Comments on: Patty Mills forces the Trail Blazers into a personnel move

By: KRK

KRK — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:49 +0000

I know that the 32nd pick is different from the 55th, 2009 different from 1998, and a PG different from a SF, all duly noted, I preface by saying. But, every now and then, you can get a Rashard Lewis gem in the second round. I’m not saying Mills is going to be Manu Ginobili, but wasn’t Manu a late second round pick? Sure, he can fail, but he could be a nice pickup like Clifford Robinson. We’ll see.

By: KRK

KRK — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:12:26 +0000

I confess, that from 1998-2000, I used to laugh at Jermaine O’Neal and say, “Ha Ha!! DNP-CNP: Does not play, because he cannot play!!” I called him a “rookie bust, just like rookie bust Randolph Childress.” Let’s say that I’ve eaten a ton of crow on that one. Ironically, the day he was DRAFTED, I thought that the Blazers got a steal, with a potential Kevin Garnett or Shawn Kemp clone. Four straight seasons of 4 ppg made me write him off. Foolish.

By: KRK

KRK — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:08:52 +0000

Jerome Kersey came out of a small college, but the Blazers knew that he had a lot of drive. At times, he actually hit a lot of 17-foot jumpers. It’s amazing to think about that when you watch footage.

By: Jason Collins

Jason Collins — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:48:11 +0000

I had a classmate named Jason Collins, who was a choir boy, literally. He was a good singer. I think about him, when I hear the name Jason Collins. I know that we have JARON Collins, but you can argue that he did almost as much as Jason.

By: Alphonzo Ribeiro

Alphonzo Ribeiro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:44:18 +0000

Didn’t Jerome Kersey beat out a former Oregon Duck named Greg Trapp, for the last roster spot, back in the 1980s?

By: Mean Guy

Mean Guy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:41:36 +0000

Let me tell you about what I did with my ex-girlfriend. We were at a Blazers game, against the Houston Rockets. Scottie Pippen took a charge from Charles Barkley. Everybody knew how painful that was. After everybody stopped oohing, aahing, laughing, and gasping, I turned to my girlfriend and said, “Honey, being crashed into by you, is like being crashed into by Charles Barkley.” She shoved her ice cream cone on my forehead, and everybody was laughing at me as I went to the restroom to wash it off. We were watching an NBA game on TV later, and when I saw Barkley, I asked her, “Honey, what’s the difference between taking a charge from a freight train, a steam roller, a Mack Truck, an 18-wheeler, a middle linebacker, Charles Barkley, or you?” She didn’t answer, but I could see her getting upset. I said, “Honey, the answer is…NONE!!” She dumped a bowl of potato chips over my head.

By: Alphonzo Ribeiro

Alphonzo Ribeiro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:37:07 +0000

LOL!! The only thing worse is a boy named Nancy, as I’ve nees.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:45:34 +0000

You also forget that Pat was JUST 19 years old when he took it at Paul at the Olympics.

Pretty damn good!

By: marco

marco — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:42:59 +0000

Dude get a grip, Mills is no star in the making. Which doesn’t mean he won’t pan out into a rotation player in the NBA — my point was that international performances aren’t the best gauge of NBA potential.

And you’re right that the NCAA isn’t an ideal gauge either. Dominating college doesn’t mean much if your game doesn’t translate. That’s EXACTLY why you see all those busts, which just proves my point about not getting carried away by a few good int’l games or a few good seasons playing in a second rate NCAA conference. Guys like Kukoc, Sabonis, Radja, etc were all brought over because their games translated, not because they played great at the Olympics.

Because if that were the case, Dejan Bodiroga would have been an NBA all-star by now. The man dominated Euro ball and killed the US in international play. But if you’d put him on an NBA roster, dude would have never got off the bench.

Again — I’m not saying Mills won’t pan out. I think he could make an NBA roster. But he first needs to play against NBA competition in an NBA environment before we start proclaiming him a stud.

By: TheHighPosts

TheHighPosts — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:29:26 +0000

I think he has a lot of upside and had they not signed Andre, I think he would have had a better chance of making the team, rather than being redundant, which he is now.