To the fans that Booed Hedo the other night...
by Net Ranger on Mar 17, 2010 2:20 PM PDT
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What were you thinking? You reminded me of immature, jealous, jilted lovers! If you really wanted to make him feel bad & uncomfortable (I'm assuming that was your primary motive - why else would you boo?) then perhaps all of you should have stood up and given him a round of applause during his introduction. The guy single-handedly saved us from a potentially awful acquisition. Applauding him would of rented more space in his head than the booing in which he laughed and surely shrugged off as "typical NBA fans that just don't get it".
Even with having hindsight on our side and we still boo the guy? Come on now - I'd like to think that we're not 'typical NBA fans'. We can do better than that.
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This is Portland, we're kinda small-time like that
by Theghostofsomeonefamous on Mar 17, 2010 2:24 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
UMMMMMM
THIS WAS TOTALLY WORTHY OF A BLAZERSEDGE POST! THANKS!
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by thankyouforblaze on Mar 17, 2010 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked that he was booed
All in good fun.
He’s a Canadian now anyway. Who cares how he felt about it.
Besides fans boo the officials for a hell of a lot less.
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by NBAstard on Mar 17, 2010 2:41 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Actually, there's some research now showing that they may have physiological responses alarmingly similar to what you and I mean when we say "emotions."
I suspect in time we’ll come to appreciate the ur-consciousness of even Mother Nature’s lowliest creations.
Like Turks
These same Turks recently complained when their Holocaust on the Armenian people started to be officially recognized.
Besides, Canadian Turk or not, it worked. He was responding to the fans even in his post-game comments, especially the PC stuff about his wife making him choose chilly Toronto and giving us Andre Freaking Miller (W00T!!!).
I was glad the guy was put off his game. What he did in reneging on a handshake agreement in Oregon, which is binding, was worse than receiving a chilly reception at an opposing venue.
Obviously he hit a nerve with Portlanders
I guess a large segment of Blazers fans are really insecure about our city. I remember all the angst right when he signed with Toronto, a lot of folks felt almost personally rejected.
Boo him at the beginning of the game all in good fun, sure, but after a few quarters it felt like there was a collective Napolean complex in the arena…
yeah, I'd have cheered him for saving us from ourselves
Firmly in favor of making a coaching change at the end of the season.
Free AK1984
I think the Booing Was For Porland, Not The Blazers
Sorry, but you can’t expect to completely dis a city the way the Mr. and Mrs. Hedo did and not be reviled.
I’m pretty sure we’re all happy that he went elsewhere, it’s just how it all went down.
exactly
you clearly don’t understand “why” the crowd booed. it isn’t because they want him here because clearly that would have been a big mistake. it was the way he handled the situation, by repeatedly saying he was coming here and then taking a marginally better offer. i’m sure the overwhelming majority of blazers fans are glad he isn’t here. i doubt they will boo him every time he plays he because, really, who cares, but one good booing his first time back is fine.
completely agree
I think the crowd was actually just saying loooooooooser.
by Jacksonville on Mar 17, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I did not boo beyond the intros
but that was y sense of it too. perfectly glad it ended up the way it did…
"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man
Logically, yes, the boos should have been cheers.
That whole situation has definitely worked out better for us than it would have had we signed Hedo. I’ll take Miller and a developing Batum over Turk a hundred times out of a hundred.
But I think the booing had less to do with the result of the whole imbroglio than with the principle at stake. To a lot of Blazer fans, Hedo’s decision to renege on his verbal commitment smacks of disrespect. Although I personally don’t have a problem with him accepting more lucrative offer, I can also understand how some fans felt like his decision was the equivalent of giving the middle finger to the Blazers and to the city of Portland as a whole. The rumors regarding his wife’s dislike for Portland only made things worse.
I think that’s part of being a one-team town; because Blazer fans are so dedicated to their squad, they tend to take things a little more personally. So, while I agree that booing doesn’t make much sense given the outcome of the affair, I can also understand the resentment stemming from Hedo’s supposedly disrespectful actions.
by Roy Wonder on Mar 17, 2010 3:11 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Just 'cuz I'm glad he isn't here
Doesn’t mean I’m happy about how it went down. I never wanted Hedo to begin with, but we made a good offer and he did us dirty. Left us at the altar. Now we get a chance to tell him how we feel about it and you say not too? Huh?
I wasn’t at the game, but if I was I woulda boo’d til I was horse.
"I don't feel like I'm going to be happy or complete until I'm an All-Star. My favorite example is that it took Chauncey six, seven years. And Chauncey's been a mentor for me, and I've learned a lot from him in these last couple years. So, people can say what they want, but I'll get the last laugh. " - Bayless
by StuckeyDuck on Mar 17, 2010 3:17 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
Would the booers have felt any different if he turned down the offer right away?
Personally i would have said GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!! and a big thank you because now we finally have a legit point guard.
meh
I personally think Portland never really wanted him. Yes he could have a been a good fit with his style. Yes there was likely another move. Yes it likely would have made more sense when the dust settled, but the amount was insane.
I’m indifferent. From our perspective he thumbed our city which a lot of us take pride in. Still, i don’t really care much. He has a right to chose his employment wherever and more money and a happy wife/girlfriend is more important than a cities hurt feelings. The only thing I knock him for is that Portland has a shot at a ring. Orlando had a shot at a ring… he passed up both. His drive isn’t winning, and I’m not interested in a player like that.
"Fernandez, to my eyes, is the Blazer who walks that walk most comfortably. A lot of Portland's fans (egged on, dare I say, by their local broadcasters) lament things like how Ron Artest or Yao Ming get to hit Brandon Roy's arms.
But I suspect Fernandez sees all that and thinks: We get to hit arms! Cool!"
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-135/On-Playoff-Experience.html
"I told Pau the Lakers never win here in Portland; I think it's great." -- Rudy Fernandez
I personally think Portland never really wanted him.
You can’t rewrite history. KP was very disappointed when Hedo bolted for Toronto. While we may never know who in the Blazer’s organization was the “most interested” in Turk (Allen? KP? Nate?) there’s no doubt that the team’s consensus on July 1 was that HT was their #1 target in the FA market. It looks bad, in hindsight, but you can’t sweep their decision under the rug by saying “they never really wanted him” That’s intellectual dishonesty.
FWIW, the “other move” was also known…it involved trading Outlaw to Memphis for draft choices. This didn’t happen because of Hedo and Utah’s decisions in the first weeks of July
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
I know it worked better for us
But I don’t mind the booing. He went back on a verbal commitment two times that we know of, so I guess he deserved it.
Lover of everything Batum.
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Personally
I think that in each game fans should single out one Player and Boooooooo him every time he touches the ball for no other reason then were Portland and they are not.
"Get three superstars and then fill the roster with guys willing to go through a wall to win." - KP
by jlarose78 on Mar 17, 2010 5:51 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Thats stupid
Cause if we were playin Cleveland the fans would boo Lebron James and hed light us up for 60
Wouldn't he do that anyway
"Get three superstars and then fill the roster with guys willing to go through a wall to win." - KP
back when I had season tickets with the Buckeyes at courtside
I would look up the incoming teams stats, figure out who their leading assist guy was andr heckle him. Good naturedly, of course. you know things like "hey Cardinal shouldn’t you have a PhD after being at Purdue all these years? see he had like 2 different medical redshirts under his belt and he looked 35 and all and seemed to have been at purdue ball for like a decade. This heckle was during warm ups, one of his team mates agreed. I got a group to pick on this player named Tillman who was wearing black socks all night, eveyone else was in white on both teams…
I would also get my entire section of people to start yelling his name at random times when was looking to the other side of the court. Danny Earl, turned and threw a pass right at us with no penn State player round…that was the only time all season that it obviously worked, but I had a hell of a time doing that kind of stuff all year long. We always catcalled using first names when people were at the foul line, either going with the drawn out brrrriiiiiiiiiaaaannnnnnnnn in unison or about 40 of us just yelling his name out in a cacophony of brians…
We only lost 1 home game that season…I don’t know if these things worked, but checking the box scores the next day, assists were usua;ly down, foul shotting didnot hit the team average on so forth. The important part is we had a blast…
not sure why I posted this ,sleepy I guess
"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man
Funny thing is he pretty much admitted after the game in a interview he wishes he would have signed with Portland.
I agree with you that he should have been cheered and not booed, but I wonder if hearing our awesome crowd in such focused disapproval gave him even more remorse for the decision.
"What people need to know is that those pictures were taken a year and a half ago, and I've grown since then." - Greg Oden
Hmm I came in here initially agreeing with the OP that it was too heavy a reaction
But after reading the comments I realized he really did go back on his word and that that is wrong. You make a promise, you make a commitment you should uphold it. Now thats Karma coming back to bite you in the butt eh, after going to the finals as an integral part of your team you have a lousy, injury ridden season on a non-playoff team, while watching the impressive development of the team you lied to about intentions and crap. You deserve to be booed once (or twice) and then forgotten about all together.
by Sir.Ludo on Mar 17, 2010 6:28 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Or we could act like the University of Oregon student section at Duck's home games and act totally classless all the time.
by rpresto2 on Mar 17, 2010 7:12 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
That's difficult to do. They give scholarships for that.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
"Thank you for Andre, Mrs. Turkoglu"
This was really all that needed to be said.
Booing Hedo just tells him that he got in your head.
Silence and “the sign” would’ve demonstrated how we really feel about him
(but it’s hard to get 20k fans to agree on everything)
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
Exactly. Booing is ineffective and uncreative.
Most players are proud to get booed by the opposing fans – gives them a sense of accomplishment.
Fans presenting a different angle than what the player assumed going into the game makes much more sense to me. – and it just might effect his game play or at the very least, give him something to think about on the plane ride out of Portland.
Treat people well because Karma can hit you at any second.
yeah
I am all good with some goodnatured jibes, but when I saw a game a week or two ago at home, I was surprised.
I posted above some of the things we did at Ohio State, but we never got really insulting or anything all that personal like the UO guys do…
"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man
we should have laughed whenever he touched the ball
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by thomasikehara on Mar 17, 2010 7:43 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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I’ve always thought the crowd should be dead silent when the other team is shooting free throws. Dead silence, then if they miss, everybody crack up laughing.
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me too
my idea is to get everybody to make a bunch of noise and stop abruptly after the first bounce…
Illinois is the only place I can imagine that has any real impact on foul shooters routinely. They have 1 guy lead the entire section. All the students hold their arms straight up and then the leader sways to the left, every other row sways to the left too. The remainging rows sway to the right, then the leader sways to his right while those that were with him do the same. Of course the rows go to the left. They are all swayee and loose and they speed up until the shot is taken. It makes me motion sick watching it on TV, it has got to wrok on at least some free thow shooters
"Oh Yeah!" ~ Kool Aid Man
if they miss, everybody crack up laughing.
give ’em the “Nelson Muntz” laugh
I like the idea where people rock back-and-forth (in alternating directions) in the endzone rows and sing corny songs like “I’d like to teach the world to sing…” during FT attempts
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
That would have been MUCH better than booing.
I like it.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
by OCBlazerFan1 on Mar 18, 2010 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
3/7/10 - Andre Miller Tomahawk jams on the Denver Nuggets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-JVgm7F1QA
1/4/10 - Juwan Howard dunks on Chris Kaman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkOqDgLb6s
by Eat Politicians on Mar 17, 2010 10:19 PM PDT reply actions
I was there and didn't boo ...
I knew it would happen but was annoyed by it by the end of the first quarter. I was actually dreading him signing with us and when the news updates changed from “he’s going to sign” to suddenly “he’s going to Toronto” I smiled. He’s not a bad player just think that Nic is just as good and will be better so why spend all that money. We ended up with Miller and because we had him were able to get Camby so really ended up a good thing. Of course, there was no way to know the onslaught of injuries that occurred but no one could have predicted that.
But it was a bit over the top!
Im still bitter
about the 3 point bank shot he hit with :03 left when inbounding back in Dec 08. It was like he punched me in the gut. I’m still booing him for that – surprised nobody else mentioned it yet.
I agree that Andre seems to have worked out better for us than Hedo for Toronto, but its all a little speculative. The man knows what to do with a basketball. Lord knows we coulda used another big man as soon as Oden went down. And maybe Oden wouldn’t’ have had his boo-boo if Hedo had been there to take the merciless contact from that thug Aaron Brooks. Just Kidding G.O. I heart you always – get better soon.
i was there that day and took a nasty ear beating for not taking the wife and kid to that game..
…..
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out, burns out farms, and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
Head Czar of Amerika <--- Mortimer said so so there!!!
Booing is something powerless masses do
If the guy really makes you mad throw a beer on him. He’ll still be richer than you and just might beat you up but at least you won’t be a wussy about it.
Personally i was hoping to get a fanpost written about how horrible my lanrnyx is at high pitch....
but… this will do.
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out, burns out farms, and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
Head Czar of Amerika <--- Mortimer said so so there!!!
I booed him, and will do it again next time he plays in the Garden.
Lighten up. It entertainment. Booing part of the fun!
Man standing on toilet is high on pot.
I call your 'Boo' and raise it with a 'Waaa'
Treat people well because Karma can hit you at any second.
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