Blazersedge Scrubdown: Round 1 Redux--Error Corrected

by Dave on Sep 1, 2010 12:02 AM PDT in News

Before we get to the final matchup of the second round of the Blazersedge Scrubdown, I have to fix a mistake I made in Round 1. After the first round matchup of Drazen Petrovic vs. Calvin Natt was announced I got a fair amount of mail stating that Natt didn't belong in this category of player. It was a statement I agreed with. The truth was, I wanted a decent opponent for Drazen in the first round to make sure the contest was exciting, and on my short list of six or so really good players who could have opposed him, Natt was probably the least remembered and popular. So I thought including him might work. Upon further consideration, it was the wrong move. I had spent tons of time keeping 20 ppg guys out of the contest and one sneaked in at the end. So we're rectifying today...

First, Calvin Natt has been promoted to a survey we'll run next summer covering guys in between the Scrubdown and the All-Time Franchise Icon level...guys you're sure to remember even more fondly than you do some of the Scrubdown players. So he's out of the Scrubdown for now, playing in a higher league next year.

Second, in the second of three surprises in as many days, the Drazen Petrovic matchup is being redone today. Drazen is back in. But he's not waltzing into the second round unopposed. Instead he'll be facing another popular player and media personality of yore, Kermit Washington. Both Drazen and Kermit were beloved but only one will continue on to tomorrow's final second round matchup.

This is the contest you should have had last week. Let us know who advances.

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

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Drazen, who,

having died young, can be imagined to have had limitless potential and who, unlike Kermit, did not have his worse moment in front of national cameras.

by Trutherlizer on Sep 1, 2010 12:46 AM PDT reply actions

Drazen

Kermit Washington has a really really negative connotation for me (and many other baskeball fans I’m sure)

by momomoses7 on Sep 1, 2010 3:17 AM PDT reply actions

kermit

Michael Jordan is the Nicolas Batum of America
"I was like, 'Wow, we get a run.'-Felix Hernandez

by thomasikehara on Sep 1, 2010 3:47 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit Washington

It will be sad if he’s remembered only for busting Rudy’s face (another Rudy, for you young’uns) when he was such a classy and productive Blazer. He may have felt the burden of making up for that televised moment, but he was a gentleman and a true leader on the Blazers—not to mention a very fine forward. (I’ve got to admit, the Drazen era was the one in the history of the franchise that I didn’t pay as much attention to, but Kermit is absolutely one of my favorite Blazers of all time).

by VTDuck on Sep 1, 2010 5:05 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit

There’s a very thorough and interesting dealing with the Kermit/Rudy Punch in THE BREAKS OF THE GAME by David Halberstam… changed my opinion of Kermit. plus this happened before he was a Blazer. and Kermit made an all star game as a Blazer, didn’t he?

I'd still honk once!

by bklynblazr on Sep 1, 2010 5:12 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit

He was named after a frog after all.

#52

by blazermaniac32 on Sep 1, 2010 5:35 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit

by Gargen on Sep 1, 2010 7:05 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit

Like bklynblazr, I read about the incident in The Breaks of the Game and it changed my opinion of him.

by jamon51 on Sep 1, 2010 7:31 AM PDT reply actions

drazen

by RipCityforLife on Sep 1, 2010 7:31 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit ( Viva La Natt!)

I’ll vote for Kermit despite the fact that I once ate at “Le Slam” and was watching tennis….okay..yeah tennis….and he turned all the TV’s to Canadian Football.

Also vindication for Natt! Right on.

"Mother Nature started this fight, I think it's about time we ended it!"

by Krang on Sep 1, 2010 7:55 AM PDT reply actions

drazen

by vullkem116 on Sep 1, 2010 8:09 AM PDT reply actions

Petro

I just have no connection with Kermit and Petro was on of my favorite players when he was on this team.

by Jblaze on Sep 1, 2010 8:23 AM PDT via mobile reply actions

kermit

"I told somebody to stop crying," Pendergraph said after the game. "Actually, I told them all to stop crying."

by cornplant on Sep 1, 2010 8:56 AM PDT reply actions

Draz

by exSTUNTER on Sep 1, 2010 9:28 AM PDT reply actions

Kermit

I liked listening to him when he was on the radio.

"I'm at the thingamajig talking the yakety-yak" - Kenny Smith

by blzrfan on Sep 1, 2010 9:48 AM PDT reply actions

Miss Piggy's Beau

Interrogation Cop: What are you saying?
Fenster: I said he'll flip you.
Interrogation Cop: He'll what?
Fenster: Flip you. Flip ya for real.

by Cyclops@Centercourt on Sep 1, 2010 9:55 AM PDT reply actions

D-Pet

CKTK: A music blog. We write about what we want to write about.

#14

by Mr. Knox on Sep 1, 2010 12:47 PM PDT reply actions

Drazen

by a nose over Kermit, who I have held in high esteem ever since that Tomjanovich incident – the way he handled it was as good as could be expected.

When Drazen entered the game as a Blazer, we would announce in our best Schwarzenegger accent: “LET’S PAHHTY”. Lots of fun memories around that guy’s short Blazer career. – Elgin

GOP in HD

by 22baylor on Sep 1, 2010 1:04 PM PDT reply actions