I'm in the "worried but not freaking out" camp. I'm concerned because it seems like Brandon is having trouble getting by people and elevating the way that he has been over the past four years. Does that mean he's lost a step? No. It could mean that he's out of shape. It could mean that he's being more cautious. There is still a chance, however, that he's lost a step due to injuries. I'm not willing to rule anything out yet. It's still concerning either way.
Really. So who do you plan on trading him for that would make us better? Let me guess...one of the best players in the world? There are so many options.
What the fuck are you talking about? Roy is not a ball hog. He is always looking to make the right play. A willing passer to tye open man. Pre-Miller, he was averaging almost 6 assists per game. How do you think Blake played so well two seasons ago?
Those "hero worshipers" include Ron Artest (Roy's the best player Ive ever played against), Kobe Bryant (Roy has no weaknesses), and all the head coaches in the NBA who've picked him to be on the All Star team three seasons straight in a competitive Western Conference. Look, we all saw this. Now its confirmed. He changed his game this season but he's thinking long term and he's thinking championship. Jordan was more athletic in his early years when he was getting knocked out of the playoffs. By the second three peat, he was an entirely different player, mostly scoring on deadly turnarounds from the post. Let Roy figure it out.
Yes, but bodes very well for a great postseason out of him. We got nothing out of him vs the Suns because he had run himself into the ground during the season. He's going to spend this season, measuring his effort and picking his spots so that he can be at his very best when the games matter (Did you watch Boston last year?). In the meantime, he's giving the reins to Miller to lead the team. I love it.
Kobe is the very model of health compared to Roy. What we are seeing now is what I was talking about when everyone was absolutely piling on Oden about his injuries. Roy has the worse injury history of the two. I hate to say it, but Cho should at least consider what we could get for Roy in a trade. If this is what we are going to get, it may have to be a sad farewell at some point. I'm praying to god that something else is going on but he has looked absolutely horrid tonight. I'm starting to think there really isn't much hope of a Blazers Championship until the 2020's when we rebuild. LA, Boston, Miami all would destroy us in a 7 game series. Our only hope is Oden, I know many on here hate Oden when they should hate PA and KP, but that's the reality. No dominant healthy Oden, no second round or later in the playoffs. I fucking hate Bill Simmons, but its starting to look like his two years ago thing about relying on two guys with bad knees might be dead on. God I hate Simmons, and I hate him more for being right about this.
I love B-Roy but comparing him to the best two shooting guards (and the best player of all time) in the last 20 years is nuts. He simply isn't that good. Further, Roy hasn't shown even a glimmer of the post game Jordan had (and Kobe is starting to emmulate).
I recall Wade a few years ago when he was completely broken down, and everyone was saying he was done dominating. He went to Tim Grover (who I have been pleading all summer for the Blazers to hire as a consultant) for a summer, and returned back to his old beast self. BRoy needs a dose of that.
I don't think Wade and Roy are the same caliber of athlete. Wade at his best makes Brandon look very pedestrian.
Tim Grover doesn't hire himself out to teams. He is hired out to individual clients who go and work out at his facility. They come to him. Not the other way around.
