It sucks. MARIS makes me watch the game and want Sergio not to play as well so that I can win the argument and that is horrible! They're both Blazers but I admit that I want Bayless to be the future at PG so I find myself battling the Sergio fans. I should be a Sergio fan too since he plays for us, but with Blake coming back in a month, there won't be time for everyone and I'd like it to go to Bayless. MARIS- I have to make peace with you so that we can start rooting for the Blazers again and not hoping each other's PGs fail so that we can be right.
you are right and wrong speed. bayless is the future starting PG, but sergio will be the backup. It's blake who's days are numbered in portland.
Dood, Maris is almost like Mixum's alter-ego . . . he gets his kicks not by being stupidly and over the top negative but by going against the grain every chance he gets. Knowing that, just let him have his say and take it with a grain of salt knowing that some/most of what he's saying is intended to ruffle your feathers anyways. So just leave it at that and go on about your business.
I don't know. Blake was playing pretty great before he went down. Had some doubles. Knocks down BIG very timely three point shots. We miss him. I want Bayless to start with Blake as the back up. Don't hate Sergio but I don't see where the room is for him.
I wonder if the loss moves Bayless to starter now. I think he only started Sergio to "not mess with what worked" but he clearly favored Bayless tonight. He got Bayless in really quickly so that he could play with the starters. And then he closed the game. I'd like Bayless to start now and I want him to stay aggressive throughout the game. I think he was afraid of doing too much tonight.
I don't see Sergio staying and Blake being shown the door. Blake, even with his flaws, is a much more serviceable (backup) PG than Sergio is right now (and probably for the foreseeable future). While ALL of our PG's have had their ups and downs, Blake has had way, way, way more up than Sergio has. Has Sergio carried for stretches with clutch 3-point shooting? Has Sergio won any games for us in the final seconds? No and no. Blake's staying - the only question is whether he'll be a starter or backup.
I don't know what to make of it all - Bayless certainly gives us good penetretation and scoring but he had zero assists tonight and always seems like he'll be a shoot-first, pass-second kind of guard. Let's trade for Chris Paul
Bayless played under control. Had maybe one turnover. And he created a few open threes for Outlaw and Rudy but they missed. What can he do?
well that IS strange. i ALWAYS want EVERY blazer to do good, no matter what. i would never root against any blazer, period.
I'm rooting, albeit guiltily, for Blake to be out for a good long time so we can see our back ups! I think we make a jump to contender next year with a finally healed Oden, one more impact player and natural development
I don't think there is a battle anymore. bayless has passed Sergio and there is no turning back now. As Bayless continues to get more confident, his game will improve dramatically. With Sergio we have seen what he can do, and Bayless is better. If I have to see Sergio drive by his guy and not finish or at least draw a foul one more time I am going to scream (again)
You guys may want to take Sergio and Jerryd's approach: They "genuinely" seem to be pulling for each other out there. High fivin', butt slappin' fools they is! OK, I could do without a KingSpeed/MARIS butt slap. eww?
Well, I think that Bayless is the better player, and I think Nate does also with him playing the final 11 and a 1/2 minutes of the game and playing more than Outlaw or Joel or Greg or Nicolas. Bayless is going to be real special, man. I was so upset that Roy was hogging the ball like that. We would have won if we played through either LMA or JerryD.
I think Dave from Blazersedge.com really had a great take on Sergio and Jerryd's performances last night. I actually thought our point guard play was pretty good last night ... but it definitely showed that these lineups hadn't played much together. Jerryd: Sergio: http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/1/18/727129/game-40-recap-blazers-97-b I think once the guys get a few more practices and games under their belts with the new lineups then we'll (hopefully) see a little more cohesiveness on the court (better ball movement, being greater than the sum of your parts, etc.).
Maybe I haven't beat my head against the wall enough yet in my time in this forum. I've been members of many other forums spanning many different interests and this one (and BBF too) by far is the most frustrating to be sure. I don't WANT to block anyone and have resisted the (strong) urge to do so but, yeah, the time will probably come when multiple people will have to be blocked. Until then, I'll go to sleep every night praying to the Almighty Lawd that they'll become fans of another team, take up some other interest and leave this forum or all of the computers in their homes and businesses catch fire and can no longer cannot to the internet. I feel that's a much more productive approach.
I got tired of arguing with some of the posters on this forum, so I just blocked them. I don't mind debating a topic, but when it's just the same ignorant crap every time...
Who makes up for Blakes 40+% three point shooting? Sergio makes to many defensive mistakes ,and his shooting isn't close to Steves. I think Bayless is the future PG and Blake is the seasoned vet back up for years to come.
