I do love Steve Blake!

That guy is awesome and enjoys his blazerness.

and he loves portland he wants to be here and be part of the “rise”..but honestly im not in love..i want him to be a blazer but we need to either commit to this guy and lock him up or put him out of his misery… blake is a good sound player how can you not like him but love?

As a player:
He brings experience from four teams and had an amazing college career (first player in ACC history to record at least 1,000 points, 800 assists, 400 rebounds and 200 steals)
He has great size for a PG
At 28 he doesn’t really “take time away from a young player”. He still is one himself
His point and assist production is more than adequate for a second round pick
As is his salary in regard to his experience and production
He hits 40% treys, something a lot of PGs considered great yet expensive can’t
Rarely hurt
Very high basketball IQ

As a person/off court:
He played for a Blazers team that was pretty bad “cut and paste” (Sebastian. Travis. Martell. Jarrett. Darius. Zach. Juan. Viktor. Sergei. Ruben. Joel. Theo. Ha. Charles. Nate.) And still was willing to come back.
He works hard in training
He brings experience in life and positive energy, which is valuable to our young guys on and off the court

All in all I see him as a starter until his current contract runs out. Then we might re-sign him to be our backup, unless we have two amazing guys in front of him who are significantly better and we have to say “sorry Steve.”

Steve Blake, sick of all the haters saying the Blazers need a new point guard, has his best year ever and becomes one of the elite point guards in the league. Playing with Oden, Aldridge and Outlaw, Blake becomes an alley-oop machine and averages 10 assist a night.

Too many chef’s, chief’s and Moloofs ALWAYS ruin the stew, war party and Sac Town Kings.

And we have enough chef’s, chief’s…whatever.

Steve is here to add that little pinch that makes it just right.

He is the perfect fit as the starter for now and coming off the bench if Bayless, or Roy develops into the starter this year. He will always be solid even if he is 0-9 in that he won’t turn the ball over too much and keeps his head up no matter how he is shooting. He will win you a couple of games a year and certainly won’t lose you any with dumb mistakes down the stretch.

Talk about a sweet game, and my fondest memory of Steve Blake, who basically owned Steve Nash. Check the box score [link]http://www.nba.com/games/20060312/PHXPOR/boxscore.html[/link] OK maybe he didn’t own him, but he every bit as talented that game. I remember there was this little girl behind me screaming “Steve Nash!” all game. At some point I turned around and made a rude comment and her mom was like “Hey, we like the Phoenix Suns but can’t afford to go to Phoenix to watch them play, she’s just a little girl leave her alone.” I felt like a P.O.S. But I still had the nerve to some remark about how they should consider rooting for their home-town team. As the game progressed and as Blake was schooling Nash I just kept turning around and smiling. I remember Darius shooting lights out (10-15) and they were all like 19’ jump shots. It was one of the laziest but most efficient games I have ever seen from a player.

When we lost Steve blake next year to Denver I was really bummed. When we got him back the next year I was so stoked! Apparantly his wife loves Portland, and regardless of where he ends up playing it sounds like he will have a home here. I think Portland needs to find a way to keep him on the roster. His value to the team far exceeds his value on the open market and there is no way we are really going to get equal value for him if he’s involved in a trade. Steve Blake is the man.

At this point in our climb to championship contention, Steve Blake is just what we need. Solid, dependable, smart, loyal, team player. Having realized his potential, we’re seeing now what Blake brings to the game. In time, I think one of our other promising prospects (Roy included) will step up into that starting spot that high-caliber championship play will demand. And I think Steve will gracefully step aside. Even as a bench guy, I will always feel OK when the ball is in Blake’s hands.

He’s the “glue guy” that K.P. likes to talk about. He will never blow your skirt up with a Sports Center highlight play ( unless he can toss a lob to G.O. ) He’s vanilla ice cream when you have 31 flavors to choose from, still good but still vanilla. Also, I don’t think you can ever have enough NCAA champions on your team, nobody will ever be able to take that away from hm.

I remember being very annoyed when we let him go to Denver. He was one of the bright spots on that very bad team. He’s the perfect mentor and calming influence for our current team. Doesn’t hog the ball. Feeds it to the young’uns to get their looks. Hits the open 3. Shows the guys how to take care of the ball and be efficient.

You can’t overstate that kind of example on a young team that’s learning how to win. Efficiency and ball security are key to winning.

How can anyone hate on Blake, he is so consistent. You know what you want to get from him and he delivers. He may not be able to slash to the basket but that is not his weapon. His defense has been awesome from a guy that isn’t an all-star or top 10 pick. Keep it up Blake, Portland wants you to stay.

how bad of a shooting team we were 2 years ago. Adding Blake and Jones last summer improved us immensely. Add in that Jones is gone and Blake becomes that much more important.

Lets not also forget how well he takes care of the ball, the guy had agreat assist/TO ratio last season and was by FAR our best PG. Until someone TAKES his starting position from him I don’t think its fair to call time he’s on the court wasted.

The young players will get what they deserve, but the most important lesson that this team needs them to learn is how to win. Court time does not necessarily teach this, especially if its unearned.

I knew you would get your moment in the sun on here..
I love steve blake because:
A) He doesn’t turn the ball over
B) He doesn’t NEED to score
C) He makes his jumpers
D) He makes the right pass every time, spectacular or not
E) He stays out of trouble
F) He actually likes Portland and you can’t undervalue how important that is. The happier the player the less likely he is to pull a VC and half-ace it.
G) He was nice to me in HS. I played against him when Oak Hill came to the Les Schwab invitational.. Some of the guys on that team were dbags.. Milkbone was not. Cool to everyone.. and man could he shoot.

i call him vannila face… he can ballllll shoot the 3 better than most of our guys on team i love him on our team and say we keep him

To put it bluntly, he’s the best we have, and looking at the market, the best we’re going to have for a while. Not a bad thing.

He loves our city, and just loves basketball. We need to harp on his defense again, I think because it takes looking at the elite PGs against us to understand. Guys like Nash, Paul, and Williams were shut down against the Blazers. Granted part of it was Nate’s system, but part of it was the guy at the top of the key – Steve.

He plays perfect non-flashy ball, and on a team that has three potential all-stars in its starting line-up, that’s what you need. He won’t step on any toes, and he’ll make the shots of GOd and Judge Dridge easier by opening up the middle. Basically, he’s the ideal Blazer PG, until the next ideal Blazer PG comes along.

(Note: there will be a degree of overlap with some of the reasons already given.)

1) He’s a former Terp.
2) He played for Maryland
3) He captained a NCAA Championship team (namely one University of Maryland).
4) He likes Portland enough to have made it his home.
5) He has a great atitude – exactly what Pritchard is preaching for the team.
6) He’s earned his starting spot.

Why I like having him as a Blazer
1) He’s a decent outside shooter who has worked at it to the point of becoming a good shooter. (With the real possibility of becoming even better.)
2) He has a good head, which means he’s a good floor general and that he doesn’t make a lot of mistakes.
3) He has good size for a PG.
4) He is much quicker than most folks give him credit for.
5) He is able to adjust his game so that he can either run the team with the ball in his hand, or become a set up shooter playing off of Roy.
6) He’s at the least adequate defensively and at times very good, depending on the matchup. (His defense on Kobe alone is worth a vote for all NBA defensive team.)
7) He’s from the University of Maryland (in case I didn’t mention that).

He hasn’t really had the chance to do that yet with Roy & Jack running the guard positions to close games. Also, he started off last year shooting terribly on wide open 3’s. His second half of the year was good and he was really getting on a roll before he got kicked in the calf and missed a game or two.

I’m comfortable to start the year with him, but I prefer to see Bayless playing equal or greater minutes by the end of the year. I’m a big Bayless fan. In the last 6 months of polls about the draft I’ve usually voted to get Bayless.