I give Paul Allen credit for that as well as Nate ..as a coach Nate was much needed stability and the front office needed to retool the roster with good guys ....I don't think Brandon had anymore to do with it than being an actual good guy and talented player. The collective roster was just much better suited towards high character players than high maintenance guys.
The argument you could make is that if the team was meh, the fans wouldn't come back and the team would move to Seattle... It is pretty clear that Roy was the face of the team that brought the fans back... Maybe the city should retire his jersey instead of the team.
He didn't do anything of note here and hasn't been an ambassador for the team. Retiring jerseys should be reserved for exceptional accomplishments. I don't think he ever even won a playoff series.
I doubt Roy himself cares if his number is retired here. But if he does, I'd say: Let go, Brandon! barfo
Sounds like a comedy about 4 misfit law school graduates who go into business together. Pinball is a high-functioning drug user, Steel is an MMA fighter in his spare time, Neil is the straight man who holds the team together, and Gross is, well, gross (yet somehow irresistible to women, unlike the other 3). Hi-jinks ensue. barfo
I believe that is exactly what I said about him in my original answer, but we have to admit that without the support for 'his' team, there is a good chance it would have been moved...
Sure but people act like the jail blazer era lasted for decades. It was just a few years. And if we're actually being honest with ourselves, nobody gave a shit about the jail blazers when we were winning. They stopped following the team and became morally offended when the team started sucking.
No, I don't think that's true. There was an iron clad lease the Blazers could not get out of for another 15 years. They had no choice but to fix the Jailblazer image unless they wanted to lose money for over a decade.
No. An early franchise great like Geoff Petrie perhaps is more likely than Roy or Aldridge. Now if you want to create a “Ring of Legends” around the concourse, add all the memorable players; Sheed, Sabonis, Roy. Aldridge (once retired) and even Billy Ray Bates - shoot, toss in a jail blazer for that matter!
I will say, he was much more consistently clutch than dame. Dame has had a couple of incredible series ending 3s, but roy was more reliable.
