I didn't go as far as you with JJ, but I thought he was going to be pretty good too. I was wrong about Lopez, and like a lot of people said already, I was irked by losing Withey... not we're so much better witheyout him. Ah. See what I did there?
IKR? lol I'm gonna eat both bars, back to back. I might even have to wash it down with some Penance wine... Pinot and Twix... mmmm. Anyone familiar with that pairing? lol
Been wrong about lots of things, but my most recent glaring blunder was I guessed we'd have 44 wins this season. Don't know what I was thinking. I'm usually much more optimistic.
I don't really make a lot of predictions, but I have a lot of opinions, and that's where most of my confessions come from. Opinions that were wrong.
Yeah, me too. Like that time I got married.... Ha, ha. Wait...she's standing right behind me, isn't she....?
Was wrong about Oden and continued to hold out hope he'd one day get healthy WAY too long. Finally took my Oden jerseys to Goodwill when we waived him. Was initially wrong about Stotts. Thought he was a temporary place holder. He won me over last season when we had four different players hit game winning shots. The ball movement and variety of options was a refreshing change from Nate's all-ISO offense that became totally ineffective as soon as Roy's knees started to go. Even when Roy was injured, and even AFTER he was gone, Nate continued to run the Roy ISO for whoever we had in the game (Bayless, Andre Miller, Jamal Crawford). On a lesser note, I thought Dorell Wright would be much better off the bench than he's been. He averaged 9.2 ppg off the bench for Philadelphia last year and seemed like such a good fit in the Stotts offense. I thought for sure Wright and Mo would combine to average more ppg than our entire bench did last season (18.5 ppg) Guess not. BNM
I was sort of against matching Batum. Would like to have seen some sort of trade to get Igoudala. He'd still be great but I'm loving Batum's point forward-ness this year.
Can people really be "wrong" about someone when they played well/poorly last season, and then turn around and do the opposite the next? Doesn't seem like something worthy of a confession, more an acknowledgement of a change in reality.
I thought LMA should've been traded last year; Stotts was a scrub of a coach; and finally, Martell Webster was going to be something special for us with his shooting.
Wright's funk may be a bigger surprise than the Blazers' success to-date. He has just been 'off'. There is still time for him to get it 'on'. In the basketball sense, of course.
