Your interest level with this team

All I do is check the boxscore after.

 

Problem is with those teams you had someone to really dislike and vent about....this team is full of nice guys...my least favorite was the lockout Luke Babbitt Chalupa season when Nate got fired

 

I like our players, and think very highly of them.

I have become more interested in the business side of the NBA than the game. I keep active with the Blazers because I want to see how Olshey gets himself out of the mess he has created.

However, I have lost interest in the NBA game for several reasons.

1) I believe the overall talent level in the NBA is very weak right now. There is a shortage of quality starting level players. The other day I looked at all the PFs in the league trying to find one to trade for. I was amazed to find out that I had never heard of some of the starters. There are several teams that are playing SFs at their starting PF position. That is bad.

2) Too many quality players have joined each other to form a few super teams. If I was a good player on a non-super team, it would make me question how much of my body to sacrifice for the team. I probably would just play well enough to stay healthy and to keep the checks coming.

 

My gf and I just went to lunch with a gf of ours during the game. That would have been unheard of before, but this game went about as expected for this season. Their back court beat our back court.....leaving us with almost no chance.

 

I miss really good passing and skilled post play the most...the 3 pt shot is starting to water down the style of play. I think the league needs to construct a real minor league system for each team and change a few rules for playing in the paint...goal tending for one. I like to see goal tending to be called really sparingly in obvious cases where you couldn't take the ball out of the cylinder but blocking off the backboard should be allowed more

 

They were getting 3 shots a possession off offensive boards all night

 

Ah....so that is why the guy with the highest rebounds/per minute average recently was on the bench and only played 15 minutes. Stotts is trying not to solve the problem when we are getting killed on the boards.

 

For the first time I'm not watching International basketball and NCAA for prospects like I used to.

Neil killed my ambition in this because of his severe lack of creativity and aggressiveness.

Are ticket prices still at a premium? A premium price ought to be for a premium product - this team is far from that.

 

What oves would you try to make? I think the only attractive trade pieces we have are Damian and CJ. Who would want any of our other guys at the amount they make?

 

This is sad because I used live, breathe, and die to the end with this team. But I don't watch games anymore. I take it back, I watched a few minutes the other night against Dallas.

To me they are spinning their wheels and are not going anywhere with this leadership. In many ways, I feel they have been neglectful in the way they have operated. I noticed this a few years ago while many were enamored by the job the leadership was doing. I wasn't. Missed opportunity after missed opportunity. Wasted resources and like Craig Ehlo suggested. Little to no sense of urgency to get this right. Not sure what a fan needs to take away from that. But it's true.

We as fans and the organization have put so much faith and trust to what Neil Olshey has to say, we don't question him,m. But to me he has been nothing but a whole lot of hot air since his arrival. Yet we take him for his word and this owner totally believes in him and so do a lot fans because he can..,sell it. I'm not buying and haven't into his big load of you know what. I feel he is incompetent and everything he does and says is to preserve his job and the money he is stealing from Allen.

 

You both make great points. But then, we're all old guys. Back in the day (admittedly the league was smaller ) virtually every team had a guy that averaged at least 15 & 10 at the PF position. Not any more unless you count now gone Tim Duncan. And as Riverman noted, most teams either had (or tried hard to find) a big "aircraft carrier" at center. A guy who could pretty much owned the key and who acted as the hub of a wheel, directing traffic, calling out screens and hitting the cutters. They also made the drive to the hoop more thought provoking and problematic. Today's game is pretty vanilla. Too many guards who are clones of each other and too many soft small forwards. I too have looked over rosters to try and figure out who might help the team, and the few who come to mind are untouchable. As Old Fisherman noted, the talent is really diluted right now. We have a tough row to hoe, at least for the shorter term.....

 

My interest level with this team? How to answer this market research query..... Well, I still watch most games.

 

Not only are they mediocre, but they are boring too.

 

Which is why I think the key to being successful is a good frontcourt. Mostly every team has at least one good guard. Sometimes, all star guards have awful games, and guys like Yogi Ferrell drop 30.

But rebounding always translates. Size is always consistent. Rim protection is always consistent.

I feel like a frontcourt of M.Gasol and Whiteside would be a lot more effective than a backcourt of CJ and Dame. Hell, Aldridge + Lopez would be a top froncourt.

The combination of Plumlee, Aminu, Vonleh, and Leonard is a bottom 3 frontcourt. The league has gone guard-heavy, but I think that means having a good big man gives you even more of an advantage than before.

So until we fix that, I have little hope. Our big men are frustrating as fuck. My interest will spike once (if) we acquire a real big man.

 

I watch games when I'm not working and feel like seeing a comedy (aka the Blazers defense).

For real I enjoy watching games, but most of the players on this team don't have a future on our team and so it makes it tougher when you don't have young guys to see develop. I guess Im still interested in all the losses we rack up.

 

So what if we could get Noel and Ibaka (re-signed) + a couple of 1st for CJ and Crabbe as the main parts of the trade? Front line would be much better and our defense would improve immediately. Dame would have some balance to go with his back court game and we would still have Turner/Harkless/Aminu at the wings. It's a lot of outside shooting to give up but Ibaka can help stretch the floor and I think the Blazers are too reliant on the '3' anyhow.

The thing is, could Stotts coach that team?

 

and could/would Olshey trade one of "his guys"?

 

I have watched like 5 games this year. It has nothing to do with the team doing bad. It has everything to do with how much i think calabro and hurd suck. I used to watch mike and mike when we sucked every game.

 

Little to none. I love dame and cj but they aren't the type of players that made me love the NBA. Clyde, Jerome, Buck and other players like Magic and Dominique were what hooked me.