Are you worried about chemistry/playing time issues?

Well since Roy already plays a ton of point guard on offense and has said publicly that he needs to work on his defense, I'm going to say A) -- more insulting to put him on the second unit so he can play with his "buddies"

 

I wasn't until this whole Miller thing.

 

The more I read through this the more I think that this year is primed to be one where our big three really becomes our big three and the rest of the team is just the rest of the team. Oden, Aldridge and Roy are going to get theirs and be happy. Everyone else is just gonna have to suck it up. And this might even be a good thing. Most good teams have three stars and a bunch of guys that fit in around those stars. This year we'll learn which of the other guys will fit in and which need to be dumped.

 

Yep, I totally agree. This means that really Brandon is the one that needs to adjust. The ball should go to Oden on the block - take the shot if it's there - then if it's not kick to Miller for a thread the needle pass to a cutting Roy who can work his magic. I actually saw that exact play in one of the pre-season game highlights and it looked gorgeous. Next you can have Roy can run pick and roll/pop's with Aldridge.

You have GOT to feed the beast in the post though. Call me crazy, but I really feel like Oden should be the 1st option followed by Aldridge with Roy getting most of his points in an opportunistic manner until crunch time. That's just me though. If Oden is what I think he is, it's pure gold on the block and forces the defense to double and rotate and then Roy can exploit the chaos with facilliation from Miller.

 

I don't understand this whole idea that we have to consolidate our roster. We have to suit up 12 players. Why not have the 10th-12th guys be the best 10th-12th guys in the league?

 

Hey Eric, you are just as good of a poster as everyone else in here, but because we can only have so many people posting, you can't post anymore. Now if you went somewhere else, you could probably post all of the time. Here, however, you have to just sit and watch peoples posts even though you are just as good as they are.


Would that sorta piss you off? Would you not want to go where you could post all the time?

 

I can't wait for the season to start, not because I'm so excited anymore but so all of the idiots will shut up about why Andre Miller doesn't want to talk to the media about his personal life and instead want to talk about the great impact his veteran leadership, basketball intelligence and averages of 15, 5 and 5 are helping lead the team to the NW title!

 

Maybe it would piss off a lesser poster, but Eric is a professional.

He knows it's about quality of posts, not quantity of posts.

He'll be content to post a couple times a game, knowing his unique insights and knowledge gathered from stalking the team across the country during the writer's strike have given him the talking points to help make our threads relevant and valuable.

And I'm sure the mods will allow him to post all he wants during blowouts.

 

I think you're going to be very disappointed if that is your expectation.

 

I like KingSpeed's posts, especially the travelogue. On the other hand, I'm rather tired of Crandc's. After years of negative complaints about men, she didn't post anything positive about Hillary during the campaign. A better answer for why we need a consolidation trade is, if we trade a good 8th man and a medium 5th man starter for a star starter, we will have a better player who plays a lot of minutes, and a worse substitute who plays few minutes. So we'll get more quality minutes. We can afford to do this because we have a lot of good substitutes wasting their time on the bench, if only Pritchard had the talent to find teams who value them.

 

Aldridge whining about his contract extension...
Miller whining about starting....
Roy whining about wanting to join team U.S.A....

You blazer fans are in for an interesting season

 

You are right, I'm very disappointed in his performance tonight against the Suns. Dre played starter minutes 34:13 and only logged 25 points, 5 boards and 6 assists. I have no idea what I was thinking in my original post when I said he would average 15, 5 and 5? Clearly I have no clue what I'm talking about and should spend more time listening to you. You clearly have a greater knowledge of the game, as you stated the other day:

It's not like I was walking out on a limb when his career averages are 17, 4 and 7 but clearly every schmuck across 96% of the nation knows Miller is a baller and since you can't watch your Blazers save for the handful of games on KGW and national TV, maybe you should consider watching another game or two that isn't a Blazer game. Or know that Miller has killed us over the years every time we played him.

And when the team attempts to find a way for you to be able to catch every game if you so choose to, that you appreciate it. Take back your Natty Ice cans, clip a couple extra coupons and drop the $100 or whatever they decide to charge for the ability to watch all the games. It's not your right to be able to watch every game, and everything has a price and if you don't want to pay then don't bitch that it costs too much! My buddy has been pitching in the big leagues for the past few years and the $130 I pay to MLB.tv is nothing for what I get back and get to see him throw at that level. I'd think that a big fan like you would find a way to make it happen. Or do you just bitch about things you don't like, then when there is a solution offered you bitch more, and more, and more?

Get a clue, or at least listen to the people that have one already.