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Wizard Mentor said:
Blevins is not taking a roster spot.
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No one is wasting a roster spot as far as I know because we're not planning on using our 15th and final roster spot. We could easily keep both Dennis Smith Jr. and Marquese Chriss.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
lol at that whole concept.
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what's funny about it? Its only been around three years but has already produced bunch of quality rotational players

Duncan Robinson
Chris Boucher
Lu Dort
Monta Morris
Torrey Craig
Alex Caruso
PJ Dozier
Garrison Matthews
Frank Jackson
Jordan McLaughlin
Moses Brown
Markus Howard
Shake Milton

The only funny thing is Olshey thinking he's in a position to ignore it, which he did for years and is essentially what he's doing by signing Blevins.
 
Scalma said:
The only funny thing is Olshey thinking he's in a position to ignore it, which he did for years and is essentially what he's doing by signing Blevins.
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He's done the same with the GLeague. We are only one of two teams (PHX being the other) who don't have an affiliate.
 
DDolla said:
Elleby and Blevins wasting roster spot… just sayin
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Scalma said:
what's funny about it? Its only been around three years but has already produced bunch of quality rotational players


Moses Brown

The only funny thing is Olshey thinking he's in a position to ignore it, which he did for years and is essentially what he's doing by signing Blevins.
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Your list INCLUDES A PLAYER OLSHEY GAVE A CONTRACT TO.
 
Cugel said:
I would take any of those over CJ Elleby. Hopefully summer league was not an indication of CJ’s season.
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I once called Elleby a Jack of All Trades, but he truly proved himself a Master of None.
 
Who would I like? Chriss or DSJ
Who do I think? I'm afraid it will be PatPat.
 
Whoever it is will have as much an impact on this team as people on this forum. Next!
 
Scalma said:
way too many people are watching this when they could be doing literally anything else.
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how do you know they weren't supposed to be watching aNd learning/listening to the coach off cam saying what to or what not to do?

just saying. It looks like they are all keyed in on the court. Not gooffing off.
 
It should be Chriss or Patterson, purely on positional needs of the roster.

We have plenty of guys who can play guard;
Dame
CJ
Powell
Simons
McLemore
Snell (few minutes at SG)
Little (few minutes at SG)

Our position options for bigs are;
Nurk
Zeller
Nance
Roco
Little (few minutes at PF)

So we have 5 bigs, all whom have major injury history, while we have 7 guards, whom have very little injury history. Chriss or Patterson can step in fine for 10-15 minutes as a backup PF if we have two bigs miss a few games. Even if we have 2 guards missing games I'm not sure Dennis Smith Jr would see the court at all.

Sign Chriss or Patterson!
 
WesleyMatthews said:
It should be Chriss or Patterson, purely on positional needs of the roster.

We have plenty of guys who can play guard;
Dame
CJ
Powell
Simons
McLemore
Snell (few minutes at SG)
Little (few minutes at SG)

Our position options for bigs are;
Nurk
Zeller
Nance
Roco
Little (few minutes at PF)

So we have 5 bigs, all whom have major injury history, while we have 7 guards, whom have very little injury history. Chriss or Patterson can step in fine for 10-15 minutes as a backup PF if we have two bigs miss a few games. Even if we have 2 guards missing games I'm not sure Dennis Smith Jr would see the court at all.

Sign Chriss or Patterson!
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pretty much a no brainer to me.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
It should be Chriss or Patterson, purely on positional needs of the roster.

We have plenty of guys who can play guard;
Dame
CJ
Powell
Simons
McLemore
Snell (few minutes at SG)
Little (few minutes at SG)

Our position options for bigs are;
Nurk
Zeller
Nance
Roco
Little (few minutes at PF)

So we have 5 bigs, all whom have major injury history, while we have 7 guards, whom have very little injury history. Chriss or Patterson can step in fine for 10-15 minutes as a backup PF if we have two bigs miss a few games. Even if we have 2 guards missing games I'm not sure Dennis Smith Jr would see the court at all.

Sign Chriss or Patterson!
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This is all true and I tend to agree with you. However, if Dame goes down for a month, we only have 2 SGs (and zero true PGs) who can handle the ball well enough to run the team. I guess the question is are there GLeague players available to sign if that scenario were to happen?
 
CJ Elleby just turned 21 over the summer. He only played two years in College.
I don't think he's a superstar but this is his last year on the contract. Second round pick drafted like 46 or 47 or something?
Blazers are not letting him go just yet.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
CJ Elleby just turned 21 over the summer. He only played two years in College.
I don't think he's a superstar but this is his last year on the contract. Second round pick drafted like 46 or 47 or something?
Blazers are not letting him go just yet.
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They should.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
This is all true and I tend to agree with you. However, if Dame goes down for a month, we only have 2 SGs (and zero true PGs) who can handle the ball well enough to run the team. I guess the question is are there GLeague players available to sign if that scenario were to happen?
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CJ could start at PG with one of Simons/McLemore/Norm backing him up fine for a month. Of course the team would be worse without Dame, but they'd be worse with whoever is in this 14th roster spot. Even if we signed DSJ or another GLeague guard; would he play in the scenario of Dame missing time? I very much doubt it. Without Dame, we'd go with the top10 options already on the roster and slide guys over a position if need be.

We'd really need two injuries to these groups of guard players which seems far more unlikely with their history of good health.

The bigs aren't as capable of playing long minutes as our guards, have much more injury history, and we have less of them on the current roster. So it seems obvious to go with an option there.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
CJ Elleby just turned 21 over the summer. He only played two years in College.
I don't think he's a superstar but this is his last year on the contract. Second round pick drafted like 46 or 47 or something?
Blazers are not letting him go just yet.
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I agree that they seem to be invested in him. But watching him in SL was pretty dispiriting. He cannot shoot AT ALL, and he's fairly unathletic. Plus his handle is sloppy and he doesn't have much faith in it. So... what's his selling point? Maybe he has a really good BBIQ, but I'd like somebody to give me evidence.
 
Now if coaches and management believe Chriss and Patterson look like total replaceable G League scrubs, while DSJ or Cook look like a possible rotational player, that is the type of scenario where maybe you just keep the best guard player and if need be later on sign a big or play ultra small. Assuming Chriss and Patterson are better than options that will be available in the future the team should sign one of them.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I agree that they seem to be invested in him. But watching him in SL was pretty dispiriting. He cannot shoot AT ALL, and he's fairly unathletic. Plus his handle is sloppy and he doesn't have much faith in it. So... what's his selling point? Maybe he has a really good BBIQ, but I'd like somebody to give me evidence.
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Until the trade deadline there is zero chance the team cuts Elleby. They have a chance to move under the luxury tax with trades and will want to keep that flexibility.

After the trade deadline when the luxury tax is finalized we could possibly see the team cut him and sign someone for the end of the season and playoffs.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I agree that they seem to be invested in him. But watching him in SL was pretty dispiriting. He cannot shoot AT ALL, and he's fairly unathletic. Plus his handle is sloppy and he doesn't have much faith in it. So... what's his selling point? Maybe he has a really good BBIQ, but I'd like somebody to give me evidence.
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His first year at WSU seemed to be his best by far. He took a lot less threes but made a lot more of them (.414%), but also had a lot more assists than his sophomore year. I'm guessing in his second year he was the only scorer on the team so he had to do it all and his efficiency dropped sharply. So, it would seem he should have done better with the Blazers when he didn't have much responsibility. But he didn't. I don't know where I am going with this but I still think he has the capability of being a big PG who can play defense, which would be very valuable. However he may be the kind of guy who needs big minutes to get into a shooting rhythm and since he will never get that with the Blazers, well........
 
Freshtown said:
Can we release blevins from his two way in order to make room for a real nba player should we need one?
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I'd certainly imagine yes.

My hope is we are allowing Blevins to temporarily use that spot until we need it for someone else. There is no on the court reason for him to be there.
 
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