Oh, I see. I didn't even realize that you took "deal with it" as disrespectful. That makes a lot more sense. I don't ignore anybody, and I don't think I ever will. I'm a very curious person and I would not be able to handle not knowing the full extent of a conversation. I do wish, however, that some posters would apply your policy of ignoring also. I could do without the unnecessary personal attacks that cause the discussion to suffer. Anyways, to each his own.
I think Trout's kind of funny, but "Catfish" is better. My personal list of other stupid nicknames / abbreviations: "Tell" - Please don't let this catch on... "Blankey" / "Blakie" "'Zers" "The 'Couv" Sweet Nicknames: "BRoy" "The Natural" "Snake" (Pendergraph)...totally reminds me of Snake Blisken from Escape From Ney York when I hear it...
Ignore has a great feature where you can view an individual post without taking someone off ignore. That way when there's the rare Mixum post that seems to generate intelligent discussion you can go ahead and view it...
Glen Rice is much more of a gunner/offensive minded player. He is also a terrible defender. I say a poor man's Ray Allen, but more physical...so yeah, maybe Dale Ellis...which would be AWESOME if he turned out like that.
Finley works for me as a comparison, and I'd be very, very happy to see him have a Finley-like career. Maybe not so happy that I can forgive passing on Chris Paul, but still pretty happy.
Trout is good. Tell is kind of weak..... I used to call him M3 when he wore #3.....I just call him Webs.
I agree, right now he seems more Finley-like with the potential to be a Dale Ellis type. That would be fantastic. I lived in the Seattle area for a year and a half back in the late 80s when Chambers, McDaniel and Ellis became the first threesome in NBA history to average > 23 PPG in the same season. I never was a Sonics fans, but I have to admit those teams were fun to watch. Makes me feel bad for the people of Seattle now that OKC has also become an exciting team to watch. Martell is a better rebounder, but worse passer than Dale Ellis. During his prime (late 20s), Dale Ellis strung togther four consecutive 19+ PER seasons with insanely good true shooting and effective shooting percentages - often as a third option on offense. If we could get anything close to that from Martell, it would be amazing. Like Martell, Ellis was a late bloomer - a VERY late bloomer, in fact. He was older as a rookie than Martell is right now. His PERs his first three seasons were 9.8, 9.8 and 12.8. Then in his 4th season, at the age of 26, he had a breakout season. His PER jumped 4.5 points to 17.3 and he won the NBA's Most Improved Player award. I can see Martell's career follwing a similar arc, but starting younger and with the one year interuption due to the foot injury. If he ever does match Dale Ellis' offensive production the rest of the league is in trouble. To get that kind of production from Webster, combined with Roy and Oden, would make the Blazers scary good - and that doesn't even include Aldridge, Bayless, Batum, etc. BNM
tell is pretty bad imo when webs is the same number of letters. in order (my order) webs webby marty mw tell
