Pick and Scroll, Make the Irregular Regular Edition

Your daily (Mon-Fri) roundup of links from around the blogosphere, typically Trail Blazers related.

• Casey Holdahl reports that France’s loss could be Portland’s gain as Nicolas Batum will be asked to assume more offensive responsibility and will be the focus of opposing defenses. Then again, Batum could probably teach the rest of Team France a little something about playing with injured teammates.
• In an interview with SLAM online Jamal Mashburn picks Portland as a team that might surprise people:

I think it’s time for the Portland Trailblazers to really step up and do something special. I think Brandon Roy was unhealthy last year with his knee, and he’ll be back to play. They have Marcus Camby again. We’ll see what Greg Oden could possibly do. So, to me, with the pieces that they have, I think they have a chance to compete further in the NBA playoffs.

• Over at Rip City Project SJ pens an Ode to Pippen and Sheed, two great Blazers that won all their titles elsewhere.
• As Ezra noted over at End Hits, the Mercury’s music blog, “Brandon Roy is in a terrible hiphop video:”

• Over at Bust-a-Bucket Seth Johnston serves up your Tacho Tuesday links and welcomes new Bust-a-Bucketeer, Thomas McCloskey, AKA “T-Mac.”
• CBS Sports reports that Joel Przybilla is still gunning for an opening night return.
• Did you catch Kevin Arnovitz’ excellent interview with Nancy Lieberman, the first female D-League coach? If you haven’t read it, you should. The interview is a goldmine of wisdom with this inspirational quote:

“We will make the irregular regular. I am perceived as irregular because I am a woman coaching men. We’re going to make this regular.”

We live in exciting times, ladies and gentlemen. The pursuit of equality will not be over until the only relevant question is “Can you do the job?”

• Speaking of Coach Lieberman, Matt Hubert of TrueHoop Network sister site D-League Digest takes a look at five story lines surrounding her.
• TrueHoop Network sister site 48 Minutes of Hell takes a look at the positional revolution as applied to defense.
• Rumor has it that Carmelo Anthony wants out of Denver, Jeremy from TrueHoop Network sister site Roundball Mining Company breaks down the situation as it currently stands. Three reactions from me; one, if the Nuggets convince ‘Melo to stay by bringing in another good player, or if the Nuggets get good value back for Anthony, the Northwest Division could get even tougher. Two, there is going to be a battle over player movement in the next collective bargaining agreement; I do not think the owners fully anticipated this sort of variable. Three, the best off-the-cuff trade I could think of is “Carmelo Anthony to Philadelphia for Maurice Speights and Andre Iguodala.” Such a trade would eliminate any worry about Iguodala and Evan Turner overlapping and would likely be the best value that the Nuggets could get for Anthony in their disadvantaged position.

Comments

[Billy Hoyle]

That Philly trade is interesting...close to his hometown too. I still think he may stay in Denver for some strange reason. I don't see the Knicks being a real option for him

[T-Mac]

Utah is at least 20% worse w/o Korver, Matthews and Boozer--I don't care how good Jefferson is, he can't make up for the loss of all three of those guys with his skill set. Phoenix literally doesn't have anyone who can create their own shot inside, so they're looking at at least as big of a drop-off from last year as Utah is. As for the Nuggets, I think this Melo drama eats away at them and kills their season even before they trade him (and probably Martin and maybe even JR Smith) at the deadline and start rebuilding. That means Portland is in a good spot to move up.

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