The Official S2 "I've Had It With Travis Outlaw" Thread

From now on, post all of your bitching and complaining about TO here. His play lately has certainly earned it.

 

Only one overreacting thread tonight? Congrats, everyone! We are improving as a group!

 

Ugh. Travis is what he is, love him or hate him he's a bench scorer that takes and (frequently) makes very tough (and sometimes stupid) shots.

Expect anything more and you'll end up with high blood pressure. There's plenty of suckitude in tonight's game that I'm not sure I'd single Travis out.

 

I would like to semi-recant my first post....seems like everybody is in agreement with you Chris...even the more level headed posters around here

 

Travis is a black hole - the ball goes to him and never comes out - for good or ill.

 

...sounds like another player that rhymes with TO, zBO [TO must GO just like zBO]!!!

At least zBO had some bball IQ...

 

ugh. Travis is definitely a high risk/potential high reward player. Some nights he brings the effort (and accompanying rebounding, shot blocking, and quality shots), and others he will ugly shot and turnover the team right out of the game. I wish we would give up on the idea of him having the quickness to guard your average NBA 3. LMA has better lateral agility than Trout. TO needs to guard the opposing 4, IMO.

Overall...Stop the roller coaster, I wanna get off.

But I agree with Nik on this:

 

I'm not even mad at him for that. I'm mad that he is completely fucking lost on the court so many times per game, most of the time on defense. How about those turnovers? I really do think he is counter-productive to what the Blazers are trying to do on the court. He's great at creating his own shot and even when he's shooting well like tonight, he is a negative influence to the production on the court. Just my opinion though.

 

been there done that

 

for the love of god do not put bayless and TO on the court at the same time. they both have the same 1 on 5 mentality and it kills any flow we have.

 

At least this will be more localized to one thread now I guess. So if people want to complain, then they'll have a place to do it. I'm ready to be done with Travis. I love when he gets his jumper going, but it's just not enough anymore. It's funny because if you just look at box scores, his stats don't look that bad. Also, looks like Bayless played like crap tonight. Wronnnng.

 

Man.. how did Travis get 16 points on 7 of 13 shooting, but end up with a -22 in the +/-... geez. That's pretty bad. I didn't see the game, but Travis -- you better than that.

 

not to harp but how exactly did bayless play a good game tonight? granted not many outside of joel and rudy looked decent.

 

Luckily for everyone I don't Brian.


I told you all so.

 

Probably from the zeros in the rest of his statline minus one steal I think, four turnovers, and two blocks allowed.

 

When the starters are playing that poorly, it seems rather silly to blame the bench.

 

Travis Outlaw spun past NBA Finals MVP Paul Pierce, dunked on 2004 NBA MVP Kevin Garnett, and in doing so, we became only the 5th team to beat the reigning NBA Champs! And people have a problem with this guy?

 

People have problems with some holes in his game that hurt the team even after six years. If you cannot recognize those flaws well I don't know what to sy.

 

KingSpeed, one day I hope you'll realize that one positive play doesn't make up for negative ones.