Has Anyone Seen Rudy Fernandez?

The Portland Trail Blazers have yet to figure this out, and if they don’t they will be fishing in the Peugeot Sound sooner, rather than later.

That’s Seattle mate.. and they’re now in OK… lol!

Portland would be wading in the Willametter river swimming w/ the fishes (3 eye’d fishes) see?!

Personally, I’m a fan of his. This season’s Rudy is not last season’s Rudy. He’s been a shadow of his former Matador self. I think the series of injuries, and that hard foul from Ariza (last season that put him in the hospital) has really impacted his game (especially his mental game).

Even at his best, he was a streaky 3 point shooter. His shot mechanics are not fluid, nor consistent. He’s more of a “feel” shooter.

The part of his game that I loved most was the gritty, no quit, crazylegs hustle to get charges, driving to the lane to get a dunk or layup to open his behind the line shots, type of game. His lack of confidence has greatly impacted this game.

He needs 1-2 months of rest away from basketball after the season. And then re-start working on his handle (sub-par for an NBA shooting guard) and his strength. A good world championship tournament with Spain wouldn’t be bad for his psyche either. He’s clearly not the same player who dunked on Dwight Howard and performed so many highlight plays that he got invited to the slam dunk contest and Rookies Challenge.

and I dont know this for a fact, but it seems like he’s a whiny kid, angry about not performing, i mean, didnt think guy get all pissy earlier this year cause he wasnt getting the minutes? Way to show your coach that you mean business pal..if you ask me, this guy is portland’s biggest liability right now on both ends of the floor, hope they keep playing him. I also hope he doesnt shut me up and drop 40 on us.

This is why I’m uncomfortable about the team being so enormously dependent on one man. I wish that the ballhandling could be divided more equally between Grant and him,or Dragic and him when they are both out there, so the defensive focus on Nash can’t ruin everything.

Rudy is kind of like a poor man’s Ginobili. And he has a few inches on Nash. In theory he should have be having his way. But it looks like Rudy doesn’t like his team so much, and is really just waiting for the season to be over.

With Batum being iffy, they’ll have to rely on Rudy even more. Maybe that will make them go away faster. Or maybe that will force McMillan to call his number.

If Fernandez remains MIA, maybe they’ll have to play Bayless 35 minutes and take their chances. Or maybe go big and play Webster at SG.

But even if the guy Nash is guarding is going off on us, I can take that. As long as we keep other guys in check like we did in Game 2. We don’t need to beat them by 29 points every game.

Have no idea what is going on with Rudy. I’d say fatigue from playing during the summer but he’s been out for stretches this year after his back surgery and with a quad strain. I think he wants to go back to Europe and he’s doing the best he can to assure this happens.
I doubt he will play many more minutes in the playoffs.

A former NBA player I spoke with this morning called Rudy “tissue paper”

Sounds like something EJ would say…

Portland is scary. Have we realized how hobbled they are against the Suns? No Fernandez; no Roy; no Greg Oden; no Joel Pryzbilla. And they won Game 1.

To not give Webster more of Rudy’s minutes at this point. That move may punch a hole in PHX’s strategy of defending Andre with Hill. Webster is much more likely to torch Nash on offense than Rudy.

talking about Rudy

Why do I care about Rudy Fernandez. The last time I looked this was the Suns blog “NOT” the Blazers. Go write this on Portlands’ blog. I only care about how the Suns are going to kill the Blazers. The Portland players know they cannot impose their will on the Suns. The Suns took the Blazers to lightly in the first game Giving all you Blazers fans false hope. I am sorry your team is never going to amount to more than a first round playoff team. Greg Oden is worthless, don’t you all wish you would have gotten Kevin Durant instead of Oden. Suns in 6……………GO SUNS……………..

P.S. Go back to your own blog. We do not care about your stupid players………

Dude has regressed so much this year…it’s wild.

well let’s not help them figure it out Seth!
haha

Oh well.

I thought it was interesting from both a total b-ball fan perspective and b/c it is an obvious adjustment that might be made moving forward.

Personally, I’ve found that most coaches don’t read blogs and quite honestly, they’ve probably already thought of everything that we have given that they (in general) understand the game and (for the most part) want to win (Don Nelson excluded).

I would’ve guessed a 17 year old girl.

just add in the snap of your fingers in a ‘z’ as you walkoff.