Early plea for sanity after losses--Home stretch and playoffs

And keep in mind, people are going to disagree with you. That doesn’t mean that either side is right or wrong.

Unfortunately, this usually only comes up after losses (partially because people shout down anything negative after Portland wins a game).

Also, fans overreact. It’s ok. “Fan” is short for “Fanatic”. Overreactions happen. This is a fan’s site. There will be overreaction.

You may be frustrated. But the best thing to do might be to ignore fanposts that don’t share your viewpoint, instead of telling people not to post them because it’s a different viewpoint.

(The nice part of fanatics? All the excited posts coming when we clinch a playoff spot. You take the good with the bad when it comes to reading fan’s posts.)

No reason to shop for coaches when we just won 50+. That point is solid.

All indications are Martell is fresh and ready to run — with the only concern being when is the best time to rejoin the team. Our only problem at the 3 is too much depth.

At point we don’t have a solid starter, yet. But that could be addressed in any number of ways with our current roster. If we do make a move I know it’ll be a good one and I won’t complain.

The ONLY piece I’d strongly like to add is a solid, tough back-up power forward.

you cannot look at any one players play in isolation.. but that being said.. LMA and roy would be more consistent if they could rely on the PG

Patience is the only thing we should be discussing. This team, at their young age, is out performing almost every team in the history of the NBA who had the same effective playing age. The Blazers have slaughtered the East, taken care of home court, and are amongst the NBA best in rebounding, fast break points, and efficiency per possession.

Oden bashing sucks too. I love to just watch Oden when he is on the court. There is an Oden factor that helps the team get rebounds. For every one rebound that he gets the team gets another 3. Watch him box out. He takes it seriously and often boxes out 2 at one time. In the Phoenix game I saw him box out 3 guys at one time and yet someone else on the team got the rebound.

It would be nice if people appreciated what they had, wouldn’t it?

They won’t. I haven’t heard a lot of “fire nate” as of late (see what i did there?) but some people will be disappointed. Heck, there were people who wanted to do trades for kidd and nash and trade away some of that young talent we have. At the end of this season, we can see why that would have been a DUMB idea. Some people seem unable to see long term and can only see the pie that just hit their face.

My point? You can’t stop people from doing what they will do and being what they will be. Just know that I’ve done some polls and others have done polls and it’s always shown they’re a loud minority instead of the actual majority. We’re talking some 10% or less.

Just smile, shake your head and nod and be grateful that KP is running the team and not that minority.

I’ve been wondering all year why nate hasn’t been getting coach of the year cred, the blazers are playing out of their minds considering how young they are, and the fact that a lot of them havn’t played together for too long. Nate is the coach for us with out a doubt.

At small forward we get better everyday, outlaw is a beast off the bench, batum’s potential is ridiculous and martell is gonna come back with a vengence next year

but at point guard steve blake just isn’t gonna do it, since we have the most awesome team on the planet people talk about us winning rings some day, and i think we will, but in order to have a championship team you need championship players, and steve blake is not a championship starting point guard. He’d be a great back up, but not a starter. Rondo is a championship player, parker, paul, mo williams. I’m not saying we need a star at point, but we need someone at least as good a derek fisher, blake just won’t cut it long term

Blazermania

not Blazersanity

I do.

But when Nate does something I disagree with I’m going to talk about it. Right now he’s doing an excellent job and I give him kudos. When and if he drops the ball I’m calling him out.

I like our small forwards and swing players. Nick, Rudy, Travis – all good, all playing well. I’m exited to bring back Webster. More so next year than now but if he gets healthy I suspect he’ll be in uniform and active. You’re kind of preaching to the choir here. I’ve been supporting these guys from day one and my faith has proven out over the naysayers and nervous nellys.

I like our point guards and have defended them all year. None of them are great defenders but they hustle and I don’t see them getting burned as bad as most of the rest of BE seems too. I attribute it to mass hysteraria.

I get annoyed when someone complains like you are about people reacting when it’s within a clearly labeled vent thread. VENT thread. A place to vent.

You don’t see us winning do ya. Well that’s common logic. We’re currently the 5 seed. We’ve not been in the playoffs in five years and most of this team has never been. We have four rookies and 3 getting major time. History and Common logic would seem to indicate winning it all or getting close is less likely than doing so. But that doesn’t mean we won’t or can’t. I for one thing we have a great chance of doing anything. I believe we can do it. I also know we can get knocked out in round one by the other seven great teams in the west but my money is on the Black, Red and White.

I’ve read your post, I hear what you’re saying. I do. But I won’t change one iota of what I express on this sight because of it.