Jaynes: The Blazers' 2nd Best Player Is Batum..If You Use Him

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Situation 1: You are a below-.500 team. You have a rookie full of potential. Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who wouldn't start on a good team?
Answer: Maybe.

Situation 2: You are a below-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who wouldn't start on a good team?
Answer: Maybe.

Situation 3: You are a below-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say that he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who is a former all-star and the best player on the team?
Answer: No.

Situation 4: You are a mature, experienced above-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say that he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who is a former all-star and the best player on the team?
Answer: No, no, Nanette.
 
Nikolokolus said:
I have a better narrative that makes more sense: Kurt Rambis was an idiot and kept his best player off the floor in favor of Darko-fucking-Milicic ... Maybe Love was a beast all along (backed up by his per36 numbers) and what he needed was a full-time role to show everybody just how good he was?

Keeping Nic in reserve role as some sort of strategy to turn him into a "beast" rings pretty hollow to me. Reserves are reserves because they usually have a lot of limitations and maybe one or two really well defined skills that fit a specific niche. That doesn't really describe Nic to me (Wesley on the other hand ...).
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Actually they benched him for Anthony-fucking-Tolliver.
 
jlprk said:
Situation 1: You are a below-.500 team. You have a rookie full of potential. Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who wouldn't start on a good team?
Answer: Maybe.

Situation 2: You are a below-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who wouldn't start on a good team?
Answer: Maybe.

Situation 3: You are a below-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say that he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who is a former all-star and the best player on the team?
Answer: No.

Situation 4: You are a mature, experienced above-.500 team. You have a player who is in his 4th year and has started most of that time. His diehard fans say that he somehow still has undisplayed potential. (The cause of the undisplayed potential is the coach, not lack of minutes.) Should he take minutes from the more experienced player who is currently better than him, who is a former all-star and the best player on the team?
Answer: No, no, Nanette.
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Who's saying start him over Wallace? But I'd sure as hell start him over Matthews and I wouldn't mind seeing Crawful and Felton's minutes take a pinch.
 
That's actually eFG% for shots considered inside, but you get the point
 
Nikolokolus said:
I have a better narrative that makes more sense: Kurt Rambis was an idiot and kept his best player off the floor in favor of Darko-fucking-Milicic ... Maybe Love was a beast all along (backed up by his per36 numbers) and what he needed was a full-time role to show everybody just how good he was?

Keeping Nic in reserve role as some sort of strategy to turn him into a "beast" rings pretty hollow to me. Reserves are reserves because they usually have a lot of limitations and maybe one or two really well defined skills that fit a specific niche. That doesn't really describe Nic to me (Wesley on the other hand ...).
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My point was that maybe both Love and Batum needed some, er, some tough love to ignite a fire. That's what coaching is all about.
 
I hope Nic doesn't read the Oregonian. There have already been almost a half dozen articles on him either calling him out for not being assertive, not getting enough playing time and then another saying he is possibly the 2nd best player on the team. If he took these articles seriously, his head would be spinning

Personally I don't care if he starts or comes off the bench. He will get his opportunites all season (I hope his break out year happens after Blazers sign him long term.) At this stage, he makes a very good role player that can help any team, including a championship contender. Can he become a" big three" max/huge salary kind of player? . . . . I hope Blazers don't have to pay huge salary figures to find out.
 
Would still like to see the Blazers package him for a PG

It's not really that impossible to find players with Nic's skill set. Definitely replaceable.
 
Gerald's close eFG% is .653 and Nic is .409 but people think Nic is as good an inside finisher???
 
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