Game Thread GAME# 53: HEAT @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 5, 2019 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

[hoopsjock]

I don't know if it would make a difference if we did have more talent in the team to make a deal. Olshey's tendencies always seem to be trading for players he "liked in the draft" but have question marks. Harkless was expendable in Orlando because they were loaded at that position and his effort level wains. Nurk was was a center with doublle-double potential but cantankerous and moody. What we have in Hood is another guy with potential but who had a lot of anxiety and crapped out at his last two spots.

Maynbe the problem isn't so much that we don't have talent.... It's that our GM values talent the same way an antique collector sees "Goodwill Bargains.' And views his players personally higher than they are. Everybody else wants talent that meets a championship standard. Olshwy is going through the bin looking for steals. Well. If there is an overscouted league it's the NBA. There just aren't that many players. So there arem't many unpolished as hedge gems.

You are correct but I think if we had a whole team of manageable assets on decent contracts I think that's where the flexibility to make a huge consolidation move could happen easier. Look at Olshey's trade when he was with the Clippers for an example of that. He traded a couple of his prized draft picks in that one. I would actually prefer a roster with role players being all "Goodwill bargains" then paying guys like Turner $17 million a year. I think Olshey realizes that the one summer he went away from that approach (2016) is the whole reason why he can't make a good trade right now.

 

[ripcityboy]

What really bothered me about last night's game was the 'rearing it's ugly head once again' lack of ability to make adjustments. This wasn't even to anything new. Teams have done it before and it completely takes the Blazers out of their game for long stretches. There are other ways to attack it but I don't see the slightest adjustment.

It's my biggest Stotts gripe.

One thing that blows me away about Stotts was that he thought he was actually going to get a contract extension (last summer.) Where we now know that Allen was actually thinking the opposite. I'm for the life of me, trying to figure out what was going through his head that thought he had performed that well?

 

[ripcityboy]

You are correct but I think if we had a whole team of manageable assets on decent contracts I think that's where the flexibility to make a huge consolidation move could happen easier. Look at Olshey's trade when he was with the Clippers for an example of that. He traded a couple of his prized draft picks in that one. I would actually prefer a roster with role players being all "Goodwill bargains" then paying guys like Turner $17 million a year. I think Olshey realizes that the one summer he went away from that approach (2016) is the whole reason why he can't make a good trade right now.

Well. Don't worry. We don't have to worry about an overachievIng team as long as Terry is coach.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I don't know if it would make a difference if we did have more talent in the team to make a deal. Olshey's tendencies always seem to be trading for players he "liked in the draft" but have question marks. Harkless was expendable in Orlando because they were loaded at that position and his effort level wains. Nurk was was a center with doublle-double potential but cantankerous and moody. What we have in Hood is another guy with potential but who had a lot of anxiety and crapped out at his last two spots.

Maynbe the problem isn't so much that we don't have talent.... It's that our GM values talent the same way an antique collector sees "Goodwill Bargains.' And views his players personally higher than they are. Everybody else wants talent that meets a championship standard. Olshey is going through the bin looking for steals. Well. If there is an overscouted league it's the NBA. There just aren't that many players. So there arem't many unpolished as hedge gems.

It's the same reason he prefers "projects" in the draft. He is more concerned with looking clever than in helping the team win.