Deni Avdija Introduced In Portland. How Much Will He Improve the Trail Blazers?
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Deni Avdija met the Portland media on Monday. How much will he help the Blazers?
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Henderson, sharp and Avdija are fast as hell
Now tight the D with Clingan and Avdija and thats a good rebuild progress for next season
Camara could be a big part of that defense too don’t sleep on him
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Chauncey Billups doesn't believe in ball movement. Which is crazy to me because he played on a championship team that preached passing the ball.
@@PanasheMangwiro-wj5nu Is it possible Chauncey wants ball movement but the players are just really bad at it?
Tell that to our GM. Move Ant and Grant off this team, and the last of the ISO hero ball only players will finally be gone.
@@multigun8082 Idk how true it is but at the beginning of the season I remember Grant being interviewed and talking about being uncomfortable with how much iso is ran through him. So Idk if it’s a players or coaching issue on how iso heavy those two were
My favorite will be coming back and seeing how different you guys talk about him after he plays some. Youll be raving about him
If you want to see a monster deni you must let him feel at home, give him a lots of love❤
I’ve seen enough, it’s time to give Deni the keys to the city.
Deni Avdija is best as a point forward. he played PG at high-school. they've changed his role from SF to point forward after the TDL and his numbers went to 20ppg 6apg 8rpg at that part of the season. ending with 15 6 4 the all season. True shooting 60%.
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Hopefully Deni keep improving his 3point shot. It Will allow him to keep creating for the team, and hopefully a lot of runs on the open court
Deni Avdija fills the Blazer's biggest need. A forward who can rebound, play defense and playmaking and some scoring on the offensive end.
This is a great draft to be in the top 5 pick area. We need 1 more year of collecting top picks and a year of developing Scoot and Sharpe.
The issue with 3-pt shooting last year, was all the good shooters played the same position- point guard (not including Scoot until the last of the season). With Deni at the 3 and improvements from the young core, the numbers will go up. I also agree, they will make a trade or two before the season starts to clear room and help define roles.
I have a tendency to be overly optimistic so this was very realistic and informative. Really good stuff! Thanks for the objective viewpoint. Been a fan since the 70's.
I really like your point about Anfernee playing more of his ideal role alongside Deni. It’s the exact reason why he’d be such a perfect fit in Orlando, so hopefully this helps maximize his production/value
Turbo is an amazing player..
This will be his best season yet.
Wizards are idiots for letting him go.
Deni fan here, I think he's main strength are catch&shoot, transition and getting to basket , he can improve ball movement and defense but it's a team effort in the end.
Shaedon is starting
The last thing you can say about Deni, is that he is a politician.. he is so humble and honest. It clearly shows how much the Wizards hurt him. He needed to work so hard mentally to survive in this sick team, and then,when he felt safe, and let his guards down, they throw him out.
Deni, along with half the roster, will come down with a really bad case of Flagg infection somewhere around February
I wouldn’t lump Deni in with that half of the roster unless it’s a really tight race for a non-bottom-3 spot. Jerami/Ayton/Ant/Tisse/Timelord (or whichever of them is still on the team) would all be much more likely to suddenly come down with these “injuries”. I think they’ll really only do that with the young core guys as a last-ditch measure and no sooner than April. Increasing lottery odds will be necessary, but I’d be surprised if they think a couple extra ping pong balls is worth disrupting development and chemistry for the guys they‘be already invested several tanking seasons for
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deni's job right now is to keep improving with the rest of the young core and the teams job is to draft well...
We're better if players can stay healthy. That alone could be worth 12 more wins. And young players are a year older and better. With Avdija and Clingan we will much improved in the front court.
We need to unload Grant, Aydon, Simons this year. Sooner rather than later. Scoop up as many picks as we can and to lower our win expectation. Hoping for more lottery picks to better the odds for the #1. Last time was '07 for Oden. It can be done.
Honestly, it’s so frustrating because egos and etc. but imagine the strength our team would have having everything Simmons coming off the bench. It makes the most sense I think we could be a top seeded team if we had Anfernee Simmons coming off the bench it’s weird how successful OKC was with James Harden coming off the bench and no other teams really want to try something similar
Deni needs to keep the improvement of his left hand. and work on the midrange.
How much will there be a tank or will they just be bad? Depends on who they trade away. Without fake injuries, Simons, Grant and Ayton can get 30 wins, but a low-chance lotto slot.
Most of the additional tanking teams this season will come from the East: Detroit, Charlotte, and Washington will be joined by Brooklyn, Toronto, and Chicago. It's not where Portland finishes in the west, it's where they finish overall, and I suspect they'll more likely finish with the 7th or 8th worst record. All of the same tanking strategies that have worked for Portland in a bad draft year will be the same tactics used by the other teams in an expected great draft year. This means Portland's chances of landing the top seed will mostly likely be significantly worse than this year.
Fair point. However, the East teams play each other more often which will de facto add some wins to the lowly seven teams in the east. The Blazers will, uhhhh, benefit(?) from playing in the tougher conference.
@@LockedOnBlazers hadn't thought of that, but it's a good point. I think the other thing to consider is that you're more likely to see larger improvements from younger players. So while Portland will still be bad, just natural improvement from Scoot, Shaedon, and Toumani may win them a couple more games. I'd prefer they shed at least one more of their starting vets to help make it a more organically bad team (instead of sitting high-priced vets with hangnails just in the interest of improving draft odds.)
Cheer up, we still have Billups.
Tbh im woreied about chauncy billups coaching style. Youve got an athletic young team- why are you not pushing pace more? Why are you so bad defensively? Why is there 0 ball movement on offense. Deni thrives in an opposite situation, hopefully there will be some ball movement and pace here this year
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The best for deni and for the team is to have the ball as a secondary playmaker. Not 3&d.. he needs to be involve a lot in the offense
what you said its trow him back to is first season to be 3nD the only reason he rise the last year its when he was secend playmaker and alot rim attacks
I hope the blazers are going to regret it since their lottery wont be that good. Also Deni said he hope to make his team mates to play better. Thats a key here.
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Now why tf would Shaedon be coming off the bench in year 3
He's not better than Simons or Advija.
@@PanasheMangwiro-wj5nu he is better than Advia and he can’t start next to both of them
@@PanasheMangwiro-wj5nu by that logic Scoot shouldn’t be starting either
Btw The Blazers uploaded another scrum in Hebrew and there somebody asked Deni if he expects to play as on the ball. Deni answered that, Portland is a much different team, and he is sure, they will find the right balance between on and off the ball. Deni wasn't specific in the scrums just because nobody asked it. He is known as hard worker meaning he probably have watched a lot of games and analyzed them and what can he do, but is it smart to be specific with the press? He hasn't even met Billups and all the full coaching stuff. That's the same reason, he hasn't mentioned players. 6-7 main players, experienced with uprising young players, no agreement hierarchy for next season (it's not even final roster). Somebody might got be offended if he wouldn't been mentioned, so the smart thing is to just don't mention others at all.
If the coach don't know how to use you, it does not matter what player you get. This is a guy that's a playmaker and NOT a Stand in the Corner guy, Chauncey need to give him the ball.
3 games +-
Bahahaha! How much better? As John McEnroe would say: "You cannot be serious!?!"
We're gonna stink on purpose. Sag for Flagg
Deni adds to our weird tweener forward depth issues is the main problem I have with it. I love Deni and his game, but adding yet another tweener forward was a grave error, unless we do in fact finally trade Ant & JG out of here. We have Duop (he's a 4 not a 5, stop pretending he's a 5 everyone), JG, Toumani, Bari, Kris, Dalano since Chauncey prefers him at the 3 and not the 1, Tisse reliably plays minutes at the 3 as much as the 2 so he has to be included for forward minutes, same with Shae inevitably seeing 3 minutes given we're probably stuck with Ant on the roster playing the 2, Rayan is a 2/3, and then we remove our only polished playmaker and backup 1 for another 3/4 in Deni who can in a pinch run backup 1, but shouldn't be relied on for it. Rob is strictly a 5 Chauncey all but has to play as a 4 with DA here too, so Rob weirdly is included in forward minutes. You see the clusterfuck of a problem here? How everyone either misses this or outright chooses to pretend it isn't a problem while raving from the rooftops their thanks that we "didn't draft or sign another guard" because we had/have too many is wild. Willful ignorance or genuine stupidity? Which is it, I'm genuinely curious.
And I'm sure many people would see this and respond with "Well it's obvious we will trade JG and probably Ant, maybe Rob so we're good, it's only gonna be for a short stint with that backlog". Though I'm glad so many have faith and confidence in the Blazers front office, I'm equally agitated by it because their track record for the last 10+ seasons has been horrific and loaded with incompetence. So unlike those fans, I have little to no faith in Joe and the rest of the front office trading JG, Ant and Rob out of here, and if they trade even one of them, that the deal will even be that good in the long term with what we get in return. I'm a very realistic and cynical fan, and I want the best for this team and our players and staff, so I always wish and hope players and the front office prove me wrong and make me look like a idiot, but it never ever happens. They always prove me spot on in my analysis. Some day, I really hope that cycle and mold gets shattered.
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Grant & Thybulle need to be traded. And Simons needs to be tossed out there to see where his market is at.
Scoot hasn't earned that starting spot yet
He’s the best PG on the roster.
Is he? @@Kevin-ts7hf
Blazers should’ve kept #14 and drafted Ware. Overpaying for this guy is a four point swing in the wrong direction. Watch how many players that could’ve been selected at fourteen that will be better than Avdija. The Blazer front office is weak.
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