Woj: Roy not Oden, will break Blazers

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-blazersinjuries11810

 

wow.... if we werent depressed enough

 

Roy has no choice now but to become a full on team player, his days of carrying the team on his back look gone. But I can see a silver lining in this. Rip Hamilton helped the Pistons win a championship, look at the way he played, Roy could easily do that.

 

I am not so sure about that. Roy basically hobbled off the court after just doing a little running. If he can't run, he can't play.

 

I wonder if anyone would take Roy for say expiring contracts at this point?

 

We should send Oden and Roy to Phoenix to rehab with the Suns' training staff for a year (or two, if there's a lockout), with an agreement in writing that neither would suit up against the Suns in the regular season after that. We could send them a few picks for their troubles, and of course agree to buy them back if they're unwanted. Or, Paul Allen could just buy their training staff and pay them all double.

 

I was thinking more like going to Chicago to train with a certain trainer who used to train Jordan and Pippen, and who recently helped Wade rebuild his body.....

 

I'd be okay with that, too. Basically, send them to anyone with a proven [good] track record.

 

Woj is pleased as punch right now.

 

Yes but that was during our 11th game in 19 days. It was the second game in a back to back in which they had not gotten in until 3am the night before. That was the tougher stretch than any other team had had this season. And he was playing major minutes.

 

"His drinking" ...............I stopped after I read that. Does he ever quote a real live person? or is it always a "league source"?

 

Tim Grover, IIRC.

 

The last couple of games without Roy, I've seen the Blazers play a totally different kind of basketball. One, I think we've all been asking for. Players moving, cutting to the hoop, running the fast break. And I think it's because Miller is running the show, and they're playing like a team, instead of holding it back for Roy to go 1 on 1.

I wonder if we'll revert back once Roy returns. Roy never liked running, even before these injuries, and he's going to be a big defensive liability.

 

Sensational journalism by a guy known to have a hard-on against Portland. The only two Yahoo writers worth their salt are Spears and Hollinger.

 

no thanks

 

He's obsessed with Pritchard. And a world class hater. And has a platform to spew his vitriol. Bad combo.

Nate has said repeatedly that he wants one year deals to be like his hero Sloan and maximize his own accountability. Woj has repeatedly used Nate's unwillingness to sign a multiple year deal as one of several key pieces of evidence of the Blazers dysfunction since it implies he's leaving. We'll see.

 

This is fucked! Pardon my language, but it is.

Both local and national media were all over the Blazers' ass because they took so long to sign Roy to a new contract. All about how the Blazers were being unprofessional and ungrateful and disrespectful and everydamnthing else. Roy has an injury and all these self-appointed medical experts now talk about how he won't ever be good again and the Blazers were wrong to sign him.

 

WTF!!! I've been begging for the Blazers to do just that for two years! I think a better response would have been, Roy never would have passed the physical. Obviously.

 

Too true. During that negotiation process thre were worries about Roy's "wheels" and his longevity. Well founded worries, it turns out.