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It's not Leonard's defense. It's that, when you're camped out at the three-point line on offense, you can't bang the boards for Offensive rebounds easily. Our successful lineup last night was two garbage men who make their hay getting offensive putback flushes. Leonard can't do that. It's not his game.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
It's not Leonard's defense. It's that, when you're camped out at the three-point line on offense, you can't bang the boards for Offensive rebounds easily. Our successful lineup last night was two garbage men who make their hay getting offensive putback flushes. Leonard can't do that. It's not his game.
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Which is why I think Davis makes a good combo with Leonard.

Vonleh/Plumlee also can work as Vonleh stretches the floor a bit himself.

Davis/Plumlee would be an awful pairing most likely though.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
It's not Leonard's defense. It's that, when you're camped out at the three-point line on offense, you can't bang the boards for Offensive rebounds easily. Our successful lineup last night was two garbage men who make their hay getting offensive putback flushes. Leonard can't do that. It's not his game.
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Agreed. One of the things that I see missing in the Blazers' offense is a back-to-the-basket post-up type of player. Meyers is good at pick and pops. Plumlee, Noah and Davis do a great job as garbage men, but there's nobody that you can toss the ball into the low post and have them create on offense. Kaman is still the best option that the Blazers have for that kind of role and I don't see him getting much burn. It will be interesting to see how Stotts adjusts the offense as the season goes along.
 
Looks like defensive boards are the focus..Stotts has the whole roster getting back in transition on D so offensive rebounds aren't his priority
 
VanillaGorilla said:
Playing well against one guy, no matter how good that guy is, doesn't make him a good defender.
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Sure, but if you're watching meyers on d, I think the guy has came a Hell of a long way. Based on what I've seen of him in the preseason he has been playing pretty good d. There were a couple plays last night where he played d about as perfect as you can against someone without getting a foul. I was impressed
 
Gunderson doesn't know what he's talking about. As far as I've seen, Meyers hasn't been making any more mistakes than Vonleh and Plumlee. Clearly Davis is a better defender, but Meyers hasn't been bad.
 
MARIS61 said:
Dumbasses don't know the game.
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I agree. I lost interest after the first few minutes because of all the inaccuracies and stereotypes. Combined they have less information than 95% of the people that post on here.
 
Reep said:
I agree. I lost interest after the first few minutes because of all the inaccuracies and stereotypes. Combined they have less information than 95% of the people that post on here.
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That's generally all reporters. Unless they're breaking something that we don't have access to, they're still talking about the same games that we watch. They're still sharing their opinions on content that we also got to see, so why does their opinion carry more weight than yours? Because they went to college, got a journalism degree, and worked in sports for enough time to get a job covering a pro team. That's it. Having more experience in journalism doesn't necessarily mean they have more knowledge about the team.

When a coach says something I tend to listen simply because they usually know more about basketball than I could ever hope to know.
 
JFizzleRaider said:
Sure, but if you're watching meyers on d, I think the guy has came a Hell of a long way. Based on what I've seen of him in the preseason he has been playing pretty good d. There were a couple plays last night where he played d about as perfect as you can against someone without getting a foul. I was impressed
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He still makes a couple stupid fouls now and then, but he should grow out of it.
 
Meyers is playing fine...he needs to bend his knees more on defense and get into a stance once in awhile but he's gained a lot of confidence from years past
 
Natebishop3 said:
That's generally all reporters. Unless they're breaking something that we don't have access to, they're still talking about the same games that we watch. They're still sharing their opinions on content that we also got to see, so why does their opinion carry more weight than yours? Because they went to college, got a journalism degree, and worked in sports for enough time to get a job covering a pro team. That's it. Having more experience in journalism doesn't necessarily mean they have more knowledge about the team.

When a coach says something I tend to listen simply because they usually know more about basketball than I could ever hope to know.
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Solid.

Mike Rice said this team is gonna surprise. Rice is like a coach in my viewpoint. Has access that we don't have and watches many practices that we don't see or hear anything being reported. There are a few media guys that have some goods, but most of them are just rehashing the(any) article we just read on our own.

Id go a step further and say the majority of sports reporters are a bit younger than the average age of this forum ( sorry if your young, I mean no offense) and with those extras years comes more time studying and watching the game...hence I think that man of the members here are actually MORE in tune than most reporters. They are just good for breaking news that we didn't get... that's about it.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Solid.

Mike Rice said this team is gonna surprise. Rice is like a coach in my viewpoint. Has access that we don't have and watches many practices that we don't see or hear anything being reported. There are a few media guys that have some goods, but most of them are just rehashing the(any) article we just read on our own.

Id go a step further and say the majority of sports reporters are a bit younger than the average age of this forum ( sorry if your young, I mean no offense) and with those extras years comes more time studying and watching the game...hence I think that man of the members here are actually MORE in tune than most reporters. They are just good for breaking news that we didn't get... that's about it.
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Rice WAS a coach though :devilwink:
 
The biggest problem I currently see for Leonard defensively is that Stotts is playing him out of position and matching him up with the other teams 4s often times on the perimeter instead of the 5s. This isn't a knock on Leonard, but he's the slowest footed on defense of the 4 rotation bigs, as far as sprinting up and down the court he's up their with the other 3 young guys but in terms of being able to move his feet with his man as well as rotate and recover Meyers is probably only faster than Kaman on the current roster. When we played GS we had Plumlee on Bogut and Meyers on Green, and when Utah went small Meyers was basically guarding SFs while Davis and Plumlee took Gobert/Favors, in my opinion it needs to be the other way around. Meyers has never really seemed to hate the contact of banging with the big guys, while it's pretty obvious he's hesitant to close out on perimeter bigs because of his lack of speed.
 
Orion Bailey said:
In the NBA?
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He was the head coach at Duquesne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rice_(basketball)

Rice coached for 13 years at the high school level, posting a career record of 245–71, before moving to college coaching in 1977 when he accepted a position as an assistant coach at Duquesne. He was named the head coach of Duquesne for the 1978–79 season and over his four-year tenure he amassed a record of 62–49, garnering two berths in the National Invitation Tournament and twice being named Eastern Eight Coach of the Year.[1]

Rice then moved to Youngstown State University, where he coached for five years, from 1982–83 through 1986–87. During this period the Penguins twice finished second in the Ohio Valley Conference, peaking with a high of 19 victories in the 1984–85 season. The team amassed 75 wins against 67 losses during the Mike Rice years.[4]
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Our regular season record will be interesting, but so will our offensive and defensive rankings.
 
Jayps16 said:
The biggest problem I currently see for Leonard defensively is that Stotts is playing him out of position and matching him up with the other teams 4s often times on the perimeter instead of the 5s.
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I agree. Leonard should be played at C. After our roster moves were made this summer I thought our starting front court should be Meyers at C and Davis at PF. I still think that makes the most sense, but it sure seems like Terry sees things differently.
IMO, my original assessment makes more sense because you balance out the O vs D rebounds by pairing Meyers/Davis and Plumlee/Vonleh. Additionally I think that Plumlee would be more of an offensive threat in the 2nd unit, and could really be a nice P/R release valve to pair with CJ. And then Davis would be more effective as a "garbageman" in the starting unit. But then I never thought very highly of Stotts - this is his year to change my opinion, but so far he hasn't done much to "move the needle".
 
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