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caw said:
Any of their PGs back would help. I think they are down all four right now in Dame, Jrue, Scoot and Blake Wesley. It’s honestly impressive they are even as good as they are.

Clingan still had a beast of a game, could have been slightly better if he hit FTs. Still he had 24-12-4 Castle played well but was on the losing end with 16-5-9 and only 2 TOs
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Just need another guard/wing that can throw a lob besides Deni, they're leaving so many free points on the table not seeing DC wide open at the rim when they drive and draw help
 
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Excalibur said:
Clingan's last 9 games --

12.7 points
11.4 rebounds
1 block
66% FG
54% 3P FG
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At 48% from three since the beginning of December. Almost more importantly, defenders are starting to come out and challenge him pretty regularly, which pulls a rim protector away from the basket and opens up a ton of space for the guards and wings.

There are some Clingan shooting takes on this board that have aged about as well as milk and about as quickly also.
 
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Clingan isn’t throwing up threes on his own. The coaching staff is encouraging him. And it’s paying off, people gotta come out and guard him like that recent DC post showed.
 
Clingan was 3-5 from three, but also 6-7 from two. The game before he was 0-3 on threes and 5-7 on twos. In his back to back 18 point games he was 2-4 and 1-3 on threes, 6-6 and 7-7 on twos. The threes are good when they’re mixed with twos

October: 39% of his FGs were threes. Averaged 9.5 PPG on 51% FG and 23.5% 3P

November: 34.5% of FGs were threes. 10.5 PPG on 49% FG and 26% 3P

December: 28% of FGs were threes. 11.7 PPG on 61.7% and 52% 3P. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his best and most efficient scoring (on average) is when he’s focusing on twos and taking the good threes when they’re there

January is looking like the opposite. 36% of FGs are threes, 17.5 PPG on 63.6% and 37.5% 3P. But that’s only two games where he scored 24 points on 9-12 (3-5) and 11 points on 5-10 (0-3). Need more data here
 
ctbro1999 said:
There's one poster in particular that needs to eat some crow.
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I claimed DC would be a better 3pt shooter than Steph in the NBA and was emphatically shot down by a few here. I hope they both continue to take a bunch of them. Shooting better will open up so much more for both of them..
 
REB1094 said:
Clingan was 3-5 from three, but also 6-7 from two. The game before he was 0-3 on threes and 5-7 on twos. In his back to back 18 point games he was 2-4 and 1-3 on threes, 6-6 and 7-7 on twos. The threes are good when they’re mixed with twos

October: 39% of his FGs were threes. Averaged 9.5 PPG on 51% FG and 23.5% 3P

November: 34.5% of FGs were threes. 10.5 PPG on 49% FG and 26% 3P

December: 28% of FGs were threes. 11.7 PPG on 61.7% and 52% 3P. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his best and most efficient scoring (on average) is when he’s focusing on twos and taking the good threes when they’re there

January is looking like the opposite. 36% of FGs are threes, 17.5 PPG on 63.6% and 37.5% 3P. But that’s only two games where he scored 24 points on 9-12 (3-5) and 11 points on 5-10 (0-3). Need more data here
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The data is that he's become a multi-faceted offensive player who can punish a defense based upon what they're giving him – be it on a pick-and-pop, on the roll, with his high-post passing, posting switches and, most especially, offensive rebounding (he leads the league). His numbers in terms of whether he's shooting more or fewer 3s, will be more a reflection of what defenses are conceding rather than what he's imposing upon them (again with the exception of offensive rebounding).

He has not shown the ability to be a first option who bends the defense on his own. They're not going to try to dump him the ball on the block or have him orchestrate from the elbow one possession after another.

But he looks very much like a guy who'll spend a long time as an elite two-way center in the league – a force magnifier in every way – and his improvement curve is really, really encouraging.
 
REB1094 said:
Clingan was 3-5 from three, but also 6-7 from two. The game before he was 0-3 on threes and 5-7 on twos. In his back to back 18 point games he was 2-4 and 1-3 on threes, 6-6 and 7-7 on twos. The threes are good when they’re mixed with twos

October: 39% of his FGs were threes. Averaged 9.5 PPG on 51% FG and 23.5% 3P

November: 34.5% of FGs were threes. 10.5 PPG on 49% FG and 26% 3P

December: 28% of FGs were threes. 11.7 PPG on 61.7% and 52% 3P. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his best and most efficient scoring (on average) is when he’s focusing on twos and taking the good threes when they’re there

January is looking like the opposite. 36% of FGs are threes, 17.5 PPG on 63.6% and 37.5% 3P. But that’s only two games where he scored 24 points on 9-12 (3-5) and 11 points on 5-10 (0-3). Need more data here
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Thank you for getting ahead of this. This was always the point.
 
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Portland has a depleted roster, that was a great win. Spurs fans were giving Clingan praise.
 
There's a nice write up on Clingan in the Basketball Notes article in today's Boston Globe. This is a short excerpt from it.

UCONN-ECTION IN PORTLAND​

Clingan front and center as Trail Blazers starter​

“I feel like I’m definitely getting better,” he said. “My touch around the rim, being aggressive, being patient. I feel like the threes are starting to fall a little bit, all the work I’ve put in, just starting to see things fall into place.”

www.bostonglobe.com

Hot topics as the NBA enters 2026: 65-game award minimum, All-Star voting popularity contest, and more - The Boston Globe

There is sentiment the NBA overreacted by mandating players log at least 65 games to be eligible for league awards.
www.bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com

The RuffRuff Alternate Access™:

Hot topics as the NBA enters 2026​

 
Gurleyman said:
Morant out so Cam gets the start against the Lakers.
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Cam made the first shot of the game, hit all three of his foul shots, and had nine assists and only two turnovers. That’s all you really need to know.



(finished 1-10, 0-5, 3-3 for 5 points)
 
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Look for Liam to get some good burn in this 4th quarter for the Hornets.
They are torching OKC 101-71 right now.
 
Hornets just destroyed OKC by 27 in Oklahoma.
Liam hit a 3 in Charlotte's last possession.
 
HW611 said:
Thank you for getting ahead of this. This was always the point.
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Wasn’t it like a month ago that you were arguing he should model his game after Zubac (who has taken a dozen threes in his entire career) and that it was a waste of time for him to be taking any threes until he masters his post game? I’m very confused where you currently stand on the appropriateness of how Clingan is being deployed by the Blazers.
 
Trailblazers are truly unique. Deni Avdija is the only Israeli player in the league. A Jewish Israeli Serb nicknamed Turbo who is all of a sudden a star in the league. A giant from Bristol, CT who is leading the league in offensive rebounding and raining down threes nightly and a Canadian pogo stick who never played in college and gets better and better. It gets even weirder that they don't even have a point guard playing for them.

Those three guys at 25, 22, and 21 is something serious to build around.
 
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