I don't care about any of that shit. My concern is that the Blazers finish the season stronger and make your prediction true. The gloating would be unbearable.
last time Portland had "this-shit" they drafted Dame. The this-shit time before that-shit they drafted Roy and Aldridge. Blazers first journey into this-shit they drafted Walton and won a championship. They were pretty much in another this-shit era when they drafted Drexler and Porter this-shit can be good-shit if your GM is a smart-shit. I'm talking some straight-shit here even though I'm a dumb-shit
Not really true. Roy, Aldridge and Oden definitely could have won a few championships, and that Rolo/ Wes Matthews/LaMarcus/Dame/Batum team also could have been great.
the first team might have been a contender in 3 or 4 years after Oden was drafted. But by then, Roy's real knees were as shot as Oden's real knees. So, as I said, they weren't close to contending neither was the Dame/Aldridge team. They had a 6-10 record in the playoffs, then fell apart those teams were 'contenders' in the same way the current team is a contender if they had only drafted Middleton instead of Meyers, Giannis instead of CJ, and Adebayo instead of Zach. Alternate realities for the wins!
Let me give you my perspective on what a contender in pro sports means to me....it means making the playoffs....having the ability to contend for a title....being a contender doesn't make you a champion...just another team that either wins it all or plays for a lower result....just like college hoops...March madness is where schools truly get to contend for a national title....if they make the sweet 16 or the final 4...they are contenders....we have eight straight years of contending in my view and for most of them have had game changing injuries come playoff time....that WCF team would have been so much better with Nurk and Enes rotating and Dame not having his first real abdominal pain...as it was we had home court a couple times as well....you lose in the playoffs...credit the other team...it's not all on your team for coming up against a hot team in a series....that happens. When you get beat in the playoffs by the team that goes on to win it all like the Lakers did and the Warriors did....you were a contender just like every other team they beat to get the title. The LA Batum Dame Rolo Wes team was as good as any team in the league before Wes went down and Rolo got hurt and Lamarcus had dangling thumbs.....bad luck...just bad luck...yes...the Blazers have suffered injury bad luck more than lack of talent on the roster....we'd have been better with a healthy Zach Collins probably too....just didn't pan out. Championships are so hard to win because so many little things factor into that happening...everything has to click almost all the time...and stay healthy.
sorry...there were not 16 contenders last year when the playoffs started anymore then there were 30 contenders when the season started. Portland made the playoffs last season and they sure as hell were not a contender. And neither was the team that beat them in the first round. And there won't be 16 contenders when the playoffs start this season. Don't need to try and parse the semantics of the word 'contender'
I'll take 'this shit' if it means getting a Draft pick anywhere close to Dame. I'll take 'this shit' to finally find out what Ant/Nas can be. I'll take both of those shits before being ceremoniously dismissed in the 1st round year after year.
The Timberwolves and the Knicks hold that higher honor (as of today). I never thought this team would need to set our sights towards the records of these two.
I hate this shit. I am so fucking tired of KNOWING this team will be an also ran EVERY FUCKING YEAR. Andy Dufresne said …… hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies…. I’m fucking tired of never having hope. This team is constructed to make the playoffs, not to win a title. What’s so fucking annoying about that is the majority of fans are ok with that. This team, as constructed, will never win shit. It will never be taken seriously as a title contender. This fucking team needs to commit to winning a title. It needs to take steps daily to do that. THIS team is never going to win, so tear it down, identify players to move forward with that fit whatever timeline you identify and COMMIT to WINNING A TITLE. So much more rant to spew, but that’s the gist of it
