Jerryd Bayless Clears Up Bay-Gate

Wonder if Blazers Brass got to him and told him to change his story.

Maybe he actually thinks that not everything he does in his off time with his friends is up for media scrutiny without asking the other party if its OK. My guess he wanted to talk to Greg about it first.

I like the attitude, and i TOTALLY get why he’d do that. Everything Oden does is under the microscope, I think he was basically saying “Blank You, it’s not a circus, leave him alone”… I

only jokingly, but maybe serious. maybe he didn’t consider it working out. he is a busy bee, always improving. maybe just going to the gym with oden in ohio is just how he spends his days.

I was going to post the same thing, almost word for word. Mountains and molehills, but I bet we still haven’t heard the end of it.

or still suspicious?

Now I suspect rex is introverted and uncomfortable in public settings. I bet he is scared of clowns too….

This has all been a big mental step up for Jerryd.

to the baking Blazer cake…

And I should be ashamed that I care about anything NBA in july, BUT I’m NOT! I even have a GF and don’t live in my moms basement. Should I be proud or ashamed that I know Sean May tried out for PDX yesterday? I need an adult hobby like golf or drug and alcohol addiction….

Conspiracy theories are much, much more interesting than the chaos and all-out randomness of reality, and that is entirely driven by who we are as human beings.

Our brain is hardwired for two kinds of continuous mental activity. First is our innate capacity and drive to simply make sense of the world. Our senses are bombarded constantly and all this data is recorded, analyzed, and synthesized into a cohesive worldview that gives definition to all the things we experience and how they relate to each other.

Closely following on that is our social intelligence, those mechanisms that have evolved specifically for interacting with others of our species. We compete and cooperate with our own kind in countless ways that balance our our individual needs for survival with the collective needs of the group. These methods for parsing social interaction give us the our capacity for persuasion, morality, truth and value assessment, etc.

Taken together, it’s just far too easy for people to string together a series of events or observations and create linkages between them that don’t actually exist. Or that the people around us are interacting in unknown ways that directly impact our lives. Once we assemble a story that seems plausible on first blush, it can easily take root and push out far more likely explanations.

If those stories generate feelings of greed or — more likely — fear, then the emotional thinking can quickly suppress the more time-and-energy consuming task of either coming to a rational conclusion or simply accepting a certain amount of unresolvable ambiguity.

For many people, the truth will bore you to tears long before it will set you free. This comment included. :-D

I hope it got better the second half. I wonder how many people are going to blame nate for that.

Doesn’t exactly clear anything up. Sounds to me like Bayless went to just spend some time with Oden as a friend, nothing more, nothing less. Sounds also like someone in Blazer PR wanted to make it all seem like more than it really was with the whole Bayless is working out with Oden routine.

Bayless original denial was pretty clear that he DID not work out with Oden. And even with this revision he angles is as much as possible towards the idea that they were hanging out as friends…they talked a lot.

No, conspiracy theories aside, I think it was an overzealous PR department wanting the Bayless/Oden connection to be more than it was, sounds like it was talk, became talk and is still talk.

We will rule the WC!

“unnamed sources” confirm that Bayless is working out with Oden in Ohio

“unnamed sources” confirm that Bayless never worked with Oden in Ohio

“unnamed sources” confirm that Bayless was hanging out with Oden in Ohio

Blazersedge explodes….

Is this what you were talking about Dave?

too bad he didnt show more tonight from what I saw.

I am happy with our team doing nothing if we dont get milsap or a player that will really help us. I expect our team to get better even while other teams get richer.

they made out instead.
But that´s a type of work out , isn´t it?

non-story has finally been put to rest.

You could be one “Bayless Face” away from slepping with da fishes…

That fans are making such a big deal about this. Maybe KP, like the president, can have a “State of the Blazers” address where he can answer all our questions about everything that happened this summer. Maybe we can contact our congressman and we can have a investigation into what really happened. If we don’t like what we hear then we can have a recall of KP and put someone new in the front office, someone that will tell involve all Blazer fans in the process.

Are the Portland Trailblazers’ players going to stop being cordial with the media now after the circus it put on Greg Oden over the last two years?

You got to wonder if Bayless was being overly cautious with the information he divulges to the media. Anything concerning Greg may now be censored to avoid the menial proding and overblown stories.

But the greatest thing about this post is how much of friends Bayless and Oden are together. I liked hearing Bayless stick up for the big guy, more from friendship, rather than name sake.

But what I dont understand is why the change of tune. One minute he did work with Greg, the next he didnt, the next he did. Who cares? Just tell the truth or dont tell a story at all. There is no reason to make the story up, then change it, then change it again. WHat is right- what is wrong? Even though it doesnt really effect us, its just plain weird.