K. P. were not worthy!!

by blazerbeliever97504 on Nov 15, 2009 5:40 AM PST

Sitting at 8-3 with a 1/2 game lead in the division is not a bad place to be. What i have come to realize is that K.P. is much smarter than anyone of us (some will be excluded of course) could ever hope to be.

What i mean by this is that alot of people (myself included) have called for a "consolidation" of talent via a trade. I personally saw this as the ONLY solution to an otherwise overly talented team. Overly talented? Yes teams can be that, this team in my view was too deep, it had too much talent to ever keep all of its players happy with there playing time. I saw a two for one trade type scenario as our best case type situation. Something like Blake and Trout for Battier (my personal hope) to be what we needed.

Looking at things now......Trout out till January atleast, Batum out till.....man i forget but its a long time from now, Bayless out now with some wierd ankle thing.......(my hope is thats a little injury) and our depth is our best asset currently. Take any team in the league, subtract there starting SF and there best bench player(by performance to this point this year) and you will most likely have a team in disarray. We on the other hand will most likely plug along.

We have got to have Rudy step up, stupid off season euro ball......is it me or does every euro ball player seem to be having sub-par year. A person can only play so much b-ball. Anyways, Rudy has got to step up, hopefully J.B. comes back strong and soon, Juwan IMO will prove to be a huge signing....dude knows how to play. Martell is the wild card here......if he steps up and plays big we will be fine, but he has GOT to start playing like a top 10 draft pick SOON.

My overall point here is to say that K.P. not pulling the trigger on a trade seems to have paid off in spades at this point in the year, could you guys imagine if we did not have Blake or Web or Joel to help fill the gaps currently voided. Dante Cunningham, Steve Blake, Jerryd Bayless, Rudy Fernandez, and especially Martell Webster.....these are the names that must step up in order for us to keep going forward the way we have been.

This has been as eventful and noteworthy a start to an NBA season as i can remeber the Blazers having. So far what i have learned is that we are in very good hands with K.P. Next time i play NBA2k10 ill try to resist the urge to trade Miller, Webster, Outlaw, and who ever else for some stud that i want. I see now Kevin Pritchard's strategy....injuries happen.....its good to have a legion of(above average-very good) players rather than a few VERY good players. This season is unfolding even wierder than i could have imagined and my faith in K.P. is as re-assured and as strong as ever.

Go Blazers!!!!

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How True

The one issue we often forget is that GM’s always factor in injuries, because every team has them every year. It’s as much a part of the game as the debate over who starts. Josh Howard just went down, for example, and just about every team now has one or more players injured – whether minor or major. Last year we watched teams like San Antonio and the Jazz struggle, LA lose Bynum – the list goes on. Right now, we need every player. I don’t like losing Outlaw, but I also believe that we have other players that can step up and give us those 10 pts and 3 or 4 rebounds he represents. But, we’d certainly be in a jam if we’d “consolidated” the roster too quickly. Suddenly, Rudy will start getting the minutes he wanted, there’s no argument over the “starting” small forward as Webster is the only one left, and Bayless is no longer feeling left out and unable to play.

by Eben Calder on Nov 15, 2009 7:42 AM PST reply actions

Exactly.

If they’d have done what a lot of fans have called for the Blazers would be signing guys from the D-League to fill the holes. All this hand-wringing about minutes and too much talent is preferable to worrying about what will happen when they put marginal players on the floor. Now we get to see whether Dante and Bayless are for real and whether Howard’s still got it. I’m guessing these guys were pretty sure they’d get their chance at some point.

I wonder what the averages are throughout the NBA in terms of how many rotation players miss X amount of games.

by Benjamanic on Nov 15, 2009 12:41 PM PST reply actions

Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good

Pendergraph
Batum
Outlaw

just since August, this season has 5+ months to go, then comes the playoffs

Fortunately, the key injuries have come from the depth of the roster, so far. Did KP “just know” that he would need “extra” wing players, or is it just “the way things have worked out” that those are the players who’ve been hurt, so far?

The reason I said Portland has been “lucky” is because they haven’t “lost” Joel, Greg or LMA…even though Aldridge bumped his knee, last week. As long as the big guys stay healthy, KP will look like a genius for the way he constructed his regular season roster.

When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Nov 15, 2009 12:48 PM PST reply actions

LMA was the MVP in yesterdays game.

Romance me with that Roy rainbow shot which took flight from way beyond the arc and sailed so high that before it came back down to earth sealing the victory, it kissed the rafters and said "You're mine baby."

by Blazer1342 on Nov 15, 2009 2:26 PM PST reply actions