Let's talk Aminu

[tlongII]

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

Gesundheit!

 

[James lamphear]

Exactly. Collins and Nurk have been extremely effective playing together, I don’t understand why they don’t try it more, especially when they don’t hesitate to play Meyers and Collins together.

Good point

 

[James lamphear]

Sooner or later Collins will get the start because Olshey going to make that happen by trading Aminu at deadline or he won't sign him next year.

 

[Pinwheel1]

On most regular season nights, that is certainly the case. But in the Playoffs, you have better rosters. How many Playoff series has it been that it was the other team who had overall bigger guards that were as good or better on offense and better on defense? 3 for sure and in the Clippers series before Paul got hurt, an argument could be made that at best it was a draw. Go back one more and the Grizzlies had the overall better back-court for the Playoffs as well.

So that is 5 Playoff series in a row where the strength of our team hasn't had the advantage they have had most of the season. Welcome to the Playoffs where it really matters. Dame/CJ are very good on offense but come time for the Playoffs, that hasn't seen much success and on defense, they have been the worst back-court of any team they have played against in the Playoffs since they became a duo.

It's not the size. CP3, Steph Curry, Mike Conley, Rondo.......... not big guys. But yes in the playoffs the rosters are better than ours. That is my point. Our best players are not the problem. Get 5 good scorers on the floor and no one will be doubling Dame and CJ.

 

[Rozay]

He's been utterly awful these past three games or so. I've quickly gotten very tired of him.

He’s always been awful. Aminu is a good 15 min off the bench guy. That’s about it. He’s trash to me

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I call bullshit. Aminu is our Draymond. He's a great modern stretch four and our most versatile defender. Sure he had a shitty game, but name one Blazer who didn't. Aminu is actually way underpaid and we should all worry that he'll leave in free agency.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Let's see: which of our starters is in the negative and can't defend against anybody? Give you a clue: he's a forward and he's not called Aminu.
Another problem: Stauskas has been quietly awful since he played his best game as a Blazer on his first game as a Blazer.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Let's see: which of our starters is in the negative and can't defend against anybody? Give you a clue: he's a forward and he's not called Aminu.
Another problem: Stauskas has been quietly awful since he played his best game as a Blazer on his first game as a Blazer.

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

 

[kjironman1]

Let's see: which of our starters is in the negative and can't defend against anybody? Give you a clue: he's a forward and he's not called Aminu.
Another problem: Stauskas has been quietly awful since he played his best game as a Blazer on his first game as a Blazer.

Pat Con has pretty much been the exact same player but with a little better shooting percentage. Both giving about 17-18 mins a game but Pat has a little higher overall Per at 17.2 and Staukas sitting at 12. Both have a pretty comparable win share.
The Blazers should have kept Pat Con in my opinion.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Pat Con has pretty much been the exact same player but with a little better shooting percentage. Both giving about 17-18 mins a game but Pat has a little higher overall Per at 17.2 and Staukas sitting at 12. Both have a pretty comparable win share.
The Blazers should have kept Pat Con in my opinion.

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

 

[KingSpeed]

Aminu has been hitting game clinching threes all season en route to 12 wins (see Celtics game for best example). He overwhelmingly won the poll for most underrated. And then he has ONE bad game and everybody shits on him. That’s bullshit guys. Harden shot 1-11 from 3 in a game this season. Ariza shot 0-11 from 3 in game 7. It happens. Does this mean Harden couldn’t belong on a contending team? Ariza already has a ring.

Aminu is one of our very best players on both sides of the court and he consistently ups his game in playoffs. He’s also mostly clutch in the regular season. And he’s improved his driving game this season.

Stop bashing him.

 

[KingSpeed]

I really disagree. Any championship contending team would love a guy like Aminu coming off the bench. I expect Aminu to have some good value at trade deadline.

Exactly. Aminu would be Golden State’s 5th best player.

 

[kjironman1]

Aminu has been hitting game clinching threes all season en route to 12 wins (see Celtics game for best example). He overwhelmingly won the poll for most underrated. And then he has ONE bad game and everybody shits on him. That’s bullshit guys. Harden shot 1-11 from 3 in a game this season. Ariza shot 0-11 from 3 in game 7. It happens. Does this mean Harden couldn’t belong on a contending team? Ariza already has a ring.

Aminu is one of our very best players on both sides of the court and he consistently ups his game in playoffs. He’s also mostly clutch in the regular season. And he’s improved his driving game this season.

Stop bashing him.

Nope. Aminu's numbers are already worse than last year and he has had 4 straight bad games. Here is a little bigger block so the sample size isn't so small. Last four games he is 7-33 at 21% shooting and 5-22 for almost 23% from 3 point. Yes he made a shot in the New York game that happened to be important. But the thing he has to do is make defenses respect his shot or both Dame and CJ suffer greatly.
Aminu on defense has not been bad because he always works hard but to say he only had One Bad Game is wrong on every level. Aminu is showing exactly what he did last year to this team. It won't get any better because teams already know this is the way to beat the Blazers.

To add a little more about Aminu His PF's are up. His assists are way down. His steals are down.

On the good side he is rebounding a little better and his free throws are falling at a remarkable rate this year 84%

Aminu's game has got better overall from my eye test. He has played more controlled and he is trying to find Lillard in the open court. But he is what he is. Not a starter on a contender at all. Second unit and then maybe special defensive assignments. The Blazers still need a viable PF that can score and keep defenses honest.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Nope. Aminu's numbers are already worse than last year and he has had 4 straight bad games. Here is a little bigger block so the sample size isn't so small. Last four games he is 7-33 at 21% shooting and 5-22 for almost 23% from 3 point. Yes he made a shot in the New York game that happened to be important. But the thing he has to do is make defenses respect his shot or both Dame and CJ suffer greatly.
Aminu on defense has not been bad because he always works hard but to say he only had One Bad Game is wrong on every level. Aminu is showing exactly what he did last year to this team. It won't get any better because teams already know this is the way to beat the Blazers.

To add a little more about Aminu His PF's are up. His assists are way down. His steals are down.

On the good side he is rebounding a little better and his free throws are falling at a remarkable rate this year 84%

Aminu's game has got better overall from my eye test. He has played more controlled and he is trying to find Lillard in the open court. But he is what he is. Not a starter on a contender at all. Second unit and then maybe special defensive assignments. The Blazers still need a viable PF that can score and keep defenses honest.

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

 

[BonesJones]

Nope. Aminu's numbers are already worse than last year and he has had 4 straight bad games. Here is a little bigger block so the sample size isn't so small. Last four games he is 7-33 at 21% shooting and 5-22 for almost 23% from 3 point. Yes he made a shot in the New York game that happened to be important. But the thing he has to do is make defenses respect his shot or both Dame and CJ suffer greatly.
Aminu on defense has not been bad because he always works hard but to say he only had One Bad Game is wrong on every level. Aminu is showing exactly what he did last year to this team. It won't get any better because teams already know this is the way to beat the Blazers.

To add a little more about Aminu His PF's are up. His assists are way down. His steals are down.

On the good side he is rebounding a little better and his free throws are falling at a remarkable rate this year 84%

Aminu's game has got better overall from my eye test. He has played more controlled and he is trying to find Lillard in the open court. But he is what he is. Not a starter on a contender at all. Second unit and then maybe special defensive assignments. The Blazers still need a viable PF that can score and keep defenses honest.

Exactly.

 

[BonesJones]

Let's see: which of our starters is in the negative and can't defend against anybody? Give you a clue: he's a forward and he's not called Aminu.
Another problem: Stauskas has been quietly awful since he played his best game as a Blazer on his first game as a Blazer.

Yup. This forum overrated the hell out of him after the first few games. He is exactly what I thought he was. Loose with the ball, bad finisher, bad mid-range shooter, and not a good enough 3pt shooter to make up for it.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Yup. This forum overrated the hell out of him after the first few games. He is exactly what I thought he was. Loose with the ball, bad finisher, bad mid-range shooter, and not a good enough 3pt shooter to make up for it.

I disagree. The second unit as a whole has sucked after the first week or two and I think its because of ET. They were running through him but there was a lot of ball movement, screening off the ball, and player movement. Its gotten away from that to basically running the same offense as the 1st stringers but with ET as primary ball handler except he is a horrible shooter. This has crushed Zachs Offense, Seths offense, Niks Offense theres almost no spacing and dribble drives by Seth and Nik are met with 2-3 defenders because of it.
Has Nik shot poorly yup, but the 2nd unit looks worse and worse and its mostly on coaching even in their wins, NY, and the Wizards the bench looks bad. The idea you can your offense through ET is absurd to me, he’s not a threat outside of maybe 10-15 feet, he’s not one of those guys who can get in the paint at will either.
I think Niks ability to drive and dish helped the 2’s a lot. Yes he has turned into a TO machine, but there is 0 spacing. They need Seth back, and they need to quit forcing ET, if this is the best version of him (which it might be), then that signing may be the worst in the history of the Blazers...

 

[Mediocre Man]

I disagree. The second unit as a whole has sucked after the first week or two and I think its because of ET. They were running through him but there was a lot of ball movement, screening off the ball, and player movement. Its gotten away from that to basically running the same offense as the 1st stringers but with ET as primary ball handler except he is a horrible shooter. This has crushed Zachs Offense, Seths offense, Niks Offense theres almost no spacing and dribble drives by Seth and Nik are met with 2-3 defenders because of it.
Has Nik shot poorly yup, but the 2nd unit looks worse and worse and its mostly on coaching even in their wins, NY, and the Wizards the bench looks bad. The idea you can your offense through ET is absurd to me, he’s not a threat outside of maybe 10-15 feet, he’s not one of those guys who can get in the paint at will either.
I think Niks ability to drive and dish helped the 2’s a lot. Yes he has turned into a TO machine, but there is 0 spacing. They need Seth back, and they need to quit forcing ET, if this is the best version of him (which it might be), then that signing may be the worst in the history of the Blazers...

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

 

[BonesJones]

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[TBpup]

It's not the size. CP3, Steph Curry, Mike Conley, Rondo.......... not big guys. But yes in the playoffs the rosters are better than ours. That is my point. Our best players are not the problem. Get 5 good scorers on the floor and no one will be doubling Dame and CJ.

I'm certainly not dismissing the need for more talent, but the size issue was one of total overall size and not just one player. Curry isn't big but had a 6'6" sidekick. Both Rondo and Holiday were bigger than Dame/CJ lady year and so on.

 

[blue9]

On a contending team Aminu is coming off the bench.

Hot take: To take that next step this team needs an upgrade at both forward spots.

What say you, S2?

What say I? I say: Duh.
(No offense intended.)

 

[blue9]

On a contending team, Aminu isn't on the roster

Trth.

 

[blue9]

Aminu sucks. You don't need stats - he just sucks. For any good defensive play there are a minimum of two bad defensive lapses. There isn't a single player who thinks "oh no! i have to play with Aminu defending me!" - nobody cares if Aminu is defending them. But because "he plays hard" people think he's 100x better than he actually is. There's a possibility he could be a bench player on a contender, but he'd have to be the 8th or 9th man on a contender. He's gonna be the next Ed Davis - someone else will sign him for less than we're currently paying him and our W/L will not be negatively affected.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!

 

[KingSpeed]

Where was all the Aminu hate when he sealed the win against Boston? Where was all the hate when he upped his game in the playoffs? Check THOSE stats, kjironman not just 4 out of 18 games this season.

 

[KingSpeed]

The Aminu stats the haters don’t want you to know about:

2018 NBA Playoffs: 17.3 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 43.3% on threes

His playoff stats are better than his regular season stats all 4 years he’s been in the playoffs including his year in Dallas. In 24 career playoff games, he has shot 43% from three.

But by all means, let’s bash him for just 4 bad games in November.

 

[KingSpeed]

Aminu's career regular season numbers are nothing too exciting:

7.6 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.2 apg, 1.0 spg, 0.6 bpg, 42% from the field, 33% from three point line

But NOW, let's talk Playoff Aminu. It's a pretty big sample size. He's played in 24 playoff games and here's what he's done:

13.9 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1.5 apg, 1.0 spg, 1.0 bpg, 55% from the field, 43% from three point line

What contender wouldn't want to have a player like that who steps up for the big games?

If you're wondering what has he done for us lately, he was fantastic in the 2018 playoffs:

17.3 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 52% from the field, 43% from the three point line

But by all means, bash him for having a few bad games in November. I can't think of one contender in the NBA who wouldn't want Aminu on their roster. He would immediately be the 5th best player on the Warriors. Maybe 4th, the way Klay has been playing this year.

 

[blazedanugz]

I appreciate your positivity but if all the players on the blazers were as good as you make them out to be then we would be nba champs

 

[blazedanugz]

I appreciate your positivity but if all the players on the blazers were as good as you make them out to be then we would be nba champs

And you really lost me with that last sentence......

 

[Natebishop3]