I'm aware of his posting here-- hence me following him. Used to interact with him here and on OLive. Loved his site with contract info.
Yup those guys. Though frankly, Simons is the real disappointment here. Here he was who they hyped all summer, I was hoping by this time of the season he would've formed into an 10-15 points off the bench guy on a consistent basis. I guess there's always next year for him. He was meant to play though.
I think some guys just need the ball to do their thing, and I think role plays a part of it. I think when CJ's with Dame he thinks his job is to shoot (and that might be the instructions he's given I don't know). We see WB and Harden seem to kind of take turns have really good nights or weeks, but it seems like you don't usually see both of them having big nights at the same time.
Glad you brought up Russ and James. Because it makes my point.
I think the coach could design things better. I noticed CJ seemed to do really well shooting threes from the center when he got a pick last night. Don't see that much in games. Also, when CJ is in the game with Lillard, it seems to be his role to just try to score himself. Is this by design? Does he get the ball too late in the shot clock? Wouldn't Blazers be harder to defend if CJ acted more as a true PG and Lillard the offguard at times in the game?
We run literally the exact same sets that we did three years ago. Hardly any weakside action, no change in pace to increase possessions, etc etc.
Look. I have tried to put two balls into play so they can both have the ball in their hands. But the dang rule book doesn't allow it! What more do you want from me?
That's it! TRADE NURK!
They already do this quite often.
Was any of the hype from Olshey for this season?
That's what you took away from my post?
Obviously.
I don't really care TBH... Whether it was for this year or a decade from now they positioned their roster in a way that meant they needed production from him -NOW - that's better then they have gotten. So why does it matter if the hype was for the future or now? - The organization is the one who built the roster with no other alternatives if he needed more time. I'm not at all saying his career is done or that he can't get better next year and consecutive years after that, but I imagine even the Blazers are disappointed in his lack of meaningful production. Maybe this will just be the year of growth he needs and that's ok I suppose but so far it hasn't been very good.
In my opinion, we've yet to see if letting him sink this year will allow him to swim in future years. If he does get a lot better in the future then I could absolutely justify letting him take his lumps this season in a year when they knew they wouldn't have Nurk going in and where Collins got hurt in the 3rd game. If Simons never develops into a rotational player then yeah it's a massive failure. You say he should be averaging 10-15 points per game by now (9 obviously isn't good enough?) but the likely rookie of the year Ja Morant only averages 17.
I basically agree. I'm ok with him taking his lumps this year too especially if that pays off later. I never thought he'd dominate this year but I'm notoriously slow to jump on to the "train" with young players who I don't think have proven much.
I'm not sure that people thought he would dominate.... I certainly didn't.
The last two games have been bad, no question, but did you know the last 10 games before the All-Star break he was shooting 46.5% from the field, 50% from 3pt, and 100% on FT's (12 attempts total).
Really? I mean his body type still makes him look like he's in high school compared to other NBA players.
Isn't that itself kind of concerning? We act like he's 12. He's 20 and still looks like he's 12. Hopefully, he bulks up.
I don't think concerning is the right word. I'd like to see what happens when he starts to get more of a man's body though.
This is a fair point.
He say it? That's interesting. Prolly some variation of one of our expirings and Ant for AG.
No, he didn't say that. @HailBlazers was trolling you.
