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Boy you can see the Blazer Hierarchy likes what they saw.
 
some pre-lottery discussion on Scoot Henderson. Tyler Metcalf is on the left. Tyler Rucker is on the right.

I think he does such a good job of playing whatever role is asked of him, where he is going to be one of these really rare malleable superstars. Where you can just kind of plug and play him. Yes, on the court he's going to be a point guard, but we've seen for two years now, him operate a ton away from the ball. So much on the court, he is constantly moving without the ball. He's a really good cutter, he's an off-ball screener, and then he cuts and then re-screens then relocates and cuts again, whether it's a set play or intuition.
That's one of the areas where I really deviate from the Russell Westbrook comp, because when Westbrook doesn't have the ball, he doesn't do anything.
Scoot is constantly doing stuff to put his team, not just himself, to be in a position to succeed.
(pre-lottery) I think the Pistons adding another point guard might be clunky, but you figure it out.
Where I do worry about him a bit is on the defensive side. I think in isolation he's good. His screen navigation is rough. And the off-ball stuff is not good. There was just a lot of lacking attention to detail on the defensive end.

Cued up to where they talk about Scoot Henderson.

 
Pinwheel1 said:
Kind of makes it hard to trade the pick that way. But that is ok with me.
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If he falls to the Blazers, and they have a deal where they could add a Mikal Bridges / Jalen Brown / Pascal Siakam for Sharpe & Ant, they could draft him.
 
Labinot41 said:
I'm just having a hard time believing that the Hornets will pass on him.
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In the context of, they already have a very good playmaker in LaMelo Ball, and 6'8" wings are said to rule the NBA, and Miller is a very good shooter and overall player, I can see it happen.
Not making any predictions though.
 
FlashWad said:
Scoot is going to be a star. I would love to have him be a blazer. Imagine a backcourt of scoot and sharpe in our future…
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Could be, but to add a difference maker now, which is a necessity , teams will want either the #3 or Shaedon to get it done. Dame is a top 10 player who has plenty in the tank left. I want to see , what a top tier wing added this offseason , can do for the Blazers now.
 
tykendo said:
Could be, but to add a difference maker now, which is a necessity , teams will want either the #3 or Shaedon to get it done. Dame is a top 10 player who has plenty in the tank left. I want to see , what a top tier wing added this offseason , can do for the Blazers now.
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If you trade Sharpe (and Ant to match salaries) for a top-tier wing then you have a hole at SG. The wings we have discussed are good but not good enough to compensate for that by next year. And it hurts our future as well.
 
tykendo said:
Could be, but to add a difference maker now, which is a necessity , teams will want either the #3 or Shaedon to get it done. Dame is a top 10 player who has plenty in the tank left. I want to see , what a top tier wing added this offseason , can do for the Blazers now.
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The Blazers do not need to trade Shaedon Sharpe and/or the #3 pick to get a "difference maker." The Nuggets made no such trade to get where they are now.
 
blazerfan11 said:
The Blazers do not need to trade Shaedon Sharpe and/or the #3 pick to get a "difference maker." The Nuggets made no such trade to get where they are now.
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The Nuggets were able to get Aaron Gordan for Gary Harris, RJ Hampton & a 1st rd pick. Wouldn't call that other worldly. Saw where the Blazers could have gotten Gordan for Ant, but Olshey balked. You could be right.
 
tykendo said:
The Nuggets were able to get Aaron Gordan for Gary Harris, RJ Hampton & a 1st rd pick. Wouldn't call that other worldly. Saw where the Blazers could have gotten Gordan for Ant, but Olshey balked. You could be right.
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Gordon's salary at the time was 18.14M. Ant's was 2.5M. Blazers were hard-capped because of using the MLE on Derrick Jones; and they were around 7M below the apron

Portland would have had to add more salary; RoCo's would have fit best, but if Olshey had done that trying to match Denver, between RoCo and the price for Gordon, that would have been three 1st's for Gordon. I don't think Olshey could have sold that to the Vulcans and there was no way he'd have traded Ant who was almost certainly CJ 2.0 in Olshey's 'bloated-ego-fever-dream' of a brain

he would have rather waited 4 months and traded a 1st for Nance while locking up every 1st round pick Portland had available till 2030.
 
Ed O said:
I'm gonna go on record again: I love Scoot. I hope the Blazers get a chance to take him and do the obvious thing of snapping him up.
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If he drops I think we are either taking him or trading him. I don’t think he makes it past 3.
 
wizenheimer said:
Gordon's salary at the time was 18.14M. Ant's was 2.5M. Blazers were hard-capped because of using the MLE on Derrick Jones; and they were around 7M below the apron

Portland would have had to add more salary; RoCo's would have fit best, but if Olshey had done that trying to match Denver, between RoCo and the price for Gordon, that would have been three 1st's for Gordon. I don't think Olshey could have sold that to the Vulcans and there was no way he'd have traded Ant who was almost certainly CJ 2.0 in Olshey's 'bloated-ego-fever-dream' of a brain

he would have rather waited 4 months and traded a 1st for Nance while locking up every 1st round pick Portland had available till 2030.
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I think they tried to acquire him at the previous deadline before they got RoCo.
 
They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but 6’3 guards do.

No. To. Scoot.

Seems like a good kid and all, but no.
 
FlashWad said:
I have a deep feeling that if we can get Scoot and decide to pass on him or trade the pick we we regret it for years to come.
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And honestly I don’t see how Dame would still be on the roster if we got Scoot. I think that would be the end and we would build around Scoot and Shae.
 
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