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Wow. It was one game folks. It happens. Some posters around here must enjoy being negative Nancy's in real life over small things.
 
Re: Can you feel the mediocrity tonight?

Drttimmy said:
A lot, but they were open shots and he was making them. He had a variety down low, too. Aldridge's shot selection wasn't an issue.
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Perhaps not, but I honestly believe that Aldridge himself is an issue. The guy is almost exclusively an outside shooter anymore. That means we don't have his 6'11 presence in the paint to rebound, block shots, or play defense. And even though he's a very good shooter, you can't win in this league on jump shooting.

I'm personally sick of his game. It's become very one-dimensional. You can almost predict the shot he's going to take (after he backs his guy down), and while he's preparing to take his shot, everybody is standing around watching him.

I would be very happy if Aldridge was traded for somebody big who was willing to play under the basket.
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

Shooter said:
The Blazers are in for a long season. We simply have too many guys who want to shoot and do little else. Aldridge? Wants to be a shooter. Batum? Shooter. Mo Williams? Shooter. Matthews? Shooter. All of the above think of themselves as outside specialists rather than inside guys.

The guys who DO think of themselves as inside players--Lopez, Robinson, Leonard, Freeland--all suck. We have no one even half as good as Miles Plumlee, who in the first quarter tonight showed me more than Myers Leonard did all last season.

Until we start getting guys who can create a shot around the basket and do more than loft up three pointers, we're going to be a very mediocre team.
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I think what we saw from Plumlee was player play like the coach knew some Basketball. He was setup very nicely by Dragic several times. I don't know if Hornacek learned much
playing in Phoenix but I think he did playing for Sloan.
 
Re: Can you feel the mediocrity tonight?

Shooter said:
Perhaps not, but I honestly believe that Aldridge himself is an issue. The guy is almost exclusively an outside shooter anymore. That means we don't have his 6'11 presence in the paint to rebound, block shots, or play defense. And even though he's a very good shooter, you can't win in this league on jump shooting.

I'm personally sick of his game. It's become very one-dimensional. You can almost predict the shot he's going to take (after he backs his guy down), and while he's preparing to take his shot, everybody is standing around watching him.

I would be very happy if Aldridge was traded for somebody big who was willing to play under the basket.
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I bolded what I noticed mostly from the game last night when he or Dame got the ball.

1. To much standing around
2. Nobody else stepped up to play besides Dame and LMA
3. Where did Batum and Wes go? I feel like they just didn't live up to what they're supposed to be
4. No defense, again...


Glad it's one game, but the whole pre-game hoopla about how we kick ass on defense now was overrated.
 
Re: Can you feel the mediocrity tonight?

Shooter said:
Perhaps not, but I honestly believe that Aldridge himself is an issue. The guy is almost exclusively an outside shooter anymore. That means we don't have his 6'11 presence in the paint to rebound, block shots, or play defense. And even though he's a very good shooter, you can't win in this league on jump shooting.

I'm personally sick of his game. It's become very one-dimensional. You can almost predict the shot he's going to take (after he backs his guy down), and while he's preparing to take his shot, everybody is standing around watching him.

I would be very happy if Aldridge was traded for somebody big who was willing to play under the basket.
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He did take a lot of jump shots, but he was hardly one dimensional last night on offense. It is the same argument for Damian. Accept what they do well and compliment them with players who do other things. You trade Aldridge for a player who is willing to play under the basket and I guarantee that player will have other deficiencies that LMA does not have.
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

I watched the game on KGW (via Dish) and the Phoenix broadcast on League pass, switching between the two. You get the other side that way.
Anyway the Phoenix crew showed Olshey talking gesturing and talking some more. All the time Paul Allen, hat down, eyes straight a head, lips tight.
Wonder how Neil is doing? Ha! Not so good by the look of it.
 
One game folks.

They looked pretty awful last night, but all of these sweeping judgments are about ten to twenty games too soon.
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

MarAzul said:
I watched the game on KGW (via Dish) and the Phoenix broadcast on League pass, switching between the two. You get the other side that way.
Anyway the Phoenix crew showed Olshey talking gesturing and talking some more. All the time Paul Allen, hat down, eyes straight a head, lips tight.
Wonder how Neil is doing? Ha! Not so good by the look of it.
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Not a big deal. Paul Allen acts like a fan, Neil acts like a professional.
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

Draco said:
Not a big deal. Paul Allen acts like a fan, Neil acts like a professional.
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My Goodness, that is observant. What fan likes to sit there lips tight, animated like the slowly boiled frog?
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

For all fans who are "lost" here's a great job by Dwight jaynes

A few other little things from the game:

Nic Batum had 13 rebounds but made just three of nine from the field. His hesitancy late in the game on a big three-pointer that might have lit the fuse on a comeback was obvious, though, and made you wonder if this guy is ever going to step it up to the next level. He's been in the league long enough by now to know when he is supposed to shoot the ball and to respond to those situations in a confident way. He played nearly 37 minutes without getting to the foul line, too.
Lopez had just two rebounds.
The Trail Blazers, who pounded teams on the boards in the exhibition season, were outrebounded 47-39 by Phoenix. THAT was a little hard to believe, too.
Wesley Matthews has been searching for his shooting touch since camp opened. I'm not sure why, but he doesn't appear to me to be moving as fluidly as in the past.
Miles Plumlee is just as intimidating as his name implies. Yes, he is.
The Blazers played only four guys off the bench and got just 12 points from them. Williams was 1-for-9. Terry Stotts wanted this game bad and chased it with his starters pretty hard in the second half. Lillard played 42 minutes and LaMarcus Aldridge 39. I don't blame Stotts, by the way. He was waiting for the same fourth-quarter comeback we all expected but never got.
Even though the Trail Blazers have a terrible time winning in Denver, I expect a much better performance there on Friday night. That WAS, you know, just one game Wednesday night.
 
Re: We need PLAYERS, not shooters

MarAzul said:
My Goodness, that is observant. What fan likes to sit there lips tight, animated like the slowly boiled frog?
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A fan thats watching their team get blown out by the least talented team in the league.
 
Wait.

Carlito got banned, and RoyToy left the board? At least we have one new poster, I think.
 
Yoda_of_the_MODA said:
Wait.

Carlito got banned, and RoyToy left the board? At least we have one new poster, I think.
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Carlito has just been given a 24hr vacation. He'll be back.

And RoyToy just posted so he hasn't really left.
 
HCP said:
That chump finally got banned? What did I miss?
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A pleasant game thread.

Of course, Denny also missed out on about 10 extra pages of revenue generating bickering. Tough luck, Denny.
 
I'm heading over to read the thread now. Can't wait!
 
Before I do, let me guess. He started in with the ,"Why am I being trolled" routine?
 
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