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HailBlazers said:
Highly disagree. Stotts never had them playimg full court pressure D..
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Stotts’ Blazers finished 6th in defensive rating in 17-18. Right now the defensive minded Conductor has better defenders and has them 17th…..his best thus far
 
Mediocre Man said:
Stotts’ Blazers finished 6th in defensive rating in 17-18. Right now the defensive minded Conductor has better defenders and has them 17th…..his best thus far
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Different game back then. Offenses are better now.

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SlyPokerDog said:
I got to meet with VP of Scouting, Mike Schmitz, a couple of weeks ago in a private chalk talk with about 6 other fans. It was amazing. Schmitz is the real deal. Hopefully, the Blazers are extending him too. He talked about Camara and Deni, and I firmly believe it was his voice that Cronin listened to when the Blazers made the moves they did last offseason.

I came away believing that no matter what happens with the draft lottery, the Blazers will find unique ways to add more talent to this roster.
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Not sure if people here are aware of this, but I am preety sure Avdija was long sought after by Schmitz (Prior to Draft).

Enjoy the following video - a year 2020 - 45 minutes - one on one - reviewing Deni plays in Maccabi days (he and Amar'e Stoudemire had killer chemistry BTW) :

 
Phatguysrule said:
Tuomas Iisalo. Unfortunately it's probably too late and the Grizzlies will have him locked up. I'd pay whatever it takes to get him. We probably should have done it before this season, IMO.





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I wonder if “Toad990” is this forums version of JinxSpeed. Can you imagine if somebody copy and pasted HIS posts and used them as a Blazer insider type on another teams forum?
 
HailBlazers said:
Different game back then. Offenses are better now.

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* the median offensive rating in 2017-18 was 108.9. The median offensive rating this season is 114.8. A differential of 5.9
* Portland's defensive rating in 2017-18 was 106.4. Portland's defensive rating this season is 115.2. That's a differential of 8.8

so, while offenses are 5.9 points better this season than in 2017-18, Portland defense was 8.8 points better then than now. a 2.9 point comparative differential in favor of 2017-18

another way to gauge: in 2017-18, Portland's defense was 2.5 points better than the average defense; this season, Portland's defense was 0.4 points worse than the average defense

I think people underestimate the defensive prowess of that 2017-18 team. Yes, it had Dame & CJ in the backcourt, But the front line was Nurkic-Aminu-Harkless and that was a capable front line. Further, that team had a healthy Ed Davis/Zach Collins duo that were kind of joined at the hip and were very good at defense and disruption. It also had Evan Turner as a 6th man he was solid defensively all year. And, even though he was tiny Shabazz Napier was a surprising decent defender; he was next to impossible to beat of the dribble

this year's defense made progress, although compared to last season the progress is being over-stated because of last year's tank. The current defense would get better organically if the team was able to offload Simons and Ayton
 
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THE HCP said:
I wonder if “Toad990” is this forums version of JinxSpeed. Can you imagine if somebody copy and pasted HIS posts and used them as a Blazer insider type on another teams forum?
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Lol. I wasn't posting it for any inside info. Just the general vibe of how the fans seem to appreciate him.
 
Blazinaway said:
Uh okay, I don't agree but part of the problem is we don't know how much decision making power he has or how limited he might be upper mgmt.
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Fans of any professional sports teams pretty much never know these sorts of things about the inner workings of management and we don't have any real examples of ownership meddling here. For me anyway, the question is how much do I agree with the decisions being made & then I blame/credit those said to be in charge.

I consistently hated the decision making under the Olshey regime but largely have been in agreement with those made under Cronin.

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Perhaps Billups goes back to Colorado with the new vacancy with the Nuggets….hmm

Malone to coach Portland?
 
riverman said:
Jody has produced films, digital media investments and distributed 469 million dollars in charitable donations to around 1400 foundations. She's made a fortune as president of Vulcan outside of sports and still also invested heavily in 3 sports franchises. She's a cofounder of Vulcan and folks talk like she's just been riding Paul's coattails all these years. I think she's an impressive woman and have no problem with her chapter as a custodian of the Blazers post Paul. She's generated a lot of wealth and recently sold Paul's 100 acres of undeveloped land in Beverly Hills....the lady is no slouch. Never got the hate other than she's a quiet personality. I'd say she's part of the Cronin hiring and extension so that ties into the thread. No matter what, the lady has serious fuck you money.
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Great story.

Doesn't mean Jody has anywhere close to 5 billion extra dollars sitting around. NBA doesn't let owners buy teams leveraged.

Most billionaires can't afford an NBA team - regardless of how insanely rich they are. Need many billion - most likely tens of billions in wealth.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
She's Paul Allen's daughter and sister?

That Paul must have really been a motherfucker ... of his own mother?
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Yeah a real...
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