you call yourself fatty

can’t be the real fatty…

The punctuation and spelling is way too proper.

fatty would’ve said,“likei n missionimposible good luck sergeo”

Where have you been brother?

that Nate really wants to get a feel for Jerryd coming off the bench and playing with that second unit early on, as this is going to be the roll he fills for this season (most likely). It seems like putting Sergio in as a stop gap for an injured Blake has more to do with getting the rookie acclimated to his roll this season than it has to do with Sergio’s improvement. I hope I’m wrong though, I own one current Blazer jersey, and that’s Sergio’s. (I put my Z-bo jersey on the shelf for the whole season last year, but started wearing it again this off-season to show that I’ve been down since we were horrible. lol)

and just had to make one correction. Sergio was in fact 2 for 2 on those layups, both in traffic and around the bigs, one with a nice left hand finish. They were pure shake and bake, get by your man to the rim lay-ups, which were fun to see. He was, however 0-3 on jumpshots, two of which were three pointers, though they all looked decent and rimmed out. Luckily Martell’s shooting was so bad it made no one notice Sergio’s 0-3. I have a bunch of other observation but i’ll put them in the fanpost about fanfest.

After reading that again, it sounded way more negative towards Bayless than I wanted it to. When Jerryd wants to get to the hoop, he does so easily. He is strong around the rim and has incredible hops. His defense is tenacious, I love the in your face attitude he displays on that end of the floor, that factor alone should get him into the rotation. I just wonder if he would be better off taking a step back and trusting some of our more veteran players to do the leading and ear chewing, thats all….

the 2nd half?

This was my main concern about Bayless. The kid can play, but if he’s focused on “me” instead of “team” then he needs to go. I’m not a fan of players that speak about themselves in the third person. That shows an extremely self centered personality. The fact he’d talk trash to guys he doesn’t even know shows his lack of EQ out there. Those are guys he’s going to spend the next year with night in and night out and he’s damaging his relationship with them.

I want a killer instinct, but Bayless is a rookie and he needs to learn his place. He’s like the know-it-all who doesn’t really know it all.

Jordan developed the balance. Kobe… YEARS later seems to have developed it somewhat. Here’s hoping that Bayless can come around sooner than later else I vote to kick him out before he can damage our team chemistry.

That said, communication is good and people can’t be afraid to speak up and hold eachother accountable, but there’s a right and wrong way to go about doing that.

you can’t possibly be the original genuine article fatty….

Let’s look ahead two or three years and make a few assumptions:

• Sergio develops into a player good enough to be an NBA starter at PG.
• Jerryd shows he has Gil Arenas-level talent and Roy-like leadership skills.
• Rudy continues to improve his already-impressive game.
• Steve is as good or better than he is showing right now.
• Brandon remains the starter at SG.
• There continue to be only 96 minutes per game at the two guard positions.

Which of the current Blazer guards is going to be content with less than 30 minutes per night? Maybe Steve, because he really likes living in Portland, but probably none of them.

I really think Jerryd will have to be traded because he will develop a big-time game and is too much an Alpha male to remain Roy’s sidekick. I could see him being the starter at PG with Rudy coming off the bench to back-up him and Brandon, but I cannot see him and Brandon co-existing as a permanent arrangement when Jerryd becomes a veteran because this team is Brandon’s and I just can’t see Jerryd being okay with that, even if he wants to.

Even if Jerryd leaves, there are only enough minutes to keep three guards happy. That means the Blazers will have to trade away either Sergio or Steve and get a fourth guard who is content with garbage/occasional minutes. That would result in minutes distributed more or less like this: Roy = 36, Rudy = 32, Steve or Sergio = 28.

I would love to keep both Sergio and Steve, but either both of them would play no more than 14-20 minutes or one would get very few minutes. I cannot see that happening. Too bad, because it would be terrific to have both of them if/when Brandon or Rudy go down with an injury.

The best solution, given the above assumptions, would be for Sergio to develop Steve’s maturity, Steve Nash’s game, and Jerryd’s shot, drive, and defense, he becomes the third guard, and we sadly trade Steve to an Eastern contender. If Sergio proves to be, overall, no better than Steve, then we might trade him instead.

I like all our guards, but I don’t see things shaking-out much differently than this.

he said that, before the fan fest, and after the first practice.