked of him, and I appreciate it.
 
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Leonard has all the tools to be an effective player. What he doesn't have is instinct and anticipation, both of which come from experience.

I continue to have high hopes for him.
 
PapaG said:
I find myself reading less of this board, too. The constant negativity of a handful of posters is overwhelming this site, and pro-Blazer posters are run off the board.
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have to agree, while it is fine to comment on what we think can be improved overall I think any fan should be very pleased with this team and season so far, even when we lose to top teams we are right there almost all the time, and they play a very entertaining style of Bball
 
maxiep said:
Leonard has all the tools to be an effective player. What he doesn't have is instinct and anticipation, both of which come from experience.

I continue to have high hopes for him.
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I am not at all as positive as you on this, but I hope he proves me dead wrong, would really like to see him succeed
 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
LOL, I thought about a whole BlazerFanatic-style treatise on the "Meyers Leonard" effect. You know, an insightful look into the stats........because they are everything. But I decided to go with the short version, the one based on the principle that every point he scores is returned twice to the other team by general defensive cluelessness and horrible basketball instincts. Nice hair though.
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He's ok on offense.

On defense he looks like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. Completely lost.
 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
meh

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Not.

Pithy.

Enough.
 
PapaG said:
I like your style! No analysis, and just a strong negative comment about a current Blazer that was meant to troll posters into reacting to you!
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Hey look you took the bait. Troll on son PapaG is here for you.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Please; there have been no positives in our wins either if you read the threads. Since driving off Mags and banning Blazer Fanatic, there's nothing approaching optimism in this forum. And now the "realists" are turning on each other, tripping each other up in a race to see who's the most pessimistic about the team, hoping they will be the first to accurately predict the obviously looming disaster.

There is no thought police that you don't already control.
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I think 3-6 in the last 9 games and 5-8 in last 13 has something to do with the lack of optimism. Hopefully Lillard will dominate one of his 5 all star events and we can have something good to talk about.
 
meyers leonard is a instinct away from being a dominant big man and that come with playing time:ghoti:
 
See there is a plenty of homerism to go around if people still have faith in Meyers
 
maxiep said:
Leonard has all the tools to be an effective player. What he doesn't have is instinct and anticipation, both of which come from experience.

I continue to have high hopes for him.
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I completely agree here. I get mad at him in games but after the game iv got to step back and remind myself we drafted him knowing his upside and the fact he was a multi-year project.

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