because I love him so much and what him to succeed. LOL

In all seriousness, this is a great post. Not too scathing and “parental lecture”-ish and pretty funny. Our team has become talk of the league. It’s one thing for the marketing team of an organization talk up “potential” and “re building’ etc etc such as the Timberwolves and/or the Heat. But when the NAtional Media, every commentator, every coach and gm is specifically calling out the PTB as the team to beat and having an unfair amount of talent and prospects it’s hard not to get super duper stoked and excited.

P-town is feeling itself right now. We are the talk of the league and for all the right reasons. The main point i COMPLETELY disagree with you is your use of the word
“gentlemen”.

1. To me, that word represents the feminine dandies that have 8 mistresses and play poker all night while living off their family inheritance.
2. Literally, I dont want any of our guys to be gentle in any way shape or form.

They are good citizens, real guys that are hard working, nice, have good personalities, and give a crap about their team and teammates- but not GENTLE

:-)

-Sophia

I wouldn’t call Bayless media non-savvy, though.
He understands the media and is capable of a
good interview. He just doesn’t like to play that
game. Tonight the man was on FIRE. He didn’t
miss in the second half. WOW. MVP of the
Summer League in a walk.

But Bayless was only 3-11 in the first half and now that he has gotten hot we should trade him while his stock is at the highest for Donte Greene. I mean the guy went for 40, four more points than Jerryd has scored in SL. He obvoisly just got lucky on his jumpshots as his form is terrible and will get domanated in the regular season, I mean 11-15 in the 2nd half? NOBODY can keep that up, that is 73%. Clearly he just got lucky and was on. TRADE HIM NOW!

Yeah I hear what you are saying people are wanting to find reasons why he dropped and it was simply because this draft was so spread out and GMs that did not fo their homework lost out. Also the only teams that would benefit from him are teams with dynamic playmaking SGs, so that would be Mia or Minny. The rest of the teams needed a “pure” PG and went that way. That is good for us as he now has a chip on his shoulder and motivation against 10 other teams who he will want to kill.

What is it about scoring Gs from Arizona that wear the #0 and have personal vendettas against teams? Is it the heat there? IDK

BTW Augustin is averaging the same amount of assists as Bayless interestingly enough.

a while ago, but it was mostly rebuking Blazer fans from other websites that remind you of a YouTube discourse. It makes me nervous when it even creeps into the Bedge. We have a lot of new people here, but let’s be good about karma. Or this team actually might end up moving to Seattle, losing Oden’s career due to injury, finding out one of our star players is a necrophiliac, and trading Brandon Roy for Michael Redd. Let’s all keep our perspective and enjoy how great it is to be a Blazer fan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw2ZeQUiQ1A

I have noticed the same things that you mention in your post. The difference is that you believed that if you posted this point of view that you might get some traction with your fellow Bedgers. I frankly think that the cavalier attitudes are too prevalent to overcome.

I’m feeling it too.

Before I hit preview, it said “Jugs Idog1976.” That would have been funny.

I feel people over critique players way too much now. It’s like how about just backing off and enjoying the team now. It’s to the point where it’s all under control and KP knows where we are headed. No need to talk about how selfish Bayless is after a few games with no talent around him. I guess there are no interesting things to talk about any more.

I like the positive outlook posts on here, few as I’ve seen. It gets annoying reading how the Blazers aren’t perfect enough and how many ways we can attain immortality. I just want to see great basketball.

Those Cavalier attitudes need to go back to Cleveland.

tend to out shout the more reasonable majority.

I once did a post to get a feel for what people’s thoughts were on firing Nate. There was LOUD and VOCAL support to do so. What I discovered was that very few, percentage wise, were actually interested in doing so. Some were frustrated but that didn’t equate to firing, it was just a vocal minority.

I now tend to shrug off the comments you mentioned as emotional and in the minority and filled with passion. The reality is that most bloggers on here are fairly knowledgeable about the blazers and have decently realistic expectations. Sometimes it’s even just a passionate at night rant and the senses return in the morning. Some take losing better than others.

I admit that it sometimes causes me a little distress but I keep repeating to myself that most blazer fans have a little more common sense.

Additionally, as for the gloating… I think that isn’t intentional but a celebration that “hey, things around here no longer SUCK!!!” We’ve had it pretty bad for a while now and we can see that light at the end of the tunnel getting closer. Is it any wonder that some people dash down it as fast as they can? This of course can lead to disappointment and so you have this high and low cycle.

I suspect some fans will be upset when we don’t win 82 games. It’s just how those silly fanatics are.

We are somehow like many musical group having success. Now we feel the need to ruin it. These thoughts will help to keep the effort.

No. No. No. We are not spoiled rotten. Not even close. I only joined in May, but I have been reading this blog for quite a while. I can remember a couple instances of people seriously wanting Chris Paul or Deron Williams. Meanwhile I can remember somewhere around 75 fanposts titled “Just in case you were wondering” or something similar when they were re-signed. Everybody went on those fanposts and commented that hopefully now this would deafen the (relatively non-existent) roar of everybody else foaming at the mouth trying to figure out how to get one of these two players in Portland. Very, very few people are calling Jerryd Bayless a bad seed. Anytime somebody does say something disparaging about a player on the team, they are besieged by comments fiercely defending the player. For every “dumb” trade idea there are 100 people to bash it. Comments praising players and condemning negativity get 12 recommendations and turn green on a frequent basis. Posts like this get in the top 5 consistently. Everybody seems to agree and everybody already seems to “get it”, which would appear to prove that this is (for the most part) a non-issue. Hardly anybody wants to completely break this team up and fire Coach McMillan. This is already a classy blog in my opinion, with informative and entertaining posters. It’s not perfect, but perfection is unattainable so I think we can relax just a little bit with the scolding. There are far more people complaining than people offending. There is a vibe getting increasingly noticable around here, one that’s fairly pretentious. Please. I’m begging. Less Fun Police. Things pretty much regulate themselves. Remember that this is Portland. There’s bound to be crazies popping up every now and again. It’s charming.

This ain’t a book club. We’re mostly dudes talking about jocks playing sports. The discourse is bound to get a little goofy every now and then. Don’t forget that.

With all this talent, I think many Blazers fans are becoming impatient and more critical..especially the bandwagoneers, who are drinking up the hype right now.

This is definitely a classy sports site.. let’s hope with the raised profile of the Blazers, it stays that way.

I have a (new, sadly) philosophy..if I have nothing good/constructive to say online..I keep my mouth (typing fingers) shut. Seems to work well.

I feel like this is a group meeting where we all vent.

So here I go: Am I the only person that thinks its ridiculous we’re that we’re calling Bayless T-Rex? His wingspan is larger than his height. Sure, it’s not freakish like Westbrook, but I feel like to earn a T-Rex moniker you need to have an armspan shorter than your overall height…

Phew… I do feel better…

Why is everyone looking at me like I’m crazy?

All these guys we draft or acquire are not supposed to be All-Stars. We need to have a bunch or guys who STAR in their ROLES on the roster. These players need to be able to step up and fill a niche need that KP and Nate carve out specifically for them.

Too raw, too small, not long enough, not experienced enough, unproven, over-hyped, retrospectively acquired at too high of a price or shoulda-woulda-coulda got someone else (like Arthur over Batum or CP3 over Webster), never gonna live up to his potential, or we need an all-star there (SF or PG). It is ridiculous. Most good teams have two or three or four really top notch NBA star players, then they a bunch of guys to fill in the minutes and skill gaps to run 5 on 5 for 4-quarters.

I love the prospect of Bayless so far. IMO, we do not need an all-world top-line distributor to start at our PG. Heck, pre-draft bloggers were saying they didn’t want DJ Augustin (a true PG-Distributor) because of his size… although he is big enough to play in the NBA, now we are ripping Bayless because he is a scoring machine with an average wing-span. Those size calibrations don’t mean squat.

What Portland needs out of Bayless is someone who can run along side B.Roy, create offense, score if the ball is kicked back to him, get the ball moving if he is starting a play, run a fast break, and play defense against opposing PG’s… nowhere does it say we need a 6’8” wingspan and a guy who passes like Magic Johnson. Bayless can get it done with his explosive athleticism and drive to succeed. I think those two qualaties can not be over looked, and Bayless excels in both.

Realistically manage your expectations people, this isn’t a video game where all your players are 99 skills across the board. These guys are all pieces of a puzzle. And there is guts, work-ethic, confidence, team-chemistry, consistent effort and positive attiude that go into this mixture. Which all matter more than having an above average wing-span. Talent? All these guys have it. Size wise, the Blazers look to be able to create mis-matches across the board, so everyone doesn’t need uncanny size and consistent all-star level play. That is too ridiculous to desire.

The worst is when I go to like ESPN and even one of the Blazers is mentioned.. the lesser intelligently gifted fans start preaching about how we are gonna win 20 titles and we should win this year and teams like the l-kers, hornets and jazz arent any good.. it makes me sad because I don’t want to be known as THOSE guys..

The ignorance is disgusting.