Blazers' Early Woes Have Portland Fans Grumbling

Not much on the Blazers really. I think it's funny that it appears the NBA.com author just summarized the last few days of posts on BE. Maybe our rants on here are giving us, and our team, a negative rep!

I don't want to turn this into something where folks call others out, but along the lines of the headline, do Blazers fans grumble more than most? There's definitely a popular sentiment that we're whiners. I suspect that we're just a more rabid fan base, so while we may have more whiners and grumblers in the aggregate (or those we have may be louder), they don't represent a higher percentage of our ranks than normal.

What do you think? Are we whiners and grumblers? I sure hope not. There's a place for criticism, but fandom by definition, is about admiration and excitement. If we lose that, we'll be a sad lot indeed.

18 days ago DC Blazer 3 comments 0 recs |

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… it is easy to get the impression that we have an over abundance of whiners and complainers.

But I think they tend to be the vocal minority.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Nov 5, 2009 3:23 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Nate's taken the team from 21 to 54 wins in 4 years.

The team starts out 2-3 (same as last year) with two new key players that weren’t here last year, and there are dozens of posts that range from fire Nate to long lists of everything he is doing wrong, We got people who have never coached a high school, college, or NBA game lecturing Nate (who’s coached 750 NBA games) on what the role of a coach is. No, we aren’t whiners or grumblers, it goes way beyond that.

by BlazerFanSince1970 on Nov 5, 2009 5:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

If the wins don't come the whines will

Few organizations can claim a more zealous fanbase. That is mostly positive, but that interest was stoked by anticipated wins. High expectations are easily dashed.

by cantdunk on Nov 6, 2009 11:18 AM PST reply actions 0 recs