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blazerkor said:
Zach being out is not a legit excuse... first of all he's rarely healthy and second of all he's not that good. You site his defense which kind of looks good until you factor in all of the fouling. No Zach is not the missing piece and if we don't make it the furthest a Dame team has made it in the playoffs then neither Olshey or Stotts have any excuses.
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That isn't what i said at all.
I said "Zach does indeed change this team."
Rarely healthy is wrong as well. first 2 years 143 games out of a possible 164. That is over 87% availability rate. He had a season ending injury. It happens.
Because people on here seem to think stats are the get all lets check those? Zach averages 3 fouls a game and 4 per 36. So really he doesn't really foul too much now does he? He plays the PF/Center position. Enes kanter averages less fouls but can you see why? Nurk averages about 3 a game and 4 in 36 as well. If you are playing defense in this league you will be called for fouls.
Now lets talk about rebounding. He brings another 6-7 rebounds a game with about a third of those being offensive. This could easily be 9 pts-8rebs and i would expect him to eventually average somewhere near a double double as he was already at 7-6.
He's 6-11 and over 250 lbs. This kid has not even begun to make his impact yet. His shoulder has healed and his foot will eventually heal. He will get back on the court and you will see exactly how much having another defensive PF that can also hit a shot from anywhere on the court will help this team. He will replace Kanter and can play along side either Nurk or Melo.
He just might be the Missing Piece. I'm willing to see what happens.
 
Zach being available is an upgrade in terms of giving the Blazers a little different look at the 4 or the 5. If the Blazers decided to play a healthy Lakers team, they could play them more on LA's terms at least for some stretches because they wouldn't be at as much risk as being punished inside. Theoretically, you could play him with Nurk and RoCo and then your two smaller scoring guards so you've got a pretty good combination of offense and defense.

I'd see it as a situational thing, though. Something you might do in a 5 or 6 minute stretch. I don't think the Blazers would use it as a primary lineup, but it's a nice card to have in your deck.
 
PCmor7 said:
Zach being available is an upgrade in terms of giving the Blazers a little different look at the 4 or the 5. If the Blazers decided to play a healthy Lakers team, they could play them more on LA's terms at least for some stretches because they wouldn't be at as much risk as being punished inside. Theoretically, you could play him with Nurk and RoCo and then your two smaller scoring guards so you've got a pretty good combination of offense and defense.

I'd see it as a situational thing, though. Something you might do in a 5 or 6 minute stretch. I don't think the Blazers would use it as a primary lineup, but it's a nice card to have in your deck.
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As many combinations for situational match ups that you can get is always a good thing. I agree not Primary but useful.
Heck having Melo in certain situations has been very useful as well.
 
kjironman1 said:
As many combinations for situational match ups that you can get is always a good thing. I agree not Primary but useful.
Heck having Melo in certain situations has been very useful as well.
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As long as you can get guys to buy into roles, having players that can on occasion allow you to match up better with a certain opponent or to impose something on your opponent for which they have difficulty matching is a huge advantage.

Right now, the Blazers can put a lineup on the floor that realistically can give you a 20-point per game scorer at all 5 positions without one player really being superfluous with another. They have three guards who can all score 20 in the same game different ways ... name a team in the NBA with the perimeter defense to handle that. With Collins, they can put a lineup on the floor that would either give you potentially dominating defenders at all three forwards, two of who can guard multiple positions.

I want Collins back by the playoffs for just that reason. Situationally, he makes the Blazers that much more difficult a match up and something opponents have to prepare for.
 
The NBA is just flat stupid right now.

I've said for years (really, ever since Payton and Malone signed with the Lakers in 2004) that the superstar players have all the leverage, since the money they make from their contracts is dwarfed by the money they make from endorsements. One of these years, all of them are going to pick a big market team like the Nets, Knicks, Bulls, or Lakers/Clippers and just sign vet min contracts with them in order to win a ring (or rings). Do they give a shit about "legacy"? No. They will have achieved what the media and sports fans in general have said for the last 30 years is the end-all, be-all of professional sports: a title winner.

Now, what Brooklyn is doing this year isn't quite at that level yet, but it's just one more step to the NBA being one Harlem Globetrotters and 29 Washington Generals.
 
Wow, Moses Brown has been ballin. He has 19 points and 20 rebounds with more than half the 3rd quarter remaining against Boston.
 
WoW Moses Brown was ballin. Watch OKC trade him for 10 more draft picks.
 
AldoTrapani said:
Did we?! When?
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He did a work out pre draft with Portland and there was a lot of talk of him signing with Portland. He went ubdrafted and the Blazers had a chance to sign him but opted not to.
 
He definitely improve from last year I got admitted I wasn't very high on him when I watch him with us but I got to applaud him for all the hard he has done has paid off.
 
James lamphear said:
He definitely improve from last year I got admitted I wasn't very high on him when I watch him with us but I got to applaud him for all the hard he has done has paid off.
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he was AWFUL in the few minutes he got with us. Good for him for working.
 
I was excited about Moses when we signed him. I saw his potential. Neil shit the bed. Though Moses probably wouldn't have been able to break out here in Portland. Stotts would never have played him enough minutes.
 
OneSport3 said:
Wow, Moses Brown has been ballin. He has 19 points and 20 rebounds with more than half the 3rd quarter remaining against Boston.
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I really wonder if our lack of a true big man coach contributed to this mistake by Olshey in letting him go. I have read that he has got a lot of coaching from Horford.
 
Sorry, Enes.....
Enes Kanter @EnesKanter
about 3 hours ago
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Was looking at Devin Booker’s 3pt shooting % (35%) and surprisingly he’s a very average 3pt shooter. He’s right on the average at 35%. What’s even more surprising is that DJJ is only 2% points behind Booker at 33% (albeit on half the volume). That’s a substantial improvement for DJJ. If he keeps this up, we might not be able to keep him this summer.
 
OneSport3 said:
Was looking at Devin Booker’s 3pt shooting % (35%) and surprisingly he’s a very average 3pt shooter. He’s right on the average at 35%. What’s even more surprising is that DJJ is only 2% points behind Booker at 33% (albeit on half the volume). That’s a
substantial improvement for DJJ. If he keeps this up, we might not be able to keep him this summer.
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Well i suppose all of DJJ's 3s are wide open while Booker takes a lot of them off the dribble so there's not much to compare.

It's true though that Booker isn't a great 3pt shooter. This is why he doesn't take a lot of them at least not as many as such a great scorer normally takes. Just 30% of his shots are 3 pointers. Even LeBron shoots more.
 
PJ Washington played 44 minutes without scoring a point. What’s the record for that?
 
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