Blazer basketball is about heart and grit. sure, a championship would be fun. but i watch blazers ball because we play ball and this is my team. i have pride in my team and i want my players to plag with pride. wheter we win or lose. tanking is stupid. it says the same thing these ring seeking stars say when they sell out to ride other peoples coat tails. a championship isnt impressive when it's gifted to you. it's cheap. people remember heroic preformances. id rather watch a shit team leave it all on the court than a bunch of guys waste their talent. thats why this years team is a bit dissapointing. we know the talent is there. i still wouldnt respect tanking.
The best part about this guy starting threads and putting my team on blast...... as I read it, I pretend it's in Borat's voice. Makes it much more fun.......
Heart? Grit? I've seen very little of either in this year's team. Olshey threw a lot of money at some guys and it sure looks like they got "fat and happy" so to speak.
I would much rather have an 8th place finish then finishing somewhere between 12th and 9th in the west. Middling Lottery picks are way more often busts then even rotation players. If you tank you tank for a top 3 pick not a 10-15 pick.
They really do. They got paid and now want to lay back and lose games instead of hustle and win them.
this may be the worst group og bigs in the league and one of the worst in Blazers history. Neil went hog wild on guard/wings, decided to waste 40 mil on Meyers and left us with a horrible mix of players at PF and C
Damian has heart and grit, but those aren't traits I'd attribute to the rest of the team. Plumlee plays hard but he's a limited player. This team gets sliced and diced defensively and out-rebounded on a nightly basis. I grew up watching Porter/Kersey/Clyde/Williams so to me, that's what heart and grit is.
Our team plays very hard, but the opponent team just matches our work ethic for that one game and beats us. Meanwhile, all other teams play each other with smarts, not grit. That leaves much more energy for the end of the game, when it matters. The radical Stotts system (of avoiding an inside game like it's The Plague...passing the ball to 20 feet out whenever our player has the ball under the hoop, instead of going up with it and getting fouled) works only when we both outwork and outshoot the opponents. So the other coach simply doesn't let that happen, and we lose.
If you're so sure he already knew that Bruno isn't American, why did you spend so many words informing Blazedanugz of it? Similar to Blazedanugz, I didn't know, and similar to him, I have wondered why Bruno's posts are weirdly worded. You obviously doubted your own false assumption that Blazedanugz knew, enough to explain it all to him while pretending disdain for him supposedly doing it on purpose.
Our bigs, again, forced to foul due to weak perimeter defense. Plums 3 PF in 30 minutes, Leonard 4PF in 16, Davis 4 in 18:23. Even Vonleh had 3 PF
When I posted on the ESPN Blazer board 10 years ago, we had a young guy posting from Argentina. He and I had some e-mail exchange before we got bored. (I had humorously questioned whether he was really outside the U.S., so he posted his e-mail address and challenged me to use it so that he could respond and prove his location. Guy took it too seriously, but we wound up friendly.)
This is a brutal road trip. If we come out of it 4-5 or 5-4, I wouldn't worried at all. 1-8, we need a fire lit under us.
What's "funny" is that these are the exact same bigs we ran with last season. Literally the only roster change was swapping Henderson for Turner. I'm not disagreeing with you, per se. But the level of play dropped off not because of personnel but because of motivation and coaching.
