He’s a winner. He, Oden and LMA are a great nucleus.

I was a little surprised and disappointed when he allowed the media to get pull quotes from him that placed him in the middle of the PG debate. That was too bad. If anything, I hope he has learned that the media is not his friend and that winning basketball will be his true statement. Also, Brandon will always be the leader of this team—-when the team looks good he looks good.

da mo problems.

I haven’t been very confident lately

This, and the coach is mediocre.

that was like a shocker to me. I mean weve been hearing all this stuff about shots, not playing well, but this is the first ive heard from him pertaining to desire.

thats like close to a post-contract lull admission. no? hunger? whhhAAT?

on the court

Is that Brandon thinks the rest of the team can’t be confident without him too being confident. Greg is plenty confident. Paul Allen isn’t paying you 85 mil to try to look confident to your teammates, he’s paying you that money to be that guy that made the all star team, and was looked at as a top 5 (or so) player in the league. Not little Whiney McWhinerstein.

I know thats probably a little harsh… But I’m annoyed. Not so much in the losses…. the team is going to lose a few. Its the lack of effort.

At least Greg is trying… And Greg likes Miller. Start Miller. Let Roy run the second unit ;)

It’s interesting that he was mainly just talking about his offense needing work. I hope he will also realize that his defense could use a little help as well.

Now follow through! Win us some games

I don’t care if Roy can’t score 30 points. I just want to see some pride in his defense. This goes for LMA too. Roy has a better excuse to conserve his energy than LMA. Everything I’ve seen of LMA is a guy who’s too clean to get dirty. He’s become too worried about fouls to play defense.

What I saw last night was a much better effort on his part in terms of ‘scrappiness’ (thank you Nate…). He was chasing after loose balls and digging in a little more especially when there was the glimmer of hope at the end of the 4th. He had a terrible cold stretch shooting through the 2nd and 3rd but nobody was really hitting consistently (OK, Howard). Roy’s defense is still pretty lazy but, I see this as where he can improve his game and help the team the most. It is not that he is a bad defender, he just doesn’t play hard defense consistently. He really only digs in occasionally when it is absolutely necessary.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve repeatedly read how Roy is saving himself for the 4th quarter (meaning not playing on the defensive end as aggressively as he is able). While not necessarily agreeing with this mindset, I think the team has reached a point where this is no longer needed. We have so much talent, I don’t think Roy needs to hold back. Play hard at both ends until you are tired then take a rest on the bench. Hopefully by then, we are up sufficiently to allow a few minutes of rest, then go back in and do it again.
If Roy feels he is not involved enough because Oden and Aldridge are getting the majority of shots during any particular stretch, then he needs to go make up for it at the defensive end or crash the boards and get some offensive rebounds. I think he needs to take a look a what Webster is doing. Clearly, Webster is not a focal point of the offense but he sure has been finding ways to get involved whether it be rebounding or playing hard defense or even running the floor on a fast-break.
Brandon Roy is unquestionably the leader of this team. His attitude/demeanor will carry everyone else to victory or defeat.

that Brandon doesn’t give Baron Davis back his seat on the All Star team.

that would suck.

And is coming to that realization. No surprise. The organoization, the team and the fans have put a lot on Brandon Roy and he strikes me as the sort of person that feels obligated to take on such burdens. It is not surprising or unusual for anyone, let alone a 25 year old, to lose sight of the big picture. Not when he’s trying to concentrate on so many little details.

It could be something as simple as Roy wanting to live up to his new deal and then questioning how he was going to do that if Greg, Andre, Martell and Rudy were all going to be a bigger part of the offense. Most people place great stock in numbers and I thing Brandon might have allowed himeslf to get caught up in that a little. Now I think the light came back on and he realizes that in the long run, his success will be measured by the team’s success. I don’t think he ever went away from that idea. I just think it may have gotten a little muddled.

It sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me when people say “have got to” instead of simply saying “need to”, but “have got to get” “has gotten me to get” my teeth worn down from all the grinding
And its one of the biggest Nate-isms out there that make him so unreadable.

thank you for that….but I don’t really care if Brandon has his pecking order going on if the team doesn’t get a W…..

So many seem to have totally forgotten how much Roy has meant to the Blazers, and the extremely key role he plays now and will continue to play toward the success of this team.

This “what have you done for me lately” mentality has me almost nauseated, and shakes my confidence in the human race. I can’t think of a classier, more unselfish, media friendly, good citizen, talented player in the entire NBA. I consider myself to be one of the most fortunate fans in the NBA to have Brandon Roy as a member of my team.

I’ve said it all along that the over the top expectations for this team in the off season would result in this kind of appalling negativity if fan’s fantasies weren’t met (but I certainly didn’t predict Brandon frickin Roy becoming a target).

Jeesh.

is that kind of like this.

Roy, the star player telling everyone else to step their games up while playing poorly himself. I’m glad he realized this before someone had to stand up to him tell him that he needs to play better.

so in a way, roy has told the star player to step his game up twice now.