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Thanksgiving

In trying times, it's helpful to search for things you're thankful for.  Going through this, I discovered it's quite a list:

  • The Blazers are staying in Portland
  • We have Kevin Pritchard in the right position and the "culture" HAS changed
  • The relationship with the media has improved immeasurably
  • The Blazers have players who give fun, listenable interviews
  • Paul Allen has shown the willingness to spend whatever necessary to win.  From all reports, the guy is stoked.
  • The JailBlazer era is officially over.  We have 14 players with character and one marginalized headcase.
  • Brandon Roy will serve up opponents hearts on a plate for the next decade.  He will do this with a smile and proactive leadership.
  • The team showed up 5 WEEKS EARLY.  This never happens.
  • The team's blueprint is proven.  Franchise center, a distributor, and the potential for great defense and an inside-out game.  Championships are built from this formula.
  • Aldridge has shown all-star potential and seems like a great guy.
  • Rudy's already bought his ticket to PDX
  • We get to read Oden's blog
  • Our core players have "real game"; they're not just stat-men
  • Nate
  • Expectations are high, which is it's own blessing
  • The team has quite a few tradable assets
  • The Rose Garden is getting a fancy new scoreboard and video screen
  • We're no longer waiting for the light to come on with Z-Bo
  • The cold, dispassionate, statistically most likely scenario with Oden allows him to be a top 2 NBA center in 5 years.
  • Without deluding ourselves, we can see the path to a championship
  • At least 24 teams would gladly swap their roster straight up with ours, even post microfracture.
  • Summer of '09.  Anybody want to win?  Come to Portland.
  • Look where we were 15 months ago:
    http://www.basketballreference.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=POR&lg=n&yr=2005
    Wow.

    Please chime in with anything thankful you'd like to add.

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    Thanks, man
    Nice post.  Of course, I may have to read this daily for a while, as a reminder.

    by roseburgian on Sep 13, 2007 8:13 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

    Well said
    I told a friend today that as long as the Blazers don't announce microfracture surgery on Kevin Pritchard's brain we will be fine.

    by lee3022 on Sep 13, 2007 11:16 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

    We're getting a new jumbotron?
    I didn't know that, sweet...

    I hope it's as big as the one at Reser, that thing is awesome...

    Brandon Roy 007

    by TimG on Sep 14, 2007 10:47 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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