Portland Eating its Team

I agree with you on this but I think our biggest problem is we still don’t have that one thing that puts us over the top. Thats why we’re an angry mob.

Maybe all we need is health and with that, we have to wait. I don’t think a lot needs to happen this summer after the draft. Go to camp, stay healthy, win a lot of games – end of story.

a voice of reason has no place on a sports blog. blogs are reserved for deals that are not possible and wild speculation….

Also, we do not have a deeper bench than many teams in the NBA. Most of the playoff teams have as deep a bench, or have deeper benches than us.

It gets old seeing your squad ALMOST get over the top. Come to think of it I don’t even remember why I hate the LA Lakers..is it becuase they have gotten the best of the Blazers since…well, forever? I think as an adult I recognize sour grapes and that is just one example but how many times have the Blazers passed on a once in a lifetime player? or choked away a huge lead in the fourth quarter when you are 5 minutes away from the Finals or had the #1 seed and lost to the lakers because Uncle cliffy dribbled it off his foot or just could never seem to get the !@#$%&% job done. Now the stupid Blazers brass is can’t figure out what to do with the GM who turned the franchise around?? It would be much easier to root for teams that acutally seem to care about winning championships and (actually do) not about selling tickets and t-shirts, or winning a press-conference instead of the western-conference.

I read the book by this title for this first time his winter, and it explained a great deal about how Portland’s love affair with their pro basketball team began, back in ’77

The Blazer fans hero worshipped the team for decades, until the Jail Blazers severed that trust.

Then in the franchise’s darkest hour Kevin Pritchard turned the team’s fortune’s around. Brandon Roy has received a lot of accolades over the past few years (and deservedly so) but no one in the Blazer’s organization has been more beloved than KP.

We have met the enemy, and he is us. How so?

Paul Allen, Bert Kolde and the Vulcans have grown jealous of KP’s popularity. Did KP bring that on himself? KP may be portrayed as being “egocentric” by national writers, but the local writers disagree, they say he’s a great guy who treats everyone well. So, why are the owner and his cronies jealous? Because the spotlight has been shining brightly on KP, since June 2006. And who has been pointing that spotlight?

Look in the mirror, Blazer fans, and take a bow. We can’t get out of our own way, and because of our fan-love for KP, he’s walking the plank. Like Lenny in The Grapes of Wrath, we just can’t stop squeezing the little bunny so hard.

and if i want to propose a trade to help my team win , this may or may not include shipping out a fan fav, then damnit im going to do just that.

This is , you know, sort of what makes blazersedge fun.

So whatever. Enough with the kumbaya – Go Blazers

S

This used to be my favorite site on all the interwebs of the world. It was fun, lively, educational, and had to do with the Blazers. Now it’s bickering and everyone proclaiming why they are right and everyone else is wrong. I read Dave’s stuff and a few people who put up posts. I don’t normally do the comments. I love junk-drawers and joke threads. That’s all I can stand lately. I think part of it may be that, like so many other outlets, Blazers edge has someone who chooses to mix facts with heavily opionnated content. It is difficult to decipher which is which at times and it stirs an enormous amount of controversy. That has pretty much become the norm for this site. BE was my first blog, and I’ll always have feelings for you, but I don’t think it can ever go back to the way it was. I hope we can stay friends.

that they wouldn’t necessarily view the same way in reality. That’s part of the function of communities like this…not that every move should be done, but that every move can be discussed at one time or another.

—Dave

i may be crazy but im not as stupid as i look.

And we didn’t win the title…so work needs to be done.

Every trade, signing, argument, discussion is from me answered in the same way>> “As long as Nate’s here this team goes no where. He is doing way more damage than good to our developing players.” What am I supposed to do, post that on every post?

As far as KP is concerned, he doesn’t recognize Nate’s shortcomings and didn’t work to move him out of here so, for me, he is done here. He did a mostly really good job and I am happy to be a pretender/contender as opposed to a bottom feeding team. But he also traded Sergio, Waisted the Randolph trade, got burned by Miles situation and tried to trade for Hedo. We were only saved from the latter by Hedo’s saintly wife.

It was the worst of times. Because we only use butter. Margarine is not food.

the Nate thing is a gut reaction, a sensation that, while he is real good at building a young team he does not have what it takes to win it all as a coach. It is like John Cooper with the Buckeyes in the 90s, he was a great recruiter, could win tons of games, but he had a serious shot at 3 national titles in the 90s only to fall short repeatedly in exactly the same way every single time. Buckeye fans suffered through 14 seasons of near misses, it was a fun run most of the season, but every season ended exactly the same way despite the fact that twice we had juggernauts of teams that should not have gotten beat..

Nate’s problems seem to be the same as some of what Coop displayed as well, weird substitutions, hard time with some in-game adjustments, particular teams you can’t beat despite relatively equal or superior talent and the fact that you generally know what is going to happen by the 4th qtr, the losses are so similar. There are a million ways to lose a game and yet the Blazers get beat basically the same way over and over again.

 It might be the fact that we have a young team yet, but experience tells me there may be something else going on.

Nate is a good coach, mad respect for what he has accomplished, but my gut tells me we likely have a John Cooper situation here, always so close, but never ever able to turn the corner.

Do you want to risk a Cleveland situation? Ride that ‘oh so close coach’ until the team implodes of its own weight and expectations. I think when this type of pattern develops you need to at least seriously consider a change, otherwise the situation can drag on and on for years.

The good thing about Nate is we will win a ton of games, he game plans very well in a regular season setting. Will that be enough?

sweet, sweet cannibalism….

So far not one change has been made. And other than KP and Rudy leaving, I don’t get wind of a lot else happening. I think you’re overreacting.

 One person’s dream team is another man’s fail . It’s what makes the world go round and also, along a smaller scale, what makes Blazers edge interesting and an avenue for debate. The very reason you are making a post is to generate some interest or dialog. If there wasn’t other views, you would simply get rec’d by the ones that agree with you. The interesting stuff comes from argument and therefore keeps the post alive and well. Your points are well taken, but there is not one point (in your view) that could not be debated.
  To ruin something you have to claim that the fans have something to do with wins or losses. How can a fan ruin something it has no control of…there are just ideas and opinions in here. And everyone gets to reserve their right to suggest, imply, and speculate without consequences. It’s what fans get to do, and BE provides the platform for the key punchers.
   Sometimes the view is different and it is from the critical standpoint, where you generate most of your opportunities at improvement. If your happy with what you have, you will step behind a curtain of blindness that spells doom for progression and future success.
  
    You mentioned Masoli as a disappointment to you. I don’t blame your feelings, but in the same breath, if he was reinstated on the team and took the Ducks to a National championship, you would soon forget all about his personal life. The Ducks have had a successful but not necessarily honorable football program. Would that be enough for you to switch to Oregon State? Not likely. The world is full of both good and bad people. Some learn from their mistakes and some don’t. That’s what it it is about…critical views can give you some opportunities to make things right. Believing you don’t have a down side is like admitting your perfect….
   Fans will have different barometers to measure success.. It can rise and fall but that doesn’t mean it changes what the atmosphere actually delivers. As fans, we can’t change the weather, but we certainly reserve the right to complain about it.

You mentioned Masoli as a disappointment to you. I don’t blame your feelings, but in the same breath, if he was reinstated on the team and took the Ducks to a National championship, you would soon forget all about his personal life.

No. - Elgin

keep ’em coming, ducknasty

That’s all it is. People don’t really understand the NBA. Look at the teams in the Finals this year- two of the OLDEST teams in the NBA. Full of grizzled veterans and players who have played together for a number of years, full of players who have had the time to develop into top 50 NBA stars. The Spurs won with geriatric teams as well.

I am aware that Rajon Rondo is widely accepted as Boston’s best player and he is quite young, but he was no great shakes at Kentucky playing with kids his age; now that he plays with three of the top 20 picks in any NBA fantasy draft suddenly he is the second coming of Bob Cousy. I see a discrepancy there, and it isn’t that Rondo isn’t amazingly good (he is). If Andre Miller can help the Blazers so much by himself, imagine what three players of his talent level and experience might have done. The NBA is a VETERANS league.

Eventually, the old ones will retire. All Portland needs to do is keep our players under contract and wait for them to get a little older. We had one of the youngest teams in the NBA this year and last year and probably will next year as well. Be patient, good things will come.