"We interrupt this program..."

by coastrider on Feb 19, 2009 8:52 PM PST Comment 26 comments

To send this message to All of the Wannabe armchair G.Ms. The sideline player trade experts. The Fantasy League doomsayers. Most especially, to the "Fans" who are now ready to throw our Team under the bus. All because "KP and the Powers That Be" chose Not to make the "Mother of all Trades" you thought they should have. Get Over It Already! We still look good to make the playoffs with the team we have. Truth be told, many people here are happy with the team just as it is, for now. If that is not good enough for you, please have the courtesy to take your gloom and doom, lukewarm fandom someplace else. This is a Portland Trailblazers FAN site. "...we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming".

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how dare you insult ruffin.

by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 19, 2009 8:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I think he means that we "still look good to make the playoffs with the team we have" WHEN you add in Ruffin

".. is gumby an alien?"

by staylost on Feb 19, 2009 9:18 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

What a stupid line of reasoning

“If you don’t like it, you can GITTOUT!”

I really hope you don’t vote.

by AndrewD on Feb 19, 2009 9:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Blazerdom

love it or leave it..

"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum

by idoltime on Feb 19, 2009 9:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Baaa.

Why is Channing Frye still here? Anybody??? Anybody???

by timbo on Feb 19, 2009 10:01 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

But think about Carter's ppm and his defense compared to Webster's

It is such a huge upgrade and we could potentially be contenders for all the way next year.

What do you say to that coastrider?

".. is gumby an alien?"

by staylost on Feb 19, 2009 9:13 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I woulwould say you're wrong

I would say that he doesn’t fit the culture. I would say that even if it worked out, it would only be for a year and we would be in weak contention. I would also say that depending on what NJ wanted, we would be giving up vital pieces of our championship runs to have a chance at 1 year. I would also say that we are still capable of doing a lot this off season in terms of longer term, more suitable fixes without changing the composure of this team. But that’s just me, I don’t know what coastrider would say.

I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better.

by einman77 on Feb 19, 2009 9:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Why don't you think Carter would fit the culture?

He is well-liked by his teammates. He hasn’t had any run-ins with the law, and as far a I know there is no indication that he has ever used drugs. He does a lot of community service, donates heavily to charity, and even won an award from the NBA for outstanding commitment to the community. What part of that doesn’t fit our culture?

by trk on Feb 19, 2009 10:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Simple

It did not happen, live with it?

If you have nothing constructive to say about someone, I prefer that you say nothing at all.

"If Jumping to conclusions, Kicking others when they do not do well and Launching into senseless tirades were Olympic Events, some people around here would be Medal Contenders". Me

by coastrider on Feb 19, 2009 11:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

good lord

people who question the direction of the team every once in a while aren’t any less of a fan than you are dude. I don’t think a lot of people are unhappy with the team right now, I just think people are disappointed because ESPN trade rumors created unfair expectations. We aren’t exactly “good” to make the playoffs right now either. you should be knocking on wood. We’re only a few games from 9th place right now and we’re talking about the team who just lost to OKC, barely beat Memphis, lost the season series to Golden State, lost at home to the Clippers, and has yet to notch a quality win on the road against a western power. Not Denver, not Utah, not Phoenix, not LA, not Dallas. We’re gonna have to play out of our minds in San Antonio and although we STOLE one in New Orleans, we haven’t been to Houston yet either. There is a rough road ahead…

The Blazers as a whole are far more like my wife than like me in the sense of their physicality on defense.
-Dave

by chrischa on Feb 19, 2009 9:14 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I think he is just saying

that you are free to question why they didn’t do a trade, but realize that a lot of people are glad they didn’t make a trade. We all have opinions, like…. :-)

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Feb 19, 2009 9:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

And he is reacting to everyone who threw a tantrum because they didn't get validated by KP

Hinrich will never get a chance to prove he could’ve saved this franchise. It could be fun to hold it over everyone’s head when we leave the playoffs this year.

".. is gumby an alien?"

by staylost on Feb 19, 2009 9:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

the people this is aimed at

If you have nothing constructive to say about someone, I prefer that you say nothing at all.

"If Jumping to conclusions, Kicking others when they do not do well and Launching into senseless tirades were Olympic Events, some people around here would be Medal Contenders". Me

by coastrider on Feb 19, 2009 11:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Save the franchise?

C’mon, it’s Heinrich…..

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Feb 19, 2009 11:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

PS

that is why we love this site, so many opinions! :-)

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Feb 19, 2009 11:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

no he isnt

He is pretty specifically discriminating against people who disagree with the decision to stand pat by telling them to “take their gloom and doom, lukewarm fandom elsewhere”. Which, of course, is a flat out stupid and ignorant proposition…

RUDY > MJ

by myemic23 on Feb 19, 2009 9:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, how are we even above .500?

I do agree that the comments about lukewarm fandom are out of line. I also agree that, in an effort to pump up ratings and make their job seem important, sports prognosticators everywhere worked us, the consumer, over. I don’t think it’s fair to rate how good of a fan someone is based on their reaction to the level of satisfaction with today. I also would hate to see people getting into the “what have you done for me lately” line of though, that happens far too often in sports, when it comes to the current Blazers brass. We’re winning, we’re exceeding expectations, we’ve gone from the worst team in the league to one of the most promising in the history of sports in less than 3 years, but we’re not doing it quickly enough. That is what worries me about this. But smearing people for their opinion is the wrong way to go about proving one’s point.

I like whatever metric makes a Blazer look better.

by einman77 on Feb 19, 2009 9:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

AMEN

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Feb 19, 2009 9:14 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I liked KP's move.

I don’t like this fanpost.

Patience is underrated. Fan opinons are overrated. So, yes, that means that I too am overrated.

by T Darkstar on Feb 19, 2009 9:29 PM PST reply actions 2 recs

Blazers are by far the classiest organization in professional American sports.

Nice intimate relationship with the fans too. We got a lot goin’ on in Portland folks, and the Blazers are on the uprise.

In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin uses the phrase "survival of the fittest" only twice. He uses the word "love," by contrast, over ninety times. Darwin never wrote about "selfish genes." For Darwin, the main force behind human evolution is survival of the most compassionate, not survival of the fittest. Human evolution is driven by moral sensitivity, or love.

by Love on Feb 19, 2009 9:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I disagree, while Portlanders are very good fans, I think that Green Bay fans are the best fans ever. And a lot of people at the games boo players that don’t deserve it. Sheed is a good example. We should react to his intro like your average joe schmo. And z bo also. He wasn’t all that terrible.

by GoBlaze22 on Feb 20, 2009 12:23 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You think he doesn't deserve it

Many others obviously do think so

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

by 92wastheyear on Feb 20, 2009 8:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

nobody is the judge of fandom

not even you.

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on Feb 19, 2009 10:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

If you like what KP did good for you. You and your buddys are part of Blazer fans.

So like you said lets get back to regular program. Our regular program here is with diverse opinions and different point of views of what we want. Yes and some crying and complaining is what we all do in the regular program.

And Oden, once again, is a rookie, so non-stop fast break basketball is like fast-forwarding a song while he's trying to learn the lyrics.

by RipCity on Feb 19, 2009 10:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

You are right lets just stay in the regular program.

Cuz you sound like you are out there looking on everybody from above.

And Oden, once again, is a rookie, so non-stop fast break basketball is like fast-forwarding a song while he's trying to learn the lyrics.

by RipCity on Feb 19, 2009 10:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok, so the premise of this post is that a fan wouldn't criticize their team

I would say the opposite. Am I “doom and gloom” by saying that I love the team and have had a ton of fun this year, and will continue to, and hope for the best… but that I don’t see this team doing much of anything in the playoffs without a major change for the better on team defense—regardless of how many games we win in the regular season. I don’t think so—I see points of weakness with this team (WARNING—negativity here!!! I actually DO see points of weakness on this team) and major ones at that, and BECAUSE I am a fan, BECAUSE I sat and watched Sean Elliot hit that falling out of bounds three to pretty much seal the series for SA, lose game 7 in 2000, and proceed to have decent seasons that culminated in humiliating sweeps out of the first round by the Lakers, then a heartbreaking game 7 loss to Dallas in which the best thing to happen was the emergence of Zach Randolph (!!!), and then miss the playoffs since—BECAUSE of my unyielding fandom since my childhood that I did hope that something would be done which would help us with our major weaknesses, which I see as team defense and lack of veteran leadership, in a time when supposedly there was a chance to make a great deal with the amazing assets we had.

That we didn’t made me disappointed—not in KP necessarily, not in the management or the players we have specifically, but just that a deal wasn’t done.

So now, because I am not somehow supremely confident that we will make the playoffs and do well, and because I hoped a trade would materialize which would make us better this year without hurting our future—because I was hoping for a trade, hoping not to settle for “being happy with the team as it is” I should take my “lukewarm” fandom elsewhere?

Nah, weed in tinfoil and dogfighting couldn’t even make me do that.

by TimG on Feb 19, 2009 11:44 PM PST reply actions 0 recs