Second Sacramento game: player reviews

[Rastapopoulos]

Just random comments really:

CJ goes into "total gunner" mode perhaps a bit too readily.
Aminu is a turnover waiting to happen. And they're not the regular turnovers, they're the "WTF" kind where he creates a turnover magically out of nothing. It's kind of amazing. He also seems to be a bit of a gunner/ball-stopper.
Pressey just dropped below Frazier on the "who shall we keep?" scale.
Connaughton impressed me: they had him guard the PG a lot of the time and he moves the ball and hustles.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

My two takeaways....

Ed Davis is the Energizer Bunny. I love the hustle and scrappiness.

Miles Plumlee looked lost and ineffective, like an old school white stiff.

I'm hoping the former keeps it up and the latter starts looking like a guy who is good enough to play for Team USA.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Just random comments really:

CJ goes into "total gunner" mode perhaps a bit too readily.
Aminu is a turnover waiting to happen. And they're not the regular turnovers, they're the "WTF" kind where he creates a turnover magically out of nothing. It's kind of amazing. He also seems to be a bit of a gunner/ball-stopper.
Pressey just dropped below Frazier on the "who shall we keep?" scale.
Connaughton impressed me: they had him guard the PG a lot of the time and he moves the ball and hustles.

Well people did want aminu to replace batum.

 

[Scalma]

Aminu is still better than batum. His success shooting the ball in the playoffs might not be a fluke, he plays great defense, and he crashes the boards. Hes also shown an ability to get to the rim. The only thing batum does better is passing the ball.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

the players were so small it was difficult to see who was who sometimes. I noticed Bellinelli didn't do so well; looked like Aminu was guarding him but I'm not sure. I thought our centers were supposed to be experts at slipping to the basket off pick and rolls; haven't seen that, not saying it's their fault, just haven't seen it attempted. Yes, I think they might as well release Pressey so he can try to find another job. Doesn't bring the ball up quickly, not a scorer and average distributor. I don't know what happened but it seemed in the second half Crabbe was getting hot and then he didn't get the ball for a long time.

 

[Trackjack]

It looks like a team that hasn't play together for long time but what I see it been better then what I thought. So it will get better and it only preseason.

 

[THE HCP]

Aminu is still better than batum.

What? You really believe this? Over the past few season Nic was considered one of the top SFs in the game.


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[Sinobas]

What? You really believe this? Over the past few season Nic was considered one of the top SFs in the game.


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By who?

 

[BBert]

By who?

Pretty much everyone except some Blazers fans?

I don't know of anyone who thought he was an all star, but he is well respected as a terrific all around player.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Miles Plumlee looked lost

Maybe because he's not on our team!

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Maybe because he's not on our team!

Crap.....I said months back I couldn't remember whether we had Miles, Mason or whatever other Plumlee there is. All those big, blond white boys look alike. But you can't say I was wrong. Miles did look lost last night....

 

[Scalma]

What? You really believe this? Over the past few season Nic was considered one of the top SFs in the game.


Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

Hahahahahahahahaha. Wait. Hahahahahahahahaha.

 

[Scalma]

Pretty much everyone except some Blazers fans?

I don't know of anyone who thought he was an all star, but he is well respected as a terrific all around player.

No one rated batum higher than the majority of blazer fans.

 

[Sinobas]

Pretty much everyone except some Blazers fans?

I don't know of anyone who thought he was an all star, but he is well respected as a terrific all around player.

Oh yeah, he was just terrific!

 

[riverman]

Crap.....I said months back I couldn't remember whether we had Miles, Mason or whatever other Plumlee there is. All those big, blond white boys look alike. But you can't say I was wrong. Miles did look lost last night....

He had a really bad game..looked like he was overthinking everything but the offense looked out of sync anyway. Plumlee and Davis shot really badly in the first half I saw

 

[Pinwheel1]

CJ goes into "total gunner" mode perhaps a bit too readily.

Last night? I am not sure I understand why you would think that. He shot over 50 %. Granted he had 1 "heat check" moment but that is what hot shooters do. The thing with CJ is that he is almost always under control when he is shooting. They might not all go in, but they are usually all good shots. As far as I am concerned we need CJ to be aggressive.

 

[riverman]

I like Nico's game...he just didn't show up when he needed to after Wes went down and that was the last gasp for me. I hope he shines in the east. I blame Minnesota for his troubles.

 

[riverman]

Last night? I am not sure I understand why you would think that. He shot over 50 %. Granted he had 1 "heat check" moment but that is what hot shooters do. The thing with CJ is that he is almost always under control when he is shooting. They might not all go in, but they are usually all good shots. As far as I am concerned we need CJ to be aggressive.

CJ is just such a perfect 6 man..as a starting pt guard with Pressy backing him up we weren't going to outplay Rondo and Collison anyway..4 assists is meh for a pt guard but CJ is a very, very intelligent basketball player and he's fearless..gotta like that. He could end up being our leading scorer this season.

 

[0-Our!]

All those big, blond white boys look alike.

That's just racist, they don't all look alike, oh wait...

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Last night? I am not sure I understand why you would think that. He shot over 50 %. Granted he had 1 "heat check" moment but that is what hot shooters do. The thing with CJ is that he is almost always under control when he is shooting. They might not all go in, but they are usually all good shots. As far as I am concerned we need CJ to be aggressive.

That's fine when we need scoring (and to be fair, we did) but if he's going to play PG (and he was) he should at least LOOK for other players.

 

[Pinwheel1]

That's fine when we need scoring (and to be fair, we did) but if he's going to play PG (and he was) he should at least LOOK for other players.

Normally I would agree with this. And I have gone on record saying I don't want him playing the point because I want him focused on what he does best. And that is scoring.

However, as some have pointed out, in Stotts system maybe there is not much difference between the the PG and SG. Either way, like you said....we needed scoring last night and CJ brought us back with his shooting.

 

[Stevenson]

CJ is just such a perfect 6 man...

True that. He reminds me of Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson.

 

[MARIS61]

Aminu is still better than batum. His success shooting the ball in the playoffs might not be a fluke, he plays great defense, and he crashes the boards. Hes also shown an ability to get to the rim. The only thing batum does better is passing the ball.

You're confusing Aminu with Durant.

Durant is better than Batum. No question about it.

Batum is unquestionably better than Aminu.

Aminu is a one-dimensional scrub whose coach didn't trust him on the court for more than 18 minutes.

I hope he has some magical metamorphis here in Portland, but it certainly hasn't happened yet.

 

[THE HCP]

^What this guy said. Amin is better than Nic? This will prove itself this season.

 

[Trackjack]

Aminu will better average per ball game then Nic had last year. Yes he need cut down his turn overs but that is why you have pre- season for to get use playing together.

 

[illmatic99]

Our guards need to start practicing lob passes. Can't count the # of times Plums or Davis were rolling to the rim wide open for an up top pass, and the guard either put up a runner from the foul line, swung to the wing, or tried to force a bounce pass.

Wish we still had Sergio/Rudy with this roster.

Dudes need to watch some Jlin/Davis PNR vids from last year which was surprisingly effective.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I think CJ agrees with me:

http://forwardcenter.net/shootaroun...putes-over-elbows-aminus-first-dad-road-trip/

"I’m not here because I’m a great passer,” said McCollum. “I didn’t get to the NBA being a great passer. Obviously I have to continue to develop that and be able to see the floor, but I’m here to score, and that’s what I’m going to do for a long time in my career until I get old and I have to really be a pass-first guy. I’m going to be looking to be aggressive and pick my spots like I did tonight throughout the entire season. When you don’t got (Lillard) you know you’re going to be lacking some offense, so you’ve got to bring an extra punch.”

 

[Boob-No-More]

You're confusing Aminu with Durant.

Durant is better than Batum. No question about it.

Batum is unquestionably better than Aminu.

Aminu is a one-dimensional scrub whose coach didn't trust him on the court for more than 18 minutes.

I hope he has some magical metamorphis here in Portland, but it certainly hasn't happened yet.

It happened while you were sleeping. Aminu had that metamorphosis during the playoffs last year when his coach trusted him for 30 MPG and he put up 13.4ppg, 8.6rpg, 2.4spg and 1.9bpg with a PER = 20.4. Doesn't sound too one-dimensional to me.

BNM

 

[THE HCP]

Everybody keeps bringing up Aminu and his amazing playoff run. It won't continue at that level, just like Meyers and his run.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I won't go so far to say Aminu and Leonard won't play at a high leve (anything is possible), but I agree that you can get into trouble relying on really small sample sizes.