Fan Fest 2025 Official Thread

Wait? You mean you guys know I’m not Ironman?
And I thought you worked at Orange Julius?
I’m okay with you saying Mrs HCP is all just a joke because you know. Scheduling can get tight.
We all know Barfo would be a pirate if he had a peg leg and a patch on his eye.

 

I thought you'd be a much better googler with as often as you google yourself ...

 

worst fan fest thread....ever

 

Makes HCP’s game threads look like a Darkwebs game thread.

42n8’s photos are appreciated as always though.

Also… (@julius @kjironman1) Barfo is a Pirate, you can’t convince me otherwise.

 

Was just thinking the same thing .

 

He proved it. You have seen the picture.

 

Super excited we moved on from Simons and even more so Ayton. Can't think of any player in Blazers history that put up more hollow stats than Ayton. JJ Hickson and Whiteside were better.

Very excited to see all our young guys. Yang is legit.

A little concerned about Grant and Jrue. Entitled aging declining players can be super destructive to a team locker room.

A tad concerned Dame will do more harm than good next year as well expecting the same role and shots he used to have. That's more of a problem for next summer though.

 

I pray that our starting center can put up “hollow” stats like DA did.

 

Jabari Walker was superior per minute and he couldn't even get a vet min deal. He's a two way player.

Clingan was flat out better last season than Ayton and directly led the Blazers to more wins.

Weren't you the one saying all of last season that Ant was the Blazers best player? Personally I care about players helping the team win. Not collect empty stats.

 

Well that clearly indicates that stat doesn’t mean shit. Talent does.

 

Well won more games last year BECAUSE of Ant, not in spite of.

 

The you have absolutely NO reason to sweat this season.

 

You really should not. We already have seen that DC, as a rookie had a higher WS and WS/48 (contributed more to winning, and done it more efficiently than DA). Even in the offensive category where DC is not great, his TS% was pretty much identical to DA (this tells you that even if DC does not become better in his 2nd year on offense, just by getting the same volume of shots as DA did, he will give you the same stats.

I know that this is the stock answer, but it really does not apply here even a little bit.

Give DC the same 14 FGA per 36 that DA got instead of the 9 he got last year - and these low-level, raw stats you pray for are there...

That's just a bad take. Simple as that.

 

Ant's WS/48 was 9th on the team last year. His WS was #3 - but that was because CB played him so much. The Blazers last year won as much as they won mostly because of Deni, Tou and to a lesser extent DC.

The Blazers problem last year was that Matisse was the only guard on the roster that was more efficient than Ant in the WS/48 department (which is probably why CB played him as much as he did).

Now, if Shae and Scoot take only a small improvement, they will give you the same WS/48 as Ant did, if one of them pop, the Blazers are much better (hoping it's Shae's year).

FWIW, Jrue, in a down-year, had a much much higher WS/48 than Ant had last year, so expect the Blazers efficiency at guard to go up even if Scoot and Shae do not take the uptick we all hope for.

 

I have zero concerns about the wins we could not have because Ayton is gone. Zero.

Even worse case unlikely scenario where we lose 10 games more than expected from shit center play - I'd happily prefer that outcome as I don't have to watch the painful crap defense we've seen from Ayton over the last two years.

He's right there with Raymond Felton and Damon Stoudamire as Blazers I most despise watching play the NBA game.

If we can get anything at all from Clingan or Yang or whoever sure that's a bonus. But even getting zero's from all of them - Ayton leaving is a big win.

 

HCP is like a 2002 Knicks executive in that he only looks at PPG in judging how good players are.