The nickname project seeks to find a title that fits every key player on the team, a tag so descriptive and obvious that it comes to mind as readily as the player’s own name.  Since it takes some time for players to establish their NBA identity and for fans to get a handle on them, we’re starting with the established Blazers and putting off newer players until some time around midseason.   

Producing monikers for Portland’s probable starting guards is a challenge for opposite reasons.  I think it was Brian Wheeler who dubbed Brandon Roy “The Natural” and it’s a tag that’s caught on.  Can anyone produce a nickname that can compete with it?  

In the case of Blake, we’re dealing with a nickname blank slate.  He’s a steady, reliable player who doesn’t excel in any particular aspect of the game, but neither does he have glaring faults.  What title works for him?  

In order to reduce nickname suggestions to a reasonable number that we can vote on later, some guidelines:

1) Please stay focused on the two guards for now.  Yes, you may have an array of sizzling sobriquets for Blazer forwards, masterful monikers for the centers, the niftiest of nicknames for all the others, but wait.  We’ll get to them later.

2) Besides offering your own suggested title(s) for a player, be sure to mention the ones that other people offered that you like so that I can figure out which ones are most popular.  

3) Although I’ll select most nickname candidates based on their popularity as measured by positive Edger comments, I reserve the right to include others because people made compelling arguments for them or because they seem particularly original, clever or apt.