Game Thread GAME# 24: 76ERS @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 11, 2021 - THURSDAY, 7:00, TNT

[Natebishop3]

Nurk at his peak is significantly better. But Kanter is just there for you every night doing Kanter things. Never really injured, never really playing any worse or better than who he is.

Nurk is a German Panzer while Kanter is the Sherman tank. You pick the Panzer any day if it's actually available and not broken down, but you just know there will be plenty of Sherman on any given night.

God I love this comparison.

 

[kjironman1]

lol. I'm not sure what's going on.

What's going on is i addressed a number of the things brought up and i even explained why they were important.
The response was "Stats" but they didn't address anything that i brought up.
Then your response was that you can show me a game where he shot us out of the game.
My response was "How the 5th or 6th option for a team shoot them out?". I'm betting i can show you other issues that were just as or more important in those very same games. Pick your game (No I'm Not Serious) and then we will go look at "Stats" and I'm absolutely sure i can make another issue more important than what Melo shot during his time on the court. It's called "Cherry Picking" to make your point.

Now you want to say I like Melo and that is fine. Which has never once been my stance.
Also nobody anywhere ever said Stats are meaningless.

Then there was another statement about Houston not wanting Melo and a bunch of other GM's not wanting him. I'm betting that for what we have Melo for right now, and with what Melo is doing as a "Bench" contributor on a Minimum Salary, a number of teams could use right now. Obviously with the Blazers down three starters again this year the Blazers are lucky to have him.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

What's going on is i addressed a number of the things brought up and i even explained why they were important.
The response was "Stats" but they didn't address anything that i brought up.
Then your response was that you can show me a game where he shot us out of the game.
My response was "How the 5th or 6th option for a team shoot them out?". I'm betting i can show you other issues that were just as or more important in those very same games. Pick your game (No I'm Not Serious) and then we will go look at "Stats" and I'm absolutely sure i can make another issue more important than what Melo shot during his time on the court. It's called "Cherry Picking" to make your point.

Now you want to say I like Melo and that is fine. Which has never once been my stance.
Also nobody anywhere ever said Stats are meaningless.

Then there was another statement about Houston not wanting Melo and a bunch of other GM's not wanting him. I'm betting that for what we have Melo for right now, and with what Melo is doing as a "Bench" contributor on a Minimum Salary, a number of teams could use right now. Obviously witallh the Blazers down three starters again this year the Blazers are lucky to have him.

all good. I don't want to waste your and my time by going over the arguments one by one. I'm not really trying to convince you of anything.
If you like Melo, fine. If you don't like him, fine.

My personal opinion is that, on the whole (average), his poor defense overshadows whatever offense he provides. Obviously, that's not true every game.

 

[kjironman1]

My personal opinion is that, on the whole (average), his poor defense overshadows whatever offense he provides. Obviously, that's not true every game.

I agree with that. Here is the next thing. Would i rather have a healthy Zach Collins or a better PF that scored and played stellar defense? Sure. But we don't have that. For all his faults we have Melo right now and you got to admit watching him unload on the Sixers when Lillard couldn't buy a bucket was pretty nice.

One last thing. Did he just fall down at the end and get a call? Tell me the truth. Did you think that was worth two shots in that situation?