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swish3 said:
Favored treatment is not what Meyers needs. Rather, he needs to bring the further advances in the talent that we saw in his best games. What the Blazers need is a way to encourage him to shoot, based on building his confidence. That can bring the hot streaks that would allow him to average 18+ points per game. The Blazers need to maximize resources, not think of them in negative terms.

We both see a lack of confidence. What might help is to improve that situation, which means stating reasons to shoot on this forum. Every player has his weaknesses and can develop significantly from a path to improvement. That is what I hope to see here.
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He's been given more than enough time. He needs to go.
 
swish3 said:
Favored treatment is not what Meyers needs. Rather, he needs to bring the further advances in the talent that we saw in his best games. What the Blazers need is a way to encourage him to shoot, based on building his confidence. That can bring the hot streaks that would allow him to average 18+ points per game. The Blazers need to maximize resources, not think of them in negative terms.

We both see a lack of confidence. What might help is to improve that situation, which means stating reasons to shoot on this forum. Every player has his weaknesses and can develop significantly from a path to improvement. That is what I hope to see here.
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Okay I'm now in the troll camp.
 
I'm still a Meyers fan but at this point he is going to be a floor spacer of the bench providing offense when we need it. He should be comfortable in this role, and if he is he could end up finding his way to get back into the starting unit. If he's not comfortable in this role then he doesn't really have a place in this team first system.
 
He's turning into another spencer hawes. Meh
 
Scalma said:
He's turning into another spencer hawes. Meh
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That has always been the best comparison for his skillset and development arc (except that Hawes got big minutes from the beginning in SAC). And honestly, if Meyers can approximate Hawes' production in Philadelphia from 2010-2013, I think we should all be thrilled.
 
Now that Dame is hitting more swish3s I think it's only a matter of time before Meyers finds his shot again and is hitting some swish3s as well.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
That has always been the best comparison for his skillset and development arc (except that Hawes got big minutes from the beginning in SAC). And honestly, if Meyers can approximate Hawes' production in Philadelphia from 2010-2013, I think we should all be thrilled.
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YES.
 
I like Leonard but he has been a project for long enough. It is time for him to stand on his own two feet and show us what he's got, period. He hasn't shown us that he is good enough to start yet. I don't want to put him down but he needs to take a page out of Crabbe's book and step up his game. If he can't do that much by the end of the season then it's time to cut our losses on him.
 
How many swish3's did Meyers make last night?
 
B-Roy said:
I literally did not realize it was swishes until just now. I've been reading it thus entire time as swish threes.
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It is swish 3's. The OP's username is swish3. He's specifically referencing 3 point shots. He doesn't really care if they swish or not.

swish3 said:
Right, but the 3 points count! When I say swish3, I use the term to mean any of the 3s. But the swish is often the way Meyers does it!
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In the Washington game, Meyers was good for 18 points, many picks, rebounds, and defense. He should take more 3-point shots in my opinion. Let's look for more strong contributions like this to give a boost to the 7 home game series!
 
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swish3 said:
In the Washington game, Meyers was good for 18 points, many picks, rebounds, and defense. He should take more 3-point shots in my opinion. Let's look for more strong contributions like this to give a boost to the 7 home game series!
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I like this post, but I think your wrong. HE can hit the three's. He knows it. We know it and the coaching staff knows it. His glaring weakness is also the Blazers biggest wekaness... a back to the basket post presense. This is what he should be practicing and trying to do more. You think he shoots a good three now, wait until guys are afarid of him in the post....
 
Orion Bailey said:
I like this post, but I think your wrong. HE can hit the three's. He knows it. We know it and the coaching staff knows it. His glaring weakness is also the Blazers biggest wekaness... a back to the basket post presense. This is what he should be practicing and trying to do more. You think he shoots a good three now, wait until guys are afarid of him in the post....
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The season is going down as a failure in my book because Stotts isn't attempting to develop a post game in any of our bigs. I think Plumlee, Meyers, and Vonleh all have the ability to develop at least an average post-up, but it seems we only get to see one of them make an attempt every 5 games or so. I'd like to see each of them get at least two attempts per game.
 
25th team in the league for points in the paint!

https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/points-in-paint-per-game

w00t!

If Meyers showed any inclination to do ANYTHING in the paint, I'd see a glimmer of hope here - maybe its all Stotts and gameplan? i dunno - but are people really thinking a 7 foot 3pt shooting marshmellow on D is what we need?

shooting - and im calling this as mid/long range - we have in spades! we need bangers and bruisers in the paint for 2nd chance opps, safe rebounding and, probably not since Brian Grant, an enforcer to make people think twice about entering his 'office'

Meyers, Vonleh etc need a shit ton of Charles Oakley channeling ASAP, last time i saw meyers smile he had hit a 3..... that skill vs. size vs. position play does create issues for the other teams in SOME situations, but more often than that, we need boards, blocks, defense, hustle, intimidation, screens & power.
 
If Meyers could learn a post game on offense and defense he'd be a max player. I'm getting to the point where I don't know if he knows the alphabet so I'm not holding my breath.
 
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