Monday Discussion: Take That Back!

Blazers should of got Chris Paul instead of Webster. Thats the biggest eror.

next dumbest thing was Miles.

it pretty much has to be missing out on CP3. Impossible to know where we’d be if we’d taken him (we might be better off, we might not). The fact remains that it was a bonehead move (which I happened to support at the time).

is ive been reading a lot of other blogs, and most other fans either hate there owners or front office. that is one of the most distinct differences i can think of. even the first two comments lack any passion for complaining about our situation, theres just not a lot of room for it. its almost laugh worthy. i just kant feal anything when thinking about what theve done wrong. out with the bad, in with the good, seams pretty streight to me.

to adress the other. I just got fired form my job. I had a really good job. I would run peoples credit applications and verry few made more then my ceiling. I was verry good at what I did to the point of being an arregent jerk about it all, constantly challenging the management staff and adding a little zach poison to the culture. no partying mind you, but still just as bad for moralle. several key indeviduals in the know told me on several ocations that I could have been a k*be or mickel to that industry. instead i was zach. I would take it all back in an instance if i could, but instead have to go in at noon tomarrow for the final cerimony of it all. not really funny but….

See Seahawks

and the events leading up to it was as dumb as they come.

My mistake (there are lots to pick from) was likely trusting the VA to continue to care for me as a 100% disabled veteran. I probably ticked someone off there because they are whacking me nearly every chance they get. I am still getting benefits but have had to cut my pain/edema treatments in half to adjust for the money they took away from me each month. On the positive side I have had to see each day as a blessing looking for the positive and letting go of the negative.

Link.

I got two regrets from the last five years. The first one was cheesin for the first time a few months back. I try and try to quit but just can’t stop doing it, and it’s starting to turn my face yellow. The second is getting drunk and tattooing the street sign “Free Parking in Rear” on my chest on a dare for $50.

Whatever moves we might have regretted, we have today a team we all love. That’s what counts, not what we might have done over from the past.

Listing the moves I disagreed with at the time:
1) Extending Zach a year before we had to. We could have waitied a year and provided the team with greater flexibility.
2) Re-signing Miles for as many years as we did. There were no offers on the table but ours. We could have had him for less money and a short term, say 4 years. He’s be gone by now.
3) Drafting Telfair. I was against that from day one. However it did appear to be a key asset in the Roy trade. Apparently Danny wanted him.

that the major changes suggested by some (drafting Paul instead of Webster, taking Jefferson instead of Telfair, etc.) would have changed the past enough to REALLY change the look of the Blazers. I’m going to approach this question from the perspective that changing the past in major ways would mean no Roy, no LMA and no Oden. Therefore, I am forced to conclude that I wouldn’t change anything up until the point that Oden was actually drafted – so as not to possibly disturb the opportunity to put our Big 3 together.

So what would I have done differently? Draft Ramon Sessions instead of Taureen Green.

I’d snag Chris Paul. However, doing that could have changed so many things.

We’d be risking the team not being blown apart. We’d be risking KP not standing out because he was so passionate about Chris Paul and KP NOT being advanced and thus a blazer team without KP.

We’d definitely be saying good-bye to Oden.

Chris Paul may have also had issues playing with the black hole of Zach.

Roy and Aldridge MAY have been at risk as well.

So what would I do differently? Nothing. Anything I did could alter the space time continuum. I’m rather fond of this space time dealio.

Now, if you tell me that I have no worries, then I shorten Mile’s contract to expire with RLEC.

but the biggest mistake could be taking Bowie Oden over Durant.

Easily the biggest mistake in my life was not insisting that my wife get a colonoscopy at 50 as is recommended. I’ll never get over that regret.

Drafting Martell over whomever…
Extending/contracting Zach and Miles…

The one I’m going with, though, is not supporting Cheeks more in the Miles dust up. Management completely undercut Mo and knocked all the legs from under his authority. (Yes, I mixed my metaphors again).

I’ve come to the conclusion that all the really stupid things I’ve done in my life have made me the person I am. I’m not the worst person I know so I’m down with that. The thing I’d definitely take back is leaving my wife late last year. Luckily we are back together and I think we both value each other a whole lot more now so even that turned out well.

...I think you can look at having the chance to get Chris Paul and not getting him as a mistake however if we had taken him how would that of affected following years? Who knows where we would be right now. But it’s a relatively easy thing to look at and define as a mistake.
I think a mistake The Blazers seem to be making is the number of guards we are carrying. We jettisoned Green for Von Wafer last season. I still think we are carrying one guard too many. Any way I slice the rotation or the substitution pattern that doesn’t include injury and it seems someone I think deserving of playing time either for results or development or both is going to be left out in the cold. Most likely Sergio or Bayless isn’t going to consistently see the playing time. That’s the situation I see as problematic right now. Sooner or later The Blazers are going to have to make a decision about at least one of our guards which means someone with potential and a degree of popularity is going to not be a Blazer. Tough decision but one I think The Blazers need to make and sooner than later.

Along the same lines, we “might” be making a mistake that is directly tied to this situation in giving Batum a roster spot over Koponen. In my opinion Koponen seems much closer to actually being an N.B.A. level player but since he plays a position that we are overstocked at, we are electing to keep Batum. This could come back to bite us. I don’t really buy the Batum can gain more by being in The N.B.A. as opposed to Koponen.

I guess it boils down to I think tough decisions about the young Blazer talent need to be made soon. Right now it seems The Blazer are trying to keep everyone and I think some decisions need to be made or it will be a mistake.

and i’d invest in Youtube

and we WOULD have gotten CP3. After all, he was the big CP3 advocate.