Comments on: Looking ahead to the Trail Blazer season

By: f5

f5 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:44:04 +0000

I’m with you on that position and those trades L. I understand keeping mills was an ‘in the long run’ decision, but I would have rather seen a decision to keep batum/udoka with their defensive skills (& and leadership for D?) at that position in the interest of our developing our D for the long run.

By: limelight10e

limelight10e — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:16:46 +0000

“it’s still the defense that’s the most troubling”

So ya cut a solid defensive, scoring SF? This is why you cut loose the potential any and all dream to believe may be in Patty cake(for patty’s sake you already have Bayless playing the role everyone imagines Mill’s may some day be) and you keep Ime. You start Batum and put Ime in as his back up. So there’s your strong, solid, defensive, scoring capable SF rotation for years to come. You then look to trade out the two biggest models of inconsistency in Webster and or Outlaw. Everyone keeps preaching defense yet no one wants to keep defensive players on the roster. They want to hang onto all the young, un-proven, potentially someday players they can gather. If Paul Allen is so concerned about payroll he should just leave the 15th slot open. That would make as more sense than Mills over Ime.

By: Reality

Reality — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:30:02 +0000

Wow the odenade is flowing today… BarrytheMuslim is spot on with his assesment… And the claim that oden is the” key” to the season is by far the the funniest statement I have ever read here.

By: Pete Moss

Pete Moss — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:57:21 +0000

Well said. I like Collins.

By: Igivearats

Igivearats — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:24:43 +0000

Greg: 15 pts, 12 reb – 28 minutes per.
Roy: 20 pts, 5 reb, 5 assists
Miller: 13 pts, 6 reb, 8 assists
Aldridge: 18 pts, 8 reb, 2 assists
Batum: 7 pts, 4 reb, 2 assists

Book it!!

After 10 games: 5 W – 5 L
After 20 games: 11 W – 9 L
After 40 games: 24 W – 16 L
After 82 games: 54 W – 28 L

Book it!!

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:12:33 +0000

To bring it back to the point of your original blog, Dwight, I think Portland made the right move, even if it was to Paul’s favor and not mgmt’s. Patty has legit potential, he’s not another Euro scrub (sorry Petteri), and no matter how good a locker presence Ime would be, we don’t need a 4th or 5th small forward adding to the playing time confusion. I would have liked adding Mills with one of their two picks in the early 2nd round, so getting him at 55 was a coup of sorts. Let’s be honest, Patty is better than Goran Dragic, probably on par with Speedy Claxton or Sebastien Telfair w/o having played a summer league game yet, and could turn into a spit-fire bench player like Will Bynum in Detroit or Kyle Lowry in Houston down the road. Isn’t that worth holding the rights to if Bayless doesn’t quite become the PG they hope? Send Patty to the D-league once he heals and let him get his run with Pendergraph or Dante. It would be nice if the Blazers would actually use the D-league as it’s meant to be used. Bayless should have been sent there for a few stretches to work on PG skills (like 5 summer league games is all he’ll need, geesh!) and mgmt missed out on that opportunity. Now he thinks he’s too good for it.

By: William's Friend

William's Friend — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:41 +0000

I have a smart friend named William, who he and his family have great lower bowl season tickets (multiple) to the Blazers and Winterhawks. William walks around with this standoffish look, and we tease him for being “sexually frustrated.” Nate looks just a tad better than that, with his demeanor.

By: ElyLily

ElyLily — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:01:13 +0000

Excellent point. I can’t even recall the number of times I thought/heard the Blazers relied on the jumpshot too much. Why is it that Brandon’s the only one allowed to drive to the hoop? Shouldn’t that be the PG’s responsibility? I would have love to actually see Travis drive to the hoop once in awhile last year and it never happened. Rudy is/was undersized to do it. Bayless does it, but is rarely on the floor with BRoy. Is it such a bad thing to have more than one or two scoring options on the floor at once?

By: KRK

KRK — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:55:41 +0000

If that’s the case, and I agree that Travis mayo see diminished time this season with all of this depth, the Blazers need to look at trading him. For who or what, I don’t know, but stockpiling another mid-to-low first round pick is not a bad idea; I’m sure somebody would do that. OKC Thunder? Also, some 2-for-1, 3-for-1, 4-for-2 thinning-out trades are in order.

By: KRK

KRK — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:47:32 +0000

Going back about 12 years, I remember watching the Blazers with a lineup of Rod, McKie, Clifford, Buck, and Dudley starting. Problem was, there were three “non-scorers” there, and Eddie Doucette pointed out on a broadcast that teams would try to take advantage of that (Sabonis came off the bench early that season). Well, how much more of SCORERS are Odom and Batum going to step up and be? Yes, adding Andre Miller will help. B-Roy, LaMarcus and Andre will be the scorers. Outlaw and Fernandez helps, but a championship-aspring team should have at least four starters contributing double digits in points. I hope that Oden can at least be a Michael Olovokandi-type of threat with 12-14 ppg. Then, Batum can be the Bruce Bowen defensive specialist type of player.