Third Greatest Blazer Ever: Semifinal 2

by Dave on Dec 26, 2006 11:46 PM PST in News

Side Note: I will be away from the keyboard until Friday so all six of the next three day's posts are up today. Read them and comment at your leisure. Please chip in with the various preview and Gameday threads below.

It's the semi-final round of the Third Greatest Blazer Ever contest! Much like the first semi-final matchup (below), both of these guys had relatively easy trips through the first round. Now they're going head-to head.

Your choices are:

Terry Porter

versus

Geoff Petrie

You may use any criteria you wish: stats, playoff appearances, team wins, overall talent, variety of skills, persona...it's up to you. Please do note that only contributions as a Blazer should count, however. Register your vote in the comment section below. The voting will be open until New Year's Eve when we will post the final matchup.

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

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Good matchup

Gotta go with Porter based on his many post season games. He always stepped it up for the playoffs, too. And being forever attached to Clyde (in my mind) clinches it.

Both were great first round picks, by the way.

"...though you may fail...aim at something high." Henry David Thoreau

by Dr Dave on Dec 27, 2006 3:40 AM PST reply actions

I'm going with Petrie...

Here's why: Besides being a great player and, if I'm not mistaken, the original Blazer, I think that if it weren't for Petrie, there wouldn't have been a Porter.

If I'm wrong about any or all of this, tough; I'm still going with Petrie.

by ken @ Blazer's Edge on Dec 27, 2006 6:15 AM PST reply actions

TP

just for the Chicago and Detroit attempts alone - he will always be "The Third Best Blazer Ever" to me...

Ball Don't Lie

by bothteamsplayedhard on Dec 27, 2006 7:16 AM PST reply actions

biased vote

I have to go with Porter. Mostly because I have not seen Petrie play. I give major props to Petrie because he's like the David Carr of the Blazers. Good player, but had to suffer through some major growing pains with the inception of a new franchise. Porter could be considered a bi-product of Drexler... but just as Jordan needed Pippen to be great... Drexler needed Porter to be great. I have a strong emotional attachment to the Porter/Drexler era of the Blazers because they were the team that captured my loyalty as an 8 year old kid.

by mcmillion on Dec 27, 2006 10:12 AM PST reply actions

A vote for Terry

for all of the above reasons. Right guy at the right time. Had we been a contender rather than an expansion team Geoff may have been even better than he was and deserves any vote you give him. But I gotta be loyal to TP.

by jorga on Dec 27, 2006 2:01 PM PST reply actions

PORTER

Although Petrie was pretty money, but I guess because of my age I vote for Porter

by wolfman97080 on Dec 27, 2006 2:15 PM PST reply actions

Tough

Geoff Seemed to be a scoring champ, but looking at his other stats, i didn't see much.

Porter didn't average as high with the scoring, but he was an assist master for a number of years during our run!

Fair or not... there was also no championship run like there was with the 89-90 blazers. had there been a championship in there, I'd lean the other way.

so... i'll give it to porter.

Past to present is tough. I have no idea any of the flavorful history to go with geoff!

by ratbastird on Dec 27, 2006 3:28 PM PST reply actions

i go with porter

because petrie had his career cut short by a bad knee.

ignacio

by ignacio on Dec 27, 2006 5:47 PM PST reply actions

oh

Is THAt what happened to him?

Yeah, that leans me even more heavily towards porter.

by ratbastird on Dec 27, 2006 9:15 PM PST up reply actions

TP

For #3

next....

by playground legend on Dec 28, 2006 10:05 AM PST reply actions

TP

Though this is a hard choice, I gotta go with the original Jarrett Jack. :)

by EngineerScotty on Dec 28, 2006 7:19 PM PST reply actions

TP it is

no porter without petrie but still got to give it to TP. he's been my #3 since Dave came up with this roundabout. --m

by dcblazer on Dec 29, 2006 6:17 AM PST reply actions

one note

if they had had 3-pointers while petrie was in his prime he would have cleaned up, because he often shot from out there anyway. he was gifted.

ignacio

by ignacio on Dec 29, 2006 12:07 PM PST reply actions

Tough call

because they played in such different times.

Geoff Petrie played before the game became so physically intimidating - he was a wonderful long range shooter and was the team's main offense at the time similar to what Zach represents now. If he and Sidney Wicks had played well together, they could have been much more successful. Petrie was the co-winner of the Rookie of the Year award and the original impetus for Bill Shonely's "RRRiipp City!!" outbursts.

If I had to choose one or the other to play in the NBA now, I would have to go with Terry Porter. He could score when needed, but more importantly, he was the point guard for a team that was hard to stop when they played well. He was also an excellent defender, was very durable and consistently came to play every game.

by bbfred on Dec 30, 2006 8:33 AM PST reply actions