Nate getting fired...Oden crumbling to dust and Roy on bone to bone medical retirement to turn around and sign for two years with the wolves....Raymond Felton jiggling and dribbling the ball off his foot since he couldn't see his feet....Jamal Crawford trying to be a pt guard....Luke Babbit getting the crowd Chalupas.....that was the toughest Blazer season ever...the Kaleb Canales "hard hat lockout" season....nothing tested my interest in the team like that season...even the Telfair era.....
This is just 1080 doing their 1080 "everything is wrong with the Blazers" routine. This era doesn't even register in the top 10 of "darkest days". 88-89 was worse 93-96 was boring central and going nowheres and mediocre. Odens having 1st Microfracture Bowies injuries Ha Seung Jin was a starter 21 wins Pre-Roy days Ruben Patterson as a Blazer Dog Fighting/Playing card ID Theo Ratliff conning the team into a huge contract he couldn't even remotely live up to SAR/Theo/Dickau for Rasheed, only to watch him get traded by Atlanta to Detroit and win a title (silver lining: Lakers lost badly in that series). Watching Jermaine blow up while Kemp and Dale Davis grew fat and crappy. Trading down to draft Martell instead of Chris Paul (or someone else). Maurice Cheeks not getting fired as soon as he should have. Nate McMillan see above. Oden having 2nd microfracture Oden having his knee cap explode Oden having 3rd microfracture Roy having to medically retire
Maybe not the darkest - the Oden era sucked a fat one. It’s certainly the most boring and predictable era that I’ve witnessed.
We just fired a GM that basically everyone wanted gone, and Lillard continues to reiterate his desire to stay. How could that be the darkest days?
Ugh this shit is so tiresome. What was everyone’s reaction to olshey getting fired? OH YEAH EVERYONE WAS HAPPY AS SHIT. Rumors of CJ finally being traded? OH YEAH most people want that…. So two things we’ve wanted for years are happening and now we’re calling this the dark days? Give me a break
because 1080 likes to create drama, because that's what drives ratings. They're just the canzano of sports radio (which is odd since canzano himself has a show).
Oh, I know. Just, they hated olshey so much on there, it seems like they'd be playing this as a step in the right direction, not doom and gloom. More of a, ding dong the witch is dead sort of thing.
I've completely tuned out the basketball shock jocks on radio and other media outlets....found a few youtube podcasts that I think are balanced and interesting and that fills the gap for me...fuck the Stephen A Smiths and those like him who want to project panic around people they don't even fucking know.
This was the darkest day - https://www.deseret.com/2011/12/10/...cks-cartilage-between-the-bones-in-both-knees
Hell, this isn't even the darkest days of the Dame era. I'll take this mess over post-Zach injury, pre-Melo signing bubble year.
Oden's knee breaking in the Houston game will forever be my 'WTF am I doing investing so much time and energy into this' moment.
