real ballers

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You’ve got far too many wildly inconsistent guys on that list. Baron Davis, Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, Nate Robinson, bleh. You’re giving some young guys wayyyyyy too much credit at this point in their careers, guys like Young, Brooks and Lopez. And then there are the role players who seem to be getting the benefit of selection bias. You only remember the times they played really well and ignore the times they stink it up. Guys like Big Baby, Eddie House, Matt Harpring and I almost crossed off the Birdman for the same reason.

Of course, you didn’t quite get it right either. It’s Millsap (with two "l"s).

Importantly, Jason Maxiell also has the pesky extra “l”. This is one of the indicators of a true “Maxsap”: an extra “l” in the last name.

i just think you can’t slam a team for being “not tough” when really they’re just “not ready”.

we’re a bunch of twenty-somethings. We’re already a FIFTY FOUR win team. We’ll get the swagger and toughness. If KP brings in someone, fine, but I strongly believe this “real baller” talk is a bit over rated. I’ll agree if you say we need defense at the 1 spot and that we could use muscle in general, but just saying we need a “real baller” doesn’t really do much for me.

melon

He was pretty terrible in the regular season though. I think he may have pulled a Jerome James.

…at pick up games across the country
…in driveways
…at elementary schools
…and for that matter at the special olymipcs

this post has nothing to do with this Team/Organization

I can’t imagine wanting to play for the Clippers period, especially if I was hurt.

“homer” for “fanboy”. less derogatory. people might not get as upset.

I think Eduardo Najera is really the missing piece. He is a baller and would mos def put us over the top.

a bunch of guys who other so called fanboys on this site have already listed. I’ve seen plenty of people advocate getting Milsap, Brooks, Birdman, Powe, Battier, Bowen, Lee and Najera. For every good point you make you have at least 3 that make no sense and then you call us fanboys because we disagree with you.

I’m also really confused why this thread would have any fanboys in it. We’re not even talking about Portland players.

Doesn’t the use of the word “cotton” automatically mean mitts was joking? If not, that’s the funniest unintentional use of a word ever.

ehh boy. it’s bed time i thinks.

somethin’ is up. No one can be this confused and stupid.

I agree with this completely. Fatty is totally overblowing the “Portland is soft” theme. Could we use a bit of toughness off the bench in the form of a scrappy PF, sure. Do we have players that work hard every game and play as well as they can? HECK YES WE DO.

what exactly is your strong opinion? Your only opinion seems to be unsupported accusations of our players being soft or not being ballers (whatever that means) and then if we disagree with you we are fanboys. So, if strong opinion now means opinion without explanation then I agree.

How about bringing some information for us to discuss instead of just throwing out meaningless cliched words and phrases. For example, Aldridge isn’t “soft” and “not a true baller” but rather he’s inefficient and should try to get more shots in the paint. He should bulk up a bit and crash the boards. Give us something substantial instead of your incoherent, nearly impossible to read rants.

And enough with the name calling just because we don’t agree with you.

I know you know how to use it.

Sincerely,

All of Blazersedge

We (whoever that is) are not trying to tell you anything, you just wrote down a list of players you wish could be blazers without thinking if any of them would even be available: Artest, fine he’ll be a FA, I don’t see anyone arguing whether he is a good player, but Morey wants him back and he has good chemistry in Houston. Mo, the Cavs won’t trade him, forget about it cavsfanboy :-) Aaron Brooks, i’d love to have in a blazers uniform, but again, the rockets won’t let him go easily. Bass, too valuable to Cuban, not that he’s the thriftiest dude, Butler, D. Lee, again guys that their teams don’t want to give up. Foster can’t shoot to save his life but could be a good mini pryzbilla. Landry is not leaving Houston. So you really want a team that has Artest, Landry, Brooks, and Battier, damn, rocketsfanboy you are at the wrong blog.

I didn’t see anyone say that guys like Battier, Bass or Mo Williams couldn’t help the team. Most people were trying to figure out what the heck you meant by baller when you say no one but Roy is a baller on our team, but a guy like Wilcox is a baller. Huh?

Furthermore, considering your main post talked about the playoffs (games 83-100) and then you proceeded to list a ton of guys with NO playoff success I find your reasoning flawed.

But back to the point at hand. I would love to have Mo Williams instead of Steve Blake, but we have more chance of getting Ricky Rubio in the draft. On the other hand, no, I don’t want Ron Artest. He has a history of “crazy” and is a notorious taker of bad shots. Sure he’s tough and plays good defense, but that doesn’t mean I want him.

I could go down your list player by player and tell you the guys that would be great to have and guys that wouldn’t work out, but since you just gave a list with no explanation I don’t feel compelled to do any different.

My final point is this. Those players you listed have flaws too, just like our players, which you seem very keen to point out. Let’s say you want David Lee over Aldridge (I don’t know if this is true, but since you said Roy is the only baller on our team, I’ll just assume it is true for the sake of example). So, now we’ve got David “the baller” Lee at PF. Now we’ve got a guy who is great on the glass, but isn’t that good at creating his own shot as he thrives mostly on tip ins, and running the floor. It is also very likely that D’antoni ball inflated Lee’s stats. So, we’re a better rebounding team, but we’re less versatile on offense and no better off on defense. Looks like we picked up a “baller” who made the team worse. Lastly, and slightly off topic from what I was just saying, there’s no way Lee would come in as a back up for this team. I don’t think I have to explain that further.

Fatty, I’m really curious about what you have to say and how you say it. I come to Blazer’s Edge because there’s a diversity of opinion here that I don’t get from the press or other fan sites. If you have something to say that falls outside of pom*pom waving, great. If you can back it up with evidence, even better.

But for heavens sake, if you want to convince a group of people that your opinion has merit, don’t insult them. And don’t be insulting just because someone disagrees with you. You’re shooting yourself in the foot every time you do that and it’s hard to take you seriously.

YOU’RE PICKING A LIST OF PLAYERS FROM THE ENTIRE NBA, OF COURSE YOU’RE GOING TO FIND BETTER GUYS THAN WE HAVE.

I could have made the 96’ Bulls better too if I chose “ballers” from around the NBA, that doesn’t mean it’s the least bit logical to try and do.

Chris Anderson— the best shotblocker in the league
Brook Lopez— the guy who should have been rookie of the year
Thaddeus Young— a productive young player with major upside
Stephen Jackson— an excellent defender who is just being misused and badly overpaid in GS
Jeff Foster— an outstanding defender and rebounder
Aaron Brooks— a young, decent PG
Kenyon Martin— a very good interior defender
Leon Powe— an absolute warrior

You were being anything but generous