Why the disrespect to Ant

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Keep Ant, a Sharpe vs Ant dunk-off during All-Star weekend might be the most fun we have this season.
 
Ant fight !!

this will be Simons 6th NBA season. The Blazers gave him a 4 year star player contract. He's going to get criticism. It's part of being a professional NBA player.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Wow, that is a pretty underwhelming list regardless of the order.
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SG is very weak in the league right now, the perfect time for Sharpe to explode onto the scene. I also think Jaylen Brown should be number one, he's the only two-way player in the top 4. I guess maybe have Anthony Edwards over him for upside? Sure Booker is the best scorer on that list by far, but he's god awful at defense. If Sharpe could learn to be a two-way player and put it all together, he could easily be the best SG in the league in 3-5 years.
 
Idog1976 said:
SG is very weak in the league right now, the perfect time for Sharpe to explode onto the scene. I also think Jaylen Brown should be number one, he's the only two-way player in the top 4. I guess maybe have Anthony Edwards over him for upside? Sure Booker is the best scorer on that list by far, but he's god awful at defense. If Sharpe could learn to be a two-way player and put it all together, he could easily be the best SG in the league in 3-5 years.
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Just hope he plays better than he did in summer league. He didn't shoot the ball well at all, imo. He should have Dominated summer league.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Wow, that is a pretty underwhelming list regardless of the order.
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Thats the thing when we have a player like Ant thats been here a few years its easy for hard core Blazers only fans to rip on his faults and all he does wrong. But you actually start listing guards throughout the league you'd rather have and its not as clear cut as people think. A ton of the guys are old or poor defenders or don't shoot very well or are on even worse contracts.

If there is a young player that plays defense better than Ant and passes better but is still an elite shooter and can create his own offense, yes while on a cheap contract he's going to be worth a fortune, probably a lottery pick or multiple first rounders.
 
in post game highlights on YouTube, everyone shoots about 98% FG. Highlight watching and point counting misses the importance of REBOUNDING.

Anfernee is a bad rebounder. Rebounding is a big part of defense. Ant is a Point Guard wedged into Shooting Guard in a Blazers system that has Simons mismatched against bigger players almost every contest.

I'll post a video below, and give you a description of a somewhat normal daily Blazers oopsy.

OKC has the ball, a Thunder player drives inside and attacks the rack. The Blazers "Zone" weakly collapses and Simons hops out of way, escapes the carnage, he's too small to engage contact.

The inside shot attempt misses, and J-Dub comes streaking in from the perimeter to flush home a glass crashing offensive rebound. That was supposed to be Anfernee's box out assignment, but Jay Williams is a much stronger Forward then Simons.

After the nasty dunk, Anfernee throws his arms up in confusion, not realizing his escape route to avoid contact created the easy looking glass cleanup.

Just 1 example of countless "darnit" defensive crumbles the Blazer had last season. The team was just too dang small and struggled against good rebounding teams.

the play I described is at 4:55 of these highlights
slow it down it the tool bar

I don't want to sound mean, but there is lots and lots of tape showing Anfernee too small to be full time SG.

 
Look at Desmond Bane - he signed a $207 million contract.

This "Ant is overpaid" argument is either false or so minor its just totally irrelevant.

If Blazers get up against the tax with both Scoot and Sharpe having max deals yeah maybe the Blazers will need to consider moving one of these guards. But we are 5 years away from that being an issue.
 
i think we're just more in the 'who is the odd man out' zone atm - we have a lot of duplication in the back court and its even more confusing with Dame still here.
id love to just press on with the Scoot n Sharpe show but as we have mega paid Dame and well paid Ant as well, its a bit of a tricky one as to how this all works together.
id also like to move nurk and fine with nas leaving too, but the market for just about all these guys is pretty weak in regards to either 'fair' return or general interest overall.
 
Tince said:
While I'm not sure he's getting a lot of hate, this is that natural progression of how players are viewed on this board:
  1. High hopes after being drafted
  2. Increased expectations after minimal production
  3. Considerably more expectations after they sign their 2nd deal, not based on their actual play
  4. Start crapping on him in favor of the newest draft pick with high hopes
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Bingo, nailed it on the head. Those that say he was stats wise one of the worse defenders last season, he was playing SG, when he should be a PG. Also, you can mask someone's defense with who you put around him, and we do not have that at the moment.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Look at Desmond Bane - he signed a $207 million contract.

This "Ant is overpaid" argument is either false or so minor its just totally irrelevant.

If Blazers get up against the tax with both Scoot and Sharpe having max deals yeah maybe the Blazers will need to consider moving one of these guards. But we are 5 years away from that being an issue.
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Bane is 2x the player.
He actually plays [good] defense....
 
Chris Craig said:
I don't care for the revolving door of guards being drafted and then being traded away before they can get their legs underneath them, but I see Ant for what he is.

Ant is a hell of a shooter. He can get to the basket. But, that's it. He isn't a good leader nor does he play defense to any helpful degree. He is overpaid and belongs on the bench.
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Overpaid? Lmao, lost me after that one.
 
Hoopguru said:
Just hope he plays better than he did in summer league. He didn't shoot the ball well at all, imo. He should have Dominated summer league.
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He crushed it when he was running an actual NBA team, not in Summer League. I'm glad he didn't try and "dominate" Summer League and maybe get injured again in a meaningless bunch of Summer League games.
 
Honestly, I don't think he had a chance to shine.
For some reason Blazers surround 6.3 players with 6.3 players and we always wonder why this is not working.
 
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