Notice Who's The Biggest Problem??

[CupWizier]

Back court size (actual, real human being size, not the bullshit measurements they list for Dame and CJ) is a real, honest problem with our lineup. Larger, physical guards can bully them on defense and offense. It's easy to pass over their heads when you're three plus inches taller than them. Size across all our positions (even center, since our bench lacks a true center with size... sorry Meyers) is a problem. Neil Olshey seems to like scrappy leftovers, which is cool, but most scrappy leftovers are players who are simply too small to excel at their position.

What starting guards were 3 plus inches taller than Lillard and McCollum in the playoffs? Predraft measurements (which are actual measurements) puts Rondo as shorter and Holliday a little taller. What is interesting is that the Blazers have a top 6 tallest average in the NBA. Our starting lineup is 6'3", 6'4", 6'9", 6'9" and 7'. Also, here's an article that looks at team defense and size:

"But how much difference does it really make on defense? Do the best defensive groupings have a length or height advantage? I looked at the top lineups in defensive rating at NBA.com, comparing their height and length. Scroll over the lineup to reveal the defensive rating:

Surprisingly, the top 10 defensive lineups were only an average of 391.21 inches tall and had a wingspan of just 414.51 inches. They're both about an inch short of the league average, which isn't what you would expect.

While this is just one factor in the increasingly sophisticated business of NBA defending, it's still telling. An elite defensive lineup doesn't need a lot of height and length."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ics-show-longest-nba-teams-by-wingspan-height

 

[CupWizier]

I see no attack, like saying that our motive is that we're butthurt. On O-Live you couldn't call someone deaf, dumb, and blind? Even if it's true? What did they say there. Audio-challenged, mentally unwired, and a cross between a mole and a referee?

Bye

 

[jlprk]

Not true.
League average FG% was 46%, 3pt FG% 36.2
Blazers average FG% was 45.3%, 3pt% 33.3
That may not seem like much but that is alot considering we are a 3pt shooting team.

I knew someone would quote Stotts stats. Did you see where I said that the Stotts system requires a lot of ill-advised, heroball shots? Percentages would change.

 

[jlprk]

Bye

You may not read my responses to you, but others will. Your posts are very fertile for response and cannot be ignored.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I knew someone would quote Stotts stats. Did you see where I said that the Stotts system requires a lot of ill-advised, heroball shots? Percentages would change.

Come on. I didn't quote Stott's stats. I looked them up on ESPN....

We had many open shots in this playoff series. They didnt go down though, they bricked.

 

[Orion Bailey]

So I ask, what better shot is there than an open one?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Either Kingspeed, cupwiser or Sly

 

[tlongII]

Stotts. We have talent.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

What starting guards were 3 plus inches taller than Lillard and McCollum in the playoffs? Predraft measurements (which are actual measurements) puts Rondo as shorter and Holliday a little taller. What is interesting is that the Blazers have a top 6 tallest average in the NBA. Our starting lineup is 6'3", 6'4", 6'9", 6'9" and 7'. Also, here's an article that looks at team defense and size:

"But how much difference does it really make on defense? Do the best defensive groupings have a length or height advantage? I looked at the top lineups in defensive rating at NBA.com, comparing their height and length. Scroll over the lineup to reveal the defensive rating:

Surprisingly, the top 10 defensive lineups were only an average of 391.21 inches tall and had a wingspan of just 414.51 inches. They're both about an inch short of the league average, which isn't what you would expect.

While this is just one factor in the increasingly sophisticated business of NBA defending, it's still telling. An elite defensive lineup doesn't need a lot of height and length."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ics-show-longest-nba-teams-by-wingspan-height

Great that means back courts of ALL sizes can potentially bully our back court.

Remember when our lineup was 6’3”, 6’6”, 6’8”, 6’11”, and 7’0”? Good times.

 

[jlprk]

Come on. I didn't quote Stott's stats. I looked them up on ESPN....

We had many open shots in this playoff series. They didnt go down though, they bricked.

By "Stotts stats," I meant Stotts-system stats (resulting from his system), not stats that came from Stotts' mouth! That would be funny, if he were the origin of our stats.

 

[Orion Bailey]

By "Stotts stats," I meant Stotts-system stats (resulting from his system), not stats that came from Stotts' mouth! That would be funny, if he were the origin of our stats.

What about all of those open shots his system garnered that we bricked though?

 

[MARIS61]

Your poll was apparently written by Paul Allen, as it doesn't include his name as a choice.

Clearly, PA and his refusal to hire a Real GM and give him power to make decisions has hampered the team's success ever since PA bought the team decades ago.

Nerdly micromanagement by a distracted and disinterested tight-fisted billionaire has made a sad joke of a once miraculous organization.

Please PA, just sell!

 

[CupWizier]

Great that means back courts of ALL sizes can potentially bully our back court.

Well watching the games, it has been proven that simply isn't the case though is it?

 

[CupWizier]

Either Kingspeed, cupwiser or Sly

Please keep me out of your wet dreams. I am happily married for over 35 years. It's also called cupwizier.

 

[jlprk]

What about all of those open shots his system garnered that we bricked though?

Stotts' signature is to have some players play faster than they are capable of. Often this makes the defense make mistakes because they're not used to the pace. But often, the pace causes the same increase in Blazer mistakes. Like missing shots, as you said.

P.S. After Stotts' first year here, other teams copied him (at lest when they play us), and the "mistake differential" diminished. The gimmick isn't so obviously effective now.

(Now someone will show pace statistics. I don't care; I'm using the eyeball method.)

 

[JoshuaHall]

What about all of those open shots his system garnered that we bricked though?

His system didn’t garner those. They were given to us because the other team decided to play 4-2 by triple teaming our backcourt, which is the result of having an elite backcourt. The offense didn’t earn that.

What he should’ve done, recognizing we are a poor shooting team, is utilized off ball movement, screens and ball movement to get better looks, such as dunks as layups, like The Pelicans were getting.

 

[Stevenson]

Mehvan Turner. Great guy, good player. But he doesn't fit here and his contract is an albatross.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Well watching the games, it has been proven that simply isn't the case though is it?

I don't know, I only got to watch four games that counted before the Blazers were eliminated! It appears that other teams don't try 100% during the regular season, and then try harder in the playoffs, where we try 100% during the regular season and then get steamrolled in the playoffs.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Please keep me out of your wet dreams. I am happily married for over 35 years. It's also called cupwizier.

It doesn't matter what it is.

 

[jlprk]

Well, everything's settled here. Now let's settle the world peace problem.

 

[CupWizier]

I don't know, I only got to watch four games that counted before the Blazers were eliminated! It appears that other teams don't try 100% during the regular season, and then try harder in the playoffs, where we try 100% during the regular season and then get steamrolled in the playoffs.

I think that's a false narrative to think others don't try in the regular season and we do. No evidence to support that.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

I think that's a false narrative to think others don't try in the regular season and we do. No evidence to support that.

Maybe how we don't get any better in the playoffs and our opponents do? Or was New Orleans always going to sweep us?

 

[CupWizier]

Maybe how we don't get any better in the playoffs and our opponents do? Or was New Orleans always going to sweep us?

First sweep was from the Warriors who pretty much swept there way to the championship. We could have played them in the WCF and the same outcome would have been likely. The Pelican series as I see it was a perfect storm where they were hot and we were slumping at the wrong time. They beat us, that's a fact. I don't know if it would happen again the same way. You want to take one series and claim that it will always happen the same way. Neither of us can claim we know what would happen. Remember when we lost years ago to the lakers with Shaq and then traded Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis? We lost an MVP candidate because of that. In hindsight it turned out to be a very bad deal, but it was understandable at the time. The message from that is sometimes making big changes doesn't always work out for the best.

Since Stotts has been here we have been in the playoffs all but one year and 2 out of those 5 years we made it to the second round so we don't always get swept in the playoffs as we had a great series against Houston as well as the Clippers as we were on our way to winning the 4th game and tying the series before the injuries hit the Clippers and could have still won the series.

 

[Gronk Brady]

First sweep was from the Warriors who pretty much swept there way to the championship. We could have played them in the WCF and the same outcome would have been likely. The Pelican series as I see it was a perfect storm where they were hot and we were slumping at the wrong time. They beat us, that's a fact. I don't know if it would happen again the same way. You want to take one series and claim that it will always happen the same way. Neither of us can claim we know what would happen. Remember when we lost years ago to the lakers with Shaq and then traded Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis? We lost an MVP candidate because of that. In hindsight it turned out to be a very bad deal, but it was understandable at the time. The message from that is sometimes making big changes doesn't always work out for the best.

Since Stotts has been here we have been in the playoffs all but one year and 2 out of those 5 years we made it to the second round so we don't always get swept in the playoffs as we had a great series against Houston as well as the Clippers as we were on our way to winning the 4th game and tying the series before the injuries hit the Clippers and could have still won the series.

You don’t want to take one playoff series and claim that it will happen the same way, but you are ok taking one 13 game win streak and claiming it will happen the same way, meaning this is a close to 49 win team... when in reality they were 36-37 including playoffs outside of that one win streak... this Dame/CJ team is a .500 ball club, you need to accept the reality

 

[Strenuus]

6 of those losses were to the Warriors which were superior to any team in the playoffs. The grass isn't always greener on the other side so be careful what you wish for.

It's still 10 straight playoffs losses. It's still a pattern.

And the grass isn't green now, so...

 

[Strenuus]

You don’t want to take one playoff series and claim that it will happen the same way, but you are ok taking one 13 game win streak and claiming it will happen the same way, meaning this is a close to 49 win team... when in reality they were 36-37 including playoffs outside of that one win streak... this Dame/CJ team is a .500 ball club, you need to accept the reality

Literally the most frustrating team to watch before that streak. You never knew what you were going to get.

That's why I say "Olshey gets mad at us for looking at 4 games that were more indicative of 69 games, than the 13 games that were indicative of the 13 games."

It's really not that hard when people look at it objectively. I love this team and will always support it, but come on - there's so much wrong with it. Coach, GM, Players, schemes.

 

[CupWizier]

You don’t want to take one playoff series and claim that it will happen the same way, but you are ok taking one 13 game win streak and claiming it will happen the same way, meaning this is a close to 49 win team... when in reality they were 36-37 including playoffs outside of that one win streak... this Dame/CJ team is a .500 ball club, you need to accept the reality

Really? Please find that post where I said that 13 game winning streak would happen again. It appears you are making a false claim as to what I have said. Let's stick to the truth. I find it confusing how one can just totally dismiss a fact that we won 13 games in a row. That would be not accepting reality.

Also, can you tell me what our record was before the winning streak? If you want to remove our winning streak can we also take away any losing streaks as well? Can't just have it one way.

 

[CupWizier]

Literally the most frustrating team to watch before that streak. You never knew what you were going to get.

That's why I say "Olshey gets mad at us for looking at 4 games that were more indicative of 69 games, than the 13 games that were indicative of the 13 games."

It's really not that hard when people look at it objectively. I love this team and will always support it, but come on - there's so much wrong with it. Coach, GM, Players, schemes.

My suggestion to you is to look at the record before the streak and project it out to 82 games. What do you come up with?

 

[Natebishop3]

It's so hard to pin point one thing as being the biggest problem.

It could be a combination of problems. We don't pass enough, which is on Dame and CJ, but is that because of Terry? Or are Dame and CJ just ball hogs? Is there not enough talent on our roster and that's why our assist numbers suck? Is that on Neil? Does changing one thing potentially solve some of the bigger issues?

 

[CupWizier]

And just like any winning and losing streak they come to an end. I see people on here wanting Paul Allen to sell the team, fire Olshey, fire Stotts, trade Lillard, trade McCollum, don't resign Nurkic or Davis . Do you agree with all that? Would you be okay with a possibility of multiple years in the lottery?