Who is your favorite Blazer that kinda got shafted by the Franchise for one reason or another?

Yeah. Bad trade in retrospect, though at the time Rasheed was thought of as a cancer and Theo Ratliff was supposed to be the next Mutumbo

 

Against Shaq? Not bloody likely. That trade was made because Davis was the only player on the planet who had anything even remotely resembling success in slowing down Shaq. Jermaine didn't get the shaft from us, he got a freaking reprieve.

 

A half a loaf of moldy bread and a dried-up hunk of government cheese would have been a good trade for Rasheed Wallace.

 

If we have Kenny instead of Damon we win at least one title with that squad. Could have totally turned around how those era Blazer teams were remembered. Kenny would have an entirely different legacy as well. Damon would've been a fuckup regardless.

 

How was Davis over the hill? He was literally an all star the season before we traded for him. He just wasn't a flashy guy but I loved DD. He worked his ass off and he was a great teammate. Hilarious dude.


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Not really a favorite... but Travis Outlaw.

Once he was traded for Camby he went from potential 6th man of the year candidate to completely irrelevant.

 

Sheed and Outlaw were shafted.

 

I can't say that I feel too bad for Travis. The guy got a huge deal from Brooklyn.


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We've got an extremely poor record of getting assets back when we decide to get rid of our starting PF. I'd actually say getting NOTHING for LMA was better than the returns we got for Sheed and Zbo.

 

Whaaaat!?! Outlaw was never a 6MOY candidate, and never could have been. He was (is he still playing?) godawful at basketball. He was athletic, but way too dumb to ever be in the rotation on a good team.

 

One I think worth mentioning would be Channing Frye. He lives in Portland and loved it here but Coach McMillan never gave him a chance. I played in a charity kickball tournament with him and talked to him. There was a time when we were playing the Rockets and Oden had 5 fouls, Przybilla had 5 fouls, and Aldridge had 5 fouls. Frye rode the bench that whole time. I asked him why and he said something to the effect of McMillan wouldn't let him shoot 3's and they argued so he got benched. He left that team that offseason and went to Phoenix and killed it from deep that season.

 

Channing frustrated me when he was here, but I loved the guy off the court. I still hold out hope that he'll come back and be our color guy when Rice retires.

 

Thing is, Frye was supposed to back up LaMarcus at the 4, not Oden/Przybilla at the 5. In order for LaMarcus and Brandon to be more effective, Frye needed to be shoehorned into playing out of position and away from his strengths.

 

Please, save the smugness. Davis was 30 years old. He was coming off the worst shooting performance of his career. His points per game were slightly up from the previous two seasons, when they had declined into single digits. He only started more than 45 games twice after the Blazers acquired him. And there are a lot of guys who work hard and are great teammates that I don't want to acquire ... he was a role player that the Blazers traded a future multi-year all-star who did everything Davis did and more to get.

I usually agree with you, Nate, but this time you sound like Dale Davis' mom.

 

I'll give Davis the advantage defensively at that point. Offensively, though, O'Neal in his very first season with the Pacers was superior. You know, you can offset some of what Shaq can do by actually making him play on the other end of the floor, come away from the basket, etc.

And for all this advantage Davis supposedly brought the Blazers, he didn't even average 30 minutes per game or start more than half the time his first year. In fact, he only averaged 30 minutes per game as a Blazer once in his career.

 

You are right. I thought I remembered him playing better in his starts. My memory is faultier than yours.

 

You make it sound like Jermaine was currently an All-Star when we dealt him. He was a under-used bench player who had yet to really show anything on the court. He wanted out. He wanted to play. We had Sheed and Sabonis starting. Where was he going to get the opportunity to play that he got in Indy? We thought we were on the cusp of winning it all, and Bob was making moves to try to achieve that. Giving playing time to a kid that needed to be able to play through mistakes was not on the priority list. Sheed wasn't even old at that point. He was in his prime.

The Davis/Jermaine hindsight has always been absurd in my book.

 

Outlaw finished 5th in 6th man voting in 2008-09, and 10th in 2007-08.

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