Recent content by Ed O

With all of the amazing all-stars and big winners at the NBA level this roster has, they should absolutely have the call about who their coach is!

Borkjen lost a bet.

I think that's an apt description of his time as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. More seriously: it sucks for him. It sucks for the Blazers. I hope none of it is true, although if the government has decided to go after him for something that's not true after years of investigation...

Sharpe will shoot better. Grant will shoot worse. The team gave great effort tonight and I suspect this is the level the team will play at this year, assuming reasonable health: just not good enough for the playoffs.

I don't feel bad for rapists who died five years ago just because they played basketball.

To be fair, helicopter crashes are tough to bounce back from.

Yeah... I dunno. There aren't a lot that jump out at me. Maybe New Orleans and Washington? And in terms of the plan, I think it's been trying to split the baby: build a younger core while being competitive on the floor. I think that's an impossible strategy because we're rebuilding against...

I know you're not asking me... and I've felt like a broken record about it (other than two drafts where I loved us taking Sharpe and Scoot) essentially since day one. I don't like this roster at all, I don't think the cap situation has been well managed, I don't think that he ever committed to a...

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This is surprising because, while I am not a big Ayton fan by any stretch, he's still a better player than any other center on our roster... while I'm all about giving our young guys more run, that's not how Joe has been building this team. When we made the Simons deal, I said we should have...

I am done with the draft and going to stop thinking about the Blazers tonight, but I gotta say: this is the kind of pick that, in any league made by any team, I would laugh at. I don't care if my team is unorthodox and even if they're laughed at... as long as they have success and/or are...

From The Athletic's draft guide:

Here it is, archived: https://archive.is/qkIHd

Better than Sam V. from The Athletic, who had him at #48.

Not a rim protector. No perimeter game. Not athletic. 20 years old. Expected to be a second round pick. He checks all the boxes.