Harden on Thomas Robinson: He's a beast

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RR7 said:
How many good games do you give it off the bench before there's more than the normal amount of trade LMA threads? 3? 5? I'll set the over under at 10.
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If TRob does break out I expect our best lineups to be with him and Aldridge on the floor together. TRob is a great rebounder, Lopez is surprisingly worse than Aldridge. NBA teams are playing more small ball in general. We'd still be able to bring Lopez off the bench as a 20 min backup if need be.

LaMarcus doesn't want to play center, but if the team is winning, he still plays some minutes with Lopez, and TRob does all the physical banging that Hickson wouldn't do it could work out quite well.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Definitely not someone I would shoot pool with.
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I remember during the summer between his 2nd and 3rd season here we used to see him roll up to a house in a real bad part of town across the street from where a couple of my boys lived. Get out of his big SUV and dig in the bushes......pull out a big brown bag and roll off. At least once a week....shady dude right there!


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Robinson's game reminds me of Calvin Natt's. Natt was relentless and made up for his stature (he was only 6'5") with hustle and desire.
 
HCP said:
I remember during the summer between his 2nd and 3rd season here we used to see him roll up to a house in a real bad part of town across the street from where a couple of my boys lived. Get out of his big SUV and dig in the bushes......pull out a big brown bag and roll off. At least once a week....shady dude right there!


Sent from my baller ass iPad FAMS!
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He was borrowing some booger sugar from the neighbors.

Robinson has a way better motor than Trent ever had.
 
BigGameDamian said:
How do you know? Robinson hasn't exactly much much noise either in the NBA.
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Well lets compare the two players...

Gary Trent
7.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, 0.2 blocks 51% FG in 17 minutes

T. Robinson
4.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 0.4 blocks 43% FG in 15 minutes

It seems they are very similar in production. And lets be honest here. Sac Queens didn't play him like they should and he was buried in the bench in Houston. I have a strong suspicion that he will have a Hickson-like jump with our ball club because we need him and his inside presence.
 
Wasn't Buck a smart/high IQ type basketball player? I don't see that being one of T-Rob's strong points or at least not mentioned when analyzing his strength. One of his weaknesses is turnovers so I figured he was a high energy physical player, but not so much a "student of the game"
 
Treaty_of_Batum said:
Wasn't Buck a smart/high IQ type basketball player? I don't see that being one of T-Rob's strong points or at least not mentioned when analyzing his strength. One of his weaknesses is turnovers so I figured he was a high energy physical player, but not so much a "student of the game"
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I can see T. Rob being more of a Brian Grant type player. Not a lot of offensive skills, but his motor, energy and hustle (I know they are all the same) will help drive the other teammates.
 
I think he's the PF version of Gerald Wallace. At least, when I'm optimistic. Because Wallace also played very little at first (until he was taken in the expansion draft).
 
So we sorted that out by trading for Dale Davis and Fat Shawn Kemp. Logjam solved! (Of course, Gary Trent turning out to be a total loser helped too.)
 
Here's the deal: Robinson is a rebounding fiend who thinks he's a scorer too. We'd like him to do the one and stop trying to do the other until he manages not to turn it over every time he tries. Let's hope he can, because otherwise the rebounding isn't enough to make up for it.

People are saying he's a good defender. I don't think he is yet. I think his problems are all mental, which isn't the same thing as saying they're trivial or that they'll go away.
 
Wow that is crazy Rasheed 14.6, Brian Grant 12.1 and Gary Trent 11.5 all averaged double figures playing together in 97-98
 
We didn't play the three of them together that long since Trent was shipped to Toronto in the Damon trade midway through the season and that was the first year of Brian Grant.
 
magnifier661 said:
I think Sheed was playing SF then though.
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Yeah, Sheed was playing a lot of SF, but he'd slide over to PF with BG on the bench. At first, Sheed was supposedly unhappy. But, as we all saw, he sure fell in love with the perimeter.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Yeah, Sheed was playing a lot of SF, but he'd slide over to PF with BG on the bench. At first, Sheed was supposedly unhappy. But, as we all saw, he sure fell in love with the perimeter.
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Yeah it sucked man... Wallace could have been such a beast down low. I wish he had Aldridge's work ethic at least. He would have been the best PF to ever play for Portland.
 
magnifier661 said:
Yeah it sucked man... Wallace could have been such a beast down low. I wish he had Aldridge's work ethic at least. He would have been the best PF to ever play for Portland.
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Shit, Sheed had the potential to go down as the best player in Portland history. Another player with so much potential, but the stars didn't align.

We've had a lot of guys like that - didn't become the clear-cut greatest Blazer for various reasons (Roy, Walton, Sabonis, etc.).
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Shit, Sheed had the potential to go down as the best player in Portland history. Another player with so much potential, but he never lifted out to get stronger and was lazy in the offseason. We've had a few guys like that (D. Miles, Q. Woods, ect.).
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FIFY
 
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BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Shit, Sheed had the potential to go down as the best player in Portland history. Another player with so much potential, but the stars didn't align.
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Imagine how the Wizards should feel - they're the ones who gave up on him after one season.
 
You can hardly put Sheed in the category of Darius Miles and Qyntel Woods. Could Sheed have been better? Probably. But he was still an All Star, a starter on a championship level team. Miles had a good half season, got an extension, and sulked. Woods had talent from the neck down.
 
crandc said:
You can hardly put Sheed in the category of Darius Miles and Qyntel Woods. Could Sheed have been better? Probably. But he was still an All Star, a starter on a championship level team. Miles had a good half season, got an extension, and sulked. Woods had talent from the neck down.
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And ABM got called a creep when he talked about Lennay
 
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