Seems as much a $ move as anything for Portland.... whether they ultimately step in as a facilitator for Melo or not. Sucks for them that all they literally had to do was not sign Evan Turner to a similarly sized contract last offseason. Turner just makes a couple million less than Crabbe at $18 million. Crabbe is still overpaid... but at least dude hits 39%-45% on his threes.
Seems like a win for the Burt Steele movement, purely because this is the first semi-major trade we have seen in awhile, and it comes so close to the 4:45 deadline. As for how it changes the Melo situation idk.
He's not a real person lol. Doesnt pass the smell test. His picture is way too bro and his name is way too hilarious. Also some of his tweets are way too clownish lmao
must warm the hearts of POR fans that the league's richest owner will save some $ by dumping one of their rotation players for nothing. suck it POR fans!
The highlight of our offseason is the acquisition of CP3. The Tucker and Mbah a Moute signings are just cherries on top. The highlight of Portland's offseason is cash considerations.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/crabbal01.html As much as people gave Portland grief for Crabbe's contract, he's been a good player (44% from 3's). His contract is high (you'd love him at $12-14Mil) but tell me how many people are out there with his production available each off season?
Now, he's not. He's horrible defensively, he's so one dimensional, that he doesn't have a single double double in his entire career at age of 25. He's extremely unreliable with a ball in his hands even for 2 seconds and he's so bad in other aspects of the game rather than shooting a wide-open three-pointer, that he had only 7 three-point attempts in the clutch in entire 16/17 season. If you are 44% 3Pt-shooter and make 46% on the catch, you should be on the floor in every single tight game for the last 6 minutes or so if you can ball. He's averaging less than 90 seconds in the clutch last season and has only 7 attempts overall, that's ridiculous number for a guy with that kind of shooting percentage. For example, Crabbe makes 46% threes with 0 dribbles, 25% with one dribble and 20% with two dribbles. That's insane. If the defense is there and rotating well - Crabbe is a human garbage. He's a waste. No surprise that he sucked badly in this years playoffs We are not talking about Klay or Curry level of shooting, but his teammate CJ hits 51% of his threes with 1 dribble and 39% with two dribbles, for example. That's how huge the gap is between him and a player, who can actually play with the ball in his hands.
If you been following these Melo threads and posting like you stupid excited for 3 weeks then he's not traded here then that's still something to laugh at for other fan bases.
If the Blazers make the theoretical Anderson acquisition - send out the projected Leonard and Harkless, by adding in Noah Vonleh (to Knicks) they could end up under the tax line for this season. Wouldn't be a bad result for them?
don't know where you pulled all this 3pt shooting data for crabbe and CJ from -- but when you have some time, could you please show us the same for anderson vs melo? would be interesting to see the differences with how each fits with our new backcourt now..
Melo: 0 dribbles (actual catch-and-shoot) - 41.7% 3pt last season, 37.4% 3pt in 15/16 1 dribble: - 23,5% 3pt last season, 28.9% 3pt in 15/16 2 dribbles - 31.8% 3pt last season, 14.3% 3pt in 15/16 (very small sample) Ryan: 0 dribbles - 42.4% 3pt last season, 37.8% 3pt in 15/16 1 dribble - 28.8% last season, 22.5% 3pt in 15/16 2 dribbles - 41.2% last season (very small sample), 58.3% 3pt (very small sample)
