I can't wait for these 10 days to pass. . .

relax and enjoy it… this is rediculous..I’d rather read about trades than this

Every NBA writer/blog/radioguy/news caster, is talking about trades. Oh well, just dont hurt yourself. Find your happy place!

the site should have a “vote this fanpost off the site” function. It’s almost like ESPN’s board in here.

I agree. I like talking about what’s going on with the team we have rather than the team we want.

that repeated trade posts are not my idea of fun, but at the same time in this case I do understand them. As you point out the trade deadline is only 10 days away. I respect the feelings of people who hate Christmas music but you know, from about December 20th on I think they pretty much have to deal with it because it’s the season. That’s the analogy I’m using in my own mind to keep me sane. Also keep in mind that a trade proposal is an easy entry point for a new poster who might otherwise be intimidated posting something. You have to give a little leeway there.

—Dave

next Tuesday/Wednesday.

I’m On a Boat

This is the not okay for work or kids version.

Word.

but it was funny at the reading last night to hear Mr. Shoals dropping F-bombs in front of the Blazers Edge crowd. I just felt like someone in the audience was thinking of yelling “FLAG!!”

but remember RLEC is probably our best chance to acquire a proven impact player for a while. So it is really quite a big deal. Ergo the unusually high amount of trade talk on this site. This site should be more normal soon enough.

Er, I actually got hooked on watching some of the best athletes on earth play the greatest team sport ever invented. I admit to being eager to see if KP manages to improve the team in the next week. But I tire of all the speculation and analysis.

Plus, I don’t enjoy constantly hearing Blazers referred to as “assets”—like they’re pieces of meat. That’s understandable but a bit disheartening. There’s not a guy on the current roster to whom I’d say, “Good riddance.”

So yeah: I look forward to the passing of the trade deadline and the resumption of play after the all-star break. That’s when our rested Blazers will—hopefully—make a strong stretch run to lock up their first playoff appearance since the Jailblazer days.

for Sonny Weems and a draft pick.

I really dont think there is gonna be a trade. I really dont think KP, Nate, et al, believes they are contenders to really win it all this season. KP talks alot about culture and I dont believe he lets any player who is playing regular minutes, plus Blake, Martell – go -

Has KP ever traded a player, beyond maybe a bench player close to the trade deadline? Nothing springs to mind. The parts of this team are starting to mesh though it would be really nice if they got a killer defender. Like Buck! See I’m getting sucked into this TRADE DEADLINE!!! Remember how good the Blazers got after getting Buck! He was mostly an offensive player when he was playing, and when he came here he turned into probably one of this teams best defenders in history. We already had scorers. So who’s got a guy that we can go get now – who can come in for Lamarcus – and play lock down D inside and out.

I, too, am sick & tired of the trade discussions.

it’s like pulling teeth.

Let’s just get it over with already.

If only for the fact that its getting hard to sift through the trade proposals to read anything else.

I’m not meaning to gripe about the trade proposals or the people that enjoy reading them, I’d just like to see them stay in their spot so that the rest of us that don’t want to read it all don’t have to.