I would like to see pictures of random people around town share pictures of people in NBA jerseys dumping there trash or working on there car. Or maybe waiting for a bus or something around town. I think that would be fun to put captions with them too. So show me what Brandon Roy's (normal guy or girl in a jersey) and the gang are doing during the lockout. Should be pretty entertaining. Later fellow B-edgers :)

Hey gang.

Hate to trouble you again, but this time I was wondering if anyone had info on which Blazer was the first to acquire these for the franchise, and when:

Rebound

Foul

Turnover

Block

Steal

FG

Dunk

Assist

Technical

Ejection

Thanks a million for any replies.  I am trying to compile a very good compendium on Blazer history.  I've done well so far; this would make it even better.

Good luck where I haven't had any!

So I feel like we need a junk drawer to talk about the many non Blazer related things that we tend to discuss, especially with a lockout going on, I think we need somewhere to talk about random things and not let our use of this site completely atrophy all because of a lack of Blazer related news.

 

Anyway, I'm here to discuss beer. I love beer. Do you love beer? Being down here in NorCal I'm not necessarily enjoying Beer City like some of y'all are. (How many microbrews within the city limits now, 40something?). Currently I'm sipping on some Lagunitas IPA. Lagunitas is out of Petaluma California, about 40 minutes north of San Francisco on 101. Their IPA is apparently the best selling IPA in California and in my opinion, that's with good reason. It's freaking delicious. Sonoma County actually seems to produce a lot of good beer, Russian River brewing company is another excellent brand although I'm not sure if it's available up in PDX considering most of it is extremely perishable. Bear Republic Racer 5 is another great IPA.

 

Anyway, share your favorite beer, or if beer isn't your thing, discuss whatever you want. It's a junk drawer after all!

Just curious if anybody can find out for me.  The first season the 3-point shot became integrated in the NBA rules was 1979-80.  I think it boils down to one of these guys:

Billy Ray Bates

Ron Brewer

Bob Gross

Lionel Hollins

Maurice Lucas

Calvin Natt

Tom Owens

Jim Paxson

Dave Twardzik

Those were the guys who had hit at least one for the team somewhere during the 1979-80 season.

Thanks for your help in advance, folks!

Mike Wheelers call of the Miller to Batum lob is arguably the best play by play call ever, on one of the

greatest plays in sports history. I find it irritating to hear it repeatedly used in an advertisement for

a local radio show, that is sometimes so boring, that  nails would pull themselves out of walls to search for more

stimulating conversation.  It's  time to pull that ad, it cheapens the greatness of the event, and the rest of the

ad itself is mediocre, offering little to pique a listeners attention, and inspire one to tune in that radio show.

If an ad agency can't do an effective promotion, without abusing this great sports moment, they should be replaced

by one that can.

I watched some highlights of the Bad Boys with my son and thought a  good idea for the NBA to increase viewers would be have cage basketball.  Cage all around the court. Only one ref who usually only stops play to have a doctor take a look at a player to see if he can continue.  A break between each of four quarters and no timeouts.  I know some of you will have thoughts on how to improve cage basketball, please feel free to opine.  

Besides the one-and-a-half good players we snagged in 2006, how many good draft days have we had? How many opportunities have we missed to be a great team? Despite his popularity, Kevin Pritchard had more questionable draft moves than he did good ones. With their apparent disdain for picking players out of college, Nash and Patterson before him were just awful.

Here is a look at all our drafts, starting with our first modern-day lottery pick in 2004:

 

2004:

This year is when it really started getting bad for the Blazers. With the 13th pick, they shocked everyone by taking HS point guard Sebastian Telfair. As you all know, Telfair never amounted to a whole lot and is now a minimum-scale player at best. Six of the next seven picks were Al Jefferson, Josh and J.R. Smith, Dorell Wright, Kris Humphries, and Jameer Nelson. Nelson, Jefferson, and Josh Smith have been semi-stars, while J.R. and Wright have had some success.

Next we got a little Sabonis nostalgia and picked the (not!!) dynamic duo of Viktor Khryapa and Sergei Monia from eastern Europe.  They were the 22nd and 23rd picks. The rest of the first round was full of players who have gone on to be notable role-players or better. Kevin Martin, Tony Allen, Beno Udrih, "The Machine" Vujacic, and Delonte West rounded out the first round, while Anderson Varejao, Chris Duhon, and Trevor Ariza fell to the second. Khryapa and Monia barely played in the NBA, though Khryapa did play a key role a couple years later...

2005:

This one may take the cake for catastrophic drafts. First, we traded away the third pick and a chance for a couple of point guards named Chris Paul and Deron Williams, plus Raymond Felton. Next, we picked up a high-schooler (fourth year in a row) Martell Webster, passing on the likes of Andrew Bynum and Danny Granger.

Then, we traded up to get Jarret Jack. Not a terrible pick, but we could have had David Lee or Brandon Bass AND Ronny Turiaf, Monta Ellis, Louis Williams, Andray Blatche, Amir Johnson, or Marcin Gortat.

A strong draft and a franchise point guard here could have set the stage for a contending team for years. Apparently with Telfair on the roster , we didn't need Paul or Williams. With the raging success of Qyntel Woods, Travis Outlaw, and Telfair, why not take ANOTHER high-schooler?

2006:

KP came into his first draft with guns a blazin'. Acquiring Aldridge and Roy without giving up much. Khryapa and Telfair fulfilled their Blazer destinies in these trades. The rest of the draft wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. Sergio and Joel Freeland were picked up, while missing, like many other teams, Paul Millsap.

Despite Roy's downward trend, it has been the one unquestionably good draft in years.

2007:

I am tired of this one. When you have a potential franchise center, a rarity, you take him over a high-scoring wing. We know how that has unfortunately turned out. It is too bad the ping-pong balls didn't spit us out at #2 or #3. Besides Durant, Al Horford, Joakim Noah, and Mike Conley were drafted soon after. I don't judge this one harshly because I still have hope for Oden and I think every other team would have made the same decision. But results speak for themselves.

The Blazers were like a kid in a candy shop right after allowance, making a record number of trades. Rudy Fernandez was not a bad pickup, but Aaron Brooks, Arron Afllalo, or Tiago Splitter would have been better. Petteri Koponen WAS a bad pick at 30, Carl Landry was picked next and Glen Davis followed at 35. Josh McRoberts was good at 37, though Marc Gasol, picked 48th, would have been better. Our last two picks didn't amount to anything, unsurprisingly.

2008:

The Blazers continued their trading ways, giving up Jack, McRoberts, and 13th pick Brandon Rush for 11th pick Jerryd Bayless (who was supposed to be up there with Russell Westbrook.). It is too bad we couldn't move a pick or two higher, to get Brook Lopez. This wasn't a terrible trade and pick, but McRoberts and Jack would have been nice to have around. Jason Thompson, Roy Hibbert, JJ Hickson, Javale McGee, and Serge Ibaka were among those picked soon after in a big-man rich first round. Hibbert, McGee, and Ibaka at least should have been top ten picks.

Nicolas Batum was a rare draft bright spot when we traded for him at 25. We went back downhill by trading Omer Asik to Chicago for nothing.

With the future resting on Oden's broad shoulders, we didn't seem to need another promising big man.

2009:

This draft was frustrating as much for the moves we did not make as much as for the picks we did make. First we were rumored to trade up for Stephen Curry (probably costing us Bayless and/or Fernandez). Then we were rumored to grab a pick in the teens and pick up one of five good points guards that went right in a row (Jrue Holliday, Ty Lawson, Jeff Teague, Eric Maynor, and Darren Collison). Instead, we allowed rival Denver to get Lawson for little, and moved up from 24 to 22 to get someone we could have gotten anyway. When Victor Claver was picked, most people's reaction was "Victor who?"

While Claver still has potential, Omri Casspi, Roddy Beaubois, and Taj Gibson were among those picked up shortly afterwords.  Next we picked Jeff Pendergraph and Dante Cunningham in the early second round. Solid picks yes. But an unusually productive second round also yielded Dajaun Blair, Sam Young, Jonas Jerebko, Chase Budinger, Jodie Meeks, and Marcus Thornton later.

Just as Oden may have kept us from our center of the future in 2008, a laser-like focus on free agency may have cost us our PGOTF in 2009.

2010:

This one doesn't look good so far, but it is still early to judge. Webster was traded for Luke Babbit, who has not adjusted well to the NBA yet. Kevin Seraphin or Erik Bledsoe might have been nice here. Elliot Williams at 22 is still a big question after missing his rookie season. Jordan Crawford looks to be the biggest missed opportunity here. Armon Johnson at 34 was ok, though we missed out like other teams on Landry Fields.

It is amazing to see how many opportunities we missed. Between a fixation on high-school and foreign players, the Oden distraction, and other factors, we have missed out on great opportunities.

 

The Blazers have fallen in to their own traps here. Whether it was drafting high-schoolers (Telfair, Webster), which never turned out well, foreign players (Khryapa, Monia, Freeland, Koponen, Fernandez, Rodriguez, Batum, Claver), which rarely worked out, or drafting primarily for need (Oden, Bayless, Babbit). I can't imagine that any other franchise has had more missed draft opportunities than Portland in recent years.

Poll

Besides missing out on Paul and Durant, which Blazer draft stumbles frustrate you the most?

28%

Three Bad Picks in 2004

52 votes

22%

Missing the Late Gems in 2005

41 votes

13%

Passing on Multiple Good Big Men in 2008

24 votes

27%

Missing Out on a Great PGOTF and 2nd Round Diamonds in 2009

50 votes

8%

Getting a Shooter who Can't Shoot and Another Weak-Kneed Player in 2010

15 votes

182 votes | Poll has closed

Last night "Courtside" showed an early 90's game where the Blazers ripped the Spurs like 49 to 18 in the first quarter. I did not catch it all, but it reminded me how fabulous that team was. Does anyone have a video link to that quarter? I'd love to watch it again (and again). Drexler, Porter, Duck, Kersey, a young Cliff Robinson, Ainge, Buck. That was an awesome team. What a fun time to be a Blazer fan! TIA

Seems that the good old Rose Garden might have fewer "live" dates this year with the NBA's contract problems not close to being resolved, or so we hear.  I people I feel most sorry for aren't the fans, the players, or the management.  It's the folks who toil away at the Rose Garden serving food, bartending, cleaning the joint up, ushering, guarding,  attending the parking lot, etc.  They're the ones who most likely will be hurt the most by ANY loss of income.  Most of these folks, I suspect, aren't working at these jobs just for fun.  They really need the money to support themselves and their families.

So, here's my lame idea of the day:  how about if good old Paul Allen would work his magic to bring in one or two exhibition hockey games over the next year?  Would that even be possible?  I suppose the schedule for the exhibition season for the NHL was long ago set, but they again, I've heard rumors that the NHL would LOVE to have Paul Allen as own of their team owners.  Maybe, just maybe, something to be done to make something like this happen.  Other than giving a lot of people a couple of extra paychecks, I'd love to see the NHL in Portland and showcasing the game via a couple of exhibitions mights be a pretty cool thing.

What do you all think? 

The Blazer fans deserve some tailgating action. It’s not the same going to a bar/paying 8$ for a cup of beer. I want a big parking lot, portable grilling, multiple beer coolers, music, some “tobacco” cigarettes away from kids, and cool P-town cops.

My first pro game was watching the Phillies.  I remember getting one of those miniature bats at the ticket gate and the cheering of the crowd.  The parking lot was like a giant block party and just as much fun as the game.

I'm not saying we should have a Shakedown Street, though I wouldn't mind it.  I just want a spot where we can park our cars and gather before a game that's walking distance to the coliseum.  If the city won't designate such a spot, then perhaps they could give us a location where we can use the MAX for free.

One might argue about the weather and complain about the rain.  To that, I say go back to where you came from.  My friends and I will be just fine, (I'm from Utah so no offense to us transplants).