Can the Trail Blazers Find Solutions to Early Season Struggles for Anfernee Simons and Deni Avdija?

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1. They're not TRYING to find solutions to early-season struggles, because they're tanking their faces off.

2. Your pulling off an interesting daily podcast on a bad team. I think people are sleeping on your talent. ESPN where you at.

3. The biggest issue is Chauncey. Why is the horrid coaching being ignored? They started the season getting blown out by over 30, This is exactly what they do!!!

4. I know Deni’s shot has been a struggle this season, but his playmaking and defense have been a godsend. I think we need to keep him in the starting lineup.

5. Sadly, I think Henderson is the elephant in the room because the young man with all of his physical gifts does not know how to manage a game. I wonder if benching Scoot for a couple of games and then insert Deni as point forward might prove beneficial.

6. During the last years that Deni played in Washington, I would wake up in the middle of the night in Israel and I did not miss one of his games. I didn't think Danny would end up in a team that could play worse than Washington. I know Deni well and his body language and it is quite clear that his acclimatization in Portland is very difficult for him. He doesn't seem to enjoy his team's game. deni came from Europe that all that matters in the European teams is the team victory and it doesn't matter how many points you add to your personal statistics. The game in Portland is not easy because every player in the team plays for himself and not for the team. In addition, with Deni, the whole game comes from the emotion and the head. Deni needs to feel belonging to the team he plays for and restore his confidence. We know that Deni knows how to play good basketball. Why doesn't it work in Portland??? For this, Portland has the professionals who need to understand it and handle the problem

7. Scoot has been better playing with Khris Murray and Rupert (no disrespect). Give him the keys give him the confidence.

8. We gotta move Simons for a pick. He hasn't taken a step forward in 3 years. He is what he is and its not what the Blazers need

9. Dumbo is fitting.

10. How is Ayton the reason Deni is struggling? Deni was never a good shooter in Washington and now he's blowing layups.

11. i just want the vets gone, as much as I like those guys its just not good to keep them, takes away too many minutes. Not only from the potential future mainstays like Shae or Scoot but even bench guys that could turn into good players like Jabari or Rayan, we've seen Jabari especially show that fight and tenacity whenever he gets minutes but he can't develop if he only gets like 5 a game

12. Whats wrong with Simons? He got an unfathomable bag from a sorry franchise that has made the mistake before while being told by numerous people something he is clearly not. Now you ride the grayhound across the country.

13. Every player on this team will benefit from a coaching change. Lots of potential in the young players. Their development is being severely retarded. All that they are learning is how to lose. Even worse, Billup’s scheme doesn’t take advantage of Portland’s veteran talent. The offense looks slightly better than street ball. The defense is atrocious. It’s beyond time for a new coaching staff. Obviously not gonna happen. Wake me up for the draft lottery.

14. Deni is far from perfect. His shooting follows his confidence that follows drives once the the paint is clogged its hard to jump start this train

15. I recommend deni a waterbed

16. It doesn't look like and I don't think something will ever change?… Deni will never gonna fit in with the way this team plays!… No spacing, clogging up the paint, lazy running and joining together to help in transition, poor screening, poor rolling on pick n' roll, poor availability for alley-oop passes, bad boxing out job and on top of everything, no ball movement, a lot of iso and forcing it which most times lead to a turnovers!

17. I think we blew it with Scoot, it forced Dame to ask for a trade, and made Simons feel unwanted. package that with Scoot being way farther behind then advertised and ya we blew it

18. At the beginning of the season, after Shaed went down, I recommended that that they start Delano Banton. Now, i think that they put Deni back in and take out Camara.

19. The answers for this young team, they come from within

20. Maybe the team should visit the Portland Zoo and hang out with real elephants. Share some peanuts.