Very impressive how Olshey has made lemonade from lemons in such a short time. So nice to know Mr. Allen has hired the right guy to run things. I am so happy to have a real bench again!
You "guess"?? Good grief, Walton is the one former Blazer who deserves a retired number without a doubt. Without Walton there is no championship banner up in the rafters.
If you think you should retire numbers for players that play less than 4 years and ditch your team, filing lawsuits, complaining publicly and being a total fuckhead; then yeah man he definitely deserves it.
You know Mags, sometimes you have to take the good and take the bad. You take 'em both, and there you have...
Do you think that shows that they were equally talented passers? So we've got no excuse for not winning it all? Sigh. Why does "not wetting myself with excitement" = "butthurt"? He's certainly an upgrade and will mean we probably win a few more games. Woo-woo. Happy? It was good in that he's worth more than he's being paid. But I don't think it's a good thing in the medium or long term. He's a patch, like Crawford was a patch or Derek Anderson was. He's not young enough or in enough of a position of need to be really exciting. He duplicates Maynor, only he's shorter and older. Okay, that's unfair - he's a better shooter than Maynor. There are positives and negatives with any signing. Somebody's going to lose PT, and if it's a player you want to see or who you think would benefit from more PT, then that's a negative. In terms of short term wins the positives easily outweigh the negatives. But if short term wins is not the be-all-and-end-all, then so what? Why is that so hard to understand? Fair enough. Let's hope he sees it as a big enough needle-mover.
I'm sorry, the answer we were looking for was "...the facts of life" Agreed on the number retirements. We should have Walton, Drexler unquestionably, and Lucas and Porter would be questionable. Nobody else, IMO.
OT: I've long thought that the Blazers should have a "Ring of Honor" like the Cowboys. Retire less numbers (which I'm sure is their new policy) but still have an opportunity to honor lots of guys. I wouldn't be in favor of retiring a player who never even got the Blazers to the Conference Finals. Truthfully, I'd Retire Sheeds number before Roys. I think we already look dumb enough to others around the league for having so many retired numbers, I don't think we retire more any time soon.
just got back in and saw this. wow. wtf? Are you serious with this, or were you just throwing out "ideas" in the meeting room. I don't even know where to begin, so I won't. Just say I disagree, don't see, think you are off base. On top of it, we had a historically bad bench last season and a no defense PF, playing center. And you expected every single roster problem to be fixed in one off-season? That is completely nuts.
It's a travesty that no Williams is wearing #7. Rots number Gould be retired. People turn so quickly... Roy brought rip city back, that should never be forgotten.
Why is it a travesty? It doesn't mean we've turned on Roy. I still love Roy, but its time to understand that he didn't do enough to be a retired number. Yes, he helped bring Rip City back to Portland, but he never lead us out of the first round, nor stayed healthy enough to force Brass to retire his number.
It's not like they retired all those numbers at once. Every time there was a stretch of sub-mediocre performance and the fans stopped coming in droves, they'd parade a member of That Team out in hopes of keeping the fan base connected.
He did more than enough to earn a retired number. He surrendered his claim to that right when he tried to play for another team.
95% of the players hanging in the rafters never "led" us to anything. Most of them are role players... Roy a top 3 to 5 player to ever put the jersey on. I think that's what counts
