Behind the Blazers Locker Room Door: San Antonio

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.

It was a fun read all the way around. These couple of portions stood out to me. Clearly, refreshingly, Nate's been a study in two different coaches....from the 'Sarge' days.....to now.

 

Very interesting read. These guys seem just as close and genuine in the locker room as they do in interviews.

 

Webster warns him that he crosses the privacy line with some of the tidbits he shares from the locker room...Quick says he'll do better, and then announces that Frye said he'd get a 36-hour erection if he took more than one scoop of Blake's energy drink. Why is Quick such an ass?

 

I'm wondering if that's why Channing heads straight to chapel?

 

Great picture, ABM. Your grandson is a cute little fella.

 

Great read. I highly doubt there is a team in the league with better chemistry than ours. The guys all seem to enjoy each other.

I'd like to read more about Rudy in these "Behind the Blazers Locker Room" reports.

 

The Roy and Trav banter was pretty entertaining ... kind of makes me wonder if trading him for an 'upgrade' in the off-season would end up doing more harm than good (Plus, it needs to be said that Travis has been balling out of his mind the second half of the season).

 

I heart Travis

 

This is incorrect. If the season ended today, San Antonio would win the SW Division and get the 3rd seed as they hold the tie breaker over the Rockets. The Rockets would get the 4th seed, as they hold the tie breaker over the Blazers and the Blazers would end up as the 5th seed playing, without HCA, against the Rockets in the 1st round.

BNM

 

http://www.nba.com/features/seedingprimer07.html

 

http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Cnf.html

http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/4/9/828106/april-9th-playoff-seeding-update

Quick got it wrong. No surprise there.

BNM

 

I noticed the same thing reading that. In the exact same article Webster warns him that he can cross the line he writes that comment by Frye . . . one of the most open and quotable players on the team.

If Frye clams up when Quick is around, I don't blame him. For locker room talk, that comment is no big deal. For Oregonian readers like middle and high school Blazer fans . . . not the best playground talk to have assoicated with your name.

 

Yeah, the erection thing was kind of weird and out there. Don't know if I would've written that, but Quick has written about the Blazer players farting twice already in these things with Blake and someone else during Roy's postgame interview.

But they're highly enjoyable reads, and sounds like the players read them as well.

 

Sounds like guys hanging out in locker rooms to me. You put more than four men in a room together for extended periods of time, and with every new guy who enters the average IQ drops 5 points, until there's nothing left but fart and penis jokes. Why fight it?

I thought Frye's joke about needing only the single scoop of energy powder summarized his stay here perfectly. It conveyed that he's a low-energy player who isn't getting much playing time, but is still a warm and funny guy that you can't really bring yourself to hate.

He's the second-to-last guy you choose in a pickup game--bad but fun to be around.

 

Of course those kinds of things are talked about in a locker room. I didn't have an issue with that. It was just reading it, and having a slight moment of pause and thinking, "Did Quick just write that?" Still kind of weird and out there to me.
But I laughed.

 

Quick's a jerkoff! He's already wearing out his welcome with these guys! There's no Rudy stuff cause Rudy stays away from him!

 

Shavlik won't talk to him either becuase Quicksand is the anti-Christ.

BNM

 

Quick's best one yet. The stories brought a smile to my face.

 

co-signed

Glad he's on the team and love what he brings off the bench. Love his personality even more.