Courtside: Blazers "thrilled" with Oden's progress

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  1. BrianFromWA

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    I take the opposite of what Abbott says, the opposite of what Barrett says, and combine them.
     
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    Nobody who works for the organization (that includes HCP). They're sunshine pumpers and company pitchmen.
     
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    And you find this to be unusual in professional sports that teams try to put an optimistic spin on their situations? I can just imagine in my mind the TV promos if they hired MM and Natebishop3 to do them. "Well folks, the Blazers suck and are going to continue to do so until Buchanan finally is canned and they hire a new GM that actually has a pair so that he'll fire McMillan's sorry ass. Oden's broken down again, as usual, and Roy should be renamed "The Shell", but hey, support your Blazers and buy a few tickets. I mean, hey, what else are you going to do? Watch soccer?"
     
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    it's been working for the Mariners/Sounders. :)
     
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    Hahahahano.
     
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    BC, do you have me on ignore? If not, check your IM's
     
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    Wait, you didn't have me on ignore because you responded to my post.
     
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    Sent.....again
     
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    Awesome! I had no idea Mrs HCP was into that! :ghoti:
     
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    Oh ya, she has to wear a blindfold when HCP is there though
     
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    So do they live on that farm, or was that like a friend's place?
     
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    BeerBoys place. She does love those goats, doesn't she?
     
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    Funny how they all look kinda like BeerBoy.
     
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    Anyone getting nervous? Still no news about what was supposed to be a definite QO.
     
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    It's not the last day of June, so I'm not freaking my shit out... but it is starting to get a little warm in the kitchen.
     
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    Tonight or tomorrow for sure. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for them not to extend the offer.
     
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    It seems to me there are either one or two decisions that have to be made.

    The first is whether or not to extend GO a QO. If we don't, then there's something seriously, genetically and unrecoverably wrong with Oden.

    The second--if the answer is that we're going to extend a QO--is whether to extend the one year QO or the max QO. The max may not be such a ridiculous idea, if you have an idea that the new CBA is going to be more owner friendly. Right now it would be six years, but what if under the new CBA it were four years? What if there were an amnesty clause? What if salaries are significantly reduced?
     
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