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SharpesTriumph said:
Would've thought his opponents % would be lower. He looks very good defending inside to me. Hard to know how much of those made shots are small sample size or other teammates defensive breakdowns, or actually him allowing a good look. Obviously his block rate is historical.
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Some of that might be playing against Gobert a couple times?
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Would've thought his opponents % would be lower. He looks very good defending inside to me. Hard to know how much of those made shots are small sample size or other teammates defensive breakdowns, or actually him allowing a good look. Obviously his block rate is historical.
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well, going by those numbers he's defended 129 shots at the rim so far, so it's not that small a sample size. As you implied we don't know the exact circumstances on those shots or how many, if any, were help contests

my hunch is that he has blocked those shots at such a high rate that it kind of hides how many of the shots were successful. We remember the blocks a lot more than the makes
 
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how come another team's rookie has a great game and it means he is the second coming? Donovan has a big game and all we are told is "fluke"??
 
Hey @THE HCP, you got so excited about the Lakers Rookie, you forgot to post about your boy doing your favorite thing:

 
Now we have to listen to all those Knecht-lovers again. Never mind guys, think of it this way: anyone who can shoot threes is going to have a field day (a) playing with LeBron and AD, and (b) playing against The Jazz.* Be happy for him - he wouldn't've done that if WE drafted him (and you'd be moaning over rumors we could've got Deni Avdija instead).

*Footnote:

 
BoBoBREWSKI said:
Dalton Knecht has a great game and of course the media has to incorporate Lebron into the story. The very first sentence on ESPN includes Lebron. #annoying
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...es-rookie-record-9-three-pointers-win-vs-jazz
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This part is true for many posters on this site before the draft. And there is only one reason for it. (maybe two)

"They didn't 'find' DK," James (26 points, 12 assists) said. "The other 16 teams f---ed it up. Did anybody watch him? S---. They just didn't f--- it up. You don't 'find' a SEC player of the year."
 
even though the last draft was a bad draft, history just about guaranteed there would be 2 or 3 players outside of the lottery that would have 'starting level' or 6th man talent. There almost always is. Right now, those two guys appear to be McCain & Knecht. Jaylen Wells might be another. Still very early though

speaking of way early, and in the interests of generating a food fight, would you rather Portland have:

Avdija

or

Knecht + that 2nd best 2029 1st + Blazer's 2028 & 2030 second's?
 
wizenheimer said:
even though the last draft was a bad draft, history just about guaranteed there would be 2 or 3 players outside of the lottery that would have 'starting level' or 6th man talent. There almost always is. Right now, those two guys appear to be McCain & Knecht. Jaylen Wells might be another.
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I’m excited for McCain. Seems like a great dude. Had Maxey/PG and Embid not been out, this wouldn’t have even happened. He won’t get this chance once they all return unfortunately.
 
wizenheimer said:
even though the last draft was a bad draft, history just about guaranteed there would be 2 or 3 players outside of the lottery that would have 'starting level' or 6th man talent. There almost always is. Right now, those two guys appear to be McCain & Knecht. Jaylen Wells might be another. Still very early though

speaking of way early, and in the interests of generating a food fight, would you rather Portland have:

Avdija

or

Knecht + that 2nd best 2029 1st + Blazer's 2028 & 2030 second's?
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Why does it have to be Knecht rather than McCain?

But either way, if you made me choose RIGHT NOW, I'm still going to go with Avdija. (a) we know he's shot a lot better (I still wonder if him putting on the muscle weight he did is affecting his lift) but I love his hustle and defense and (b) hustle and defense are weaknesses of the other two, and (c) Knecht at least would not be getting the open looks he's getting for the Lakers if he was playing on the Blazers, so he wouldn't look as good. In fact, I'm not sure he'd be getting minutes, because shooting is so far his only demonstrated strength.
 
wizenheimer said:
Avdija

or

Knecht + that 2nd best 2029 1st + Blazer's 2028 & 2030 second's?
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If Scoot/Shae/DC/??? works out in 2029 The Blazers do not need 3 FRPs in 2029, so I am taking it out of the equation.

Both Knecht and Deni will be useful role players around that time. So, the question is - do you need shooting or secondary creation + defense. I think that assuming the Shae/Scoot/??? continue to grow offensively, the defense / secondary ball-handling is more important, but who knows...

I think the Blazers have are trying to build a very specific type of team, super long, tall and with good switchability on both defense/offense. For that, Deni seems like a better option, but who knows? Depends on how both/either one continue to evolve.
 
wizenheimer said:
would you rather Portland have:

Avdija

or

Knecht + that 2nd best 2029 1st + Blazer's 2028 & 2030 second's?
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I can't imagine any rational Blazer fans would pick Avdija with how he and the Blazers have looked so far. Of course Knecht has been even better than average expectations too.

I'm sure we'll get a couple who post they prefer Avdija, they're likely the posters that always support 100% of Blazers actions as though that makes them better fans or the team better or such.

Edit or they just want to be a contrarian such as Rasta.
 
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