Zombie Batum

[blue9]

I really wish we would of kept Batum. He's so much better than Turner and Aminu, especially considering the contract we gave Turner. We wouldnt of signed him if we still had Batum.

He would be our 3rd best player by a long shot...and given the way Dame has been playing lately, maybe even our 2nd best player.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Goddamn fucking zombie threads...

 

[e_blazer]

He would be our 3rd best player by a long shot...and given the way Dame has been playing lately, maybe even our 2nd best player.

Damn, WTF is it with the Dame hate by some of you lately? Please remind me of the year that Batum averaged 26 ppg? He's at 14.9 for this season. His career average is 11.9 ppg.

As far as Dame's play of late, in his last 5 games he's averaging 23.4 pts, 5.4 reb, 5.4 ast , and only 1.8 turnovers. He had one sub-par scoring game, the 13 points in the previous Dallas game. Throw out that one as the occasional bad game that every player has and in the other 4 he's right at his season average of 26 ppg.

CJ's played great lately and I'm not taking anything away from him. That said, he's behind Dame on the season at 23.5 pts, 3.7 reb, and 3.6 ast. His past 5 games he's nudged his scoring up to 25 pts, 5.2 reb, 3.4 ast on 2.4 turnovers.

I'm damned happy to have both Dame and CJ on the roster.

 

[blue9]

I'm happy we have both Dame and CJ, and I don't want to trade either of them at least until we've seen what a different coach can do with them. But to your question/response, the game has a lot more to it than PPG average. I was perhaps hyperbolizing a bit, but Nic is far superior defensively and is at least equal as a play-maker.

 

[dviss1]

He would be our 3rd best player by a long shot...and given the way Dame has been playing lately, maybe even our 2nd best player.

GTFO.... Just Stop. Batum's SOFT ASS NEVER averaged 20. And yes that makes Dame better. You're trippin...

 

[RR7]

I don't think he'd be " by far" our 3rd best player. He's still roughly the same player he always was. Plumlee is about as good as he is, imo.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Batum is averaging 14.9 points, 7.2 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1 steal this season. Like I said, much better than Turner and Aminu!! And he only gets about $3 million per year more than Turner.

 

[oldfisherman]

Batum re-signed for 5 years, the Blazers could only offer 4. Why lose sleep over it?

I would lose sleep over trading Dame or CJ.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Batum est un outil mentalement doux.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Since 12/23 (the SAS game in which Dame was injured), Dame's averaged 23.5 ppg on 41.6% FG, 33.6% 3P, with 5.5 reb & 5.3 ast, with TS% of .541 and an average GmSc of 16.54. Good, but not "Dame-level".

Batum on the season is 40% FG, 14.9 ppg, TS% of .533, and an average GmSc of 13.21. So even during (arguably) the slumpiest stretch of Dame's career, Batum is well beneath him.

 

[THE HCP]

Nobody with common sense is comparing Nic to Dame. You should be comparing him to Gerald Henderson/Noah and Turner and Aminu. BeerBoy is correct.

 

[BBert]

Obviously Batum isn't Dame. He'd still be our third best player though, had we kept him. And we'd have a better team.

 

[BBert]

Plus, and this is important, Batum would take more pressure and attention off of Dame and CJ than anyone else on the team, and it isn't close. Which would also allow us to play them separately more without losing as much production; which might allow us to get and play a defensive specialist at one of the guard spots off the bench.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Obviously Batum isn't Dame. He'd still be our third best player though, had we kept him.

Exactly why we should of kept him. Lillard, CJ, Batum, Plumlee is a good starting 4. Probably gives us 5-8 more wins this season. Would still need a solid PF, but maybe could of found that if we wouldnt of spent $ on Turner and Meyers.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Nobody with common sense is comparing Nic to Dame. You should be comparing him to Gerald Henderson/Noah and Turner and Aminu. BeerBoy is correct.

No doubt. Why the hell did any of you knuckleheads start comparing him to them?

 

[THE HCP]

If you go back, there were actual fools on here saying how much better Aminu is than Nic! Led by the same guy who said we'd win 64 games this season and finish first in the west.

 

[riverman]

I love Nico's game....he just dropped way off when we needed him most. He's a really graceful player in the Rod Strickland way..moves well...just didn't show much fire in the last playoff series. I was probably his biggest fan and I do miss that core....all of them.

 

[BonesJones]

He would be our 3rd best player by a long shot...and given the way Dame has been playing lately, maybe even our 2nd best player.

LMAO.

The Dame haters are getting out of hand. They say controversy and struggle reveals who you really are! And this season has shown some of yall to be just a little bit crazy.

 

[STOMP]

I'm damned happy to have both Dame and CJ on the roster.

Me too! But I'd be even happier if we could undo the bone headed move that sent Nic away. Just reversing that move would improve the balance of the roster so much.

With forums in general but this one in particular, it's truly incredible how some will ignore mountains of evidence rather then admit that they were wrong.

STOMP

 

[STOMP]

He's a really graceful player in the Rod Strickland way..moves well...just didn't show much fire in the last playoff series.

Iirc, he was playing out that season with a busted up shooting hand, as was LA. Add on Wes's achilles and the team's season was truly snakebitten down the stretch. And then Neil turned the page and the board rejoiced...

STOMP

 

[riverman]

I still watch those guys play when the Blazers aren't...Nico started out great and has tapered off ...still a swiss army knife guy.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]