Interesting bits of information in Brian Hendrickson's Blazer Banter blog on the Columbian's website: http://columbian.com/article/20090106/BLOGS05/901069984/-1/BLAZERS Sounds like Martell will be in the boot for a couple more weeks and may not be ready to play until after the All Star break. Hendrickson also says that there's virtually no chance of the Blazers really being interested in Curry. He says that Pritchard feels no pressure to make a trade: Calm waters, folks. Calm waters.
translation.... NO PLAYOFFS so we will be picking another "potential player" this june woo hoo! how exciting
Trade for the sake of trading FTW! Roy for Carter! Aldridge for J. Howard! Oden for Bogut! PLAYOFFS BAYBEE!
He came back too soon the first time and re-injured it. The Blazers want to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Actually while Muxum overreacted to this so did you the opposite way. No trades and staying the course probably does mean no playoffs. Or at best the 8th seed to get crushed by the L*kers in the first round. Trading Outlaw, Rodriguez, Frye, Diogu, Blake, Bayless....or really anyone not names Roy, Aldridge or Oden for a player or two that has some playoff experience and could help us win some games would be a good thing. Keeping players like Travis who will NEVER be anything more than a gunner off the bench is kinda stupid IMO. If you can get something of value for this team like a defensive wing with playoff experience or a starting caliber PG who can get to the rim and attack the basket that would make a lot of sense since we already have a player right now in Batum who plays overall better than Travis. Same with Sergio. Bayless wouldn't do a lot worse than Sergio, and if you could package Sergio with something to bring back something we need more you should do it. I think there is a big difference between staying the course in calm waters and tweaking the roster to fill some holes.
If the Blazers have had a slogan for the past six years . . . it would be "patience" If everyone rose with the Blazers, we would all be late for work.
i have no doubt at all that with roy healthy and 3 games at home that we can beat the lakers in the first round. id bet we would be the last team they would like to see.
For the record, KP saying that he doesn't feel pressured to make a trade is not the same as him saying that he isn't going to make a trade. He's just not going to make one of the hare-brained deals that have been circulating lately. One thing that KP's been consistent on is only doing deals that he considers to be in the best longterm interests of the team. While we tend to be pretty short sighted around here, the Blazers' main chance at contending is not this season, but in the future. That mandates a planning approach that isn't as much concerned with just making the playoffs this year as it is with adding the best possible pieces to next year's team.
I kind of agree. I think we are one of the last teams that LA is going to want to see in the 1st round, given their recent games in the Rose Garden. You can almost throw out the first game we played with them this year -- Oden's first game of the year and gets injured minutes into the game. That was a Deer in the headlights game if I ever saw one. The second game, we played well in the 1st half, but we didn't have Roy and I aint taking a lot from that game about whether we can beat the Lakers either. I would gladly take an 8th seed matchup against the Lakers vs. a draft lottery, and I would chalk making the playoffs as a good year and good growth. I wouldn't even be that surprised if the Blazers made it a 6 or 7 game series. I would be surprised if they won though. Lakers will be tough to beat at home, but I think the Blazers will be tough to beat in the Rose Garden too.
i'll be very pleased if they make the 8th seed, especially considering where this team was two or three years ago. it's a process people, i understand everyone wants to win right now but that doesn't happen very often in major sports. the goal for the year is making the playoffs, but are you willing to throw the long term goal away just to accomplish the short term?
webster's situation is starting to scare me. i've always thought he could and would be a great player but foot injuries are nothing to mess around with. talking to my dad he said it reminds him of what walton went through and how he was never the same player after hurting his foot. it's very difficult to come back and stay healthy on a damaged foot.
It was a stress fracture so they want to let it fully heal rather than what they did last time. Nothing to freak out about, it just takes time.
Really? Those 2 beat downs weren't enough to give them a pretty high level of confidence against us? Good defensive teams like the Lakers completely discombobulate this current Blazer squad. I'd be happy with a 6 game series, but that may be pushing it.
Well considering how I heard it happened, I was pretty upset. Martell came in to practice and play and then he reinjured his foot. The medical guy for the Blazers was on a talk show I was listening to said "Well if we would have taken X-rays/MRI of the foot before he played, we would have seen it wasn't healed." That left me thinking "What the fuck do they pay you money for, your job is to ensure that X-ray happens".
You mean the year after next . . . or is it two years after next year . . . or three years after next? I think the Blazers should start making moves to make the playoffs right around the time Bayless comes into his prime . . . don't want to sacrafice the potential of Bayless for immediate return. Personally I think the Blazers make the playoffs, but if not, that means the golden child has been GM for three years and failed to take the team to the playoffs.
