Assessment....and Going Forward: BlazersEdge

[TBpup]

Maybe that's why he can't get a coaching job.

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[Orion Bailey]

I personally Like Pat. Connaughton will be good.

 

[Schilly]

I personally Like Pat. Connaughton will be good.

Rice (insert yawns and homeristic declarations here ) tweeted a few days ago to expect similar results from Pat that we have seen from AC. Pat is apparently a major gym rat.

 

[santeesioux]

We all liked to give Ben Golliver shit, but at least he was an actual journalist. The current crop of writers on there are basically buzzfeed clickbait bloggers that have less bball knowledge than most of the old timers here. It really is the soccer mom hipster site BS says it is.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Rice (insert yawns and homeristic declarations here ) tweeted a few days ago to expect similar results from Pat that we have seen from AC. Pat is apparently a major gym rat.

It was only garbage time.....but he looked dramatically better by the end of the season. Which I guess should not be a surprise for a rookie.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Regarding the article.....I thought he stated some obvious things.

1)Use it or lose it (cap space this summer)
2) We could use another star

Not sure I believe his duplication theory is the issue as much as the simple fact we need an upgrade in at least one of the starting positions. I am not however sure which position that needs to be. I think we just take the best FA possible out of the 3 front court positions and move the current starter to the bench. I am going to guess that is either a PF or Center based on the FA list.

If it is a defensive big, then we start Crabbe at SF. If is is an offensive big, then we start Harkless at the SF spot.

 

[Schilly]

Duplication is only an issue if the 2 players can't play at the same time. The only pair I see that as maybe being the case is Plumlee and Davis.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I thought the article was spot on.

The worst part was when he ("Dave") used to do videos of him talking and you got to see how truly strange and awkward he was. He also writes in a style that is best described as "cringey old-timey sportswriter" where he strains for amusing similes that the kids will love.

Ouch

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Rice (insert yawns and homeristic declarations here ) tweeted a few days ago to expect similar results from Pat that we have seen from AC. Pat is apparently a major gym rat.

Not surprising to hear he's a gym rat considering he is a good enough to have the option of playing two professional sports.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I don't get the BE hate on here. It's never pretended to be anything but an article clearinghouse with occasional amateur-written original opinion-based content.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I've literally never been on blazersedge

 

[andalusian]

I don't get the BE hate on here. It's never pretended to be anything but an article clearinghouse with occasional amateur-written original opinion-based content.

It's the clearinghouse bit. We all expect Dave to arrive at our front doors with a comically large check made to our name.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Dave brings up some very valid points.

Not really, Dave always comes off like everyone who runs the Blazers are idiots and he's the only one with the answers.

The entire article was pretty much him telling the Blazers that they better make some moves because their cap room will be gone after this season. Really? Does Dave honestly think that Olshey is kicked back, feet up on his desk, smoking a cigar, while thinking he doesn't have to do anything but re-sign everyone? Or that Olshey doesn't understand how the salary cap works?

 

[kjironman1]

I don't get the BE hate on here. It's never pretended to be anything but an article clearinghouse with occasional amateur-written original opinion-based content.

Wouldn't have a problem at all with BE if that was actually all it was but the problem is if you decide you want to comment and have a different opinion from that of the writer. That is when you get your comments deleted.

 

[RR7]

I don't get the BE hate on here. It's never pretended to be anything but an article clearinghouse with occasional amateur-written original opinion-based content.

Yet you consistently mock Bleacher Report?

 

[BBert]

I've never been on Blazers Edge.

The article was directed at the BE audience in general, and the misguided guy who wrote the letter. Not the Blazers.