I don't know if anyone else notices this but it's something that I've seen. It seems like the Blazer guards don't want to shoot the ball. Well, most of them anyway. It seems like the only Blazer guard that looks to shoot is Andre Miller and he's the worst shooter out of all the guards.

I always see the Blazer guards passing up the first open shot and sometimes even the second open shot. That's why it seems like Portland is constantly battling the shot clock. Like in the game against Atlanta I think it was where Brandon Roy had the ball at the top of the key with a wide open shot. He looked like he was going to take the shot and at the last second he passed the ball inside to Rudy Fernandez with 2 defenders on him. Rudy made the shot but it looked like a difficult pass Roy made when he had a wide open jumper.

I see this with Blake, though he is getting better at taking the first look he gets. I see it constantly with Roy. I see it with Rudy too. But Miller will take a shot no problem and he's not that good of a shooter.

LaMarcus has no problem putting the ball up. Neither does Greg. But Greg should just because he's in the post and they're playing him 1 on 1. But it just seems like the Blazer guards are trying too hard to be unselfish and it does frustrate me sometimes. But hopefully they'll start taking the first shot available.