Bleed is a bust

[60WinTim]

Funny how a win puts us all in a better mood. It didn't happen very often last year...

[Coolbreeze44]

I think it's way too early to label Bleed a bust. Yes, his draft support for Russell looks like a bad call right now, but Bleed was also one of the first, if not the first, to condemn trading a first round pick for Payne. That call looks pretty good right now.

The fact is we don't really know what bleed's floor or ceiling is right now, or what his legacy will be when he finally hangs it up. Conventional wisdom says a poster needs 5000 posts before you really know how good he is going to be. Let's give this promising guy a chance before we call him a bust.

Bleed still has 20-30 more years left in him as a forum poster. We still have a lot of time to evaluate his talent. We sure don't want him to take his talent elsewhere and see him explode on another board..

These are great posts. LOL

[Coolbreeze44]

Check out Russell's first half line tonight:

field goalsrebounds
pos min fgm-a 3pm-a ftm-a +/- off def tot ast pf st to bs ba pts
K. Bryant F 13:40 0-6 0-2 7-7 -7 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 7
J. Randle F 14:54 6-11 0-0 1-3 -3 0 10 10 0 1 1 1 0 1 13
R. Hibbert C 14:10 1-1 0-0 2-4 -5 3 2 5 1 2 0 1 2 0 4
J. Clarkson G 18:00 1-4 1-2 2-2 -5 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 2 0 5
D. Russell G 12:04 0-5 0-3 0-0 -6 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

[Shumway]

I think it's way too early to label Bleed a bust. Yes, his draft support for Russell looks like a bad call right now, but Bleed was also one of the first, if not the first, to condemn trading a first round pick for Payne. That call looks pretty good right now.

The fact is we don't really know what bleed's floor or ceiling is right now, or what his legacy will be when he finally hangs it up. Conventional wisdom says a poster needs 5000 posts before you really know how good he is going to be. Let's give this promising guy a chance before we call him a bust.

I'd be willing to agree with you if bleed was a 19 year old rookie but at this stage in his development I just don't think he's got room to grow. I will say his post are easy to read as he does use punctuation and spacing well so perhaps he could develop into a solid role player.

I'm just not sure if Bleed is the kind of poster who is happy as a solid role player though. He seems to need his own shots and when he takes shots like "trade Rubio and draft Russell" it can affect all posters here.

I realise that I'm a long way from being a professional basketball poster like Bleed (I just play the odd bit of pick-up posting from time to time), so I feel a bit awkward even commenting on the topic. And I don't think we should do anything drastic like cutting him, but my concern is whether he'd be content as a role poster.

[ItsJustSoSab]

I know everybody is getting down on Bleed but I think those wrist injuries are effecting him more than we realize. Give him time to recover and he won't be typing out those same mistakes.

[bleedspeed]

I was wrong.
I forgot how good Rubio can be pushing the ball.
I didn't think you could win without a PG that can score 14+ points a game
I thought Russell would be scorer/distributor for this team to build with
I do think Russell got drafted into the worst situation in the top 5.

Looking forward to a healthy year with Rubio. I hope to see more of him playing with LaVine and Shabazz to see how they play off him.

[bleedspeed]

It seems like Russell is starting to figure it out. If the Lakers called I would certainly trade Rubio for Russell.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

No way do I do that. Rubio is much better than D'Angelo. If you look at RPM, Ricky is ranked 27th best player and Russell is 395th. I know Russell is a rookie, but I don't think Russell will ever be as good as Ricky or LaVine as an all around player. I bet Lakers fans sure wish they drafted Porzingis.

[Porckchop]

I was wrong.
I forgot how good Rubio can be pushing the ball.
I didn't think you could win without a PG that can score 14+ points a game
I thought Russell would be scorer/distributor for this team to build with
I do think Russell got drafted into the worst situation in the top 5.

Looking forward to a healthy year with Rubio. I hope to see more of him playing with LaVine and Shabazz to see how they play off him.

To be fair, the Wolves are still losing a lot more than their winning.

[AbeVigodaLive]

No way do I do that. Rubio is much better than D'Angelo. If you look at RPM, Ricky is ranked 27th best player and Russell is 395th. I know Russell is a rookie, but I don't think Russell will ever be as good as Ricky or LaVine as an all around player. I bet Lakers fans sure wish they drafted Porzingis.

Careful which stats you use...

RPM has Andrew Wiggins ranked #408 with only 16 NBA players behind him.

So if we used the same logic, the Wolves should trade him for Marvin Williams... after all, he's ranked #44.



[Note: The Wolves have 3 players in the bottom 17. Wiggins. Muhammad. Jones.]