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zzaj wrote:You gotta feed a dog to keep a dog...that wasn't really happening in Phoenix.
It's silly to think that Ayton is going to put up anything close to 25/15 every night, but feeding Ayton should absolutely be a focus for the remainder of the season. That and forcing two-man game between Scoot and Ayton. With Sharpe out, the Blazers need to get as much of a vision as they can of what a Scoot/Ayton pairing can look like.
IMHO, the Blazers are going to jettison one of Jabari, Camara, Rupert, and Murray in a trade of Brogdon. They can't develop 4 guys for basically the same position, so it'll be important for the Blazers to see as much of Rupert and Murray on the court as possible to assess what is there and the amount of real progress that has been made. There are no reps like gametime reps.
zzaj wrote:You gotta feed a dog to keep a dog...that wasn't really happening in Phoenix.
It's silly to think that Ayton is going to put up anything close to 25/15 every night, but feeding Ayton should absolutely be a focus for the remainder of the season. That and forcing two-man game between Scoot and Ayton. With Sharpe out, the Blazers need to get as much of a vision as they can of what a Scoot/Ayton pairing can look like.
IMHO, the Blazers are going to jettison one of Jabari, Camara, Rupert, and Murray in a trade of Brogdon. They can't develop 4 guys for basically the same position, so it'll be important for the Blazers to see as much of Rupert and Murray on the court as possible to assess what is there and the amount of real progress that has been made. There are no reps like gametime reps.
BlazersBroncos wrote:zzaj wrote:You gotta feed a dog to keep a dog...that wasn't really happening in Phoenix.
It's silly to think that Ayton is going to put up anything close to 25/15 every night, but feeding Ayton should absolutely be a focus for the remainder of the season. That and forcing two-man game between Scoot and Ayton. With Sharpe out, the Blazers need to get as much of a vision as they can of what a Scoot/Ayton pairing can look like.
IMHO, the Blazers are going to jettison one of Jabari, Camara, Rupert, and Murray in a trade of Brogdon. They can't develop 4 guys for basically the same position, so it'll be important for the Blazers to see as much of Rupert and Murray on the court as possible to assess what is there and the amount of real progress that has been made. There are no reps like gametime reps.
I for sure keep Camara and Rupert. One has shown he has a high chance of being a nice, well sized utility forward. The other has youth, potential and length on his side.
Murray is just not really good and is already like 23. Walker has nice hustle but end of the day he is basically a wildly undersized C - not enough lateral juice to really hold up guarding the forward spots.
Assuming Murray and Walker go out in a BB deal and we move Matisse to a PO team - we are sitting with -
G - Anfernee Simons / Scoot Henderson
G - Shadeon Sharpe / Dalano Banton
F - Jerami Grant / 2024 DP / Rayan Rupert
F - 2024 DP / Toumari Camara
C - DeAndre Ayton / Duop Reath / 2024 DP
with 3 picks to fill the 3 big holes - SF, PF and a developmental C
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