Growing some whiskers

by Dragonage on Mar 10, 2009 11:58 AM PDT

Two years ago Kobe and Odem stepped into a Blazers huddle and started to jaw at the VERY YOUNG Portland squad. Portland players looked around and basically looked like deer staring into headlights. Oh, how things have changed, if that same scenario happend with this not so young Blazers team I think we would actually have an altercation and a well deserved one.

Portland is not the western conferance doormat any longer we are young but we are also talented, alot is said about basketball IQ Portland has a ton of it, these players learn on the fly as well as anyone in any field. Well, (I'll give astronauts a little more credit doctors,military,etc,etc)we all can see there is a maturity happening, the team is growing. Heck, the fans are growing as well, the rose garden is finally losing the old guard and the new generation, like the blazers are exciting.(and excited) The Blazers are players in the western conferance arms race again.

Does portland need to make a move this summer? I was all for it but after the SA and LA wins Im not so sure anymore. Maybe just maybe we let this team grow up a little more and Portland starts to bring some of its intensity to the road and we find out what I suspect upper management has known for awhile, the pieces we want to aquire are already here we just havent seen them mature yet.

side note: Rudy I hope you get well soon.

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I think we could use a vet or two on the bench...

Sergio seems like a cool dude and I know he’s Rudy amigo and all, but a vet who can defend the pick and roll and semi-consistently hit a jumpsot would be a welcome replacement. But don’t forget that we get Martell back next year as well. The future is bright, indeed.

Your title got me thinking: Perhaps it’s time for the Blazers (and BEdgers) to start growing their playoff beards (I could certainly use the headstart). It’s a great hockey tradition that really would translate well to the NBA, I think.

Hit it. Yes he did. Ohhhh yeah.

by Badalona Baddie on Mar 10, 2009 12:04 PM PDT reply actions

No

The playoff beard is the worst tradition in the history of sports!

Besides, in like a week Oden would be tripping over his own beard on route to the basket.

by Zaig on Mar 10, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions

What can I say? I respectfully disagree. Grow it, Greg. He might not be going to the basket anymore this year, after all.

Hit it. Yes he did. Ohhhh yeah.

by Badalona Baddie on Mar 10, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Obviously we can't agree on everything :-)

I will admit, Crosby growing a playoff “beard” was hilarious. The quotes are obviously because what he had after a month couldn’t be considered a beard really…

by Zaig on Mar 10, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions

If I could grow a beard I would

but instead maybe I’ll just grow my hair. No time/money for a haircut anyways.

Ball Don't Lie

Just call me Ruffin Tumble- Michael Ruffin.

by Claire on Mar 10, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions

dont shave your leggs

Considering many call him a bust and injury prone and never amount to anything. If he plays one more game this regular season, he will have played one more game than any time in bynums career, the one non-playing year excepted. Yet NO ONE in LA complains about Bynum being injury prone, all they ever do is talk about how they can’t wait until he comes back.

I think some of it is that Portland remembers Bowie, and secondly that donkeys always REMIND us of that when they talk trash and it angers us that Oden cant prove them wrong until he is healthy. - GreatOden'sRaven

by maid tu rek on Mar 10, 2009 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Ummm I think I'll pass

Ball Don't Lie

Just call me Ruffin Tumble- Michael Ruffin.

by Claire on Mar 11, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll be mad

if Greg trips over his own beard and is out for the season,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I try to help with everything," Fernandez said. "If the coach says go rebound, I go rebound. I work for the team.

""If I'm playing this game to get media and attention, I shouldn't be here," Aldridge said. "I'm here to play basketball, and do what I can do to help this team win."

by Dragonage on Mar 10, 2009 12:22 PM PDT reply actions

It'd happen!

by Zaig on Mar 10, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Playoff Beard

I’m already in…started mine this weekend!

by blazer91 on Mar 10, 2009 12:56 PM PDT reply actions

I started my playoff goatee at least a month ago.

as you can tell from the pic, I’m not doing so hot.

Want more aggressiveness? Try less Baylesslessness.

by prezofdeath on Mar 10, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Portland has too many beards already! We look like a town of Amish lumberjacks………..(no offense to the Amish or lumberjacks)

-Shad

"If a doctor ever gives me six months to live, I want it in basketball time." - Marc Acito

by NBAstard on Mar 10, 2009 1:37 PM PDT reply actions

Beards are for ballers, so I can completely understand that their greatness is beyond your comprehension.

I’m a big advocate for a tightly kept beard—you know, trimmed and not out of hand.

I am not an advocate for the hipster/hippie beard that is supposed to be ironically large, bushy and unhygienic. It’s akin to the “unwashed” look so many people cultivate nowadays. You know, the “I look like I just stepped out of a time machine from 1988 and boy am I oily and unwashed!” hip look.

To assume Portland has too many beards is wrong… Portland just doesn’t have enoughof the right kind of beards.

by ArbyOSU on Mar 10, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Touche

-Shad

"If a doctor ever gives me six months to live, I want it in basketball time." - Marc Acito

by NBAstard on Mar 11, 2009 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions

I've been working on

a beard for a few weeks now, until now it was just a beard, but now i suppose it will be a playoff beard (sorry not just for the Blazers but for the Penguins [and the Tri-City Americans] as well)

which I guess means I won’t be shaving for awhile.

Anyone else have lady friends that don’t like the tickling/sand papering?

Frye-lock and I'm on top rock you like a cop

by pklym on Mar 11, 2009 12:13 AM PDT reply actions