Unfortunately, once we get back there, again, there will be those who'd rather start a new tanking approach, so we can leap frog right to the championship round. Just making the offs isn't good enough for many.
you're nostalgic for something that really didn't happen * Portland has won 50+ games once in the last 10 seasons. * they have won 50+ games only 5 times in the last 22 years; that's less than 1 in 4 * in the last 22 years, Portland has been in the playoffs 11 seasons and in the lottery 11 seasons * Blazers had an 8 year stretch of making the playoffs, and they won 50+ games 3 times. But they had 5 first round exits in those 8 seasons and there was one reason they made it past the first round. That reason was Damian Lillard. They don't have him anymore * in the decade prior to that streak of 8 straight years in the playoffs, Blazers were in the playoffs 3 times, and in the lottery 7 times * Blazers did have a streak of being in the playoffs for 21 straight years. But in those 21 years, they only won 50+ games 7 times, and 5 of those 7 times were by the Drexler teams. That streak ended 23 years ago; about 5 CBA's ago when the NBA was completely different and Trader Bob was allowed to SPAM with almost no consequence. and again, after that streak ended 23 years ago and the CBA's have become much more restrictive, the Blazers have NOT been in the playoffs every season. They have only been there half of the time, and have been first round exits 8 of 11 times.
Purgatory.....mediocre at best some years. But hey, the NBA is Marketing Machine, if your team is a consistent laggard there is THE NBA draft and tanking to get excited about. And ripcity two.
Excuse me 48+ games and making the playoffs. And yes I’ve been a Blazer fan long enough to remember making the playoffs 21 straight years.
What a stupid, idiotic retarded fucking post. You expect Billups, with his contract expiring, to just play the end of his bench from the get-go in order to lose more games? That falls under the category of "actively trying to lose", which contradicts your 1st sentence. I'm sure having all the guys with the largest contracts not playing would really help team morale and chemistry. It's like you know nothing about professional team sports at all. Our record was pretty decent the 2nd half of the year and Ant, and especially Grant and Ayton missed large chunks of it, so your claim that we'd be getting a top 4 pick pretty easily is likewise stupid, unless you're actually advocating not playing Scoot, Sharpe, Camara, Deni, and Clingon either. Scoot, Sharpe, Camara, Deni, Clingon and the rest have a lot of potential going forward. If this draft is as amazing as everyone claims then we should still get a good asset to go with them even if we're 10th. Even with no trades I see us as a playoff team next year, and I'm pretty sure there will be trades. The way I see it is we overperformed and we're ahead of schedule. Getting the 1st pick was never going to happen.
Good God, you're not even worth my time. A loser culture is exactly what the Blazers, and Spurs, would have if they did as you suggested. Get it? Or are you still going to act obtuse?
Except I didn't suggest what you're saying I did. I very clearly said the coach and the players should be trying to win. In your frenzy you have proven that you are not worthy of anything more than shitposts.
You wrote, which I quoted, "I wanted scrubs playing the minutes Ant and Grant (and possiblity Ayton) played this season."
