VSL Game 2: Blazers vs Celtics - 5:30 p.m. CSNNW/ESPN2

[TBpup]

Collins got a switch and ran his smaller man right to the rim.....but didn't get the ball.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Patty C's future is with the Red Sox - definitely not in the NBA.

 

[ripcityboy]

Layman man....

 

[VenomXL]

OMG Jake. Come on dude.

 

[LuckyShot]

Layman just has no feel for shooting.

 

[TBpup]

I still think Jackson/Giles/Swanigan would've been better than Collins/Swanigan

Maybe....but Portland was never going to draft 3 players.

 

[TBpup]

Patty C's future is with the Red Sox - definitely not in the NBA.

Are you a Red Sox fan? Or just hoping the Orioles trade him?

 

[Natebishop3]

Luke Babbitt.... Pat Connaughton..... Jake Layman..... can we stop drafting these scrubs?

 

[A$AP Meyers]

Yeah, this is brutal.

Neither of the rookies are even close to pro-ready. Collins is just in the way offensively.

And Jake and Pat are garbage.

 

[TBpup]

Great D by Biggie on the perimeter and with the contest.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Maybe....but Portland was never going to draft 3 players.

I don't see why not? It's not like our end of the bench guys are guaranteed

 

[Cippy91]

Yeah, this is brutal.

Neither of the rookies are even close to pro-ready. Collins is just in the way offensively.

And Jake and Pat are garbage.

I think Swanigan gets minutes. Collins is very much a project

 

[TBpup]

Blazers get torched in the 2nd quarter of some very ugly basketball.

 

[LuckyShot]

Fuck. The only guy able to make a shot for us is done. We might not score 30 this game.

 

[VenomXL]

24 points at the half in summer league. LOL

 

[TBpup]

I don't see why not? It's not like our end of the bench guys are guaranteed

Just what I was told by the same guy that told me a month before the Draft they were very interested in Collins.

 

[PDXFonz]

Zach C_llins?

 

[Natebishop3]

I think Swanigan gets minutes. Collins is very much a project

I don't think any of these guys will get minutes. Vonleh is better than Swanigan.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Our second unit is fucked if we don't get a legit backup pg.

Ulis was my #1 choice before he became a double/double machine as soon as he became a starter.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Zach C_llins?

Highlight tapes are a bitch... I was convinced he'd be at least decent in the post.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Wow. Great game yesterday, shitty game today.

And yeah, as Cippy said: Collins is definitely a project. Like we don't have enough of those already.

And why is Patty even on this team?

 

[H.C.]

Yeah, this is brutal.

Neither of the rookies are even close to pro-ready. Collins is just in the way offensively.

And Jake and Pat are garbage.

So I can only assume you're not watching the game, because BiggE is showing pro-ready ability.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

LOL Swanigan is getting like 10x more hype from the media/fans than the guy we picked 16 spots ahead of him.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Highlight tapes are a bitch... I was convinced he'd be at least decent in the post.

I wasn't. I saw a huge fucking project that baffled me as to why we took him with a lottery pick.

If he's contributing in 3 years, I'll be surprised.

 

[Driew]

LOL Swanigan is getting like 10x more hype from the media/fans than the guy we picked 16 spots ahead of him.

Well he's got a better story for TV.

 

[LuckyShot]

Wow. Great game yesterday, shitty game today.

And yeah, as Cippy said: Collins is definitely a project. Like we don't have enough of those already.

And why is Patty even on this team?

We didn't look that different yesterday, it's just that Utah's team was much worse.

 

[A$AP Meyers]

So I can only assume you're not watching the game, because BiggE is showing pro-ready ability.

No he is not. He is playing well, but he hasn't shown anything that suggests he can play in a meaningful NBA game.

 

[H.C.]

Well he's got a better story for TV.

And more ability as a rookie than Collins.

 

[Cippy91]

As quick says here I do think playing with Dame and CJ frees up Collins the way Dame and CJ attract attention and double teams

 

[TBpup]

Neither of this 'bigs' is an offensive go-to guy on his own. But they could both be nice with some decent guard play and off of others who create double-teams. That was always the way it was with Collins and I see that with Biggie as well.