Interesting. http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/12/milwaukee_108_portland_101_bla.html “I personally gotta play better, that’s all I can say.’’ Steve Blake “We’re just not getting it done. No excuses.’’ Miller on the Guard play “I know every time I play I’ve helped this team. Every single time, It’s tough. Especially since, and I hate saying this, seeing these other guys (Blake and Miller) doing what they are doing. I know I can help this team. I know I can.’’ Jerryd Bayless “What can I do?” Dean Demopoulos “We are changing our rotation every game!..............I’m trying to worry about my game,’’ Brandon Roy
That's Jerryd's polite way of saying "Seriously? Blake? Dude sucks right now. Why the fuck am I playing 17 fucking minutes, when that douche nozzle is getting more minutes than not only myself, but another PG who is demonstrably outplaying him?" Or maybe it's just my polite way of reading that. Um, remove the crappy player from your starting 5? There has been ONE player on the starting 5 that hasn't had to worry about his starting spot. Even Brandon Roy did (when he was moved to SF). If Blake was playing like Chris Paul, that's one thing. Hell, if he had once played a game like Chris Paul instead of like Paul "Get" McCracken and Paul Mokeski I could understand him still starting. The excuse that "he helped us get 54 wins" doesn't work anymore. He's helping us get losses now. That's what you or Nate can do, Deano. I'm not sure what that quote means. Does he mean he's more concerned about his points, or his role? Or unsure of what changes he has to make, or that he's worrying about them because they're not coming as easy as he hoped?
It does make more sense for him to say "these guys" and mean other younger PG's in the league (who came in the same time he did) than "these guys" meaning Blake and Miller. Just from a fans perspective, these guys includes both.
these quotes mean that this team needs a fucking trade ASAP and bayless will liekly be teh one traded but who cares. another guard who is below average.
I'm not so sure. If he was talking about other young PGs, why would he preface it by saying "and I hate saying this"? barfo
The fans have to put pressure on the coaching staff, this treatment of Bayless cannot keep on going forward. If we don't get some signs up next home game in support of Bayless, we are going to end up getting Jermaine Oneal'd all over again. Its obvious they aren't going to do anything unless the fans start showing some disastisfaction. So lets show some.
You do understand that if he was getting Blakes minutes his stat line would be the best PG stat line since Terry Porter was here. Even better than Damon Stoudemire's. That would make him the best PG in the last 20 years, not counting Pippen!
And that's probably the worst thing you can do....Going off in public about a coach's (or GM's) decision making is going to get you a few labels around the league. So he's playing better..what good is it going to do to voice it out publicly rather keep it in-house and settle it that way?
Is there a fund I can contribute to in order to get Blazer fans to stop dwelling on ONeal and making that comparison to every upstart player who shows even a flash of talent? Shall we go down history lane together and discuss all the players who showed flashes of brilliance and never ended up putting together ONeal like numbers but more than likely ended up playing in Poland?
I disagree. I believe if a team is winning, you cannot make a case for playing time. But the Blazers are not winning. Folks say Blake does all those little things to help you win. Well now he is not producing and we are not winning. So where are all those little things now? It wasn't that long ago we were in the playoffs against Houston and another player who everybody poo poo'd as a pure scorer lit the Blazers asses up. The Baron Von Wafer. There is something to be said for players who can just flat out ball and fill up the hoop. Bayless is one of those guys. Sometimes by having one of those guys, everybody else's confidence goes up.
What are you talking about? I'm talking about Bayless making public statements saying he should be playing because of what the others are doing.
Probably not much good, but these are still humans. It's quite natural for a person seeing their career stymied, despite working hard and doing a pretty good job when given rare opportunities, get frustrated to the point that he says something when asked by reporters. Also, we have no idea how much has been said in-house. Maybe it can't be settled in-house. As fans, we'd like athletes not to have any individual wills and be robots for the team, but that's not realistic. I simply want them not to be griping constantly. An occasional honest expression of frustration, especially when I can see why he might be frustrated, isn't problematic to me.
