This sums up our off-season

We make L*ker fans look good sometimes. I can't believe what little whiny bitches we are. How about growing a pair (except for crandc, Sebastian Express and Spud)?

 

You may like losing every year, but I sure don't. So if you like to lose each year, go ahead and keep up your "keep on rolling with what we got" attitude, and taking swipes at the people who are upset. None of you provided a basis for argument against what he said. I just see a lot of name calling. So that means they are probably right, and you folks who don't like to hear about it, are wrong.

 

I like losing less games than we win. Which is what happened last season. Maybe you were watching a different team? 54-28 on the youngest team in the league.

 

also, you forgot to say "never question authority, just accept the way management is doing things and attack those that dare question moves".

 

Stalled according to Jason Quick? Who got fed that by the players' agent? Whoo-hoo.

Thereby saving them from overpaying a player who looks good when he has the ball in crunch time, which wouldn't happen here.

This would be a bigger deal if we didn't have the youngest rotation in the league and won 54 games. Have we lost any players from that rotation that matter? I will miss Sergio, but I'm pretty much alone in that.

At a ridiculously low salary (lower than last season) in a deal that will expire at the end of the season. Meanwhile his PER was on a par with Turkoglu's.

The only one in your list that bothers me. But only Bibby and Kidd have been signed so far.

Good for them. Let's hope it means they have to trade Deron Williams.

For whom? I don't recall anyone offering anything I thought we had to have. Or did I miss the Chris Paul for RLEC offer?

Personally, I think this offseason has been a lot less depressing than when Oden injured his knee.

 

I think that what happened with Hedo falls into the "Shit Happens" category. It messed up KP's offseason plan. Since none of the other UFAs fit with the team's objectives, it means either battling it out over a RFA or looking for a lopsided trade. Either one of those things take time. All of the whining and KP-bashing in the world won't change that reality.

 

Repped!

 

You are aware that the Blazers still have the youngest rotation in the league and their win totals have been rising steadily, right? What exactly were you hoping for? You can complain when we win fewer than the season before, but until then it's just whining. And to blame Pritchard for what happened with Turkoglu (which took a ridiculous series of coincidences to happen, from Memphis signing Darius Miles right down to Shawn Marion turning down the offer he got from the Raptors) is just stupid.

 

we built up this cap space to use it. and we've been failing left and right. thank god the hedo shit fell through though.

 

You can question shit, though, without being the whiney bitch most on here are being. It's kind of ridiculous. It's like the incessant whining that happens during game threads, we fall behind in the first quarter, and everyone ties off the knot on their noose and stands up on the chair. Quarter two they sit down on the chair, quarter 3 they take down the noose from the piping, and quarter 4 they are jumping and down on the chair cheering. This same pattern plays out EVERY game thread by the same posters, after a while you would think some wouldn't just flip the fuck out every first quarter, and call the game over when we get down 20-10. But they do.
So it's the same. Saying KP needs to be fired for failing to make countless trades that you don't know who was involved. Or for not signing someone in free agency, when he TRIED to, and the player wasn't going to sign here anyways. What was he supposed to do there? He went after arguably the top free agent this offseasona, dn tat player wanted mroe money in a different city. So he got that. KP went hard for him, and in that time, players went elsewhere. He could haverecruited 5 people at once, but then we might have heard Hedo in a press conference saying yeah, I didn't like how there wasn't really a sense of attention paid to me, so I went to Toronto.
No, he hasn't made a big mid-season trade, so apparently he needs to be fired. Just building a very good very young team is no longer good enough. Let's fire KP, Fire Nate, and have Paul sell the team, and we can deal with a new owner, who might be cheap, a dumb GM, who makes moves, but they don't amount to shit, and a coach with a fancy offense, that may or may not produce wins. And watch as KP and Nate build another team into a winner. Bunch of fickle whiney bitches. You can cry about getting cvalled names, but then don't act the part and you won't.

 

I've been steadily complaining about this cap space bullshit the last two years, I'm keeping it consistent.

 

Yeah, those 54 wins last year were torture. No offense, but if you don't think that this team doesn't improve simply by standing pat, you're not paying attention.

I'm sorry for you. Clearly, you're a Whitsitt era Blazer fan who needs his little trade fix, where getting players as mercenaries is the name of the game. Thankfully, I come from a time when we actually built a team. That team grew together and improved together. Where who wore the jersey meant something, not just the latest rent-a-player.

 

Well yippee for you. Do you want a cookie for complaining for the last two years about an event in the future, as opposed to appreciating what was going on on the floor during that time?

 

this team will get better just by getting older. hell, even OUTLAW and BLAKE will get better...so why not just keep them right? Sergio would have gotten better if he just stayed another year and got better!

Its not just our team getting better, its the competition sacking up....you go big or go home.

 

I can sum up this off season:

It's like a Keystone Cops movie with our front office as the cops. They run here and there, tripping over each other and generally getting nowhere. The guys they are trying to capture get away again and again, making the cops look like fools.

Hopefully it ends the way those movies do. Namely, everything works out for the best in the end.

 

Exactly.

 

So you would prefer to shorten our window? No thanks.

 

Philly "sacked up" last year with Elton Brand. How'd that work out for them?

Clippers "sacked up" with baron Davis last year. How'd that work out for them?

Who do you want to see signed that will constitue "sacking up" for you? What trade available that you know of that constitutes it?

 

I wasn't doing that instead of appreciating the team on the floor. I saw as many games as I could have possibly seen and appreciated the effort.

I merely recognized the turd of cap space two years into the future.

You seem to think that because a team is doing well, you leave "well enough alone". well, that's fine and dandy but when the past two years have been about the "09 plan to put us over the top" and jack shit isn't being done about it....well, you can see my disappointment...or maybe not. Maybe you enjoy mediocrity and comfort.