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Shaedon Sharpe will be...

  • Solid starter

    Votes: 10 8.6%

  • Bench player

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Borderline All-Star (think CJ)

    Votes: 21 18.1%

  • Superstar (Dame status)

    Votes: 36 31.0%

  • Top 3 player in the game

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Best Player in the game

    Votes: 7 6.0%

  • Bust

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • All-Star or multi-time All-Star (think LMA or Roy)

    Votes: 31 26.7%
  • Total voters
    116

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Not overwhelming enough. Clearly you need to replace the basketball with the moon. Shaedon Sharpe can dunk celestial bodies!!

Too much? :lol:
 
So before the season started there was 6 votes for bench player and now there are 5. No harm in someone changing their opinion when data causes them to. I am actually more impressed by those keeping their vote the same. But I can't help but wonder who these people are. Only the OP can look it up. But I would ask the original poster, are these regulars who don't mind the reticule of being wrong and are leave it? Or are they people we don't normal see so that is why their vote stands (because they haven't been back)?
 
KeepOnRollin said:
So before the season started there was 6 votes for bench player and now there are 5. No harm in someone changing their opinion when data causes them to. I am actually more impressed by those keeping their vote the same. But I can't help but wonder who these people are. Only the OP can look it up. But I would ask the original poster, are these regulars who don't mind the reticule of being wrong and are leave it? Or are they people we don't normal see so that is why their vote stands (because they haven't been back)?
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I'm guessing they don't care about their women's handbag.
 
blazerfan11 said:

Then, the week between the end of preseason and the start of the regular season, Sharpe’s talent became too great for Billups to ignore. The Blazers scrimmaged nearly every day for a week.

“And he was one of the best guys in the scrimmage every day,” Billups said
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That's a money quote right there. You can imagine someone like Luka Doncic getting a quote like that--he's been honing his skills against grown men for years despite his age. But for someone like Sharpe? That's pretty amazing.

He reminds me a lot of a young Kawhi Leonard (who was drafted at #15). He doesn't have his length or freakish hands. But he's got that same kind of quiet calm. He came in as a 20 year old and started half of the games for the Spurs (a 50 win team that made it to the Finals), and all the playoff games. Pretty damned good for a rook. I don't think anybody saw that coming at the beginning of the season.

Kawhi made it on the court because he had one bankable skill. You didn't know what kind of scoring you were getting, what kind of three point shooting. His percentages were good, but he was only asked to score 8 ppg. But he'd bring defense every night.

Sharpe is way ahead of him in terms of scoring, and behind him in defense. But that scoring is going to make it really hard for the coach not to continue starting him.

Luckily, our team is pretty versatile. Whenever any of Dame, Ant or Hart go down with an injury (or minutes restriction), Sharpe is first man in. He may start half the games (just like Kawhi did) without any roster changes.
 
inconceivable said:
The carter comparison is their jumping ability
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Did Chauncey limit his comparison to just jumping ability? Vince always had solid form on his jumper. While at UNC (where he shot 37% on 3's) I remember noting that and his smooth footwork pulling up going both left and right which convinced me his game would translate beyond just jumping. He and SS have comparable size, athleticism and jump shots. Vince was 22 his rookie year though... few comparisons are carbon copies but this one holds more water then most.

Carter and Roy are pretty high praise.

STOMP
 
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Idog1976 said:
Sharpe has simply put UNLIMITED potential. Steal of the draft and I am pretty confident he will go down as the best in his class.
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I want to point out the hyperbole but I completely agree :tongue2:

I’m pretty confident he’ll go down as the best SG prospect in the last 5+ years. That means better than Green, Edwards, Barrett, etc.
 
BankTeller said:
I want to point out the hyperbole but I completely agree :tongue2:

I’m pretty confident he’ll go down as the best SG prospect in the last 5+ years. That means better than Green, Edwards, Barrett, etc.
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Yep. He's may very well be the best SG in the league in about 3 years IMO if he is in that position, but I actually think he might be a short SF because otherwise that implies we are trading Ant or Dame which I don't like. Consider Booker etc. will have slowed down most likely and he's a Two-Way player.
 
Idog1976 said:
Yep. He's may very well be the best SG in the league in about 3 years IMO if he is in that position, but I actually think he might be a short SF because otherwise that implies we are trading Ant or Dame which I don't like. Consider Booker etc. will have slowed down most likely and he's a Two-Way player.
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Booker turned 26 just 3 days ago; Jaylen Brown turned 26 just 9 days ago; Anthony Edwards is 21; Bennedict Mathurin is 20; Donovan Mitchell turned 26 just 2 months ago; Zach LaVine is 27; Tyler Herro is 22; SGA is 24. Tyrese Maxey is 22; Keldon Johnson turned 23 just 3 weeks ago; Bradley Beal is 29.

I like Sharpe and I'm excited about his upside. But some of you guys might want to slow the roll of the hype train just a little. He might pass guys like Derozan as he ages out, but there are 10-12 SG's that are better now and still in their twenties, so projecting Sharpe as better when almost all of those guys will STILL be in their twenties seems like massive projection thru a Blazer prism

as for trading Simons, I'd do it if the return was somebody like Brandon Ingram or Siakam or maybe even a PJ Washington level player bringing a better fit. But I just don't think Simons has that kind of value, nor will he be gaining it
 
wizenheimer said:
Booker turned 26 just 3 days ago; Jaylen Brown turned 26 just 9 days ago; Anthony Edwards is 21; Bennedict Mathurin is 20; Donovan Mitchell turned 26 just 2 months ago; Zach LaVine is 27; Tyler Herro is 22; SGA is 24. Tyrese Maxey is 22; Keldon Johnson turned 23 just 3 weeks ago; Bradley Beal is 29.

I like Sharpe and I'm excited about his upside. But some of you guys might want to slow the roll of the hype train just a little. He might pass guys like Derozan as he ages out, but there are 10-12 SG's that are better now and still in their twenties, so projecting Sharpe as better when almost all of those guys will STILL be in their twenties seems like massive projection thru a Blazer prism

as for trading Simons, I'd do it if the return was somebody like Brandon Ingram or Siakam or maybe even a PJ Washington level player bringing a better fit. But I just don't think Simons has that kind of value, nor will he be gaining it
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How in the literal fuck do you go from Ingram/Siakam to P.J. WASHINGTON....if you think Ant and PJ are even close to similar value you aren't watching games...
 
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