Nice article from Sports Illustrated: http://www.si.com/nba/2016/02/25/po...amian-lillard-rasheed-wallace-arvydas-sabonis It hits upon a lot of the discussions we've had here on this board. Win or lose, this team is fun to watch and root for.
This is seriously a synopsis of what it has been like to be a Blazer fan since the early 90s. Absolutely amazing.
We have a great fan base but lets not kid ourselves, when the blazers sucked the Rose Garden was empty as fuck
I have no idea who Andrew Sharp is, but he knows more about what it's like to be a Blazers fan than any of our local writers. That article is awesome. I enjoyed it all, but especially the Sabonis section: "Sabonis was Marc Gasol with an extra 50 pounds on him, and like five no-look passes every quarter. He was apparently even better in Europe before a knee injury slowed him down, but as far as I'm concerned he played his entire career at 38 years old. He'd look sweaty and a step slow at every turn, until he'd unlock quickness that seemed impossible." "Anyway, Shaq was the most dominant big man ever. Sabonis had knee pads, pudgy dad strength, and ballerina feet. Who was more fun to root for?" Too bad the Oregonian is too stupid to hire guys who actually write about sports with the same passion and enthusiasm as their readers - the fans that buy the papers. If they had, they might actually still be a viable news organization. Instead, we get 20+ years of negative shit-stirrers like Canzano who try to keep the "paper" afloat with manipulative click-bait and self-invented controversy. This great article, by an "outsider", just reminded me how much our local writers suck. BNM
Very talented writer. Used to be at Grantland, moved over to SI after ESPN killed that site. Had a fun podcast with Juliet Litman on bball as well.
Even Early Brandon Roy games were pretty empty. Anything that the team isn't making the playoffs, the sales just aren't gonna be there.
Plus you know all those annoying fucks that show up once the blazers start getting hot. We're the true diehards, fuck all bandwagon bitches!
Portland traffic IS getting LA bad, though. Every game I've gone to it takes about a quarter and a half before the lower bowl is full. Upper bowl is almost always full. My thing is, if I'm paying $80-200 bucks for a seat. I'm getting there an hour before the game and taking in everything I can. That's just too much money to spend to be late to a game.
The Oregonian is too busy hiring Buzzfeed bloggers to come up with shitty clickbait to get clicks, it's pretty sad.
So much this. I cannot believe the drivel they post on twitter. The clickbait is extreme and it's sad because the O used to be pretty reputable. Now they're just spam.
