For me the lowest point of the season was watching B-Roy struggle, but with every low point is a bright side, a la the emergence of Wes and LMA. http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/01/trail_blazers_midyear_report_a.html Bottom Line is I still enjoy watching this club, seemingly no matter what happens.
Certainly losing Oden (again) and Roy hurts, but ultimately player careers are short anyway. It's the apparent lack of direction and vision that seems to have gripped the franchise that is far more concerning; I get the feeling that Cho has almost no authority and that a good deal of decisions are being handled by committee via the Vulcans, Bert Kolde and Hat Guy. Ugh.
There should be a voting option listed for each Canzano article he has written since the season began.
Oden's MF was painful, but not as bad as the realization that Roy will never be the same again. I voted for Roy with the idea that there is still some hope for GO even after his MF.
Watching Jay Jensen have to go through that press conference to talk about Greg's MF was as depressing as it got this season, IMO. I felt for the guy. But coming to the realization that Brandon will never be the same is like 1A to that.
When we found out all the stuff about Roy that pretty much cemented it for me. You build around stars, and that was the point where I realized this unit is pretty much done as is, and we never even got to see it do more than tantalize us a little bit
Losing Oden again. I wasn't too optimistic about his return from his patella injury to begin with and then that same knee needs MF surgery. Put a fork in him. Oh, and having a deer-in-the-headlights GM doesn't help.
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of motality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair
It's a tough choice. Some of these Canzano articles I'm looking at are about equally evil. I better not vote.
Ah well, I guess the passing of Maurice "The Enforcer" Lucas, puts things into perspective. Should have included that in the poll.
I can't speak to Maurice dying, because I was a month old when the Blazers won the championship. I recognize that it's a huge loss and really puts everything else in perspective. However... Watching Roy wince and hobble up the court like a 35-year-old Patrick Ewing during the Dallas game was heart breaking. Watching him make a great drive only to lack the strength to jump high enough to lay the ball in made me nearly cry, because you could see this kid trying his damnedest, and he just didn't have it in him anymore. Oden may yet come back and be serviceable or even good. Roy will never be good or likely even average again. And he had been great, for too short a moment.
These past two seasons have felt like the scene in Tommy Boy when Chris Farley is lamenting at everything that went wrong and how it couldn't get any worse...then the bench he's sitting on collapses. His response is "could've done without that". That's pretty much how I feel. At this point, further injuries are just gratuitous.
B-Roy's health issues have been the lowest point for me as a Blazer fan since Clyde was traded for Otis Fucking Thorpe. So yeah, B-Roy having to be shut down was the lowest point of this year/decade.
