His form definitely looked different/better this year. His distance shooting may not be a total fluke. Three point shooting is one trick even old dogs can learn (see: Jason Kidd). It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Dre develops a reliable three to stick around a few more years at a high level. It also wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t do it while here due to stubbornness.

It was a real blunder by Nate/management to bring Dre in as the starting PG, and then bench him behind a clearly inferior player.

He’s a smart guy. He’s probably realized this is what older point guards can do. He didn’t do this to spite the Blazers. At all.
Now if he uses these 3 pt shots to bury the Blazers…who can blame him.

Dre is a stud. I am surprised to see this many people supporting him after the trade. I am too lazy to go back and track who said what last season, but I definitely did not feel like I held the majority opinion. Dre was my favorite player last season.

He never gives up, and he has an uncanny feel for the flow of the game, knowing when to set up the post, when to set up the wing, and when the game needed him to probe the defense and create his own shot. He made the other players on the team better, which is the hallmark of a great point guard.

…for how much longer. Dre is getting a little long in the tooth. He is still a viable competitor this year but he’s nobody’s PGotF hence the trade. And that is really what we need right now. Felton is basically on a trial run and we could do worse. And who knows, we can still hope that he finds his groove and turns up the production. The season is still young and I don’t think we’ve seen the best Ray can provide us yet. I am more concerned about running Crawford in the 1.

The word missing is missing.

I know that I liked him from the start and I am sure others did also.

As he was someone I’d like to see on the Blazers since the trade deadline the previous year.

As for Felton, few people along with myself have said at the time of the trade that he was a definite downgrade compared to Miller. As usual, expectations have gone out of control during the where ’Sedgers started to talk themselves into the idea that Felton was an upgrade. Now, everyone is piling on him as he is struggling.

My expectation is that he will get better in terms of shooting %, but not some of the other issues like turnovers and late game mistakes as that was always there.

wouldn’t THAT be ironic!!!