For four and a half years...

I keep hearing:

"Play the right way"

"It all starts on the defensive end."

"We've got to be more scrappy."

...ad nauseam...

to iterate one more time, and again, and again I provide a most poignant quote from Albert Einstein;

" Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."


**rant off**

 

You see the same thing, doesn't mean its reality

Call it fine tuning

 

Haaaa... so true, it's ok now that I know it is only the matrix!!!

 

It's a long way to the top! Get Better Greg!

 

Mote, I don't think you put enough scrap into making this thread.

 

Duly noted... and I will persevere to post "the right way" next time.

 

I assume that there is a larger point that I am missing in this thread.

 

No, it's pretty straight forward.

 

I'll have to drink more Ovaltine to figure it out.

 

Read again the OP and with a small extrapolation it (the point) will come.

 

So, your point is that this team isn't scrapping to win?

 

Think more toward the sum of all parts. Extrapolation of the common is the key.

 

Hmm, it's a riddle. Very clever.

 

I'll save you the trouble.

'Talk is cheap'

 

Still don't get it. I prefer a hammer to a chisel, at least in terms of what I presume to be criticism. Cryptic phony quotes don't do it for me.

 

Spot on!

The proof is in the pudding... as the old saying goes.

 

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Epic fail at best. I will not take your weak bait.

The quotes are neither criticism nor are they phony. If you care to be disingenuous
by feigning ignorance so be it. The quotes stand on their own and are still of public record...

 

You can apply that quote to practically anything - and it's been terribly overused.

"Gee, you keep trying to run as fast as you can, and training and training, but you're not able to finish a marathon. You must be insane!" No, you're just not quite there, yet.

If you do something over and over and you don't quite get the result you're looking could lead to a different conclusion: you need more practice, you need to make slight changes to your approach, or you lack the innate ability. Any of those three is a more accurate interpretation than "insanity" I would argue, in the case of the Blazers' attempts to establish a game plan that wins games.

8th place in the West would be pretty good for an insane franchise, though, if that's what's happening.