So you take a pair of bad knees combined with players that don't fit with his style. Throw in a little depression from his realization that he's slipping, and the growing pains of learning how to adapt his game. You now have a perennial all-star turning into a potential bench player in just a few months. Very sad. In fact, it sucks balls. So what now? Will he become the next Grant Hill? Or is this just a bump in the road that he will rebound from?
I think the new CBA may be have some provision for a contract like Roy's, unless his knees get so bad he can't play any more his year it may just go on like this unless he considers retiring. Unless he can adjust and improve his play from what we have recently seen, I think he going to come of the bench eventually.
Well, the team is up against a wall. I highly doubt anyone will trade for him, and he's virtually untradable until next season anyway. To make matters worse, it seems like he's bent on destroying what was once a team with great chemistry. It's sad really.
Roy will be almost fine once the team gives into his demands of trading Miller. Look for him to start averaging close to 20 points a game after that.
And for the team to just barely make the playoffs then get curb stomped in the first round... For the next 5 years.
Here is my view on that. IMO if Roy starts to respond after a trade, it is the best thing that can happen to the franchise. Because if it doesn't happen, the death spiral begins. Full blown lotto if it doesn't work. I may not like the way Roy is handling it, but sometimes in life you have to do what you need to do in order to get something done when otherwise it will not. If that means dealing with management in a very serious tone, then so be it. I believe Roy deserves some benefit of the doubt due to what he has brought our franchise, but I also am very skeptical it will work because I believe the problems health.
Isn't that where they are at right now with Miller? Andre is gone after this season, at the latest, and it will have nothing to do with Roy.
I don't think there is anything really to gel, though. A bunch of 'B' and 'C' players aren't going anywhere. Oh, and I'm going with haberdasher for what will become of Roy.
Sure. It just means that moving Miller to placate Roy is a completely meaningless gesture that will do nothing to improve the team's post season chances. It will also mean that the team will be unable to improve the personel in any meaningful way since Roy will just go into the tank if they try.
I don't advocate moving Miller to placate Roy. I advocate using the best trade chip (Miller) in an effort to get better, if not immediately, then as part of a long-term plan. I advocate moving Roy if the right trade comes along; I just don't see how Cho can get anything valuable in exchange for him. Most people seem lost in this "Miller vs. Roy" binary debate. For me, it is largely inconsequential in terms of the Blazers winning an NBA title. If Roy wants to whine, whatever, but that doesn't mean the team will make a trade to make him happy. If they do, then we're screwed as a fanbase, because it will again prove to me that the organization makes emotional moves based on a whim.
Players always dictate what the front office does, either by their play, behavior or both... The fact remains, however, that the Miller/Roy back-court combination was a failure from the start - either way one of these guys was not fully utilized given their bad fit. What Brandon says is 100% on the money. It was before, it still is now. The only difference is that now Brandon is not the specimen he was before to mask some of that bad fit.
I was thinking the same thing. I would love to see Roy back to his old self, but I would probably lose some respect for him.
