Henry Abbott: Roy is 2nd most disappointing player in the playoffs

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2010/news/story?page=DisappointingPlayers-100510

I don't think it's fair. He was hurt. He tried to help the team. He absolutely gave the team a lift in Game 4 and hit the two biggest shots of the 4th quarter. Also- were there any fans that, like he said, "wondered why players like Jerryd Bayless, Dante Cunningham, and Martell Webster were in the game"???

 

Just another case of Abbott trying to prove he's 'unbiased'.

 

I'm not sure I'd go so far to call him one of the most disappointing players in the playoffs, because he performed pretty much like how I expected him to perform, but Abbot is mostly correct in his assessment that Brandon's presence (aside from the emotional lift he gave in game 4) was more of a distraction and detraction than a help.

Oh well, I just hope his knees hold up next year and he's able to go by the time we get to the post-season; as it is I kind of look at Roy as being a bit like a guy in his early thirties in terms of how many miles are left on the tread of those 'wheels.'

 

My good friend Source told me it was Rudy who talked Roy into coming back and wearing out his old bones. Looks like Roy won't last many years.

 

He's disappointed because he's a huge Blazers fan. That is all it means.

 

I agree with him, we would have been better off if Roy never played at all in the playoffs. Of course at the time we didn't know that, but looking back his play hurt the team.

 

Portland would have lost game 4 if Roy hadn't come back.

Just because he couldn't heroically save the team after that isn't all that disappointing to me.

Besides, who the fuck else was going to play. Before game 4 Bayless and Rudy were sucking piles and piles of dick. They seemed to feed off of Roy's return as much as LMA did.

Henry "Oden is the most uncordinated athlete I have ever seen." Abbot can feel free to never watch the Blazers again.

 

Would Portland have won Games 5 and 6 had Roy not been there? Probably not.

Would they have won Game 4 had Roy not been there? Probably not.

Disappointing is a player who is able to play well and does not. It is not a player who is unable to play well but tries to suck it up, even if he/she really can't.

Just a bunch of typical Blazer bashing, nothing to do with the Blazer Board Bashes we once had.

 

Personally, I find Mehmet Okur's performance to be even more disappointing than Roy's. I mean, after all, the guy didn't even play after his injury and he looked terribly unathletic even before he was hurt. The Jazz may even have won a game against the Lakers if Memo would have sucked it up and played. Terribly, terribly disappointing.

 

Jamal Crawford should be on at least one of those lists. He shot 36% for the playoffs and had a sub-14 PER. He was the very definintion of a second scorer who was wildly inconsistent in the playoffs.

 

I don't get why Rasheed is on anybody's list. He was terrible during the regular season. Why would anyone expect anything of him in the playoffs?

 

Bashing him because why?

He is right?

I do think he helped POR win game 4, not through his play per se, but his presence...

But he absolutely hurt the team in Game 5 & 6...and I agree, I am not sure threy would have won anyway...but that still doesn't diminish the fact that Roy was a complete shell of his former self and probably shouldn't have been out there....

 

I guess if you always have unreal expectations, you can expect to be disappointed all the time. Temper your expectations, and you have a much simpler life.

 

I agree with the general sentiment - but going into the season, "winning a 1st round series" hardly seemed like an unreal expectation.

 

Expectations have to be dynamic. Times change, and expectations have to change with them.

 

Proof positive that Abbott is a moron.

 

Let's say America is attacked by Russia, but most of our troops have the flu that day.

Should they stay out of it, or risk having you be disappointed in their performance?

 

Seemed very unlikely to me all year long, having dumped Sergio and then Steve and Travis, for 2 aging (1 unmotivated) short-timers who didn't fit our original rebuild plan at all.

Seemed absolutely ridiculous by playoff time.

 

Low expectations create more happiness in real life, but not for me in the predictions game this season. They just kept winning despite injuries.