Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #11- BLAZERS VS GRIZZLIES - NOVEMBER 10, 2024 - SUNDAY - 6 PM - KATU 2.2, BLAZERVISION

Well it isn’t hard to count bottles…..I’m sure your job is safe. #BAM

 

It’s not the counting that is hard. It’s shoving them in that hole and having the bar code read all in one motion over and over again!

 

Yet it really does. Cronin was dealt a shitty hand and has been hampered by ownership and uncle Bert. You don’t understand because you have no way of knowing these things. That’s cool, but it is what it is

 

Oh I have no doubt Cronin has shitty ownership. I wouldn't be shocked if they micromanage every move he makes, or even force him to take actions he's 100% against. We'll never know all the issues there. Instead I separate the public persona of the GM position from the individual.

When I criticize Cronin it's the GM role of the Blazers I am critiquing which may be a puppet controlled by Bert Vulcan Jody or others. None of us know where that line exactly is and likely never will know of which individual is responsible. I'm not criticizing Joe Cronin the individual. It would probably be more factually correct to always criticize Blazers management than the GM, but that's just what goes along with having the title of GM.

 

I think we all know the Seattle faction is a gargoyle sitting on Cronin's head

even so, Cronin didn't have to trade for Ayton; he didn't have to re-sign Grant to a 5 year deal at 33M/year; he didn't have to give Ant 25M a year; he didn't have to match the offer sheet to Thybulle or keep Timelord on the roster, or even accept him in the first place; he didn't have to sign Gary Payton and hard-cap the Blazers for a full season; he didn't have to trade 4 draft picks for Avdija

the Vulcans and Kolde suck...no doubt. But they weren't forcing Cronin into any of those moves. That was all Joe. At least it was from my perspective.

 

I'd trade Scoot, Simons and Grant for Dame.

 

This wins the prize for weirdest stat of the whole year.

Edit: The decade. I'm thinking...thinking...I can't think of anything better than this one. Okay, forever.

 

Grade inflation?

 

Are you hiring Stotts back to replace Chauncey?

 

This was the hardest game to watch in a long long time...

 

hahaha

Just brutal. But deserved.

 

I got a survey request from the Blazers this morning concerning this game. Long story short, concession bays shouldn’t be closed when lines are so long you’d miss a whole quarter of action standing in line and the team itself needs to at least show they care. My son and I tried multiple times to get him nachos but he wasn’t willing to wait so long.

 

I'd still like Brandon Clarke on the team

 

They should halt the game when snack lines get too long. Write that on the survey.

Or else, refillable free beer while you stand in line.

 

Sounds like 2024 “blazers fans”. Y’all some cancer, actually that’s an insult to cancer.