Who's your backup team until the Blazers become relevant again?

I predict dark themes and double-crossing.

 

FOH. blazers or nothing at all.

 

It's not a "sunny" outlook per se, but it is relief that it's just done. A lot of us suspected that the lineup wasn't going to get us over the top no matter how good our bench got. And instead of clinging to pieces of that lineup, Neil ripped the band-aid off.

How rare is that for the Blazers? we are used to long slides into irrelevance. This is lightning fast and yeah we area bad team now but we aren't bleh with one way ticket to slightly worse for seven more years.

It's not us being pollyannas; what you're seeing is a lot of people happy not to have the usual stress of being the 8th seed from 1978 to 1988, or from 1994-1998... Never getting better. We are bade but the road is upward from here. We skipped our least favorite part, and that's a nice surprise.

 

Not.gonna ignore yah, as I think you are a good poster with lots of solid points.

As for sunny disposition, it's called choosing to lead a positive life instead of letting things, like entertainment, that I can't control affect my overall mood. Am I happy the flip that has happened to this team? Not at all, but I'm gonna make the best of it and enjoy the team anyway. Been doing it for 35 years, one off season won't change that.

 

Can we just sticky one thread for rasta to do all his whining in? Instead of multiple threads daily basically saying the same shit.

 

The sixers

 

Note my current avatar. This is not a painless event.

You're kidding, right? Oden's knees? Brandon's knees?

But you've also got to concede that, if someone had said while we were among the best teams in the entire NBA for a good part of the first third of last season (and being sold that we had "roster flexibility" to get "a final piece" this Summer) that we would lose 4/5 of our starting lineup, you would not have just shrugged and said "oh good, a fast start on the rebuild!"

Also: there are other teams that do this, and other iterations of the Blazers. But they usually have (a) really high draft picks that you can get excited about seeing in the NBA for the first time, and (b) a clear vision of the future.

Of course I will watch the Blazers - I can't help it, it's a disease. But that doesn't mean I have to lie to myself about how Sysiphean this all seems.

(Of course, it's much worse in English Football. Imagine you follow Exeter FC your whole life. They literally stand NO chance of EVER being good.)

 

(Assuming you're not joking - which is almost certainly a bad assumption) they're going to have some... interesting lineups. What has Hinkie got against guards of any kind?

 

If you really objected, you'd have me on ignore. Either you don't know how to work it, or you tacitly acknowledge that I actually have a fascinating variety of shit.

 

I root for one NBA team and one team only. In the playoffs if the Blazers are out, I then root for the team who is playing the team...... I hate more.

And there is always college ball. The Ducks should be competitive next year.

 

I'm just a Noel fanboy I guess, and Im hoping embiid will play eventually this year. Not sure what they are gonna do, but lose on purpose is probably a good guess.

But I really don't actively watch any other teams, Blayzors 4 Lyfe!

 

?? Isn't it sort of obvious that it's the desire to get enjoyment out of watching sports that led to the question of the thread?

It's funny: the types of responses in this thread clearly reveal the Types of Fans.
1. The Fundamentalists: their team is not really about sports, it's a religion. Loyalty to this team is a mark of character - any perceived deviance from loyalty must be punished or silenced. Lack of loyalty is a moral failing. Pointing out flaws is lack of loyalty.

2. The committed realists: they will never quit their team, and they aren't really interested in the sport outside of their team, but they will recognize flaws in their team and adjust their hopes according to how good the team is likely to be. The don't necessarily like to be reminded of how shitty their team is, though. Kind of like decent Southerners, who acknowledge the racism, but will get pissy if you keep pointing it out.

3. The NBA fan: they have the Blazers as their favorite team, because you've got to root for someone, but they like basketball and can get caught up in other teams if they play in an appealing way.

4. The total bandwaggoner: only like the team when they're likely to be good.

Currently, the Blazers have none of type 4. However, type 1s think all other fans are type 4s.

 

The Hillsboro Hops!!!!

 

Don't argue with me on what my feelings are Rasta. I'm taking the advice you gave to schilly. See you next summer.

 

This is completely wrong. I have met many type 4 fans in Portland. They don't know much about the team. They don't follow the news. Many of them probably don't even know that Aldridge is gone. This city is full of front runners who only want to watch the team/go to games when they're winning. After the 0-2 start against the Spurs last year, the market was FLOODED with tickets for the two home games. A sure sign of good fans.

 

Im routing for the twolves the have built a solid team and with towns coming in they will be so fun to watch i bet lebron is sad he dident put faith in wiggens guys going to be great

 

I never thought Rasta could be even saltier than a week ago. Bravo sir, you have achieved greatness in the epic game of salt!

May the Salt be with you....