How Come the Blazers are underachieving?

[David_TheMan]

man defense and team defense is god awful.
Need more motion based offense than iso heavy like they run

 

[DIMES]

I get that. But their players have gotten better individually. But for whatever reason it just hasnt translated onto the court.

Their big man can't protect the rim. And some role guys like aminu regressed

 

[Emoryal]

Lol. Their wings dont suck.

And CJ's splits go 23.7ppg on 48%/42%/90%

You thats not efficient? Dame....maybe

23 points on on .593 true shooting percentage though?
Isaiah and Harden are averaging 28 on .61
I guess it isn't extremely inefficient but I literally don't think any star guard other than the blazers/john wall/ russell westbrook shooting unger .6 and the blazers record isn't there to help their case
and Dame's TS% is even worse than CJ's
Maybe their problem is Dame then

 

[42 Monks]

Defense is cheeks and Noah Vonleh didn't become what they needed: a star level big

Got em

 

[Emoryal]

their backcourt D isnt great but the real problem is their lack of big men. plumlee / leonard are complete trash. they dont have anyone they can throw the ball into to get points when dame and CJ arent hitting, they need a big who can get his own shot. not to mention defend. they probably have the worst bigs in the league

Statistically they have good rim protectors

 

[LurkMoar]

no defense, soft back court and front court.

 

[Floyd Pinkerton]

As long as you don't value rim protection, rebounding, assists, and perimeter defense, the Blazers are your squad.

 

[Willy Waffle]

Easy. Lillard and McCollum don't play a lick of defense. Undersized as fukk. All they do is shoot.

Aminu is trash. Plumlee and Leonard are garbage

i watched a bit of the game they had with the cavs last night. not even 10 seconds, cj got the ball on a inbound, came down court, didn't pass to plumlee under the basket and pulled up a 3

i will admit, they can be entertaining but they'll never go far with that iso shyt.

i wonder if they make a move come the deadline though