So Dwight thinks the Blazers are a train wreck, but it is not time to panic????? I think Dwight needs to consider the defintion of train wreck before he decides to use it in an article.
It wasn't a value judgement. I was just stating a fact. Brock and the poster formerly known as Mixum post using the same IP address. Not sure why that was addressed at me. I didn't ban him. That's the mods' job. A thankless job I'd never want. So, I tend to not bicth about their decisions one way or the other. BNM
LOL It's all part of the program, media sensationalism. Same reason there's rarely good news on the news, drama sells unfortunately.
Noi shit. The time to panic is when the brakes have failed and you're headed for a bend in the tracks with no way to slow down, not when you're sifting through the rubble pulling out the charred bodies. BNM
He didn't say that. In a column the day before he says the Blazers are a mess ... in his next column he says, if they somehow lose to the abysmal Hornets then it is time to panic. How is that inconsistent?
The title of the first column was: "The trainwreck that is suddenly the Trail Blazers" and then a couple days later he says if the Blazers lose to the Hornets, it's time to panic. The inconstency is the dillusion of the term trainwreck. If they really were a trainwreck two days ago, the time to panic has already passed. If there was an actual trainwreck, would the rescue crews sit around for two days doing nothing, and then all of a sudden spring in to action to see if there were any survivors? No, the time to act, to save lives, would have already passed. It's a poor analogy and inconsistent. To be consistent, what he should have said in the first column is the Blazers are headed for a trainwreck and if they lose to the lowly Hornets the train has gone off the tracks and it's now time to panic. BNM
Nah, rescue crew wouldn't be panicking until they saw the second train on the tracks headed their way. THEN it's time to panic. Before, it's just business as usual for rescue workers.
It's less of a trainwreck and more of an NBA human centipede. Except circular, so everybody is sewed to everybody else. And they're all running really fast, with Nate in the background yelling, "Hustle! Scrap!" (Just decided my goal from now on is to fit a human centipede analogy into a post every day.)
BNM answered it, but he used the term in the title. Dwight just wants everyone to start panicking. If Blazers beat NO, he will pick another opportune time to say if they do this, time to panic. Heck, that was kind of my point, isn't Dwight calling them a train wreck written to make Blazer fans panic. Dwight's just being Dwight, no big deal.
Know you hate Felton, but he's the best Pick and Roll point guard to play with LMA yet. AND he can play defense, something we've never had in a PG.
Then how come opposing PGs have a field day against Felton? Compare the Production stats from 82games.com for this year's Felton vs. last year's Andre Miller: Raymond Felton 2011-12 Production: Own: 10.1 Opp: 17.5 Net: -7.4 Andre Miller 2010-11 Production: Own: 18.9 Opp: 14.8 Net: +4.1 The Miller haters bitched about his poor defense, but the fact is Andre Miller is a smart team defender that uses his knowledge of his opponents to help overcome his physical limitations. Which makes him an overall average defender (his opponent's production was very slightly below league average). Felton flat out sucks at both ends of the court. His offensive production is way below that of an average back-up PG and opposing PGs produce at a level far above league average when Felton is "guarding" them. When the Blazers swapped Miller for Felton, I was convinced it was a downgrade. The ONLY advantage Felton offered is that he's younger. But, if you're younger and you suck all that means is you have more years of suckage ahead. I'd take old, dependable Andre Miller over young, shitty Raymond Felton any day. BNM
