With the upcoming schedule looming and no Roy, its appears things are about to hit rock bottom. Really sad after the wins this team pulled out. Funny thing is we are playing worse healthy but i digress. I just have to wonder if this team takes the Bulls path a few years ago where they so talented and young... everyone loved them and they were almost blown up if not for getting rose in the lotto. When you look at these blazers, you have to be honest in saying we have 1 star player who is a little shaky when it comes to his health. Roy isnt an iron man by any means. We all see what happens when hes out. LA looks like a 3rd option at best. Right now I think i would rather have Millsap 100 times. Too bad the Jazz matched. Then there's Oden who if you get 52 games from a season... you are stoked. Last our big prize free agent is getting old and schooled by quick guards...not to mention cant hit a jumper to save his life. I dont know... I mean everyone seems to think playoffs and contending are a lock every year but this will be a big step back. A very sobering step back for the fans, franchise, and players. Who is to really say next year will be different? The Grizz are getting better, the thunder are looking scary, the kings have great young talent, and the rockets get yao back next year. The only team fading is the suns. Maybe the spurs at some point but not next year. I dont know but before everyone wants to talk playoffs the next 5 years... maybe a wake up call might be in order. Missing them this year which almost seems certain with the upcoming schedule and these awful home losses will be hard to swallow wether you wanna blame injuries or just bad play down the stretch from our big players. Also our front office wont make trades just ignoring our center woes. Its so sad on so many levels this team is imploding when we are getting healthy.
show me where im wrong pal.... and thats how fast we are falling.... just like that dump after a greasy meal
Do you really need someone to explain to you that: A. The Blazers had a really bad first half in one game while the Jazz had a really good one; and B. The Blazers are a considerably different team with a healthy Brandon Roy; and C. The Blazers will be a much, much better team with a healthy Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla next season? Oh, yeah. It's MIXUM. Forget the question.
THATS THE POINT DUDE!!!!! THIS IS WHY I FEEL LIKE SO MANY ARE CLUELESS! WHEN IS ODEN EVER HEALTHY???? JOELS NOT PLAYING TILL XMAS IF HE IS LUCKY! You really think after missing a whole year they will just come back and be ready to go???? Not to mention we couldn't play with oden. We were starting to get rocked by good teams. Theres no reason to think this team will be instantly better with oden. Thats IF he can even play 40 games.. no less 82. We need a center regardless. Wake up.
you are so happy when the team fails its sickening you love the drama of it sickening you love to see our guys get hurt so it PROVES you right...its sickening..... we need a new system you are never happy EVER well that is not true you are most happy when we were 21-61.
This has repeatedly been shown to wrong, yet you keep bringing it up like some fact everyone is overlooking. Why are you surprised that no one wants to join a fretfest based on BS? i do agree that next offseason should be interesting though. I'm very interested to see what happens with the overseas big 3. STOMP
If everyone is healthy next season - a big "if" - the Blazers will be similar to the Bulls. Not the Bulls of recent vintage, but the Bulls the season Jordan ran away to play baseball. Think about it: Roy is Pippen (very good player, but not a superstar); a healthy Oden is Horace Grant (muscle and defense); and LMA is Kukoc (a talented, but soft, finese player). The Blazers might be deeper than that Bulls team, but they don't have Jackson as a coach, so it evens out. As to what path the Blazers will take in the off-season - we all know the answer. "Let it bake!" Whatever....
Have to disagree with you. Pippen was a superstar. While I think it was an exaggeration, there were many comments at the time about how the Bulls won the championships because they had the two best players. Phil Jackson skeptics often used to say "Let's see him win a title without having the two best (or two top-five) players on his team." Of course, Pippen skeptics will say he wasn't a superstar when they look at his offensive output. But his offensive output combined with being perhaps the greatest perimeter defender ever and perhaps the only non-big man defender who could disrupt entire opposing offenses definitely makes him a superstar, IMO. I think he's one of the 25 best players ever. I think Roy is a borderline superstar. He played like one last year. This year, he struggled at the start and then was ramping back up to last year's level before he got hurt. I understand your skepticism about Oden's health. I really don't understand your skepticism about his play when healthy. Grant was never a game-changing rebounder and defender like Oden has been. Grant never commanded double teams like Oden often has. Oden forces opposing teams to adjust the way they play...Grant was never that kind of player. If anything, Aldridge is the better Horace Grant comparison. Oden is the wildcard. If he is healthy and pans out fully on the offensive end, he becomes Portland's "Jordan" (of course, he won't be as good as the best player ever...but as a franchise superstar). If he fails to develop his offensive game but is healthy, then he's more of a bigger Dennis Rodman. And if he never does stay healthy, he's another Portland dream short-circuited.
And when the team wins. And when they don't play. And when they do charity promotions. I'd say he's more a diehard fan of being upset (or seeming to be upset).
Dre shoots 46% for his career, 43% this year. 46% is damned good for a PG. 43% isn't great, but still decent. It's far cry from 'can't hit a jumper to save his life.' If you mean Dre can't hit a three pointer to save his life, I'll buy that. Btw, have you noticed that your boy Martel shoots 40% from the field (41% career)? Just say'n. The Blazers made the playoffs once in the last how many (8?) years? Why would anyone think the Blazers are a lock for anything every year? With all of the injuries this year, I'd wager there are lots of sane fans that understand that the team might not make the playoffs. They're just not wetting themselves over it. Go Blazers
This from a guy with Nate Kaeding in his sig? Actually, I hear that Nate K *did* try to hang himself....when he went to kick the chair out, he missed! (too soon?)
