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I am a Frazier believer. I have read some comments that he is too small and will hurt us defensively. I say bullshit to that. With his quickness he can harass PG's better than we have had in a while.

Huge year for Crabbe. We need him to take the next step.

That would suck for us fans if Vonleh is out for summer league. I want to see him play damn it.

I did not want to see Meyers play in Vegas. Can't afford to have some hack trying to make a team take him out.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I am a Frazier believer. I have read some comments that he is too small and will hurt us defensively. I say bullshit to that. With his quickness he can harass PG's better than we have had in a while.
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I actually think he could be one of our more exciting players. Time for waterbug guards to make a comeback!
 
I like that Leonard and Lillard have embraced their position as most tenured and thus leaders of the team. Meyers is (as CRAZY as this sounds) second-in-command. It's good for them to show up and practice with the guys they'll be going into battle with.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I am a Frazier believer. I have read some comments that he is too small and will hurt us defensively. I say bullshit to that. With his quickness he can harass PG's better than we have had in a while.

Huge year for Crabbe. We need him to take the next step.

That would suck for us fans if Vonleh is out for summer league. I want to see him play damn it.

I did not want to see Meyers play in Vegas. Can't afford to have some hack trying to make a team take him out.
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Frazier could definitely get some run this year. A super-quick pass-first PG on a team of athletic dunkers, I'll take that!
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Frazier could definitely get some run this year. A super-quick pass-first PG on a team of athletic dunkers, I'll take that!
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He definitely can rack up the assists. He had 11 in a game last year for Philly
Plus he can score enough to keep the defense honest.
And even though it was the D league, 4 triple doubles in one year is not too shabby.

In 41 games he averaged 16.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 9.5 assists. He can push the pace.
 
Nice to see Dame in town and working out with the summer league crew:

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Didn't Don Nelson start a backcourt of Tim Hardaway and Earl Boykins for a while? Wonder if Nellie wants to come out of retirement...
 
Sinobas said:
Update: Noah Vonley is dead. And so is Lillard.
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fresh update: vonleh rises like the phoenix and though doesn't practice today expects to play Saturday in vegas freeman twitter
 
ESPN has done their annual Vegas SL Preview:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13222734/las-vegas-summer-league-west-preview
Portland Trail Blazers
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Noah Vonleh: If there's a consistent market inefficiency in a rapidly evolving league, it's young players who will fail to produce right away in their rookie seasons. Everyone knew Vonleh would be a multi-year project, and yet the Hornets bailed on him to acquire Nicolas Batum on an expiring contract anyway. The game may be moving a little too quickly for Vonleh now, but that should change with time.

Keith Bogans: Yes, it's him. You may not recognize Bogans without the words "non-guaranteed contract" immediately preceding his name, but it's him. The journeyman will be the oldest player in summer league at the age of 35, and it's more than a little surprising that the 11-year veteran is even here. Of course, Rasual Butler turned a solid summer league into a legitimate role with the Washington Wizards last season, so you can never say never.

Meyers Leonard: The man known as Legend really came into his own late in his third season, entering the elite "180 club" of shooters after posting shooting percentages of 51/42/93. Leonard probably won't be able to maintain anything close to that level of efficiency in an expanded role with more minutes, but he's a young player worth watching all the same.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
ESPN has done their annual Vegas SL Preview:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13222734/las-vegas-summer-league-west-preview
Portland Trail Blazers
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Noah Vonleh: If there's a consistent market inefficiency in a rapidly evolving league, it's young players who will fail to produce right away in their rookie seasons. Everyone knew Vonleh would be a multi-year project, and yet the Hornets bailed on him to acquire Nicolas Batum on an expiring contract anyway. The game may be moving a little too quickly for Vonleh now, but that should change with time.

Keith Bogans: Yes, it's him. You may not recognize Bogans without the words "non-guaranteed contract" immediately preceding his name, but it's him. The journeyman will be the oldest player in summer league at the age of 35, and it's more than a little surprising that the 11-year veteran is even here. Of course, Rasual Butler turned a solid summer league into a legitimate role with the Washington Wizards last season, so you can never say never.

Meyers Leonard: The man known as Legend really came into his own late in his third season, entering the elite "180 club" of shooters after posting shooting percentages of 51/42/93. Leonard probably won't be able to maintain anything close to that level of efficiency in an expanded role with more minutes, but he's a young player worth watching all the same.
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Exactly what I said about Legen_
 
vonleh is the most interesting to me,(for what his acquisition cost us) because of his physical gifts , perhaps some perspective on his time frame to contributor can be garnered by his play. next on my watch list and secretly hoping for excess success is "patty" connaughton. we will need some overproduction from unexpected places to compete on a nightly basis when the real league games begin. I wish for frazier to dominate the other more heralded first rounders he goes up against too. too much?
 
Mediocre Man said:
Exactly what I said about Legen_
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To be fair, I don't think anybody expects him to go 50/40/90 in 30 mpg.

What you said, however, were that his numbers would "plummet", which connotes much more than just a normal decrease.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
To be fair, I don't think anybody expects him to go 50/40/90 in 30 mpg.

What you said, however, were that his numbers would "plummet", which connotes much more than just a normal decrease.
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Hopefully he won't have to..he'll be using more energy on defense
 
Why aren't the Blazers better at finding undrafted FA's. We need all the help we cant get. We should be looking under every rock and D league towel for talent.
 
ripcityboy said:
Why aren't the Blazers better at finding undrafted FA's. We need all the help we cant get. We should be looking under every rock and D league towel for talent.
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I'm surprised at that as well. It seems like every year there are gems either in the 2nd round (Draymond Green) or undrafted players (Matthews with the Jazz) that make a big impact and a lot of teams come up with them....but Portland doesn't seem to even try. There were a number of talented undrafted rookies this year and we didn't pick up one.
 
It's not just undrafted: it's obviously not hard to get low 2nd rounders, and that's how the Clippers got Branden Dawson. This is not an obscure player - he's the best player for Michigan State who goes to the Final Four every year.

In other annoying draft thoughts, it's driving my crazy working out in my head how Portland probably could've drafted Dame and Draymond Green and Khris Middleton one year and then Giannis and Gobert the next. (I know that's more picks than we had, but we had high enough picks that we could've traded down for two.) We could have had the entire lineup for a new team ready for when the old team left.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
It's not just undrafted: it's obviously not hard to get low 2nd rounders, and that's how the Clippers got Branden Dawson. This is not an obscure player - he's the best player for Michigan State who goes to the Final Four every year.

In other annoying draft thoughts, it's driving my crazy working out in my head how Portland probably could've drafted Dame and Draymond Green and Khris Middleton one year and then Giannis and Gobert the next. (I know that's more picks than we had, but we had high enough picks that we could've traded down for two.) We could have had the entire lineup for a new team ready for when the old team left.
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Your life must suck if you just sit around lamenting what could have been.
 
BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 said:
It's not like 28 other teams are kicking themselves or anything either...
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We have passed on legit hall of famers. We passed on THE GREATEST FUCKING PLAYER OF ALL TIME. We traded Moses Malone. This organization has made so many mistakes that it's impossible to name them all. To sit around and continue to whine about passing on Rudy Gobert and Draymond Green just doesn't make sense to me.
 
Well. I think it is safe to say that the Blazers aren't San Antonio when it comes to player development I guess.
 
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