Notice This is the worst Blazer team I have seen in my lifetime.

I'll be honest with you guys and no offense to Bones or Hoopsjock but I need better content from the Blazers/NBCSNW. It boggles my mind why they can't find one former Blazers player with a good/great mind for Xs and Os to be in studio breaking down games with the kind of basketball analysis that these two guys (Bones and Hoopsjock) bring at Blazers Uprise https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaNUdqLz6sZjSOCNEJRbufg but with the weight of pro experience and Blazers fan buy in.

I'm also greedy I want a former Blazers player with personality to be our color commentator. I just don't understand why we can't invest a little more money of a team worth over a billion dollars or Comcast that is worth 230.5 billion to put out a quality product. If it's a Comcast issue the team should just pony up. The other thing that it would do is show guys around the league that they will be valued by this franchise after their playing career is over.

 

This is all fine and dandy except just about every take on this entire board has been said by someone who is "Paid For Their Takes". Go listen to ESPN (Any of their NBA specialists), Blazers Outsiders, Pregame, NBA on TNT, Inside the NBA and you will hear something you will again read on here. So with ALL DUE RESPECT I'm calling BS on this entire post.
Go talk to anyone on the street and get an opinion and they will say something they have heard unless they happen to be on the "Inside".

Would a "Readable" "Listenable" " Watchable" take be a good take? Is Stephen A. Smith Listenable to you or is he barely watchable? Do you listen to Kenny Smith? Or do you listen to Shaq vs Barkley? Does Woj ring a bell? Rachael Nickols? Doris Burke?
Did Dick Vitale ever say anything worthy or was he simply watchable? It takes a combination of savvy and journalistic prowess to convey a message to a wide range of people.

 

I agree with this wholeheartedly. They absolutely can do better.

 

Surprising. I think Lamar is very good. Wild Rice was great, even if not always the best communicator. But damn fun.

Channing Frye has a podcast that's entertaining, and I think it is Blazer sanctioned. But maybe not.

 

So put Frye in the studio. Lamar is OK but I would just like the weight and hopefully a little more explosive personality (like Rice but maybe have it a little more together) that I'm sure we could find among all of the Blazers alumni that don't already have broadcasting gigs.

 

Lamar is getting trashed on this board because he said a few too many times the Blazers were missing shots last game. (Which they were no question)
He also won't say out loud what a few happen to think that Stotts is the problem. (Which he may be) but it would be foolish for him to say if he wants to keep his job.
The point is there is more to it that to say "They Suck".

 

They don't suck at all. I'm just more interested in what a guy I have more invested into and has professional experience has to say and Lamar could be a lot more exciting... he's a little tame for my taste but maybe I'm an outlier and this is what the majority of fans want to hear.

 

I like Lamar. Kent is just so boring and bland. As for “experts” here or anywhere, I don’t listen to anyone as an expert unless they are involved with the actual team. If you aren’t at practice or the locker room, you are guessing at just about everything. And your guess is as good as mine (or worse...)

 

oh gotcha. Then i agree there definitely is something to be said about professional etiquette.

 

Their basketball opinions haven't earned my respect because they lack a certain level of depth and/or reek of specific biases. If theyve earned yours, that's cool. But all I was doing was simply pointing that those are all guys that say Stotts is an offensive genius.

 

Writing is also a dying medium. Nobody wants to read anymore. The younger generation is entirely focused on streaming and/or youtube.

 

Well we can agree Stotts is not a genius about much as of this point. Lets see what the team looks like in 20 games and see if he looks a bit better. I'm with ya this year. He has the tools to do well. Lets see if he can do it. If he can't his time has run it's course here.

 

This is a huge issue. If you write more than a couple sentences it seems the conversation ends in today's world.

 

lack of ability to focus on a subject.

too much instant info being jammed down the eyes and ears of the youth to the point the there is no time to stop and process. On to the next mind jam.

instant media. Instant food. Instant everything leaves no time for thought or pondering over aNother’s thought.

 

Fair enough. The Blazers (Dame/CJ making difficult shots) has been pretty good in the regular season.

 

That is 100% not true (although maybe for you it is, but not for a lot of others.) But what is true is that people consume information in different ways -- written, verbal, auditory. That's what is great about content today, people can watch videos, listen to podcasts, read blogs or books, etc.

This board is all written and it sure ain't dying!

 

The amount of conversations I have had with people directly involved with teams who say things that fly right into the face of what “experts” and of course especially fans, say, are so frequent and numerous that I don’t believe anything I read or hear on the tv or radio. “X player is such a bad dude” - no he’s actually an awesome guy. “That GM sucks he drafted so and so”- actually he didn’t really want him but the owner did; or “that trade was so bad he is a bad GM” no, again,the owner wanted to do it. Happens ALL the time.

 

who is the youngest person on this board? I bet the vast majority are over 30 with even more still over 40.

 

Viewers expecting anything controversial or advanced breakdowns about the team out of an on-air Comcast employee must not remember what happened to Isaac Ropp, and I lurked here long enough to know he gets criticized heavily here.

The average fan watching the game doesn’t give a shit about X’s and O’s, that’s for a very small audience of hoop junkies and previously mentioned, that information is available on YouTube for those people. There just isn’t a lot of demand for it to the casual fan. If there was, you’d be seeing it on Comcast. Producers put what gets them the most viewers on-air, and not many people relatively speaking care about X’s and O’s other than the minute or so of breakdowns that Michael Holton does, and even that is dumbed down for the television audience considering his level of actual basketball knowledge compared to what is dissected and allowed on-air.