I refuse to use the J word, but now that we can safely say that that horrible Trailblazer era is behind us, maybe we can laugh at it a bit. My favorite: The guy who used his rookie card for identification after getting pulled over by the cops. Who was that - Qyntel? Man, what a bunch of clowns and thugs that group was!
Rasheed and Qyntel showing up to the Christmas for Kids event at Vancouver Mall (or Westfield Shopping Town or WTF it's called) stoned out of their minds and smelling like weed. -Pop
Not the worst offense, but my worst memory was 'sheed throwing the towel at Sabas. He was much to good a person to have had to deal with that.
Darius Miles slapping the blazer fans in the face with his piss-poor, no effort play after admitting he comes into practice smelling like booze.
Rasheed and Damon passing on taking the team plane so they could hot-box a bright yellow Hummer on I-5 between Seattle and Portland after the Sonics game was pretty hilarious/depressing. -Pop
people in here thinking bassy, russians, ha, and miles were "the future" and those same people thinking nash was doing a great job rebuilding lol passing on paul/williams for webster was a nice moment. starting Monya at SG was a low point. theres so many horrendous moments...
Our hometown point guard wrapping a brick of weed in foil and then taking it through the airport security scanner. You can't make that stuff up!
The incident with Zach Randolph and his buddy and the two chicks with the simulated sex act. Mostly because I thought it was just Canzano trying to make a HUGE negative story out of nothing. But when everything came to light I was like "wow, Zach Randolph is a horrible person. What the hell is wrong with me for ever rooting for someone like that?" It kind of opened my eyes to how bad the whole Bob Whitsitt era was.
My low moment came when I was watching "The Best Damn Sports Show" about 7 or 8 years ago and just hearing them rip on the team and Portland ... and then realizing they weren't being harsh enough.
Just my general attitude - I'd often only tune into games in order to see what trainwreck I was missing out on. It was like a circus, that was the only way in which they were entertaining. Will Rasheed get ejected? Will someone throw a towel? Who's going to pout? Who's going to yell at the coach?
Bonzi does it for me . . . spitting, flipping off fans, insulting fans by saying he blacked out, saying he doesn't care about fans . . .
My best memory was honestly when I found out that Bob Whitsitt's last day was going to be on my birthday. WAY too many bad memories to recall. The towell was bad, pretty much anything Zach and Woods did. Damon embarrassing the city over and over with his drug use. Dog fighting. Nanny raping. Broken eye sockets. N_gger calling. Flipping fans off. Bonzi Wells in general. CTC. The NBA is racist. Smoking weed. Subterfuge. Zach and prostitutes. Street racing. Illegal guns. A bad memory that made me laugh the most was Woods using his basketball card as ID
- Seeing the RG deader than ever and no one cheering, and seeing at most 10,000 fans at games - Steve Patterson and his creepy-looking eyebrows - Qyntel Woods and his dog-fighting - Having to see some of our players actually encourage booing against them on the court
And also being embarrassed to admit to still being a Blazer fan. And having to put away my Blazer gear, never wear it out in public.
First Place: The seemingly endless pain of John Nash and the slow realization that we were going to have to hit utter rock bottom after getting no real value for Sheed. Second Place: The tiring drudgery of watching Damon Stoudamire, year after year, mismanage the point guard position while getting paid stupid amounts of money and whining to Jason Quick. Anything else pales in comparison. Qyntel and the dogs or Zach and the whores or JR Rider and, well, everything, were eyesores, but they were flair ups that came and went, often within weeks. I'll take a kick in the nuts over a four year toothache any day. The kick is more memorable. The tooth actually affects your long-term happiness.
I'm not quite sure which era we're talking about. Whitsitt and winning + offcourt problems? Or PatterNash and losing + terrible front office decisions + offcourt problems? The best moments all involved winning. The Blazers almost knocking off the Lakers. The Blazers coming back to almost knock off the Mavs in the first round. Actually, another best moment was when we got the 3rd pick in the draft, since it was clear that one of the "Big Three" prospects would be available there. The worst? The Lakers stopping us, every time. Passing on Chris Paul. Trading for NVE. Getting nothing for Damon or SAR or any other expiring contract. Ed O.
Well, he seems to be lumping everything from Gary Trent/JR Rider to about two years ago, given that those were the years that "Jail Blazers" was fashionable. Although it's popular to lump it together as a single era, it's really two or three different eras. First era: JR Rider/Sheed team Second era: Pippen/Smitty/Sheed team Third era: The John Nash Apocalypse
I like mook's choices of the three eras. for me The first era: not sure when it was exactly, but Sheed throwing the towel at Sabas stands out Pippen's era: that 4th quarter The Patternash era: the future of the Blazers
