Nicolas Batum Dunks – BatooooomShakalaka!
Hey 6th Man Team! Back again, this time with the awesome video from the FIBA championships with Batum and the French Team taking on Rudy and his Spanish friends.
To borrow another line from wheels, “That was nasty!!” We’re really looking forward to seeing this again in a few months on during the Blazers games. Batum shows some upgrades skills here with the dribble-drive off of the interesting (read as offensive foul) pick set by his team-mate. Excellent clearance and distance on the dunk, and with those long arms he is going to be really hard to block. Also nice to see Batum’s shoulder is holding up well, a healthy Nicolas will be a big key to a big playoff plush for the Blazers. Can you believe that pre-seasons is only about a month away. Looking forward to it and expecting big things this year.
Let’s look at it this way, the Blazer make the playoffs and don’t get swept despite a depleted roster which the rest of the press seemed to forget about for the most part. Now, let’s get a healthy Nicolas for the whole season. Greg is coming and can continue to learn from Marcus Camby, if nothing else have 2 true centers for a whole season will be a big thing for this team. If Joel comes back and we still have his contract that’s just bonus, as Marcus Camby can slide over and take up the 4 spot making for a crazy twin-towers line-up. The Fan Team here is expecting a second round playoff run at least. If we can’t do that the realities of the NBA suggest there will be a shake-up of some sort, whether in the roster, coaching staff or both you will see should there be disappointment this season. But forget about that for now, just look at that video again and dream of the possibilities.
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Well, we’ve hinted at our thoughts on Rudy in previous blogs. We decided to wait until a little of the smoke had cleared until we shared our thoughts on the matter. But where there is smoke, there’s fire; in this case an inferno is raging. Rudy wants out so badly that he is apparently more than willing to sit out the final 2 years of his contract rather than play basketball. He even took a $25,000 fine for publicly talking about this and demanding a trade with Spanish papers and through his agent, which is a big no-no for players under NBA contracts.
So it seems to be all but a done deal that Rudy will be gone, though there has been no specific news all indicators remain. When Utah did not match the Trailblazers offer sheet to Wesley Matthews and soon to be 2nd year shooting guard it only added to the knowledge that Fernandez wasn’t going to be around for the long term. Sadly, most of at the Trailblazers 6th Man Team saw this coming as soon as Rudy was added to the team. Rudy belongs in a dynamic, free-wheeling run-and gun kind of offense. One where he isn’t just a catch and shoot 3-pointer guy. He will continue to do that, but wants to run and dunk and fast-break, something that stopped immediately after Sergio left. I think what Rudy fails to realize is that his own injury also limited quite a bit of that. The problem may be with coach McMillan’s style more than anything though.
