Junk Drawer - Do you root against the Blazers poll

So I don’t know if it’ll be an accurate reflection of members’ opinions.

I’d rather root for everyone to do extremely well and deal with the cognitive dissonance later.

I had to vote a resounding hell-to-the-No here. I’m Portland born and bred and simply can’t turn against the Blazers, just can’t.

However… I do cringe when some players touch the ball and root for them to pass the ball or play better, smarter D (cough, Frye, cough-cough) but other than that I can’t turn on anyone wearing the slickest uniform in the NBA, no sir.

I couldn’t even boo or root against the Blazers when they were busy with off court drama. I was like Tina Turner, gettin’ all smacked up by Ike, always defensive and full of excuses. “He loves me, really, he does. He just has a funny way of showing it, that’s all.” Ahhh… memories.

The only reason I get upset with any player is because they’re NOT playing up to their potential. If they do, I love them. I totally root for them to play well even though it’s not realistic that they all will all the time.

It’s up to Nate and KP to deal with the repercussions if we have too much talent, but that’s a good problem to have.

I guess on second thought I’d root for a player to not do so well if I know he’s headed for the door. I mean, I’d wish the guy the best but I don’t want any of our leftover talent blowing up for the competition Devin Harris style.

      I’m rooting for a coconut to fall on
your noggin !

      COINCAST . . . well you know !

in the next 20,000 years.

I want all the Blazers to play out of their mind good. I especially want Sergio & Frye to play spectacular so we can trade them for players or picks that I do like. That’s not really rooting against a player is it?

There are players who scare me when they have the ball (outlaw, fry, and up untill recently blake and sergio) However, two big things are going on whern they do have the ball.
1. Their play affects the BLAZER game and so I always want the team to win or do well. I.E. Every time Outlaw turns off his brain and fires up the most ridiculous off balance shot, I still want the ball to go through the hoop even though I’m shouting, “TRAAAVIS NOOOOOOOOO!”
2. We all have a fairly good Idea of who is staying and who is going. The better a player does – the higher their trade value. Simple

       That’s a Blazermaniac’s call ! It’s inherant
in each maniac to refuse to accept terrrrrible
off balance shots . . . until they go IN.

Like – “Uncle Cliffffffy from the Bus Barn NOOOO. . . Ok !”
           “Billy Ray drives to the elbow, fades NOOOO . . . Nice shot !”

           It’s like putting on Coconut repellant . . . NOOOO . . . ohhh,
    that feels gooooood !
          
          COINCAST SUCKS !!!! DOWN WITH THE BOSTON BULLIES !!!!
                                       GO BLAZERS !!!!!

I remember hoping that Zach’s play would play well all of the time throughout his last year specifically for the purpose of the hope that some fool of a GM (Isaiah Thomas.. the rest of the league will miss you) who would take his bloated contract. Plus, he did help us win a few of those 32ish games…

I don’t dislike anyone on this team… Frye and Ike both seem like good guys and are not entirely without their occasional good play in their limited PT. Sergio and Travis both lack some consistency i would expect from a player past their second year, but have the tools to be valueable players. Martell as well… if he was playing. I want LMA to be tougher and use his length and speed on consistently on both ends of the court. I want our rookies to develop and get all of the PT they need to accomplish that as well.. I think that if all of these guys were as great as they seemingly could be.. besides the fact that they wouldn’t all fit in terms of PT or contract value eventually we would really have every thing we would ever need to have for a dynasty over the next decade plus..

We are Blazers Edge. We do not ever root against any of our beloved Blazers.

Every now and then I wish Blake would get a minor sprain that keeps him out a few games just to see what our other PG’s would do with the bump in Minutes

I think some people are lying. – Elgin

When Jermaine was greeted with cheers Saturday night my grandson said, “remind me – why do we like him?” and I said “because he was once a Blazer.” “oh yeah”.

That said, I do root against former Blazers when they are playing against us. Some I want to do well (Freddie Jones) and others I really don’t care one way or another (Zach). As far as Darius Miles, I’d rather he’d do well in China or Russia rather than in the NBA – but that isn’t a personal thing, it’s defending the Blazers.

the schedule on ESPN.com say’s that it is, but on my Dish channel guide it is not showing the game as being televised on KGW

No way, man. Absolutely no way. It doesn’t even make sense. Generally, it seems like you would want to, for example, see Bayless on the court over Sergio because you think Bayless could do better things. But if Sergio plays great, then no problem, you don’t need to go looking for an upgrade. There’s no reason to ever root against one of the five people on the court unless you value personality over quality play and wins, which I can’t get behind at all.

Then again, I just realized that that’s true with this current team, but maybe not ones in the past. I can’t remember, but it’s possible I would want to see Ruben Patterson perform badly because I didn’t particularly like seeing a sex offender on the court, or having to battle with an urge to root him on when he’s doing well because it’s good for the team while not really wanting to see any reward for a sex offender.

Shoot, I had to go and complicate it.

So my answer in the poll is no and that’s quite true with this team, but I could see some circumstances in which I would root against a player on the team in the hopes of getting another guy who I didn’t consider a scumbag on the court.

fail in the long run. Across the NBA, however, there’s a few players I dislike for a variety of different reasons.

 wish any member of this current group to fail. They are all too likable. There may not be space for all of them but I hope they have success wherever they go.
 
 However if we are talking about Kobe, Andrew Bynum and the entirity of Orlandos perimeter players then yes. I hope they all fail miserably.

and it struck me that I think there is some confusion between negativity and disgust …

Yay!

Does anyone else eat peanuts like me? I sift thru the nuts and eat all the half pieces first and try to save the whole ones until all the halves are gone. The other thing is that little nugget of goodness one half of the peanut hangs onto seems to be the tastiest of morsels. It took a bit of research, but that little bit is called the radicle. Why can’t snack food producers have a line of just peanut radicles? Probably the same reason nobody makes a bag of old maids, the best part of a batch of popcorn.

Celtics Blog

I don’t know why but I love reading other teams blogs opinions about us.

I voted yes, as Sometimes I want Sergio or Blake to play badly , get pulled and have Bayless have a shot. It’s nothing personal on those two, more of liking Bayless and thinking more time for him would be good for the team long term.

Mind if I rip it off (with attribution, of course) for a parallel question on CelticsBlog? I’d be curious to see how our readers feel in this regard about the C’s.

-sw

One day he could heal us. I´ll report him to the Medical Association on this one. Enough is enough.