Nolan Smith dawing interest and Bulls, Hawks and Thunder most likley to pursue...

I love that he throws out MJ and Oden as examples of the fanbase being pissed off.

Almost nobody wanted Durant over Oden. Pretty much everyone was screaming on draft night about passing on Faried.

 

Your source's obvious agenda is to defend management. Allen doesn't place one shrink above all the basketball experts he pays for.

Although I admit that fear of the Oregonian probably made them think twice about a long-haired Muslim raised by 2 black Muslim lesbians.

What happened is that Coach K, Nate's boss, effusively praised his player Nolan to Nate. Nate took his orders from his boss and pushed for Nolan.

 

My source has no agenda. He never liked management to begin with. He's closely associated with our interim coach from last year.

 

Kaleb's shoeshine boy was in the draft room shining shoes when the shrink overrode all the expensive experts?

 

I know Portland is lucky to have a guy like Paul Allen but I really do hope it's Neil Oshley that is making the decisions for this team.

 

He should join our old friend Armon Johnson in Kazakhstan

 

JJ Hickson and Kevin Faried are very similar players. Hickson actually edges him out stats wise. So even if we had drafted Faried we'd be in the same boat we're in now, needing an interior defender. An advantage would be, that Faried would make better trade bait because he's on his rookie contract.

I'd rather have Hickson/Faried as the starting PF, because I like PFs with inside toughness that can finish inside.

 

A very good source, aka your ass. They spend weeks analyzing players and studying film, then some psychologist pipes up at the last minute and they pick Smith?

 

Ummmmm, Faried is a way better defender than Hickson. The difference is night and day.

 

How about this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_rdCHIZjQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

By the way,how impressed have you been with Hickson when Aldridge sits out? Not exactly dominant, eh?

 

Kenneth, maybe, but Kevin Faried sucks at defense.

 

I'm afraid that JJ Hickson is all about stats.

 

he might get some assists if he would learn to pass the ball out of the post when the entire defense collapses on him

 

FIFY

 

Believe what you want angry man.

 

He doesn't seem that angry, he did say your ass is a good source.

Good source of what? Is the question.

 

It's funny you mention this, because for quite a few weeks now I was debating whether to make a post talking about the teams psychologist and their performance.
My reasoning being, that all top performance teams, sports orientated or not, employ psychology, and the Blazers, to me, have really shown poor body language & mannerisms.

This is only my opinion and is in no way 'expert' but to the eye, something has seemed off about the team for the past few years.
Is it the lack of a true vocal team leader, the fallout of the 'Sarge' tenure or the result of the huge string of bad luck the team has suffered?
Maybe to all three?

In any case, that little revelation about the team psychologist (and my perceived lack of their handiwork - and their firing) really shone some light on what I had been seeing the last few years.

 

This season in about 5 games, the other team's play-by-play guy has noticed Aldridge's uninterested body language.

 

So even though the Blazers don't have a shot at making the Playoffs, You think they should have the mind set and be playing as if they do?

 

Wes Matthews did. Look what it got him though huh?