How quickly people forget that Andre Miller pouted last year when he wasn't happy with coming off the bench and pouted so much it led to a shouting match between him and McMillan. Hmm. Miller is the one that didn't want to cave to Roy's style of play first. From day 1 McMillan's idea was to bring Miller off the bench to lead an uptempo unit with Rudy/Outlaw/Webster/etc. Miller wouldn't accept it. He wouldn't buy in. IMO Roy has tried 10x harder trying to make it work with Miller than Miller ever tried to make it work coming off the bench. If you're going to hate on Roy then you should hate on Miller as well, right?
When you consider that he can barely move I'd say his play will only get worse than it is now and he's not even starter quality anymore. Scary thought.
He was still in the starting lineup way before he and McMillan got into a shouting match. How come Roy can't be happy with the offense but Miller can be? I don't get it. Miller did his fair share of pouting about his role and the offense last year. Instead Roy, who's by far the #1 reason the franchise turned around, is the bad guy. Again, I don't get it.
Roy's incredible ego is his achille's heel. I just don't ever see him being a happy, effective team player.
Miller continued to play hard and well. People are saying they'd lose respect for Roy if it turns out he was tanking. That would be a massive difference between him and Miller...nothing at all inconsistent there.
Miller didn't play very well at all before the shouting match last year. He was also taking a lot more shots out of the offense imo instead of being the PG he ended up being to end the season last year and has been this year.
I think quite a few people have moved past that hurdle. Most probably don't even know it, either. Seems to be a couple of camps setting up here, which isn't at all atypical. Narrow issues or complaints become general and widespread memes, arguments quickly move from rational to emotional, reasoning is lost, chasms grow further apart, and ultimately rabid and blind dedication to an opinion (no matter how formed) win the day. Once you are tied to that position, you shall never deviate from it, because this shows weakness, and weakness is ... weak? I should set up a template for it. It would work in almost any news involving the Blazers. Which is why I love it here. There is something comfortable about predictability (or dare I call it banality).
There's no place for RoyME in our TEAM going forward. We should trade Roy for whatever we can get. He'll never be happy unless he get's his superstar treatment. The best we could do is to unload his contract, remove the cancer, and spend that cap space on improving the TEAM.
I think Brandon will struggle all year, and eventually pack the season in early. I then think he'll work his ass off during the off season and strike period working with coaches and ex-players to adjust his game to suit his knees. When he comes back, he'll be a different player and not at the same level, but still damn good. If we don't trade him, I think he'll be a key piece of this team going forward, even if he's a 6th man. I'm cutting Brandon some slack. I think he's really frustrated and angry right now.
I totally agree. We are all pissed and disappointed in what has happend to Brandon. Some his fault (Blaming others) some not his fault. (His Fucking knees) But the bottom line is he sacrificed his body for his teammates and the fans to rush back in just a few says after surgery to try to help his team in the playoffs. I think he deserves a little slack for not handling this well. There have been players much better than Brandon in the past that have said and done things that a few months later people forgot about. We don't know how this will turn out, but I think we as fans should show a little more appreciation for what he has done in the last 4 years. He has pouted. If he gets over it, then we should get over it. The next move is his, but I don't think we should bury him quite yet.
