But rather that he has better players in front of him. At the PG position, Blake and Rodriguez are both better point guards than Bayless right now, making him the third best on the team. At the SG position, Roy and Fernandez are both better shooting guards than Bayless right now, making him the third best on the team. That really hampers Bayless’ playing time. If he could surpass any of these players, he would see significantly more court time, and it is possible that could happen this year, but I’m not going to hold my breath for it. Next year? A couple of years down the road? The probability goes up.

So, as far as your poll goes, I wouldn’t pick any of those options. Rather, keep him. If an injury happens, he needs to be ready to step up. If not, he’s a rookie, needs to be patient all this year, and concentrate on getting better.

Nevertheless, this could become an interesting conversation here on Blazers’ Edge.

The correct answer is, leave him on the bench and try to develop him into the PG of the future. On most other teams, he would warrant significant PT as a scorer off the bench. But on this team, with Rudy and Travis on the bench, there’s no room there.

Is there another team in the league with a more stacked SG position? I doubt it.

What he’s not, yet, is a PG. He’s not ready to fill that spot, even next to Roy. But that doesn’t mean the Blazers should trade him, and they probably won’t. They drafted him because they think EVENTUALLY he could be a perfect fit at PG. He’s not there yet. And that’s ok.

……………………… Nate did the right thing in the GS game, 4 minutes to get him to work out a few jitters. It takes a few games, as we see from the example of Oden…

But there is no such option

“he’s a 20 year old rookie… let’s be patient” option?

They’re still programming, give it time. He’ll get his shot this year, I promise.

He’ll play an important role for this team, sometime this season. Maybe it’s next month, maybe it’s in the playoffs, who knows, but he will get his chance this season.

As people have said above, we should just be patient. Not everyone gets to play. I believe that the coaches must see something in practice that is preventing Bayless from getting more minutes…for now.

As far as RLEC, would it best just to let the contract run out? It seems on paper it would, but I do not understand the world of NBA salary cap, rules, contracts, etc.

Is too constricting. Shouldn’t have gotten into the details of how the trade would work, that is all. What do I think of Jerryd? Wrong place wrong time. He will be used as an asset to obtain’s KP’s “Icing on the cake” player.

 When Bayless got in the game last night he should have been more offensive minded. He was clearly better at offense than CJ Watson is at defense. Take him to the rack. If you cant get to the rim I know a 7 footer who likes to dunk you can dish it to

Here is my singular personal approach to Bayless. Obviously he looked great in Summer League, but I temper everything I see in Summer League. To me, The Blazers are playing well and Bayless is our rookie, he’s playing behind one of our more veteran players in Blake, and a more experienced Sergio, who is also playing well. In any given season there is only so much you can worry about. Not seeing Bayless, I just have to trust that coaching knows what they are doing, they are the ones seeing him in practice everyday. Bayless has to scavenge opportunity when it presents through either a blow out, or maybe (hopefully not) an injury. But I refuse to worry too much about it. I don’t feel we are losing games because we are not playing him. Hopefully behind the scenes Bayless is working hard, staying prepared, in my opinion that is really the role for a new rookie PG on this team. I can see a bigger role for Bayless as he develops but that bigger role probably isn’t coming this season. It’s probably not the rookie season Bayless dreamed of, but it’s the one he’s challenged with dealing with. Bayless? Stay Prepared, keep working, be ready. In the meantime enjoy the ride. As a fan, this season I’m not defining it as a problem.