Whiteside Insurance

[Binx]

Had dinner the other night with a Miami Heat fan. He wished Portland the best, but said Whiteside is the laziest player he’s ever seen. Apparently the night that the Pistons came to town, Whiteside let Andre Drummond go crazy. Just stood there while Drummond gobbled up rebounds and set some kind of personal scoring record. I didn’t look this up, I’m just taking his word for it. But I think it does help explain why Olshey went out and got Pau Gasol. He knows Whiteside is a big risk, and he needs some insurance at the center position.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Had dinner the other night with a Miami Heat fan. He wished Portland the best, but said Whiteside is the laziest player he’s ever seen. Apparently the night that the Pistons came to town, Whiteside let Andre Drummond go crazy. Just stood there while Drummond gobbled up rebounds and set some kind of personal scoring record. I didn’t look this up, I’m just taking his word for it. But I think it does help explain why Olshey went out and got Pau Gasol. He knows Whiteside is a big risk, and he needs some insurance at the center position.

http://bkref.com/tiny/IlUCH

The most Drummond has ever scored against Whiteside was 22 points on 3/3/18. He had 18 rebounds that game as well. Of course, Whiteside had 19 rebounds in only 24 minutes, and the Heat won.

Your Heat fan friend has a faulty memory.

Now, I remember a game early last season where Joel Embiid absolutely worked Whiteside, but that's a different story altogether.

 

[Binx]

http://bkref.com/tiny/IlUCH

The most Drummond has ever scored against Whiteside was 22 points on 3/3/18. He had 18 rebounds that game as well. Of course, Whiteside had 19 rebounds in only 24 minutes, and the Heat won.

Your Heat fan friend has a faulty memory.

Now, I remember a game early last season where Joel Embiid absolutely worked Whiteside, but that's a different story altogether.

Thanks for the research. Maybe it was the game against Embiid that my friend was thinking of.

 

[ripcity67]

no risk....contract year.....did not like his situation in Miami. I dont like that he didnt play hard. Nurk was in the same situation in Denver and that worked out for us. I am just curious how many 18+ rebound games he has this year for us. Cant wait

 

[Binx]

I agree that the reward is worth the risk. I just think we may have to take some bad along with the good. Can’t wait for the season to start and see how it all pans out.

 

[julius]

http://bkref.com/tiny/IlUCH

The most Drummond has ever scored against Whiteside was 22 points on 3/3/18. He had 18 rebounds that game as well. Of course, Whiteside had 19 rebounds in only 24 minutes, and the Heat won.

Your Heat fan friend has a faulty memory.

Now, I remember a game early last season where Joel Embiid absolutely worked Whiteside, but that's a different story altogether.

Like you, I looked up the box scores . Makes me wonder if he's talking about the night Drummond had a game of 25-18 in 17, but Whiteside didn't play..
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201701010MIA.html


It looked, though I didn't document things, that Andre had much better games when Whiteside WASN'T playing.

 

[hoopsjock]

http://bkref.com/tiny/IlUCH

The most Drummond has ever scored against Whiteside was 22 points on 3/3/18. He had 18 rebounds that game as well. Of course, Whiteside had 19 rebounds in only 24 minutes, and the Heat won.

Your Heat fan friend has a faulty memory.

Now, I remember a game early last season where Joel Embiid absolutely worked Whiteside, but that's a different story altogether.

Don't ruin the story with facts!

 

[Scalma]

Gasol is not Whiteside insurance as he doesn’t have those kind of minutes in his legs. If Whiteside goes down or plays shitty, Collins will just move back to center.

But Whiteside will be fine, health permitting.

 

[hoopsjock]

Had dinner the other night with a Miami Heat fan. He wished Portland the best, but said Whiteside is the laziest player he’s ever seen. Apparently the night that the Pistons came to town, Whiteside let Andre Drummond go crazy. Just stood there while Drummond gobbled up rebounds and set some kind of personal scoring record. I didn’t look this up, I’m just taking his word for it. But I think it does help explain why Olshey went out and got Pau Gasol. He knows Whiteside is a big risk, and he needs some insurance at the center position.

I keep hearing this lazy narrative. What I don't hear is how someone who is near the top of the league in rebounding percentage the last few years can be lazy.

I can't wait to hear the justification excuses when he dominates this year like Denver fans did with Nurk.

 

[Labinot41]

We got shooters. What it do babyyyyy

 

[Chris Craig]

We are going to see an energized Whiteside. He is excited to be playing with CJ and Dame.

The only thing that concerns me is when Nurkic comes back. Whiteside won't be happy coming off the bench, which he will be doing if the Blazers don't trade him at the deadline (Though they probably will).

 

[Strenuus]

We are going to see an energized Whiteside. He is excited to be playing with CJ and Dame.

The only thing that concerns me is when Nurkic comes back. Whiteside won't be happy coming off the bench, which he will be doing if the Blazers don't trade him at the deadline (Though they probably will).

He has to know he's playing second fiddle to Nurk. He can't be that dumb. He has to know, or someone told him. So he has time to come to terms with it.

 

[Scalma]

We are going to see an energized Whiteside. He is excited to be playing with CJ and Dame.

The only thing that concerns me is when Nurkic comes back. Whiteside won't be happy coming off the bench, which he will be doing if the Blazers don't trade him at the deadline (Though they probably will).

There will be enough minutes for him as I doubt they’re going to throw Nurk out there for 30 minutes a night. Could see an even split. Besides, Whiteside was benched in Miami and I don’t remember him disrupting the locker room. He can be unhappy all he wants as long as it doesn’t effect anybody else.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

We are going to see an energized Whiteside. He is excited to be playing with CJ and Dame.

The only thing that concerns me is when Nurkic comes back. Whiteside won't be happy coming off the bench, which he will be doing if the Blazers don't trade him at the deadline (Though they probably will).

+contract year

 

[PCmor7]

Fake thread.

 

[hoopsjock]

There will be enough minutes for him as I doubt they’re going to throw Nurk out there for 30 minutes a night. Could see an even split. Besides, Whiteside was benched in Miami and I don’t remember him disrupting the locker room. He can be unhappy all he wants as long as it doesn’t effect anybody else.

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

 

[Orion Bailey]

He has money. Dame will keep him in his place for the ring. We will go deep with them as a one two punch.

 

[HailBlazers]

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

It's no coincidence Olshey is loading up on Centers. Nurk needs to take all the time in the world to come back 100.

 

[Binx]

Fake thread.

Fake post.

 

[Scalma]

It's no coincidence Olshey is loading up on Centers. Nurk needs to take all the time in the world to come back 100.

He has three centers on the roster and one of them is the starting power forward. That’s loading up?

 

[Pinwheel1]

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

That would be ideal as it would mean that both Whiteside and Collins would remain healthy for the last few months of the season.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

He has three centers on the roster and one of them is the starting power forward. That’s loading up?

Some might call Skal a center. He'd make 4. If they kept this Moses kid, that'd be 5. That could qualify as "loading up".

 

[Scalma]

Some might call Skal a center. He'd make 4. If they kept this Moses kid, that'd be 5. That could qualify as "loading up".

Whiteside replaces Nurk
Gasol replaces Kanter

The rest stayed the same. I don’t see it. Whateva

 

[julius]

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

Agreed. I think people expecting him to be able to average his normal minutes a game this year so soon after returning are unrealistic. EVEN if he returns healthy, he'll have been several months from playing full court basketball for extended minutes.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

We are going to see an energized Whiteside. He is excited to be playing with CJ and Dame.

The only thing that concerns me is when Nurkic comes back. Whiteside won't be happy coming off the bench, which he will be doing if the Blazers don't trade him at the deadline (Though they probably will).

When Nurk comes back? Hayward and Paul George were shells of themselves, I dont expect Nurk to be a quality starter at all this year.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

Yeah, it's crazy how some fans are worried about other players mintues when Nurk is starting.... We don't know if Nurk will even be a competent bench player at all this season.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Whiteside replaces Nurk
Gasol replaces Kanter

The rest stayed the same. I don’t see it. Whateva

Some would list Meyers.

Nurk, Whiteside, Skal, Gasol, Collins. A third of our roster are centers so were fine.

 

[Scalma]

When Nurk comes back? Hayward and Paul George were shells of themselves, I dont expect Nurk to be a quality starter at all this year.

Hayward had a completely different injury. George only played a week or so since he got hurt in the offseason, and was an all star the following year (btw he returned in six months. If Nurk had the same timeline, and he had the exact same injury, that would put him at sometime in November. I don’t think he’ll be back then, but I also don’t believe he’ll be out until February)

It was a clean break. Just looks a lot more serious than it actually is.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Pau Gasol is most definitely not insurance for our starting center, he is a 15th man like Earl Watson was here.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

During the regular season I'd actually be surprised if Nurk logs more than 20 minutes in any game this year.

Yeah, he only averaged 27.4 mpg last year.