Blazers Rotation: Is Curry backup 1 or 2?

[Wizard Mentor]

Assume we make no more transactions, the rotation might look like

Nurk/Biggie
Aminu/Collins
Harkless/ET
CJ/Curry
Lillard/Baldwin

Jaynes thinks Baldwin will have trouble getting minutes because Curry backup Lillard. Thoughts?
https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...hill-battle-playing-time-season-trail-blazers

I think Curry will backup CJ.

I think those guards will all play the 1 and 2 at different times of the season and all of them will get decent run. I think Trent and Simons are the guys we won’t see a lot of this year unless they decide to play really small.

Absolutely agree. But the point of the question is really "Will Baldwin play?" If Curry comes off the Bench as a 1, Baldwin probably won't get significant minutes.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Assume we make no more transactions, the rotation might look like

Nurk/Biggie
Aminu/Collins
Harkless/ET
CJ/Curry
Lillard/Baldwin

Jaynes thinks Baldwin will have trouble getting minutes because Curry backup Lillard. Thoughts?
https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...hill-battle-playing-time-season-trail-blazers

I think Curry will backup CJ.

I think those guards will all play the 1 and 2 at different times of the season and all of them will get decent run. I think Trent and Simons are the guys we won’t see a lot of this year unless they decide to play really small.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

I think those guards will all play the 1 and 2 at different times of the season and all of them will get decent run. I think Trent and Simons are the guys we won’t see a lot of this year unless they decide to play really small.

Absolutely agree. But the point of the question is really "Will Baldwin play?" If Curry comes off the Bench as a 1, Baldwin probably won't get significant minutes.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Absolutely agree. But the point of the question is really "Will Baldwin play?" If Curry comes off the Bench as a 1, Baldwin probably won't get significant minutes.

My hope is those two are a good enough back ups it’s allows Stotts to have Dame and CJ on the bench a bit more so they can have fresh legs. I think Curry is the more natural 2 and Baldwin the more natural 1.

 

[lawai'a]

napier was dame's primary back up last year but other than bringing the ball across the timeline, he was something less than primarily a distributor. curry could easily slide in to that role.
more like the opponents point guard defender when paired with cj, while possibly relinquishing distribution responsibilities when dame returned or WBIV takes the court with him.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I have a feeling that Baldwin won't play half as much as we want him to.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Curry and Baldwin make a good pairing. Baldwin can guard either guard and Curry can't guard either.

 

[riverman]

Baldwin will take the Bazz role as pt guard....Curry will sub in at the 2 or 3.....Nurk and Chief will start...Collins and Swanigan will sub in...Layman and Trent will get some play a SF...Mo will start at the 3 and ET will sub at the 3...I expect Stotts will experiment up to the allstar break with different rotations and settle into a 10 man roster after the break....if Swanigan has problems, Meyers will sub in for either him or Nurk

 

[BonesJones]

McCollum will be the backup PG.

Lillard (36) / McCollum (12)
McCollum (23) / Curry (25)

Something like that.

 

[BonesJones]

Baldwin will take the Bazz role as pt guard....Curry will sub in at the 2 or 3.....Nurk and Chief will start...Collins and Swanigan will sub in...Layman and Trent will get some play a SF...Mo will start at the 3 and ET will sub at the 3...I expect Stotts will experiment up to the allstar break with different rotations and settle into a 10 man roster after the break....if Swanigan has problems, Meyers will sub in for either him or Nurk

I could see them using Curry very sparingly as a small ball 3, but not often. He's only 6'2.

 

[e_blazer]

I’d say the best scenario would be for him to play off the ball. Probably he gets some time with Dame and some time when ET is handling the point.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Turner will play PG in the 2nd unit.

 

[JDC]

Curry takes Bazz's 20min plus a few of Pat's and more Zach and Hark soaks up most of Ed's minutes.

The rest are fighting for scraps.

I don't see Wade playing much unless Seth isn't healthy or ET is traded.

 

[KingSpeed]

He'll start:

Dame
Curry
Harkless
Love
Nurkic

 

[Labinot41]

Hopefully we play a Lot of small Ball and bombing 3s with better Shooting Next year

 

[Natebishop3]

Curry is only like 6'2 I think, but Baldwin can guard shooting guards so I think they could play together.

 

[Driew]

Hopefully we play a Lot of small Ball and bombing 3s with better Shooting Next year

Stotts wants to shoot more threes than last season so that's good.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

My desire is for Baldwin to be the primary backup 1 and Curry to be the backup 2.

My expectation is more in line with what @BonesJones posted, that Curry will play in the backcourt alongside CJ, but that both will be playing primarily off the ball with Turner running the offense.

For my desire to become reality, Turner will likely have to be moved, and I don't think that's happening.

 

[BigGameDamian]

He'll start:

Dame
Curry
Harkless
Love
Nurkic

So we're trading C.J then?

 

[Natebishop3]

So we're trading C.J then?

No, CJ comes off the bench.

 

[James lamphear]

I think Stotts will experiment in preseason with with the 2nd unit with Curry Nik/ Trent ET Zach Swanigan/Leonard. I don't Baldwin will get the run as people would like but just my thoughts. Stotts going to see if they rest Dame and CJ more. But it fails he will go back what he did last year.

 

[TBpup]

Curry and Baldwin make a good pairing. Baldwin can guard either guard and Curry can't guard either.

Yes....but Terry isn't known for favoring defense over offense....or really at all.

Baldwin will take the Bazz role as pt guard....Curry will sub in at the 2 or 3.....

I know Terry likes to go small but if Curry is playing at the '3', EVERYONE will be posting him up.

 

[BonesJones]

Curry takes Bazz's 20min plus a few of Pat's and more Zach and Hark soaks up most of Ed's minutes.

The rest are fighting for scraps.

I don't see Wade playing much unless Seth isn't healthy or ET is traded.

Even if ET is traded, Baldwin isn't a SF... if ET gets traded, it likely means more Gary Trent.

 

[JDC]

Even if ET is traded, Baldwin isn't a SF... if ET gets traded, it likely means more Gary Trent.

It's more about role / skill set. And I think you could get away with some 3 guard looks vs. smaller bench lineups.

 

[ripcity67]

Even if ET is traded, Baldwin isn't a SF... if ET gets traded, it likely means more Gary Trent.

which is a good thing.

 

[James lamphear]

When Blazers went small last year it was CJ defended the 3 not Napier and did pretty good job.

 

[dviss1]

On 2K, I would bring Curry in to play the 2 but I would have him guard the smaller of the 2 backcourt counterparts.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

He'll start:

Dame
Curry
Harkless
Love
Nurkic

So I assume Olshey's been fired first, right?

 

[riverman]

Yes....but Terry isn't known for favoring defense over offense....or really at all.



I know Terry likes to go small but if Curry is playing at the '3', EVERYONE will be posting him up.

the Lillard CJ Bazz 3 guard small ball game was effective....Curry is taller than Bazz...I see them possibly used in the same fashion at times. as to defense....we went from 27th to 8th last years but the offense dropped way off...everybody thought we needed more scoring punch...Mo Chief Nurk and ET are our defensive guys...Curry plays offense at the 3....Chief will handle the defense on his man more than likely....defensive assignments aren't always the same as offensive ones...Dame would often not be defending the opposing pt guard on defense

 

[dviss1]

Dame would often not be defending the opposing pt guard on defense

It's a rare time when Dame doesn't guard the PG.

We don't hide him.