Game Thread Preseason Game #1 Suns @ Trail Blazers Game Thread

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yuyuza1 said:


That P&R and big finish at 1:40 is gonna be unguardable.
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Some fun things:
1) Hard to believe that Damian didn't have a (consistent) floater coming into the league, now he's a master.
2) Love Nurk's new game: Put a big dude on me? Hit the jumper! Put a thin dude on me? Post him up!
 
Collins and Swanigan really have contrasting games, it's interesting. I think we nailed it with our draft. This team is going to be deep and good in the front court. I'm a little concerned about our depth at guard, but Dame and CJ will play a lot of minutes anyway.
 
BonesJones said:
The stat system broke down. The stat board in the arena didn't change after the first quarter.
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ESPN Gamecast had all of the stats throughout the game. I wonder why they can't just copy what they had from there.
 
I'm now officially on the Zach Collins bandwagon.

Layman and Pat suck.

Turner and Aminu stink.

:cheers:
 
Sinobas said:
Collins already looks much better than Leonard, especially defensively. Which is funny to say about a guy who should be a sophmore in college, but the game comes natually to him, whereas Meyers is still a bit awkward out there.

Nurk, Collins and Davis are looking like the top 3 big men right now. I think Swanigan, Meyers and Vonleh will battle for the other spot. Meyers will probably only play when Stotts decides he wants his PF to shoot 3s.
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Yep. Collins is a lot more quick and agile than Meyers. Combined with the fact Collins both knows how to play basketball and has good basketball instincts, two things Meyers has lacked thus far, and Collins will definitely pass Meyers. The thing is, I still maintain that Collins is a PF, while Meyers is a Center. I could easily see them on the court together.
 
BBert said:
Yep. Collins is a lot more quick and agile than Meyers. Combined with the fact Collins both knows how to play basketball and has good basketball instincts, two things Meyers has lacked thus far, and Collins will definitely pass Meyers. The thing is, I still maintain that Collins is a PF, while Meyers is a Center. I could easily see them on the court together.
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and Collins showing this already at age 19 after being a backup at Gonzaga!
 
BBert said:
Yep. Collins is a lot more quick and agile than Meyers. Combined with the fact Collins both knows how to play basketball and has good basketball instincts, two things Meyers has lacked thus far, and Collins will definitely pass Meyers. The thing is, I still maintain that Collins is a PF, while Meyers is a Center. I could easily see them on the court together.
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White Towers! White Towers!

//Wookee

;)
 
Alex Len continues to get better. Phoenix has a nice young nucleus.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Harkless is a better fit with the starters than Turner
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Yes, I think Harkless is much more effective when playing with Nurkic; whereas with Turner, Nurkic, Lillard, McCollum, it's just too complicated.
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
Yes, I think Harkless is much more effective when playing with Nurkic; whereas with Turner, Nurkic, Lillard, McCollum, it's just too complicated.
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Yeah I reluctantly agree. I like the 3rd ball handler, but it seems apparent that Terry is ok with the 3rd ball handler , handling the ball a little too much.

That was my issue with Nic as well. He was a good ball handler for a SF, but not better than the PG. Although it was a little different since the SG (Wes) was much worse of a ball handling option than CJ.

I am now hoping for a Dame, CJ, Harkless, Nurk, Collins line up to work out. But it may take a while.
 
Nobody talked about Fox.....I know it was a preseason game, but damn he scored at will.
 
HCP said:
Nobody talked about Fox.....I know it was a preseason game, but damn he scored at will.
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Who the ------ is Fox? Red, Grey, or ................
 
HCP said:
Nobody talked about Fox.....I know it was a preseason game, but damn he scored at will.
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You're upset that we're not talking about a Kings rookie in a Blazers-Suns game thread?

What's that you like to say? F#$%outtaherewithat FAMS!!
 
So, not gonna read through this thread, but did everybody meltdown?

After checking the (meaningless) box score, I see that our two rookies both had much better showings, in fewer minutes, than Ed Davis. Ditto for Harkless over Turner. I'm tellin' ya - Ed Davis is a 10th man on a contender, and Turner is an Eastern Conference Kid. Neither belong in our rotation, and especially not in the starting line-up.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
You're upset that we're not talking about a Kings rookie in a Blazers-Suns game thread?

What's that you like to say? F#$%outtaherewithat FAMS!!
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God damn it. I meant Jackson...... all night while he was scoring and I was labeling his plays Jax....... as I posted it auto corrected to Fox! You know who I meant ass faces!
 
blue9 said:
So, not gonna read through this thread, but did everybody meltdown?

After checking the (meaningless) box score, I see that our two rookies both had much better showings, in fewer minutes, than Ed Davis. Ditto for Harkless over Turner. I'm tellin' ya - Ed Davis is a 10th man on a contender, and Turner is an Eastern Conference Kid. Neither belong in our rotation, and especially not in the starting line-up.
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Ed Davis played fantastic. Should have watched.
 
HCP said:
Ed Davis played fantastic. Should have watched.
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Not as fantastic as either of the rookies. I like Davis but he's limited. His on court strengths are screens, rebounding, and help defense. Collins can do all of those things and then some. Davis has the experience though so I wouldn't expect him to be out of the rotation/traded just yet.
 
HCP said:
Ed Davis played fantastic. Should have watched.
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I can't be bothered to care about - let alone spend time watching - preseason. But, if Ed played so fantastically it seems odd that his stat line didn't show anything meaningful and his +/- was the worst of the entire team. I think it's much more likely that Ed played about as well as Ed can play, but it just isn't very good. I mean, Meyers, Collins, and Biggie all scored more on equal or better shooting, rebounded at roughly the same rate, and all ended up with much better +/-. That's two rookies and MEYERS LEONARD who all had better box scores!

Ed Davis is not a rotation player on a good team. Sucks to say, because I really like the guy.
 
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