Is this the best Blazer team ever assembled?

The best Blazers team ever (and possibly the best NBA team ever) was the 1990-91 Blazers. Yes, we lost in WCF but that team was DOMINANT in the regular season. Barkley and Reggie Miller said during the season that we were the best team ever.

 

Best we won't know for awhile, but they're definitely one of my favorites. Fun likeable guys with talent and no big egos. Basically picture the exact opposite of the jailblazers.

And they might be the best Blazer team as far as nicknames:

British Bulldog
King Crabbe
The People's Champ
Batum and Robin
Sasquatch / Caveman
Sub Zero / Killard / etc
And every time Lopez rolls in for a dunk it's Rolo Thunder.

 

Too soon to tell. The 77 team will always be my favorite, but we have a VERY good team this year. We definitely have a shot at the LOB.

 

Camping in the paint was always against the rules.

 

This is the least selfish and maybe best coached team in the last decade for sure but they have to get further in the playoffs to compare accurately. This is my personal favorite team based on the system they play but the 99-2000 team had a much deeper bench

 

The best team I've seen was definitely the '90-91 squad. I still can't believe they didn't win the title. They absolutely CRUSHED Chicago twice in the regular season - think we curb stomped them by 20 on NBC in Chicago.

 

Yep

 

I would have to agree with this too...I forgot about those guys.

 

Bulls got some serious home cooking in that series.

Best team ever assembled? Hard to compare era's, this team could certainly beat any team that's come before them though.

 

They had league cooking the entire series

 

the appropriate response was to pick "Are you high?"

The 1999-2000 team had guys off the bench that would have started for most other teams..so very deep, and so very good. Also as BFW has pointed out, the 77 teams was some of the very best players that have ever played..cant compare a few good games with a few league leading careers

 

Everybody remembers Game 6 - Cliffy fumbling that pass out of bounds that would have given us the lead, & of course Magic's heave as the clock ran out. I remember Game 1 when we lost home court in that series. Adelman jacked up that game. Up 12 at the start of the 4th quarter, he sits Clyde & TP & the Lakers go on a 13-0 run to take the lead with our bench in there. We just never recovered & it was a shocking loss. That was a great team & it would have been an amazing series with Chicacgo, who we would have had HCA against.

 

I just figured 'are you high?' was a given.

 

I think you could make a case for the starters...

LA / Lillard Vs Drexler / Porter
Batum Vs Kersey
Wes / Lopez vs Buck and Duck

I think I give the edge to the 91 team there, and I think the 91 bench was better.

 

Since I have been watching, I feel from a talent, character, chemistry standpoint, The 90-91 team was. But it's still early for this team. Ask again at the end of season.

 

Best Blazer teams ever:

1. 1990-1991
2. 1977-1978
3. 1989-1990
4. 1976-1977
5. 1999-2000

 

Interesting, the one team that did win it all you don't have in the top three.

 

I'll be willing to revisit this thread after our current squad has a couple of NBA finals appearances.

 

Don't you guys remember how that Drexler led 90's squad were notorious for giving up bigs leads? I remember even Chuck Daily and Phil Jackson were mic'd during the game and they even told their team.

They weren't as clutch as you seem to make them be. Neither was the 2000 team.

Those two teams were damn good, but I never felt safe until the final buzzer against the elite teams

 

That's right. And that team was amazing. I remain convinced that if we would have made it to the NBA Finals in 1991, we would have beaten the Bulls in 6. And the 77-78 team put the 76-77 team to shame. It was unbelievably dominant.