Post Game & Post Season Vent Thread

Thank You blake for some great regular season play.

figured since since he the only guy with a ring, he’d have that playoff swagger…wrong

bring us a PG and lets tear next season up.

the bandwagon is already a little emptier now.

I like you, named my puppy after you, but man – what a horrible series. I fear you won’t be here next season.

As much as I complain…I’m totally grateful to be complaining about Nate’s substitutions or Trout’s low BBIQ rather than Quintel’s Dogfighting, or Damon’s Hummer.

Before this game, I was kind of throwing game 1 out the window as an aberration. Its no longer an aberration. We were blown out twice in 6 games. Houston was clearly the better team in this series. Our vaunted depth fizzled.

We know Brandon Roy can perform in the playoffs. That’s good. LaMarcus Aldridge has served notice that he can score in big games— though we need it more consistently. Rudy Fernandez is a warrior. Joel Przybilla and Greg Oden can work hard on defense.

Here’s something else we learned: Portland needs another star. A 2nd top 15 player. I highly doubt LaMarcus can be that guy. His defense isn’t good enough and he still shoots too many long 2s (the worst shot in basketball). I am holding out hope that Oden can be (and we need to give him another year before we even begin to draw conclusions), but watching him stumble, bumble and fumble, I can’t say with any confidence that it will happen. Kudos to Oden for being a contributor this year despite being way less than 100% of the athlete he was at OSU, but we need that dominant defender and rebound machine with good hands.

If we have the chance to bring in a star this summer, we must do it, even at the cost of Rudy or Aldridge. This team, as currently constructed, is set up to be a really good team for a long time— and can be a championship team if Oden becomes great. However, if Oden never gets his per-micro athleticism back, this team is a star— not just a player— away from being a title team.

Great season. Surpassed my pre-season expectations by a lot. Kudos to a lot of the Blazers for stepping up. Next year, I believe this team can go as far as the WCF even if we don’t get a major impact player this summer and Oden doesn’t make a huge leap. That’s not my goal though. I desperately want a title, and this game was very discouraging to that end— not that we lost, but that we had so few people show up, that we were so lacking in passion and desperation.

I’ll probobly feel better tomorrow, but this game really turns a frustrating but encouraging series into a discouraging series for me. It makes it impossible for me to ignore game 1.

uhm.. hello?!! what was that?!?!
ways tonight hurt…
1. where did the hustle go? weren’t we the young team that was going to wear the old guys down over a long series? weren’t we getting better? what happened!!? i can’t think of a single intelligent analytic thing!!! but it really felt like the whole team fell flat and never recovered enough to make up for the rockets ability to step right back up>,.!
2. so much energy goes into the playoffs and these elimination games really make it tough!! and now i have to listen to everyone talk about everything except how we are still playing in the playoffs!!!!
3. i wish i had a scola doll (ick!) to kick!!!!!!! as if it wasn’t bad enough to lose, but to be subject to looking at that hurts my visual cortex!!!
4. I don’t like the refs. This isn’t a statement of fault/blame/anything. I just feel like I don’t like any refs right now, and it might just take me a few months to recover from a kneejerk reaction against anything in vertical stripes
that is all.. go blazers

http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/4/30/861050/lets-talk-offseason

Obviously a good idea since more then one of you came up with it.

I want to focus on Rex. I want to know what we have in him once and for all.