Could the Timbers army influence the 314 boys?

MM vs Julius.........


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That's funny. Your wife said the same thing to us last night

 

That is hilarious I should rep you.

 

I'm surrounded by HATERS!

 

I think you are wrong by a long shot. First off, its an indoor arena with the acoustic cloud that bounces noise back to the court. The Timbers Army section is beind the north goal and only consists of 3-6k (I can't remember the actual number right now). The TA do their thing in an outdoor stadium and still make quite an impact. I think the upper bowl could be just as, if not louder. Not to say that its something I would want to see happen at blazer games, but it sure would set us apart in the league. Would be pretty intense to have loud crowd noise the entire game. Imagine it during say timeouts in the 1st quarter.



Btw, I am not rich and I have season tix in the lower bowl. There are plenty of loud and rowdy fans down there. Don't hate/judge.

 

That may or may not be true in the US, but it's nothing intrinsic to basketball:

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Even if you got only the people in the cheap seats (or a portion of the cheap seats) going, you'd still be able to be heard all over the place because of the acoustics. It would be a pretty unique experience in the NBA and would make for a potentially huge home court advantage for the Blazers. You'd just have to get enough people on board initially (several hundred maybe?) to get it started.

 

I have wished for the game crowds to do songs and melodic chants like Euro fans for years. I love that atmosphere.

What I despise is the amplified noise and especially the playing of loud music during the game play.

 

Agree with your first statement, but would rather have music over nothing. I also have seats in the lower and upper bowl and would not be too fuddy duddy to cheer TA style at games.

The Blazers tried to designate a section of superfans when PA got the Rose Garden back. I think it was just a ploy to sell the yellow seats behind the basket and it did not work well. When we got the #1 pick in the lottery, the need for a gimmick to sell seats vanished.

I would love to see the same energy at Blazer games as I do at Timber games. Alot of Blazer fans, me included, had never been exposed to the TA atmosphere. There will be carryover regardless if anything is done to coordinate fans. Would love for eventually there to be a general admission section where standing is expected and cheering is not optional.

 

longer chants are hard to do at basketball for a couple of reasons... there is constant action that requires cheering, which in soccer can be minutes apart, and it is hard to have set chants for set times because there can be major stoppages with timeouts and they wouldn't roll together like ta chants do. that aside, i would sing along if someone handed me a card with the words on them.

 

Right. Chants fill up empty time between plays. Basketball has the shortest such time of all sports. It's hard to keep singing instead of reacting to exciting plays.

It's like long wavelength infrared vs. short wavelength ultraviolet. Like big valleys between the mountains of football climaxes vs. little crevasses between the frequent hills of basketball plays.

Some football fans criticize basketball because they prefer having time to think about strategy instead of constant action.

 

Constant action? A basketball game is timed for 48 minutes, yet takes 2.5 hrs to play. Soccer only has 15 minutes between halfs, no timeouts, and adds any time lost to no action.

The chants would have to be modified, but they would be much more fun than watching the in-game entertainment that the Blazers currently have.