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Re: Shams: the ****? Simons to Boston for Holiday… real 

Post#301 » by Wizenheimer » Yesterday 8:58 pm

dckingsfan wrote:
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dckingsfan wrote:Interesting that we rank 3rd in the league in 3PA and 15th in 3PT%. We bring that up even a little bit and it is going to get very interesting.

Camara is a career .361 on 3s and only shooting .323 - guessing that will come up.

maybe...probably? At this point, hard to say which season was more predictive for Camara: his .337 or .375 season. Deni is a career .339 shooter from three but this season is shooting .389. If Camara improves it might be that Deni regresses. Jrue is right around his career average; Grant is well above his. Sharpe is the wild card. If I had to guess, my guess would be that Portland will end up shooting about the same as last season from three when they ranked 26th; maybe a bit higher

Solid post. I wish I had put a 3pt% prediction aspect to the prediction thread.

We are at .339 now. We were at .342 last season. I am going to take the over on .339 and an improvement to 20th or above vs. last year's 26th.

I am probably overly optimistic. But I think that the pace they are playing at involves more open 3s.


you could be right

my guess is that a lot of the things the Blazers are doing successfully right now will get scouted by other teams. I think Portland has surprised teams with the defensive pressure and aggressive transition. Those two things are the Blazer strengths right now, and I think many teams on their schedule will work to take those Blazer strengths away. It won't be easy because right now the Blazers have depth and length. Later in the season? Not sure.
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Re: Shams: the ****? Simons to Boston for Holiday… real 

Post#302 » by dckingsfan » Yesterday 9:02 pm

Wizenheimer wrote:
dckingsfan wrote:
Wizenheimer wrote:maybe...probably? At this point, hard to say which season was more predictive for Camara: his .337 or .375 season. Deni is a career .339 shooter from three but this season is shooting .389. If Camara improves it might be that Deni regresses. Jrue is right around his career average; Grant is well above his. Sharpe is the wild card. If I had to guess, my guess would be that Portland will end up shooting about the same as last season from three when they ranked 26th; maybe a bit higher

Solid post. I wish I had put a 3pt% prediction aspect to the prediction thread.

We are at .339 now. We were at .342 last season. I am going to take the over on .339 and an improvement to 20th or above vs. last year's 26th.

I am probably overly optimistic. But I think that the pace they are playing at involves more open 3s.


you could be right

my guess is that a lot of the things the Blazers are doing successfully right now will get scouted by other teams. I think Portland has surprised teams with the defensive pressure and aggressive transition. Those two things are the Blazer strengths right now, and I think many teams on their schedule will work to take those Blazer strengths away. It won't be easy because right now the Blazers have depth and length. Later in the season? Not sure.

Yeah, I am probably wrong - but a guy has to project, right? :wink:

And I think you are spot on with what they are doing and how their depth helps them. The injury bug isn't so helpful.

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