I used to love this board, but it’s gotten a little boring. One reason is all the old posts that keep reappearing after somebody makes a new comment. The one called “I’m so sick and tired of Neil Olshey” has been around for months, and I stopped paying attention to it long ago. When old posts keep reappearing over and over again, it makes the board look stale and repetitive. Another problem is the concept of a single thread for every game. In the old days you would have 5 or 6 different threads on a game: Lillard’s shooting, or Stott’s coaching, or the performance of the bench. That was fun! You could open the thread that interested you without wading through 200 comments on every single facet of the game. As you can tell, I’m not a fan of the mega thread or the umbrella thread that tries to lump everything together. To me, that’s a dry, corporate approach that saps all the life out of a board like this. I still come around from time to time, but when I check in, I just don’t see the multiplicity of fun, interesting threads that used to be a regular feature here.
The team itself has become repetitive. Back in the good old days, coaches were retained only a couple of years unless they had great success. And there were annual major trades on every team.
As I used to say, if we keep losing, Denny and Sly will just have to go. (Some idiots read everything literally and don't see the joke.)
Thanks for the input. It's a tough balance. After just about every bad loss we have someone wanting to blame Olshey. Which is fine, nothing wrong with that. But having a new thread started over that gets to be a bit much. Now if Olshey says something in a new interview then that should be it's own thread so it can be discussed. We do have threads started post game, bitching, praising, and/or complaining about individual players and coaches. See the recent ET thread for example. My best advice is if you don't like a thread then start one that you do like.
Seriously? You want 6 game threads for one game, and are complaining about common Olshey threads? Do you want someone to start a new thread every time they have something to say about him? I don't get it. No ones stopping you from starting a (for example) Stotts thread, even though we already have one. But that's too old so I guess you can start another..?
The constant rehashing and bitching is tiresome. Don't like Olshey? How about just put an "I hate Olshey, Stotts, ..." in your sig, and then don't comment on the subject. Really, we already know how most of you feel - no need to resay it 1000 times in 100 ways, and in every thread.
I kind of find both of the extremes annoying, though I generally have more respect for the “always sunny” group.
And we already know how fanboys feel. So instead of constantly posting positive thoughts, why don't you just summarize it in your signature and stop posting? That's what you just said, in reverse.
Thats why the board can be monotonous at times the team were here to talk about hasnt made any major moves since LMA basically forced them too. So were stuck on the same topics...
I can see it now. The Blazers have made their first big move of the season, parting ways with SportsTwo. They have named OregonLive as their new official fan forum. Blazers GM Neil Olshey in a short press conference gave the reason for the move as simply the Blazers needing a change. (unamed reporters swore they heard him then mutter, "Those fuckers at S2 think they can talk about my wife? Who do they think I am Lukrofka?)
really?? so, to summarize, you're disappointed that this forum isn't as creative and as imaginative as you like. So you make a thread complaining about the lack of creativity that implicitly suggests posters here don't hit your high standards for artistic writing here's a radical idea, that button you used to create this thread could also be used...BY YOU...to post the kind of creative threads you want to see. Show us how it's done, although I'd wonder if you think a thread bitching about a lack of imagination around here supplies some imagination around here
This is it. The team is stale, so the board is stale. There's nothing new to say because we have been saying the same shit for three years. The topics haven't changed because the team hasn't changed.
