and doesn’t have as cool of a name.

Will be more in his range. This is some sort of sign from God. There has to be some sort of divine intervention in all of this. I feel it in my toenails.

Like I’ve said before. I don’t want him to be a Blazer for his skills, I want him to be a Blazers for his heart.

I love the guy’s heart. But he seems like the classic case of a college player whose game won’t translate to the next level. The Maxiell/ Millsap/ Bass/ Landry’s of the NBA-all second-round picks-combine Hansborough’s toughness with greater athleticism.

This is the worst news ever to hit me. I can’t even wrap my brain around it. I am going to take a year long break from the Bedge. Keep your cheers to yourself.

In business, no matter how bad a purchase one makes, finding one buyer who’ll pay more than yopu did makes it a good deal for you to have done. Applying the concept obliquely here, I’d love to have had a Hansborough run up just before the draft and have just one team picking in front of us to buy into the hype, effectively rendering our position one higher without the price tag.

KP type thinking, I suspect.

In fact, I was thinking he’d probably have been the guy to launch the “Draft Tyler” movement in the town of the team picking right before us.

Now, alas, no such luck….

Seems like the vast majority of the draft-worthy college ballers are still up in the air:
They’ve DECLARED for the draft, but not hired an agent, where they’ll go through at least some of the tryout process,
and decide later if they’re actually staying in the draft, or returning to school.
That’s really starting to annoy me; I can’t tell what this draft class is going to be like,
because so many players have done this – declared, but reserved the right to pull out!

- If they ALL stay in, this draft is gonna be a doozy, Mayo will have cost himself about 6 draft spots
(if he returns to USC and plays at his pre-freshman-year level, he would be a world-beater #1 next year),
and Curry and Psycho-T will be odds-on faves to go top 5 next year.
(And, might I add, there’s gonna be SERIOUS talent at #13.)

- But if all the agentlessly-declared crowd goes back to school,
this is gonna be the lamest draft class EVER, and the #13 pick won’t be worth seat-bottom gum.

Right now, the 2008 NBA draft could be anywhere in between those two scenarios.
As a Blazer fan, I find that immensely frustrating.
So, credit to Hansbrough for not being part of that muddle.

a DOG?!

shows the worst of our kind.

My puppy might look like she is about to bite a terrorist or a bank robber, but she is just yawning. She is the best dog in the world, thank you very much. Plus, she loves the Blazers. When I get unlazy, I’ll get the picture of her wearing my lucky headband onto my ‘puter and use it as my picture thingy. Then you’ll see, you ALL will see!

She hates Laker fans too; she sez they are “straight cats” which is her way of saying something is lame. No offense to cats, of course. She’s from a different time when it was okay to say stuff like that.

Mortimer