Nurkic is the new Crabbe/Leonard

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Portland2014 said:
Listen, it's obvious that he's a better player than Crabbe and Leonard, but it's also obvious that is nowhere near the level Portland fans wanted him to be. What's bad is that he will be a RFA at the end of the year and Olshey has to match every offer because he can't start the season with Collins in the starting lineup. Chances of overpaying him like we did with Crabbe and Leonard are very high.

I don't know why Portland fans overhype every player so much, but it's happened again with Nurkic.

Fair enough. So let’s trade him for Jordan, Rivers and LA’s number 1 pick. We’ll send Nurkic and clear another 10 million by including Harkless
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Mr. Robot said:
we should trade him while he still has some value
trade him for Nerlens Noel, hes like better player now with bigger uspide

or for Robin Lopez or Cody Zeller, but I dont think CHA would do it

thats from top of my head, theres another C we should look for
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This literally has to be up for Dumbest post of the year.
 
Strenuus said:
Mr. Robot is the resident Nurk homer - so I take it as sarcasm.
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Ok cuz I was gonna be like:

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I have read something interesting on Blazers Edge writen from a Rockets fan:
"Do you guys feel like Nurkic is sort of a double edged sword? He clearly helps your defense, but your offense was on fire with him out last night. Does he affect your spacing some maybe? You guys would know better than I.

That was a highly entertaining game. You guys probably should have won it honestly, but Harden has just been incredible this season, and he’s been more efficient, decisive, and smarter with the ball this year than ever before. Dame was incredible as well. It’s a shame he turned his ankle. He still had a tremendous game. He’s something else when he’s on. We simply couldn’t defend him last night."
 
@BonesJones you're wrong, tunchi's 3rd account isn't the worst poster on this forum.
The op of this thread is.
 
Dunno if it is time to let him go just YET..but given the fact he’s a RFA after the year....it puts us in a rushed situation to make a decision. I’d offer him a front loaded contract and try to create a escape hatch in the terms and agreements after a certain amount of years if he doesn’t improve...if he doesn’t accept we need to be aggressive for the best FA center on the market. He’s a good player who can be great..can be is the big word here though
 
Don't know how to say in english but i give my best: i talked with a guy on a German forum and that guy is half German and half bosnian, he is also NBA fan and has watched a lot of Blazers Games this year because he wanted to see Nurkic, and he says his laziness is because of his bosnian mentality and this will never change because thats in his DNA. A lot of people from Balkan or ex-Yugoslavia are Lazy and don't like to Work and get Money from the State. He also thinks when he get's paid in Summer he sits on his Ass the rest of his Career and have Maybe 20 Good Games and the rest are bad. I don't know how to Think about that, because every human is different in my oppinion, but maybe he could be right about Nurkic. I Really Hope he doesn't get more than 15 Million per year
 
Labinot41 said:
Don't know how to say in english but i give my best: i talked with a guy on a German forum and that guy is half German and half bosnian, he is also NBA fan and has watched a lot of Blazers Games this year because he wanted to see Nurkic, and he says his laziness is because of his bosnian mentality and this will never change because thats in his DNA. A lot of people from Balkan or ex-Yugoslavia are Lazy and don't like to Work and get Money from the State. He also thinks when he get's paid in Summer he sits on his Ass the rest of his Career and have Maybe 20 Good Games and the rest are bad. I don't know how to Think about that, because every human is different in my oppinion, but maybe he could be right about Nurkic. I Really Hope he doesn't get more than 15 Million per year
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His workouts this summer were far from lazy.
 
DameLill379 said:
Dunno if it is time to let him go just YET..but given the fact he’s a RFA after the year....it puts us in a rushed situation to make a decision. I’d offer him a front loaded contract and try to create a escape hatch in the terms and agreements after a certain amount of years if he doesn’t improve...if he doesn’t accept we need to be aggressive for the best FA center on the market. He’s a good player who can be great..can be is the big word here though
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How could we sign the best FA on the market with no cap space?
 
BonesJones said:
How could we sign the best FA on the market with no cap space?
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Wasn’t aware of our cap space...well we need pretty much get rid of anyone not named Lillard, CJ, Nurkic anyway. Get us some space to make moves and right some wrongs.
 
DameLill379 said:
Wasn’t aware of our cap space...well we need pretty much get rid of anyone not named Lillard, CJ, Nurkic anyway. Get us some space to make moves and right some wrongs.
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My figures.

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e_blazer said:
Ouch. The only solution may be more contracts...with the mob. Summer hit list: Turner, Leonard and Harkless?
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I'm not convinced Nurk is earning a max contract, or that another team is going to offer him max. You never know because other GMs might want to fuck with us. His lack of 3pt shooting hurts in today's NBA, though his defense is superb.

What I'd like to see is if he'd do a smaller deal with a player option. He stays with the Blazers, where I hope he's happy. And he gets to opt out and get that MAX deal if he earns it.
 
Labinot41 said:
A lot of people from Balkan or ex-Yugoslavia are Lazy and don't like to Work and get Money from the State.
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Stereotype much? Those are not the people who work hard enough to start on an NBA team......every country has slackers...I'm sure there are plenty of lazy Germans too...lot of basketball players come from near poverty to having enough to care for their families...
 
Denny Crane said:
I'm not convinced Nurk is earning a max contract, or that another team is going to offer him max. You never know because other GMs might want to fuck with us. His lack of 3pt shooting hurts in today's NBA, though his defense is superb.

What I'd like to see is if he'd do a smaller deal with a player option. He stays with the Blazers, where I hope he's happy. And he gets to opt out and get that MAX deal if he earns it.
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Exactly this. If he doesn’t accept...we have a big decision to make. ET, Mo Hark and Meyers Leonard need to go immediately though. That should free up some room for a attempt at Nurk and maybe a decent role player or 2
 
Denny Crane said:
I'm not convinced Nurk is earning a max contract, or that another team is going to offer him max. You never know because other GMs might want to fuck with us. His lack of 3pt shooting hurts in today's NBA, though his defense is superb.

What I'd like to see is if he'd do a smaller deal with a player option. He stays with the Blazers, where I hope he's happy. And he gets to opt out and get that MAX deal if he earns it.
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Agreed. If he gets the max and does not live up to it (No matter what team it is for) the fans will turn on him real fast. Sure I would prefer the max too if I were him, but the added expectations from fans will make his life miserable. But I agree with you.... he will not get the max.

Just out of curiosity anyone know will have cap room who could fuck with us? Although I can't see many doing that unless they strike out on all the other FA's...and are desperate for a center.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Agreed. If he gets the max and does not live up to it (No matter what team it is for) the fans will turn on him real fast. Sure I would prefer the max too if I were him, but the added expectations from fans will make his life miserable. But I agree with you.... he will not get the max.

Just out of curiosity anyone know will have cap room who could fuck with us? Although I can't see many doing that unless they strike out on all the other FA's...and are desperate for a center.
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https://basketball.realgm.com/analy...Available-2018-Cap-Space-For-All-30-NBA-Teams

Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Indiana and LA Lakers.
 
Nurkic needs to play more than 27 minutes per game. I don't care if he's a negative on offense sometimes, the Blazers are better when he's on the floor as opposed to having Davis out there. Really don't understand why Stotts staggers his minutes so much but he should be getting at least 30+ minutes per game. It's absolutely ridiculous.
 
B-Roy said:
Nurkic needs to play more than 27 minutes per game. I don't care if he's a negative on offense sometimes, the Blazers are better when he's on the floor as opposed to having Davis out there. Really don't understand why Stotts staggers his minutes so much but he should be getting at least 30+ minutes per game. It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Ed is playing 18 minutes a game and hustles every minute of it. With few turnovers. Nurk plays over 30 in some games, when he is not in foul trouble or when he is not playing poorly. I don't blame Terry for this one. Nurk needs to be more consistent. The Blazers are better when he plays well but worse when he plays bad.
 
B-Roy said:
Nurkic needs to play more than 27 minutes per game. I don't care if he's a negative on offense sometimes, the Blazers are better when he's on the floor as opposed to having Davis out there. Really don't understand why Stotts staggers his minutes so much but he should be getting at least 30+ minutes per game. It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Who says the Blazers a better when he's on the court? We had many Games this year we were much better without Nurkic. To often he kills our offense with his efficiency Post ups
 
B-Roy said:
Nurkic needs to play more than 27 minutes per game. I don't care if he's a negative on offense sometimes, the Blazers are better when he's on the floor as opposed to having Davis out there. Really don't understand why Stotts staggers his minutes so much but he should be getting at least 30+ minutes per game. It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Per
http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM/position/9

Nurkic RM is -0.36

While Ed is a +0.11
http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM/position/6

While they list Ed as a PF - the RPM statistics is not position specific - so, at least based on this statistics - this is not correct.
 
Hello to all. This is my first post. English is not my native language so excuse me for the mistakes. I am Almir from Bosnia and of course started to follow your team since Nurk is there. I want to join your conversation, and my posts will be honests without too much love for Nurk when he plays bad -he playes bad. But before anything related to basketball, i really felt that i must reply on post abput lazy Bosnians. This is a real untrue and most ridiculos thing i have seen. I hope that you do not take this as serious. Bosnians are lazy and as well balkans people? The people who work hard for low money? The people who work hardest jobs in West European countries including Germany because Germans do not like that kind of jobs and let them to imigrants from all over the world? Of course underpaid...the people who live in my country with 200 usd dolars per month pay check but are always with smile on faces....it is not fair to speak like this about nations. You can say for somebody that is lazy you have those people on each country it is not the caracter of the Bosnians nor Balkans. Nurk is not lazy. You should see where he started and played basketball and manago to get nba. Many German per example people will never even to try to and train play basketball or any other sport. Only his HARD work. Not lazy work. Excuse me as this is my first post. All others will be related to the topic and this game and your team which i really started to love besides Nurk. For now my favorit players are Lillard and Napier alongside Nurk of course.
 
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