Welcome to S2, we even enjoy comments like this that are about as stupid as one can get and make Strenuus look completely inept at figuring out basketball and trying to troll your way to an "edgy" narrative.
The 4 point increase I was talking about was comparing his Denver stats to his Portland ones, not comparing one Portland season to the next. Nurkic spent last summer in Bosnia, and has been worse at finishing around the rim from the start of the season. Stotts must be very powerful indeed to influence Nurk from half the world away. It looks to me that Nurkic's game is the same, but his lost weight has thrown his game off slightly. I think he needs to add some bulk (preferably muscle, not fat, but either would work), and slow down, stop rushing.
Gallinari is 6’10 and can swing between SF and PF... which are the positions we are in need of. Wes is a 6’5” SG you want to play SF.... and Dame/CJ is already undersized backcourt and you want to go smaller?! Also Gallinari is 2-3 years younger.
It still blows my mind to see Joe Ingles on that list. JIngles used to be a poor three point shooter, he's greatly improved simply through sheer hard work.
And you pull up some cockamamie stats as “proof” that DeAndre Jordan is declining ... how about he leads every player in the NBA in rebounding and fg% THIS YEAR... and do you even watch games?! DeAndre eats up a ton of space in the paint, he alters many decisions to drive in the lane... you talk about blocks per game being down... maybe you haven’t noticed the entire NBA is blocking less shots... the league leader is barely over 2 per game... you are not worth debating
Yeah, I have the lowest Bball IQ.
If we didn't have to give up more than Turner, Meyers, and end of bench parts, AND we managed to cut salary to avoid the repeater tax, I'd be fine with him coming off the bench and going back there in the fourth quarter. That would give us Nurk, Jordan and Ed at Center and Collins and Aminu (and possibly Vonleh) at PF. That's a major log jam though. I'm just not ready to give up players of value who fit the team like Nurk, Zach and Ed for someone like Jordan who is either going to be a cap buster or a rental.
If DeAndre still has the same impact on a defense them why has his DRtg risen from 98 to 102 to 105 over the last couple seasons?
Exactly.
I have to say, we weren't on the O-Live board for a reason. As long as we can cut the quality posters from the herd, cull the rest and turn them into Soylent Green, it's all good.
I used to play basketball against his high school, not while he was there though, I'm way before his time. I did live around the corner from his high school when he attended it, and I voted there a couple of times. It pleases me to see him doing so well.
Players like LA, I don't know why. Regardless, LMA (and others) figured out that they made enough $$$ to just buy a house
oh come on, I attacked the post not the poster the whole time.
like I said...we're all being traded before the deadline...Olive migration says the writing is on the wall...
in that case I demand the Patty Mills position of flag waiver like he was on the Blazers bench, not the good Patty thats on the spurs and actually gets playing time.
Don't dismiss the 16 rebounds & 1 block!
I bet he was 1 for 1. That's an amazing FG%, we should get him.
Yes, Robin Lopez was a better center than Jordan in today's game.
Agree, not sure why groupthink around this place is so negative on adding one of the premier centers in the league, especially if you can offload one of Moe/ET/Meyers in the process.
We also have the TPE from the Crabbe trade to improve the wing position as well.