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Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:02 am
by UOducksTK1

Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:51 am
by karlhungis

In addition, he was ranked 43rd among qualified NBA point guards in Player Efficiency Rating, making him worse than most team's backup point guards.

He will be sorely missed.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:28 pm
by woundedknees
karlhungis wrote:

In addition, he was ranked 43rd among qualified NBA point guards in Player Efficiency Rating, making him worse than most team's backup point guards.

He will be sorely missed.
Right... By opposing teams.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:31 pm
by lukeyrid13
woundedknees wrote:
karlhungis wrote:

In addition, he was ranked 43rd among qualified NBA point guards in Player Efficiency Rating, making him worse than most team's backup point guards.

He will be sorely missed.
Right... By opposing teams.
and voodoo donuts, beaverton bakery, hometown buffet and olive garden during never ending pasta

Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:50 pm
by thomas time
CSNNW. com reported blazers turned down an offer of Derrick Williams and two first round picks for Batum, and are having his agent flying into town so Nic will take a phyiscal, so looks like they are serious about matching which I had always thought.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:19 pm
by greenyellow
thomas time wrote:CSNNW. com reported blazers turned down an offer of Derrick Williams and two first round picks for Batum, and are having his agent flying into town so Nic will take a phyiscal, so looks like they are serious about matching which I had always thought.
Darren Wolfson, a Minneapolis based ESPN contributor who covers the T-Wolves, is saying that deal was never actually on the table. I don't know who to believe in this whole mess, but Batum is all but locked to be in Portland next season.

Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:15 am
by OreDucks01284
Blazers are going to interview Patrick Ewing for head coach position.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:41 am
by greenyellow
OreDucks01284 wrote:Blazers are going to interview Patrick Ewing for head coach position.
They are going to interview, from an article I read, about 15-20 candidates in Vegas so it can't really hurt to talk to him. I still think the top candidates are Brian Shaw, Malone from GS, SA assistant Mike Budenholzer, and Canales.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:42 am
by thomas time
Blazers are basically interviewing anybody who wants to thats, espically an assisant in the league now

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:34 am
by UOducksTK1
thomas time wrote:CSNNW. com reported blazers turned down an offer of Derrick Williams and two first round picks for Batum, and are having his agent flying into town so Nic will take a phyiscal, so looks like they are serious about matching which I had always thought.
If true, we should have done that. But I doubt that the Twolves would offer that.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:20 am
by bellsduck
OreDucks01284 wrote:Blazers are going to interview Patrick Ewing for head coach position.
And apparently Phil Jackson is willing to talk to Blazers about a front office position. If nothing else that might lend some credability to the Blazers and perhaps make players want to come here.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:34 am
by ncduck
It's not easy to follow the Blazers as closely as I would like from Charlotte. Based on the Oregonian and NBA tv, I know they want a starting caliber center and seemed intent on filling that position via trade.

I had assumed they would try to get something done before matching the Batum offer sheet tomorrow, so we could go over the cap.

Any rumours on where we're looking/targeting?

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:47 am
by lukeyrid13
ncduck wrote:It's not easy to follow the Blazers as closely as I would like from Charlotte. Based on the Oregonian and NBA tv, I know they want a starting caliber center and seemed intent on filling that position via trade.

I had assumed they would try to get something done before matching the Batum offer sheet tomorrow, so we could go over the cap.

Any rumours on where we're looking/targeting?
It's very very quiet and looks like they're just gonna sit on this team and roll with the punches and stay under the cap. I'd like to see them make some moves, and was hoping they'd bid on guys like Haywood or Scola but I think they want to give the young guys some run

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:50 am
by karlhungis
ncduck wrote:It's not easy to follow the Blazers as closely as I would like from Charlotte. Based on the Oregonian and NBA tv, I know they want a starting caliber center and seemed intent on filling that position via trade.

I had assumed they would try to get something done before matching the Batum offer sheet tomorrow, so we could go over the cap.

Any rumours on where we're looking/targeting?
From the sounds of things, they may end up starting the new rookie that they signed. It doesn't sound like anything serious is in the works for acquiring a starting caliber center. This team is going to be an absolute mess next season.

Re: Blazers

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:55 am
by ncduck
Thanks for writing back!

I stayed up super late the other night to watch the Blazers first summer league game. Leonard looks like he will work hard enough to squeeze out every ounce of potential he has.

Hopefully, we get a coach or assistant that knows how to develop bigs.