Yo Quick, tell us how you really feel!!

Yeah It's pretty widely acknowledged that the Blazers are a little over zealous when retiring numbers.

 

Amateur.

 

HA! Repped!

 

Porter should be up there too, IMO. He did a lot for the success of the franchise.

 

Good opinion piece from Quick and spot on. And I've rarely said that over the years.

However, Felton got us Maynor, but how did he get us Lillard? I thought Gerald Wallace got us Lillard?

 

Well, they were. Long time Blazer fans will remember that the organization tried to milk the championship team for all the positive PR it was worth during the mediocre 80s by bringing in a former member of the title team and retiring their number in an attempt to appease the fanbase that was growing tired of sucking the Showtime Laker's dust.

 

There are a couple people on that list that really aren't all that worthy.

 

This.

As long as he sticks to basketball and off politics/social issues, Shooter is often spot on. Quick mixed up two different things - the retired numbers, all great players, and the ovations given popular ex Blazers even when, like Joel, they were not great players.

 

The chain of events that took place. Trading for Felton was making a trade for a possible pgotf in Felton. Then Felton managed to get Camby and Wallace to buy into his mutiny on Nate.

This forced the franchise to get rid of Wallace because he quit on Nate and the team. We chose Lillard because we didn't have the pg if the future.

 

I agree and would add Lucas.

 

Twardzik, gross, neal, Steele, and Hollins were all mediocre players.

 

On a Championship team, one which the Blazers were trying to keep some sort of attachment to over some pretty bleak seasons.

Does anyone have a timeline of when each jersey was retired?

 

Sure, I get it. They contributed to a title. That doesn't mean they weren't mediocre players, however.

 

Whaddya think Wookee? You gonna cheer for Mr. Sandbag?

 

Neal, 79
Twardzik/Steele/Petrie, 81
Lucas, 87
Walton, 89
Ramsay, 93
Drexler, 00
Hollins, 07
Porter/Gross, 08

 

Yeah, for sure. Side note: My dad still talks about how Gross would come out of the game and light up a cigarette right there on the bench.

 

I almost scored 2nd row seats under Paul Allen's hoop for tonight's game. I guaran-goddamn-tee you guys would have seen me booing Felton on TV, lol...

 

This is the worst moderating in the history of Western Civilization.

 

The "mutiny" fiction that you alone push is an invention of "columnist" Quick. I'll trust the experienced opinions of Camby, Wallace, Andre Miller, Felton, etc. anyday over a rookies-only coach like McMillan and the couldn't-survive-in-any-other-city Quick.

 

LOL. I agree. I even tipped them off that the might have already been posted. But maybe it was buried in a thread, rather then getting it's own thread. I mean, this board needs to be bursting at the seams with extra threads, in honor of the return of Fatty McFattersloot.