TT v. Shitside- Most Popular (and annoying) Thread 2019/20 Season Style

[bksballer89]

Portland bench been horrible but that's Whiteside fault too i'm sure

 

[WiggyRuss]

You blame Whiteside for everything. This is why people think you're a joke.

CJ shooting a career low fg% but its all Whiteside fault.

Shut your stupid ass up

well its not only Whiteside--- going from a legit NBA front court in Nurkic, Collins and Kanter all together to losing Kanter and having Nurkic and Collisn hurt for extended amount of time is a killer.

the fact that they replaced Nurkic with a player worse than him, and lost their depth is a killer.

I am sure they had no intention of having whiteside play the minutes he is playing, but with Pau also hurt/washed he is being forced into a role that he is clearly not suited.

 

[bksballer89]

well its not only Whiteside--- going from a legit NBA front court in Nurkic, Collins and Kanter all together to losing Kanter and having Nurkic and Collisn hurt for extended amount of time is a killer.

the fact that they replaced Nurkic with a player worse than him, and lost their depth is a killer.

I am sure they had no intention of having whiteside play the minutes he is playing, but with Pau also hurt/washed he is being forced into a role that he is clearly not suited.

So all the other changes they made to the roster isn't hurting the team lol.

Clown shit bro

 

[WiggyRuss]

So all the other changes they made to the roster isn't hurting the team lol.

Clown shit bro

oh i am sure their is a multitude of reasons but #1 is VERY VERY easy to spot. the front court is a joke.

Whiteside is the only player on the team with size that is healthy and he cant move.

i dont think anyone could possibly say the BIGGEST and #1 reason is the difference in front court talent/personnel. That should be obvious to anyone that has watched an NBA game.

sure- Bazemore and Hezonja have dissapointed

but #1 is OBVIOUS

Whiteside.

 

[bksballer89]

oh i am sure their is a multitude of reasons but #1 is VERY VERY easy to spot. the front court is a joke.

Whiteside is the only player on the team with size that is healthy and he cant move.

i dont think anyone could possibly say the BIGGEST and #1 reason is the difference in front court talent/personnel. That should be obvious to anyone that has watched an NBA game.

sure- Bazemore and Hezonja have dissapointed

but #1 is OBVIOUS

Whiteside.

You just hate the guy. I can bet money you have yet to watch 10 minutes of Blazers basketball this year

 

[bksballer89]

oh i am sure their is a multitude of reasons but #1 is VERY VERY easy to spot. the front court is a joke.

Whiteside is the only player on the team with size that is healthy and he cant move.

i dont think anyone could possibly say the BIGGEST and #1 reason is the difference in front court talent/personnel. That should be obvious to anyone that has watched an NBA game.

sure- Bazemore and Hezonja have dissapointed

but #1 is OBVIOUS

Whiteside.

You just hate the guy. I can bet money you have yet to watch 10 minutes of Blazers basketball this year

 

[WiggyRuss]

You just hate the guy. I can bet money you have yet to watch 10 minutes of Blazers basketball this year

so you honestly think that Whiteside is not part of the reason they have had a shitty start?

you watched him for a long time. His game just sucks for the NBA. He gets stats but his inability to play in the modern game kills his teams. ESPECIALLY when he plays extended minutes.

Even guys like Zubac beat him like a drum because he is just too slow and not smart enough to be in the right spot, he does not have the basketball IQ to make rotations, to play help defense.

He will get a really cool looking block once in a while, but he simply is a loser of a player. He does not help you win games.

As you said the other day---15-20 minutes a game matching up against another team's similar big man? sure. If he was making like 8-10M a year- fine.

but 30 minutes a night making 27M a year is an absolute DISASTER.

 

[Black Adam]

Just read that Leonard is living in Whiteside home in Miami lol

bad global economics...

poor education system...

and the failure of the Portland Trailblazers...

ALL Whiteside's fault...

just ask WiggityWack...

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Dame is way over his career high for ppg at this point. Nurkic is a humongous loss.

with Whiteside and no Collins Dame is prob. not seeing any kind of spacing. Lane is prob. clogged whenever he goes to the rim.

FOS
You’ve seen how many Blazers games?

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

So all the other changes they made to the roster isn't hurting the team lol.

Clown shit bro

Are u expecting anything different?

 

[WiggyRuss]

You blame Whiteside for everything. This is why people think you're a joke.

CJ shooting a career low fg% but its all Whiteside fault.

Shut your stupid ass up

i mean are you just lying to yourself at this point? you are perfeectly aware that whiteside sucks too.

playing that guy 30 minutes a night is terrible- its something a coach with no viable options does. hes garbage.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Portland been a major disappointment to put it nicely

well thats gonna happen when you replace Nurkic with Whiteside.

when you go from a very solid team-first guy to a clueless loser your team is going to suffer.

 

[WiggyRuss]

fucking HILARIOUS

Portland Trail Blazers: Three areas of improvement for Hassan Whiteside

Defense around the rim
Don’t let Whiteside’s counting stats fool you, his block percentage is his second lowest in six years and half of what it was when he was at his peak. Now the key to rim protection isn’t just the shots you block, it’s the shots that you deter at the rim.

This is where Whiteside is struggling. He is ranked in the middle of the league when it comes to reducing opponents made field goals at the rim. This is below non rim protectors like Frank Kaminsky and Nikola Jokic. Even more concerning is the Blazers opponents this season have shot a better percentage while he is on the court.

He has to give better effort at the rim by deterring opponents, we will talk more about his rebounding later on but he needs to use his big body and be active on every possession under the rim. We know that Terry Stotts uses a drop coverage in pick and roll but Whiteside needs to be more accurate in these sets. He needs to know the opposition personnel and recognize when he needs to step-up to contest a mid range attempt or cover a drive and deter a lay-up or dunk.

(he is stupid- we know this)

 

[WiggyRuss]

Rebounding
Though it may seem like his rebounding numbers are great when you look at the box score, he has regressed from earlier years. One of Whiteside’s calling cards is élite rebounding, if he can’t provide this then he is a negative for an NBA team.

Through the first nine games he hasn’t managed to grab one rebound from a teammates free throw attempt. Though the Blazers are a strong free throw shooting team, both Mario Hezonja and Skal Labissiere have managed to grab rebounds from free throws.

Whiteside’s defensive rebounding has also dipped, in his best years he was in the top 5 percent of players when it came to defensive rebounding. This year he isn’t even in the top ten. If he had more skills on the court then it wouldn’t matter that he wasn’t in the top-tier when it came to rebounding. But as this is meant to be a large part of his game, his value decreases when he can’t rebound at a high level.

He has to be more active on the glass as second chance points are one of the areas where this team is being hurt the most.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Finishing at the rim
Through the first nine games Whiteside is finishing at the rim at the lowest percentage of his career. His 64 percent is a lot lower than the last two years 69 percent, and even lower than his career peaks of 74 and 75. He is lacking bounce and elevation around the rim and his shot is getting blocked or he is missing around the rim far too often.

He is also guilty of turnovers which is a killer on the offensive end. His struggles around the rim mean that sometimes his offensive rebounds are wasted possessions. He is still shooting mid range shots at around 40 percent which aren’t a great use of possessions either.

These issues on both ends amount to Whiteside being a negative when he is on court. He needs to cut down turnovers and be aggressive in the paint on both ends. His struggles through the first nine games are fixable but he needs to put in a lot more effort. Box scores lines of 17 rebounds may look great but these are empty stats when the opposition is scoring at will and getting large amounts of rebounds.

Whiteside has the skills and physical tools to be élite in the three areas described above. As the season is still young this needs to start straight away. If he can’t find his form soon, he may find himself on the trade block instead.

 

[WiggyRuss]

No doubt, but it has been a team failure, not a Whiteside issue.
He has been fine for the most part.

Portland Trail Blazers: Three areas of improvement for Hassan Whiteside


read about how shitty he has been this year.

hes been terrible.


the summary:


These issues on both ends amount to Whiteside being a negative when he is on court. He needs to cut down turnovers and be aggressive in the paint on both ends. His struggles through the first nine games are fixable but he needs to put in a lot more effort. Box scores lines of 17 rebounds may look great but these are empty stats when the opposition is scoring at will and getting large amounts of rebounds.

 

[WiggyRuss]

More on Whiteside from a different writer:

Hassan Whiteside bears blame, but Portland's problems run deep

During halftime of a third straight Portland Trail Blazers defeat on Thursday, when Los Angeles Clippers center Ivica Zubac was outplaying Hassan Whiteside, “Inside the NBA” analysts Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley lit into Portland’s biggest offseason acquisition for his lethargic approach to the game.


After a lengthy discussion of whether Whiteside’s history of maddening lack of performance has more to do with effort or know-how, Kenny Smith asked, “Do you think he knows what his strengths are.”


“Yeah,” countered Barkley, “going to the bank twice a month. That’s his strength. ... Stealing money.”

 

[WiggyRuss]

look at this quote from Sir Charles: LOL

During halftime of a third straight Portland Trail Blazers defeat on Thursday, when Los Angeles Clippers center Ivica Zubac was outplaying Hassan Whiteside, “Inside the NBA” analysts Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley lit into Portland’s biggest offseason acquisition for his lethargic approach to the game.


After a lengthy discussion of whether Whiteside’s history of maddening lack of performance has more to do with effort or know-how, Kenny Smith asked, “Do you think he knows what his strengths are.”

“Yeah,” countered Barkley, “going to the bank twice a month. That’s his strength. ... Stealing money.”

 

[WiggyRuss]

he is GARBAGE.

straight total GARBAGE

 

[WiggyRuss]

It says something about Whiteside that he thinks their remarks are rooted in a rap battle, especially after the Miami Heat’s Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra levied similar criticisms for years without laying down bars about Dame Dolla, but it does not tell the whole story of why the Blazers are struggling out of the gate.

Worse, yet, Whiteside has provided no resistance on the interior. Opponents are shooting 68.9 percent at the rim against him, per Second Spectrum, the highest percentage against anyone who has played at least five games this year.