Does Drew Eubanks Deserve Another Shot with the Blazers?

ThePortland Trail Blazers’2021-22赛季已经结束。即将到来的夏天将为俱乐部做出很多决定。他们在常规赛中将27名不同的球员放在球场上。并非所有人仍然与团队在一起，但是足够的是，开拓者们都无法保留所有这些……甚至他们愿意的话。27-55的记录会反对高保留率，但尽管表现惨淡，星号都比比皆是。

Into this question-filled swamp stride Dave Deckard and Dia Miller with their annual review of Portland’s roster. They talk about each player, then decide whether they would keep or yeet (toss) the player in the coming year. Performance, fit, age, salary, and team priorities/direction are all open for discussion.

Today we discuss Drew Eubanks, a signee from theSan Antonio Spurs他最终在本赛季痛苦的最后三分之一中骑着波特兰的前场。Eubanks在一系列为期10天的合同上比赛，开始了他出现的所有22场比赛，每场比赛29.5分钟平均得到14.5分和8.5个篮板，命中率为64.6％。这些数字使您看起来两次，但团队成绩很差。Eubanks从来没有超过NBA的低旋转球员。波特兰应该考虑把他带回来吗？

Dave:It seems almost cheating to do Trendon Watford and Drew Eubanks back to back, but they played more minutes than any of the other lesser-known Trail Blazers, so here we are. We agreed that Watford was a keep. What do you think about Eubanks?

Dia:如果您在本赛季开始时告诉我，我会争辩说要把Drew Eubanks留在团队中，我不会相信您。但是那是一个季节。我要说的是用星号保持。我认为Eubanks是Nurkic的坚实替补，这是我们需要的东西。话虽这么说，如果有一个我们可以使某人更有经验的世界，我可能会愿意。但是我不确定那是谁。因此，为此，我说将Eubanks作为明年的备用中心。

Dave:I like what Eubanks did. I think he and Watford made a solid argument to man the deep bench together: ready to play, ready to grow, dependable as rain, but neither one having to crack the rotation to be valuable. As with Watford, this is a matter of trust for me. I watched Eubanks play under terrible conditions, when everything in the universe argued for him to assert himself at the expense of the team or teammates. In this midst of that, I saw a player trying to make the right plays, learning as he went, and throwing his heart into the game. His offensive efficiency was good. His rebounding was fine. He never made you sad he was on the court.

我喜欢look at body language to see where a guy is. Eubanks threw himself into almost every moment of every game. He was into it, in a way other players just weren’t. I don’t think he’s the be all and end all. I do think they should re-sign this guy and start stocking the deeper bench with players who are going to help the team without having to be the team.

Dia:我同意。我认为他是一个很好的资产，我认为角色扮演者对这支球队很重要。似乎那些人将会带来前进的影响。我们有星星回来。我们需要另一个或两块，然后我们需要像Eubanks这样的家伙，他们可以稳固地备份。努尔基奇（Nurkic）可能会在下个赛季重新签约，球队已经明确表示他没有被感动，所以像Eubanks这样的人会很好地从替补席上出发。

Dave:I could see Eubanks as the third center. Also, even if the Blazers re-sign Nurkic, I don’t think that automatically means he’s going to remain with the club through the duration of his contract. One of the concepts we’ve talked about during this exercise is that signed contracts/talent to facilitate trades may be as important as potential cap space, especially if the Blazers opt to keep Damian Lillard. The beauty about a guy like Eubanks is that he can occupy a rotation spot without impacting the salary cap in any meaningful way. Plus it seems like he loves being a Blazer, and that never hurts.

Question, though: this was a 27-55 team. We just voted thumbs up on Watford and Eubanks. Are we keeping too many people here?

Dia:I think this is a tricky stat. Because we didn’t have healthy Dame at all. Then we started losing significant players one by one. So the reality is, even if we didn’t make one more change (which I’m not suggesting), we are going to have a better record next season simply because we will be healthy. That being said, I don’t think we have a lot of wiggle room. We have guys we need to keep because we need people on the roster and We can afford them. I think if they can make a couple changes, we will be okay. Depending on your definition of “okay” I suppose.

好的，读者，您怎么看？Eubanks是否应该与团队再次投篮，这次是更长的交易，还是没有任何区别？在下面的评论部分注册您的意见！

到目前为止我们的故事...

Anfernee Simons：戴夫 - 维持，直径 -

Jusuf Nurkic：Dave—Keep, Dia—Keep

Ben McLemore:Dave—Yeet, Dia—Keep

CJ Elleby:Dave—Yeet, Dia—Yeet

——《小:Dave—Keep, Dia—Keep

Trendon Watford:Dave—Keep, Dia—Keep

Drew Eubanks：Dave—Keep, Dia—Keep