nah...we got rid of a glass big man , Melo and Kanter moved on setting the stage for 2 way players and sign Zeller who has both feet so far....and we have assets..oh...then there's the coaching staff.....that I thought you'd see as a win. We drafted a young PF and got a couple 3 pt shooters on the bench..and we're probably not done
It's a really great contract for a two way player that could have his biggest year ever, if he's given the touches and shots he deserves and doesn't have to defend guys who have a size advantage on him every night.
With ball movement you wear bigger guys down...Norm talks about his transition games....if you defend on a string you can frustrate the hell out of bigger slower players...Norm has a long wingspan ...longest of all our starting guards...he has a quickness advantage and he's stillbe strong..he's going to teach Dame and CJ how it's done given a training camp and coach who wants to be a top defensive team....I'm all in on Norm
He got hung out to dry against MPJ... I know he's very tall for a SF but he also got over powered and shot over by a lot of other opponents last season. I'm not saying he'll be the worst defending 3 in the league, I just think he'd be one of the best defending 2s.
I'm sure Norm will guard twos depending on the matchups...as I said...it has to be 5 guys defending not ISO defense..he and Roco need to know how to do that effortlessly..he talked about Toronto's success with it...moving forward I'm not gauging anything this team can do by what happened after the deadline when rusty CJ and Nurk came back and Norm had to learn to play with them on the court....he wants a real training camp and it will make us a better team to have one...I'm stoked ..I'm sure we'll stagger guards as well and use length when we need it...I expect our defense to look like the Olympic team's defense under Pop..our Olympic team was pretty small
It's pretty universal on all fronts that the only way you trade CJ is to get equal value in return. That doesn't look like much of a possibility at this point.
He has high praise for Stotts and said he inherited an elite offensive team that needed to improve defensively to get to the next level...which coincidentally is exactly what Stotts said all year...Pop praised Terry Stotts as well...Stotts knew 29th ranked defense wasn't going to make a run in the post season..(I think we got closer to 17th ranked after Norm and Nurk came on) ..I think Chauncey has one big difference maker on his staff...Roy Rogers..this guy is more passionate about the process than any of our old assistant coaches at least vocally in public...I'm loving RR on the staff...he also emphasized ball movement and not allowing Dame and CJ to dominate the scoring..to spread it out...that's actually holding Dame and CJ accountable...
thank you ...fixed...I think I'll call him Rock and Roll
I think what is stopping a CJ trade is that Dame and the Blazers actually value CJ and don't want to lose his scoring talent ....all the trade rumbling is coming from people who are pretty much just anti Olshey....I'm hoping Chauncey sorts the guard defense out and insists on ball movement from CJ...something he needs badly to hear from his coach. I think Dame was humbled in Tokyo to as far as ISO ball....I think they both know those days left the building when Terry parted ways
Wants to bring the ball up and look for drive's and kick outs to Dame & CJ.
From April, but a decent list
Gilgeous-Alexander will likely be an Olympian this summer, and is sure to get better with time.
makes me happy to see this....does Nik Stauskas play for Canada?
Not this time around but he has previously.
Canada's team is virtually all NBA players, now. I'm so sick that we didn't get to represent this year.