which is even more understandeable. I disagree w/ tons of stuff they produce

The double negative lured me in, but the “upside” reference confirmed it for me. I love the work you do as a TV analyst, sir.

I think Jack will only get better. Is he a true PG? Probably not. And he might never be quick enough to guard the quick guards of the NBA. But he will get SMARTER with time and experience, and his positives far outweigh his current negatives.

I like Jack, and he helped won us more games than we deserved with his toughness and heart.

Mortimer

I remember someone was pointing out how Vitale predicted David West would be good, and now lookie he’s good whatta ya know, but Vitale likes to claim nearly every good college player will take over the league and make the HoF after their 3rd season.

JJ Reddick, Adam Morrison, everyone is amazing and awesome. I like his exhuberence but scoff at his predicting abilities.

Morty-murr

just like wade. I be he’s doing it in reverse and next year will come in and kill. It’s still too early to tell with Foye and he needs a healthy season.

Yikes

They always test for this. Wouldn’t it be funny if they started testing a player Horizontal Leap.

Scout: “KP ….draft this guy he has a Horizontal Leap of 11’ 9.5”!!!

KP: “Yeh but that is an inflated stat….they let him wear a cape”

............Quickness…...........Speed…....No Step Vert…Max Vert
............Lane Agility…...3/4 Court Sprint
West:.... 10.98 .................. 3.08......................30.0….....36.5
Jack:..... 10.87................... 3.24…...................NA….......28.0

I don’t remember who said it, but it was something along the lines of “if there was some problem that jumping out of the building could solve, Tyrus Thomas could solve it.” Athleticism is a good thing, but it alone does not make a good basketball player. Jack is a better shooter from range, a better shooter at the line, is better at taking the ball to the basket, better at distributing and we already have him. Why give up Jack and the #13 for a less experienced version of Jack? Potential? Really?

No matter who our PG is, we need to defend as a team to stop the ultra-quick PGs from hurting us. Oden and LMA are quick and long and mean and lean, and will help make our perimeter defense look a lot better.

You need a guy who can defend a little, and always tries to defend, but effort is a lot of it and knowing how to position yourself and knowing WHO you are defending (as in, don’t let Manu go left—they always let him go left it seems, when everyone knows he’s a leftie) is more important than sheer quickness. If we all know what to do and where to be, the Earl Watsons of the world won’t destroy us anymore.

Mortimer

I recommended too. We will see were it goes from here.

Not sure if you’r overrating Jack or underrating Porter… if long-retired Terry Porter put on his gym shoes now, he’d still run a team better than Jarett Jack.

linky

He was Monsta

no

Lose the Jack. Westbrook would look great with those styles.

I get frustrated by some of his turnovers at times, but I saw improvement in that area over the last twenty or so games last year. I don’t remember him stepping on the sideline the last couple months of the season and people still bring that up as a reason to trade him. I have always thought his strengths outweighed his weaknesses.

Your reasoning makes sense to me though. He has been an inexpensive option for the Blazers for what he brings. If he wants $4-5 million he will have to have a stellar year and that will be difficult with Blake and Rudy on the team. He will have to beat out Blake at PG to stay beyond this season.

I think what makes it so appealing to trade Jack is that he does have value as a big gaurd. I think that JJ’s stats and promis match up more with Billups than Terry Porter. All three with very sinular size and game. Is jack going to be as good as either? NO! but it’s a noce option to have on our team for cheap.

and his knee

His defense really isn’t bad. The problem is, when he directed guards to where he was supposed to, the lack of interior defense never backed him up as they were supposed to. If Oden lives up to his (ugh) potential, and Przybilla gives our bench a physical presence, Jack’s defense is going to look much better, even though he’s been doing what he’s supposed to all along.

I don’t think he had a worse year than the last, rather our expectations were higher than his ability. I’m sure stats don’t necessarily bear this out, but the game is more than stats, and Jack did get c