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Ed O said:
And Turner shot 52% from three pointers in the last two months of the season.

It's a constant battle between sample size and recent data... but in the case of both of those guys, they aren't good three point shooters, and that's BrianFromWA's point.
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2 months are not a reliable sample size, the last year of a player is considered a good sample size.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Turner is a very good player, so good. BUTTTTTTTTTT, we already have a team full of very good players. Aminu, Crabbe, Harkless, Plumlee, Davis... very good, very good, all very good! What we NEED imho is a third Fantastic player. That's why I made my "A-list" thread. Turner isn't on my or anyone else's A-list. The blazers are a very good team, that just got incrementally better, but incrementally better is not good enough. So, overall, my feeling is.........

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You can give yourself a bow job under your laptop? You are much more flexible than me.
 
Ben Golliver the ex-writer for Blazers Edge gave this signing a D plus -- but i am gonna be honest i am not a fan of Golliver AT ALL but i thought the haters of this might like seeing this as a way to justify how they feel.
 
tlongII said:
I like it. Turner is 27 and very athletic. Good dude too. We need inside help but this was a good signing.
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Turner isn't that athletic. His max vertical wasn't that impressive and his wing-span is almost exactly the same as his height which is abnormal for most NBA players. He's not that explosive and more of a space-creator versus an elevator. His game is more like CJ's than Dame's.
 
Ripcity4life77 said:
Ben Golliver the ex-writer for Blazers Edge gave this signing a D plus -- but i am gonna be honest i am not a fan of Golliver AT ALL but i thought the haters of this might like seeing this as a way to justify how they feel.
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C+/B-, but we really wanted an A.
 
Blazers Roy said:
2 months are not a reliable sample size, the last year of a player is considered a good sample size.
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Considered by whom? You? That's fair. I don't know that 139 shots is definitely enough to establish that the guy has suddenly become a decent three point shooter but a few dozen is not. *shrug*
 
We signed a role player. It's yet another C in the long line of free agent signings. It's like Neil's back in high school and taking a multiple choice test he didn't study for.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
C+/B-, but we really wanted an A.
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Portland signed a bench player that will now be the 2nd highest paid player on the team. He can't shoot, isn't as good of a defender as Aminu, Harkless or Crabbe (although better than Parsons) and needs the ball in his hands to be effective. This team needed a reliable 3rd scorer or a rim protector....he fills neither of those and looks more like a replacement for Gerald Henderson who was the 3rd string SG behind CJ and Crabbe. Given all the money the Blazers had to spend and the what was needed, this is a C- /D+ to me. Hopefully that is proven to be very incorrect.
 
Ed O said:
Considered by whom? You? That's fair. I don't know that 139 shots is definitely enough to establish that the guy has suddenly become a decent three point shooter but a few dozen is not. *shrug*
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Maybe you want him to take 1000 shots with Tony Allen guarding him... stats are not science, they are just a baseline to make assumptions on.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
I personally like the signing, for the reasons Ed, Denny, and others have mentioned.
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Free Agency is not over and Olshey may have more tricks up his sleeve. I think it's fair to give him that time before I analyze it to death.

Perhaps more people will like the signing a few months from now. By then we'll see how Stotts intends using Turner for the benefit of the team. In Stotts I trust.
 
TBpup said:
Portland signed a bench player that will now be the 2nd highest paid player on the team. He can't shoot, isn't as good of a defender as Aminu, Harkless or Crabbe (although better than Parsons) and needs the ball in his hands to be effective. This team needed a reliable 3rd scorer or a rim protector....he fills neither of those and looks more like a replacement for Gerald Henderson who was the 3rd string SG behind CJ and Crabbe. Given all the money the Blazers had to spend and the what was needed, this is a C- /D+ to me. Hopefully that is proven to be very incorrect.
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He's a very good player. Stevens loved him. Stotts will love him. You will love him. If we needed a starting SG, I'd grade it a B/B+. Because of team need, I knocked it down, somewhat, but not as much as you.
 
Hobbesarable said:
Free Agency is not over and Olshey may have more tricks up his sleeve. I think it's fair to give him that time before I analyze it to death.

Perhaps more people will like the signing a few months from now. By then we'll see how Stotts intends using Turner for the benefit of the team. In Stotts I trust.
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lol, it sounds like your trust in NO has gotten shaky.
 
TBpup said:
Portland signed a bench player that will now be the 2nd highest paid player on the team. He can't shoot, isn't as good of a defender as Aminu, Harkless or Crabbe (although better than Parsons) and needs the ball in his hands to be effective. This team needed a reliable 3rd scorer or a rim protector....he fills neither of those and looks more like a replacement for Gerald Henderson who was the 3rd string SG behind CJ and Crabbe. Given all the money the Blazers had to spend and the what was needed, this is a C- /D+ to me. Hopefully that is proven to be very incorrect.
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Yes he can shoot. He is a good mid range shooter. Yes he was a bench player, but one could argue he was one of the best bench players.........finishing 5th in the 6th man of the year voting.

You guys all wanted someone else, but the funny part is no matter who we were rumored to be after........we still could not agree that the guy was any good. We scoffed at Whiteside, Parsons, and Dwight....all for different reasons. So in the end would any of those guys made us contenders without other moves?

it seems to me that we all agreed last month that we needed a third ball handler in the starting line up. He came cheaper than Batum, and quite frankly I like him better since he likes to get in the lane.
 
Why were we in a rush?

“They said, ‘We’ll give [Parsons] until 6 a.m., and if he doesn’t say yes, we want you for sure,’ ” Turner told the Globe Friday. “I didn’t know much I was going to make. It was so random. I could make $12 million a year or I could make $18 million.”
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
Why were we in a rush?

“They said, ‘We’ll give [Parsons] until 6 a.m., and if he doesn’t say yes, we want you for sure,’ ” Turner told the Globe Friday. “I didn’t know much I was going to make. It was so random. I could make $12 million a year or I could make $18 million.”
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That shit better not be true. If it is then Olshey is an idiot.
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
Why were we in a rush?

“They said, ‘We’ll give [Parsons] until 6 a.m., and if he doesn’t say yes, we want you for sure,’ ” Turner told the Globe Friday. “I didn’t know much I was going to make. It was so random. I could make $12 million a year or I could make $18 million.”
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"so, uh, Evan...about that 70M...Psyche! It's actually starting at 10.5M, but you'll average 12M a year. We want you, baby!"
 
It seems that Evan has a really good sense of humor. Maybe he can do color commentating from the court!
 
Turner shoots 34.1% from the corner three spots. Career he's 35.9% from the corner. His midrange game is no worse than LaMarcus's. For a player who is only assisted 30% of the time in the two point area, he only picked up 7 offensive fouls last year. By way of comparison, Aminu picked up 16 last year.

In fact...

http://bkref.com/tiny/s18M0

Evan Turner versus Aminu.

If we're shipping out Aminu to make room for someone else or as part of a package to get someone like (say) Kanter, we have replaced Aminu with a slightly less chaotic version of Aminu.
 
Turner was also quoted saying he'd rather play in Boston but he came here for the money. This shit is awful.

Olshey is an absolutely awful GM when it comes to free agency. Absolutely, horrifically, awful... Parsons probably chose to sign in Memphis because we put a fucking 6am deadline on it.
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
Why were we in a rush?

“They said, ‘We’ll give [Parsons] until 6 a.m., and if he doesn’t say yes, we want you for sure,’ ” Turner told the Globe Friday. “I didn’t know much I was going to make. It was so random. I could make $12 million a year or I could make $18 million.”
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Exactly. Who were we in competition in that was beating a path to his door? He didn't even know his own value and $12M would have been within his range. What a massive overpay.
 
I figured it out!!! It's a Harry Potter thang.

See, Neil wanted a highlight reel player and

EVAN MARCEL TURNER
rearranged is
NEVER TURN CAMERA!!!!

that dude's worth $70 mil, easy!!

Unfortunately, what it really means is that Evan's parents love Macintosh computers...
EVAN MARCEL TURNER
rearranged is
NEVER RETURN A MAC
 
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