At just over 48 hours from the Draft 2023, it’s the home stretch and information, more than ever, is flowing from all sides. And on the side of Portlandthis information is starting to be contradictory…
Indeed, while for several weeks the scenario of a transfer of the 3rd choice and Anfernee Simons seems to be the path favored by the leaders of the Blazers to recruit an established player and thus support Damian Lillard as quickly as possible, the latest rumors on this subject finally go in the opposite direction.
The Zion Williamson track?
According to Adrian Wojnarowski And Jonathan Givony from ESPN, it thus seems more and more certain that the Oregon club will keep their 3rd choice to choose Scoot Henderson or Brandon Miller, according to the choice of the Hornets, and will keep the young talent. The only scenario in which the management of Portland will give in? Whether ” a team emerges at the last moment with an offer that is simply impossible to refuse “, specify our colleagues…
It remains to be seen which offer is considered as such by the club’s management. We can imagine that the Raptors (for Pascal Siakam) and the Pelicans (for Zion Williamson), for example, have arguments to convince, but common ground that satisfies everyone seems difficult to find.
In the end, we can especially wonder if this is a smokescreen to raise the stakes one last time, or if it is a real change of mind on the part of the leaders of Portland, now convinced that it is possible to find a happy medium between the development of his youngsters and the maximization of the best remaining years of Damian Lillard… Answer very soon.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Damian Lillard | 58 | 36.3 | 46.3 | 37.1 | 91.4 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 32.2 |
| Anfernee Simons | 62 | 35.0 | 44.7 | 37.7 | 89.4 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 21.1 |
| Jerami Grant | 63 | 35.6 | 47.5 | 40.1 | 81.3 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 20.5 |
| Skylar Mays | 6 | 31.5 | 50.0 | 46.2 | 92.3 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 8.3 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 15.3 |
| Jusuf Nurkic | 52 | 26.8 | 51.9 | 36.1 | 66.1 | 2.2 | 6.9 | 9.1 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 13.3 |
| Cam Reddish | 20 | 27.6 | 44.3 | 31.8 | 83.3 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 11.0 |
| Jeenathan Williams, Jr. | 5 | 25.3 | 61.5 | 37.5 | 66.7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 10.6 |
| Shaedon Sharpe | 80 | 22.2 | 47.2 | 36.0 | 71.4 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.9 |
| Josh Hart | 51 | 33.4 | 50.4 | 30.4 | 73.1 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 9.5 |
| Shaquille Harrison | 5 | 24.0 | 41.7 | 30.0 | 73.3 | 0.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 8.8 |
| Kevin Knox | 21 | 17.1 | 44.4 | 31.4 | 74.1 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 8.5 |
| Matisse Thybulle | 22 | 27.7 | 43.8 | 38.8 | 62.5 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 7.4 |
| Trendon Watford | 62 | 19.1 | 56.0 | 39.1 | 72.0 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 7.4 |
| Comanche Luck | 1 | 20.8 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 |
| Justise Winslow | 29 | 26.8 | 40.9 | 31.1 | 71.4 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 6.8 |
| Nassir Little | 54 | 18.1 | 44.2 | 36.7 | 71.7 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 6.6 |
| Drew Eubanks | 78 | 20.3 | 64.1 | 38.9 | 66.4 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 6.6 |
| Keon Johnson | 40 | 10.4 | 37.6 | 34.6 | 65.9 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 4.7 |
| Justin Minaya | 4 | 22.2 | 30.4 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 4.3 |
| Gary Payton II | 15 | 17.0 | 58.5 | 52.9 | 100.0 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 4.1 |
| Jabari Walker | 56 | 11.1 | 41.9 | 28.6 | 75.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| Ryan Arcidiacono | 9 | 16.2 | 25.0 | 35.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 2.6 |
| John Butler | 19 | 11.6 | 32.1 | 22.9 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Greg Brown III | 16 | 5.8 | 39.3 | 14.3 | 41.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
