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Mo has been a great spark plug off the bench, something we were sorely lacking last year. I hope Mo resigns with the Blazers. Mo and CJ could be a dynamic back court.
 
Don't we already have an OFFICIAL Random Thoughts Thread?
 
I love his attitude, experience and leadership. When we come out flat he gets us going. He can score in various ways and find others, makes mistakes - sometimes holds the ball for too long but gets much more heat than he deserves, he's the best backup PG we've had since Greg Anthony.
 
I like players who love being here. Shout out to Mo for showing Portland and the team a lot of love and shout out to Stotts for being a coach guys want to play for! I think Mo may stick here.
 
HCP said:
I agree. I loved Jamal Crawford on our team! You need that guy with a scorers mentality.
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I loved him here too. Damn, he'd be dope in the second unit right now
 
Mo is fast, sometimes too fast, but he's a sparkplug!
 
riverman said:
Mo is fast, sometimes too fast, but he's a sparkplug!
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I love it when he just dribbles to the baseline to lose his defender, really disrupts the defense. Although he is terrible at running into screens when he's defending.
 
fumanchu said:
Mo has been a great spark plug off the bench, something we were sorely lacking last year. I hope Mo resigns with the Blazers. Mo and CJ could be a dynamic back court.
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I hope he resigns, too. God help us if he re-signs...
 
http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/mo-williams-advanced-stats-are-not-pretty

There are several websites that track teams' production with their individual players on and off the court. On 82games.com, which hasn't been updated since Jan. 5, you will notice that Williams' net production on the court is minus-5.5 -- even though, much more than any other Portland reserve, he quite often is playing with a lot of the team's starters. That's not horrible -- there are five players on the team with worse numbers in that category. But the money stat for Williams is how the team plays when he's NOT on the court.

When Williams is off the court, the Blazers are plus-9.6 -- which happens to be the highest number for any player on the entire roster. In other words, there's no one on the team who has a bigger positive Blazer impact by NOT playing than Williams.

The stats at NBA.com's media site are more detailed than what is available to the public so I'm not able to provide a link here. But as of Thursday morning, Williams' net off-the-court rating -- a combination of his offense and defense -- is the highest on the team. Again, those stats say there is no player on the roster the team plays better WITHOUT than Williams. He has a bigger positive impact on the game for the Blazers when he's off the court than anyone else on the team!
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That's hard to argue with.
 
I like Mo and what he brings to the team off the bench. But he is 31 and relies on his speed and quickness to be effective. To re-sign him long term would be a mistake, IMO.

Still got a long way to go this season. Best for both sides to play the season out and evaluate after that.
 
Natebishop3 said:
http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/mo-williams-advanced-stats-are-not-pretty

That's hard to argue with.
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I would point out that we're -10 PP100P when Mo is in the game and we're +10 PP100P when Lillard is in the game so each Mo minute negates each Lillard minute, BUT this is a Mo Appreciation Thread.

Mo gives us some very valuable minutes, but he also kills us some of the time. The good news is that he doesn't really need to "improve," he really just needs to suck much less often. I don't know if that's fixable or not honestly.
 
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I like his aggressive shooting as well. It is hard to come off the bench and heat up quickly. He does a pretty good job at it. I also like how he pushes the ball up the floor. But once he does that he just needs to keep the passing simple. Limit the forced passes and the lazy cross court passes.

I am hoping that CJ and he will mesh well together, but it may take a while.
 
I really like Mo but I have serious doubts about him and CJ together defensively.
 
I like to think of Mo as an X factor. He can burn you or the other team, and you don't really know what you're going to get until he's played for a bit. I've seen him save the Blazers, and I've seen the Blazers have to save themselves from Mo. In the end, I feel that despite the stats, he does what Stotts is looking for: He comes into the game, changes the pace, gives the opposition something unpredictable, which can go good or bad.

Let's be honest here, as we settle into the season, teams have had time to study each other and come up with some good game plans to shut each other down and take opponents out of their comfort zone. I personally feel that since Stotts is more focused on sticking with the plan, and fighting to stick with the system no matter what- as apposed to making match-up specific changes often- that other teams are having an easier time exposing our weaknesses. I'm not against this necessarily, as I would do the same thing if I struck gold like Stotts has with how well the team has played this season. However, since we have stuck with the exact same system, Mo has the ability to mix things up every game. He's that random, crazy guy who's talented and experienced enough to throw a massive monkey wrench into the gears of the opposition, but he's also stubborn enough to make things even worse.

I like to think of Mo as a little bit of outrageous character for the Blazers' very even and plain personality this season. His play reminds me of Crawford. He had some good games for us, and a lot of selfish ball-hogging crap. He went to the Clippers and basically played the same role last season that Mo has this season, and it worked out pretty well for them.
 
TheBlueDoggy said:
I like to think of Mo as an X factor. He can burn you or the other team, and you don't really know what you're going to get until he's played for a bit. I've seen him save the Blazers, and I've seen the Blazers have to save themselves from Mo. In the end, I feel that despite the stats, he does what Stotts is looking for: He comes into the game, changes the pace, gives the opposition something unpredictable, which can go good or bad.

Let's be honest here, as we settle into the season, teams have had time to study each other and come up with some good game plans to shut each other down and take opponents out of their comfort zone. I personally feel that since Stotts is more focused on sticking with the plan, and fighting to stick with the system no matter what- as apposed to making match-up specific changes often- that other teams are having an easier time exposing our weaknesses. I'm not against this necessarily, as I would do the same thing if I struck gold like Stotts has with how well the team has played this season. However, since we have stuck with the exact same system, Mo has the ability to mix things up every game. He's that random, crazy guy who's talented and experienced enough to throw a massive monkey wrench into the gears of the opposition, but he's also stubborn enough to make things even worse.

I like to think of Mo as a little bit of outrageous character for the Blazers' very even and plain personality this season. His play reminds me of Crawford. He had some good games for us, and a lot of selfish ball-hogging crap. He went to the Clippers and basically played the same role last season that Mo has this season, and it worked out pretty well for them.
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Great Post.

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TheBlueDoggy again."
 
TheBlueDoggy said:
I like to think of Mo as an X factor. He can burn you or the other team, and you don't really know what you're going to get until he's played for a bit. I've seen him save the Blazers, and I've seen the Blazers have to save themselves from Mo. In the end, I feel that despite the stats, he does what Stotts is looking for: He comes into the game, changes the pace, gives the opposition something unpredictable, which can go good or bad.

Let's be honest here, as we settle into the season, teams have had time to study each other and come up with some good game plans to shut each other down and take opponents out of their comfort zone. I personally feel that since Stotts is more focused on sticking with the plan, and fighting to stick with the system no matter what- as apposed to making match-up specific changes often- that other teams are having an easier time exposing our weaknesses. I'm not against this necessarily, as I would do the same thing if I struck gold like Stotts has with how well the team has played this season. However, since we have stuck with the exact same system, Mo has the ability to mix things up every game. He's that random, crazy guy who's talented and experienced enough to throw a massive monkey wrench into the gears of the opposition, but he's also stubborn enough to make things even worse.

I like to think of Mo as a little bit of outrageous character for the Blazers' very even and plain personality this season. His play reminds me of Crawford. He had some good games for us, and a lot of selfish ball-hogging crap. He went to the Clippers and basically played the same role last season that Mo has this season, and it worked out pretty well for them.
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Great post!
 
I like Mo the person a lot. I think he's a good dude. I think he has been a positive, veteran influence on the team. For that I'm grateful. I also appreciate his ability to generate instant offense. We have been sorely lacking that on our bench for a while now. He is easily an upgrade over Nolan Smith or Ronnie Price or any other backup we've had over the years. For those reasons, I appreciate him.
 
if Mo shoots without making a single pass in a possession, I want to set his car on fire.

When he shares the ball, he can shoot whenever and from wherever he likes as long as it's either in the flow of the offense or with the shot clock winding down.
 
TheBlueDoggy said:
I like to think of Mo as a little bit of outrageous character for the Blazers' very even and plain personality this season. His play reminds me of Crawford. He had some good games for us, and a lot of selfish ball-hogging crap. He went to the Clippers and basically played the same role last season that Mo has this season, and it worked out pretty well for them.
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Crawford is a good comparison. The main difference is the Clippers always had Crawford in with a PG. (Bledsoe or CP3) Crawford only had to focus on catching and shooting last year.

Mo has to score AND run the offense. So I give him credit for balancing it as well as possible. Plus I think he will get more comfortable with his new teammates as the season goes along. Even though the 2nd unit continues to change every few games. That makes it harder.
 
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