Whats with the dress?

In the newest BS Report Simmons is all over Durant, because he’s only 20 and will improve over time, and he’s seems to have given up on Oden. I don’t get it.

great quote grab for the title.

maybe a third poll consideration — both.

Just to be safe, I voted as a Homer.

Homie’s a bit more geared toward my generation….n I’m asuming most of ours too :) despite the ancients who may prefer the homer remark much like they would a 54 corvette over a 2009 corvette, but the point being,…..the ancients would be much hipper if they adopted the jr.s latino slang term for friend, to substitute the …infamous derogitory homer remarks. :)

I don’t know what I just said, but yeah, homie works for me. :) but as usual…..into the minority I go!! ;0

Congress goes hands on with regulation of porn industry.

I am not surprised though about the lack of fanposts about him. He’s just one of the players that you either support or don’t, but I guarentee you everyone who complains about him all the time, stood up and cheered for him after that shot (which is why I don’t understand how people can “dislike” anyone on our team…it’s ludacris). I am very proud of him and he once again showed us why he won’t be going anywhere. My love/hate relationship with Travis has been on the brink many times this season, but when we really need him, he’s come through for us. I wish he could be more of a Tayshaun-type player for us, but he’s Travis, and that’s not going to change. I guess I’ll hope for that out of Batum instead. Anyhow, I’m very happy that Nate had that talk with him, and that Travis stepped up to the challenge. Hopefully now, he can get some confidence back, and hopefully now people who call themselves “fans” can shut up and stop calling him names.

best BBQ ribs in Portland = Yam Yam’s on the corner of MLK and Lombard in NE Portland. I’m pretty sure that’s the street names anyway. Their pork rib sandwich is awesome. And they’ve got just about the best potato salad of all time.

Now, as for Travis. After his shot last night I thought three things: 1). Good, we’re ahead. 2). Crap, way way too much time on the clock (8 seconds). 3). People will now think Outlaw is an indispensable part of this team because of that shot; game winners cover a multitude of sins.

I’m one of those that is sick of Travis Outlaw. My beefs are that he continually takes bad shots (with an uncanny ability to make many of them), he doesn’t bring enough energy on defense or to the boards, he has little to no offensive or defensive awareness. I do believe he possesses the skills to do all of these things, and in games like last night, he showed it. But he is unbelievably inconsistent in that type of energy level. I believe most nights he does more harm then good: either blowing a defensive assignment completely (and when playing zone, this affects the whole defense even more), wasting offensive possessions with bad shots (either too well defended or too early in the shot clock), not attacking the boards, not being aggressive enough offensively and settling for fade away jump shots when he has the athleticism to get to the rim almost at will. But on those nights he plays with energy and is aggressive, he does well.

Still though, one good game doesn’t make up for lots of bad ones. At this point, I just don’t see Outlaw becoming a consistent player. He’s had ample opportunity and hasn’t shown he can bring it on a nightly basis. I think he’s a great guy and a good locker room guy, but as a player, I think it’s pretty clear he’s lacking in some of the most important areas this team needs.

I still don’t know how Nate can turn someone from being lazy into super-productive, but he’s done it like 3 times this season. Just incredible. Also, playing Trav at the PF position makes him a much more effective player, so another great change by Nate. And damn it, if Trav shoots over 45%, he actually becomes the legit offensive threat so many people say he is. About time, man!

Travis in his natural form.

Without his scoring, we don’t win.

But this game was a TERRIFIC example of why he is so frustrating, perfectly embodied in the play that ended the 1st half. The Pistons missed the 2nd FT, and Travis AGAIN doesn’t box out— he starts to way after the play had started. The bad guys get the easy rebound, and go for one more shot.

THANKFULLY, Travis got the great block to keep them from scoring, but we’d rather he got the rebound so we could get another possession, no? Such is the Travis.

He also kept switching on picks and rolls even when our guards had managed to fight through the screen, leaving his man wiiiide open. And, continued non-boxing out.

It’s just Travis. The clutch scoring certainly hides the sins, and I know after a good game some will say “SEE WHY WOULD YOU WANNA TRADE HIM”. And again, this game would not be won without his scoring.

But outside of the good shooting percentage and clutch buckets, it wasn’t a very good game and many of the mistakes were, again, at incredibly inopportune times. I love the kid, don’t wanna trade him, but after this sort of game we can’t really go “SEE HE IS AWESOME” when he still did the Travis things he does that makes us go “C’mon, Travis”.

Mortimer

He does one thing well (score off of jump-shots), and a bunch of things inconsistently.

I’m fine if Outlaw stays.

But championship caliber teams are made of consistent players. Defense is the easiest thing to be consistent at, and he’s not consistent on that end.

How was the comeback started? Defense, which lead to easy buckets.

Travis is amazing and hit the game-winner. Props to that. And he would be valuable to a championship team… but this team needs to trade some of our one-dimensional offensive players.

-Tyler

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Suppose you go to a little league game in which Jessica and Johnny — your neighbors kids — are playing. You always enjoy watching them play no matter what happens in the game. So, on this day, J and J end up striking out or hitting into double plays, and their team loses. After the game you hear some other people talking about getting rid of your favorite players and recruiting some ringers from across town. You’d be in favor of that, wouldn’t you? After all, it would improve the team.

Likewise, many of us have bonded with the Blazers, and we care about them, not just the team’s win-loss record. The more we read about them and see them on TV, the more we feel like we actually know them, and the closer we feel to them. So, when other people say insulting things about our favorite players or want to trade them away, we tend to take it a bit personally. In a sense, folks like that — us, I mean — are the ultimate homers. We don’t necessarily have illusions about how talented or hard-working or clutch our guys are, but we like them, and we want to see them succeed. And if in the end they don’t manage to win a championship, we’ll still feel good about having rooted for them all the way.

This kind of bonding I’m talking about occurs between a lot of “ordinary” folks and various celebs. It may or may not be a very recent phenomenon. And from some points of view, it may be considered abnormal, a waste of time, silly, or even neurotic. But, really, is it any less valid than the kind of fandom that only cares about winning? In either case, some part of our happiness, at least for a short time, depends on the process or the outcome of 10 guys running around on a hardwood floor trying to insert a spherical air bladder through a metal hoop. It’s all pretty absurd, but then life is often absurd, isn’t it?

Obviously, on Blazers Edge, there are fans of both types and everywhere in between, and probably of other types that I haven’t even imagined. It would be nice if we could remember this and try to be a bit more thoughtful about what we say and how we say it. Take Dave, for example. I’m pretty sure he has said in so many words that he’s not terribly attached to any player not named Brandon, LaMarcus, or Greg, and that he would favor trading anyone else if it could be seen as improving the team. Yet, in all the many thousands of words Dave has posted on BE, I can’t recall encountering a single instance where he might have upset somebody with a callous or careless word or phrase. Of course, we can’t all write like Dave! However, it is not primarily because of his writing skill that he manages to say insightful things without unduly stirring things up; it is mainly because he is committed to building a community here, and he is mindful of the affect that his words can have. I think we can all try a little bit harder to emulate him in this respect.

If we had lost, that (plus the bad defensive rebounding by him and Travis) woulda’ been the biggest reasons why.

He was having such good success getting it on the block and doing some (now trustworthy) moves, on mostly smaller defenders. He needs to just take the long 20 footer out of his arsenal unless feeling it or he HAS to shoot it. He can HIT it, but sooooo much more effective with a foot in the paint.

I like Dwyer, and he’s been not-liking-LMA-much for forever, usually mentioning something after his most egregiously bad games. He’s also a Bulls fan, of course ;-)

LMA had no reason to take most of those jumpers when he can pass it off, re-establish some sort of position, and we can get him the ball there where he is becoming even more and more effective. You erase that from his game, you get a better shooting percentage, mre FTs, and more points. Everyone be happy!

Mortimer

But it happens to the best of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csZDrjmq7io

I think Shav is Trav’s closest thing to a southern boy on the squad, being from Raleigh… It always warms my heart to see him so engaged with things cause thats part of my role to preach patience and help him focus on the bigger picture…

we’d be like 21 and 14 if we had him!

He had the game winner, but sadly he’s being more remembered for having the “Block of the Night”.

He’s a middle class man’s Juan Dixon (while Juan Dixon is himself a hobo’s version of Juan Dixon, the archetype), who didn’t get the benefit of winning a national title in school to keep him on a roster!

Watch his monster dunk, the link is just above us.

Morty

The Thunder get a protected 1st rounder out of it too.

That brings the Thunder’s draft pick total to 18 in the first round next offseason.

M.

I am not sure it counts

Somewhere above I linked a pic where his arm is next to Travis. Dude is super skinny, even Nic is more bulked out. Still wouldn’t mind to have him until NIc is on that level in a few years. His shots were near undefendable for our guys.

why are only the guys being posted up on here? Where are the ladies???

There is this though. Now if ONLY Batman can become Prince.

Get that Brady Quinn jersey out of here.

They seem to only beat really good teams. Weird team, scary weird.

Soooooooo self-absorbed!

The discussion going on right now look civil. Only Timbo’s joke post was apparently deleted :)

I love it when people get banned. It’s like Whack-A-Mole when it’s a really good troll. You got banned, all I ever got was a warning. So’s your face!

aka a tard. (But we can’t use that term any longer.)

and forget that was a while ago. I’m starting to remember, but then my next birthday will come around and I’ll think i’m 33 or something, i’m sure.

I’m in denial.

Forgetting other people’s names
Forgetting your own name
Forgetting to zip up after taking a leak
Forgetting to zip down before taking a leak

And throwing him back onto the court.

What is that guy’s hand behind Rudy’s head going to do to Blake, goose him?

and there were plenty

But no way can he do the same athletic dunks those two can do, let alone Howard and Nate Robinson.

Rudy will need some serious theatrics and showmanship to overshadow their raw athleticism.

Not that Rudy ain’t athletic, cuz he is, but not athletic like THOSE guys.

Morty Pie

pronounced it correctly

See the little chain next to the bold italics strikethrough and picture. that chain is the link helper.

scrub

when you realize how low his BBIQ is…. I love listening to him.

hes not totally homerish…at least not homerish when compared to the homers on this site.