Bill Simmons owes me a new monitor!

Dude, be serious.

If you put those 2 guys on the trading block tomorrow, Joel would draw significant interest. Blake? You could count the teams on the fingers of one hand. He would only be of interest to a coach who would be willing to give up the things a PG usually does, in favor of a designated 3-point shooter. Even at that, they would likely see him coming off the bench - not starting.

 

Blake was/is a stop-gap for the PG position until we upgrade. There is no question that he is much more valuable to our team than others, so it's easy for people to overvalue his skills.

 

Dead on.

BTW, always nice to see some new blood. We promise not to spill it! (much)

 

Yep. Steve Blake is the new Steve Kerr.

 

Joel would start for most teams - including the Celtics, and Simmons knows it. That's BS.

 

Nah, Perkins would still start. You're definitely wrong about that.

 

In all fairness to Simmons he is just saying the team's talent is overrated, not bad. And they are a good team, but have been called a great team. I have heard commentators say Portland is a sure fire "Future Dynasty". Those people are fucking delusional. It is possible, but no sure thing.

So yeah, our team has been overrated by some commentators and many fans.

 

No he's not. Joel is white. That's enough for the Sell-Tix.

 

well seeing how he's 100% I got no beef with him.

 

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be offended or laugh at your joke, please clarify.

 

Did you read the part where he complimented Nate?

 

What I don't get is when he says the Blazers look better on paper than they really are. Well they really won 54 games . . . so just how good do they look on paper . . . championship contenders?

 

I put down 82 wins ( on paper) in October. They under archived all year, come on only 54 W. We should apply and move the team to the east. We could pad our record with all the jr. teams. While we are at it just fire Nate and ship out Joel and Blake for House and big baby..
Bill Simmons is a Boston media whore. Fuck him.

 

Ya but someone already started a thread called Bill Simmons owes me a new monitor! so I let it go.

It's really the perfect compliment as far as I'm concerned. I like Nate despite the fact that he fucked up in the playoffs. Again, all true. Except of course the me liking Nate part.

 

Most fans look at talent on other teams and take a 'wait and see', proof is in the pudding approach. But when a fanbase sees a player every night, over and over again, fans see the potential and the possibility that a particular young player could be something special.

As it turns out, Simmons is spot on here. His outsider perspective gives him the ability to see the Blazers for what they are; a team with two major pieces, a solid third, and a bunch of semi-developed others. I, like him, am waiting to see some of the other talent step up. Fortunately, we have a lot of pieces that might turn out pretty decent. We'll see though, won't we...

 

You mean the Boston "Draft the best white guy available" Celtics don't ring a bell?

 

That's a good piece of work and really makes it clear how much we need an upgrade. I disagree with a couple, I think Blake might start over Fisher, but not over Westbrook. Jack starts for Indiana now and I think Indiana would also start him over Blake.

 

I was much more generous to Blake than Mediocre Man and I think I counted eight teams he might start for, nine if you count the Blazers.