Behind the Locker Room Door: The 'Dre Edition

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  1. Darkwebs

    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    Very good article by Quick about Dre's childhood and basketball background.

    Read the article. It's pretty interesting to learn a little about some of the experiences that molded Dre as a bball player and as a person.
     
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    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    LOL. Nah, Quick did a good job of focusing all of the article on Dre.
     
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    Wow, that was a great story!

    Thanks for posting it!
     
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    It's okay in this one case, because Quick was actually a little black child who was there watching Miller grow up. So I didn't even consider counting all the "I"s and "me"s like his last article.
     
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    About 20 years ago, the Republicans started ridiculing this Democratic experiment. On TV they would rail against, and ridicule, "midnight basketball" as some kind of luxury ghetto entitlement. The purpose was to decrease crime, but they succeeded in cutting off funding.
     
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    Good article.
     
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    By a bad writer!
     
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    I find it very telling that Miller is among our most consistent players and the highlighted "outgoing" group is the most inconsistent.
     
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    Good read. Thanks for posting.
     
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    Age and experience.
     
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    whoa. is this what i think it means? have you changed your opinion on miller?
     
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    But hey, what's more important?

    According to the Goryonion, it is more important to kiss-ass off the court, than to kick-ass on it.
     
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    Good read. I just can't help wondering why I'm reading it now, right before Miller's last potential game as a Blazer. Shouldn't this have been written about two years ago when the fan base was just learning about him? It's shit like this, Oregonian, that pisses me off. "Life story" pieces should come when we acquire a new Blazer, not when he's potentially on his way out.

    Anyway, better late than never. Assuming it looks like there's a season next year, I hope we pick up his option. My guess is that the team is waiting as long as it can to make that decision in hopes that they have a better idea of what to expect next year.
     
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    I highly doubt the Blazers are going to let Miller go. He is worth more to us than other teams, even if his contract somehow expires I bet we'd resign him for 2-3 years. We are already missing a backup PG, you need that first before you cut the starter. Not to mention that starter has performed better than anyone on the team in the playoffs.

    Teams always wait to pickup options. See the Knicks and Chauncy, its just standard protocol to wait until the deadline.
     
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    They pretty much have to keep Miller because they don't even have anyone even close to taking over that role on the team outside of Dre.

    Even though Portland has drafted at least one point guard in every freaking draft the last 4 years.
     
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    Dre is a stud, great read and im positive we resign him.. He deserves it plus he has a great contract..
     
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    This is what Quick does. He writes melodrama. That's good when that's the objective. When he's supposed to be objective, and isn't, that's when I have a bitch with him.
     
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    I'm good with resigning Dre. As long as we also find and sign his eventual replacement.
     
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    Glad to see Miller is still taking his craft seriously and playing well in the playoffs. It can only increase his trade value in the coming offseason, when Cho revamps the roster and brings in an upgrade at PG.
     
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