The RANT Thread

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first game was Outlaw, and some late Brandon Roy
2nd game was rudy and roy
tonight was roy and aldridge

for a team this deep and talented, we should not have trouble finding three guys to contribute each night.

I thought that obnoxious kid last year was the worst, but they still managed to find another hard-to-watch person in this akamian guy. He looks like he’s going to swallow his neck, and talks like it

Smiley Face

our D was outstanding, aaron brooks looked like a little girl trying to slow down blake, and Oden managed to stay on his feet after a totally necessary monster jam.

Is Bayless the key to turning it around? Quite possibly not. But I have had it to the gills both with Blake and with “Power Forward” Travis Outlaw and I wanna see the Blazers pull out of the death spiral before they become the Miami Heat. It’s coming, I can feel it — absolute chemistry collapse.

Houston will make the playoffs this season, while Oklahoma City will struggle to win 30 games.

last year, we were 1-3.

we finished with 54 wins.

We’re playing play-off teams close despite having no chemistry or defense

Once this team figures it out (ahem, miller starting), we will be fine

Although it’s not great, I don’t think it’s terrible, either.

To me, the problem is that the Blazers seem not at all interested in defending, worse even than last year. The Maybe that’s somewhat to be expected with the absence of Batum, but it just seems to me that they haven’t bought in to the idea that defense makes the difference between the good teams and the great teams. I’ve watched two of Boston’s games so far and the difference in effort on defense is astounding.

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Blake: I don’t really care if he starts or not, I care that he can’t inbound balls for the past years without taking timeouts or overlooking open players. Nate, please let a different player do that. Since we need Roy on the floor mostly receiving it maybe Rudy or Martell, the advantage is that often teams tend to forget the player who inbounded the ball in shooting situations and he gets wide open looks.

I’m tired of seeing us get burned by quick Point Guards. It is a serious problem again. Aaron Brooks looks like the single greatest Point guard to ever play the game when he plays the Blazers. We need to try something different on those guys cuz what we’re doing ain’t working…at all. Take away Brooks from Houston last night and I think we win that game quite comfortably.

And Brooks was matched up against Blake most of the night! WTF! I was so excited to see Dre post up those midget PG’s to try and get them out of the game, but nope. Point guard play and Point guard defense looks to be our achilles heel again.

Scored 18 BIG pts. 4-5 on 3’s… including the dagger late… played better D than Miller tonight (actually worked hard denying Westbrook and applying some pressure).

Relax!.. We’re 4 games into the season and we could have… and probably should have won them all.

It’s a long season and this is the NBA. We’ll win games people think we should lose and lose games we should win. It happens to everybody,,,every year.

GO BLAZERS!!!