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I saw on another site somebody suggest that Dame and the gang recreate the Bust a bucket video/song. I would love to see Dame's version of it :gottunes:

Does anybody know somebody who knows somebody that could suggest it to him? :dunno:
 
I wouldn't mind seeing a video with more highlights from games, and not huge chunks missing (not complaining, just offering up a suggestion).
 
rotary111 said:
Awesome!
I saw on another site somebody suggest that Dame and the gang recreate the Bust a bucket video/song. I would love to see Dame's version of it :gottunes:

Does anybody know somebody who knows somebody that could suggest it to him? :dunno:
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My 13-year-old son knows every lyric to Bust-a-bucket. #RaisingHimRight
 
I posted this in another thread, but figured it might also fit in here.

Here's a graph I created to look at the rise and fall of the different Blazers eras over the last 50 years -

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Lots of memories over these years. My family has been season ticket holders since 1974. I've grown up with the Blazers. Now my 18 year-old son is a huge fan.

With the rise of Dame, I think we have some exciting basketball to watch over the next few years.
 
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42N8Bounce said:
I posted this in another thread, but figured it might also fit in here.

Here's a graph I created to look at the rise and fall of the different Blazers eras over the last 50 years -

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Lots of memories over these years. My family has been season ticket holders since 1974. I've grown up with the Blazers. Now my 18 year-old son is a huge fan.

With the rise of Dame, I think we have some exciting basketball to watch over the next few years.
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Roy sure is interesting. Talking about just a quick trip to the top and then a quick trip back down...
 
42N8Bounce said:
I posted this in another thread, but figured it might also fit in here.

Here's a graph I created to look at the rise and fall of the different Blazers eras over the last 50 years -

View attachment 27653

Lots of memories over these years. My family has been season ticket holders since 1974. I've grown up with the Blazers. Now my 18 year-old son is a huge fan.

With the rise of Dame, I think we have some exciting basketball to watch over the next few years.
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Also I really appreciate your graphs and content you throw out on here. It's very interesting seeing information and data "visually", I know that sounds stupid but more often than not we just see data as just a set of numbers, seeing in a more visually stimulating matter is always interesting. I realize it's all "visual", ah I'm doing a bad job at verbalizing this heh. Anyways thanks for your awesome work!
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Roy sure is interesting. Talking about just a quick trip to the top and then a quick trip back down...
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Yep. That jumped out to me too. Especially since Roy and Aldridge were drafted the same year. Aldridge is still going strong in the league.

And oh how I wish that Sabonis curve overlapped a bit with the Drexler curve......
 
42N8Bounce said:
Yep. That jumped out to me too. Especially since Roy and Aldridge were drafted the same year. Aldridge is still going strong in the league.

And oh how I wish that Sabonis curve overlapped a bit with the Drexler curve......
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I actually find drexler's pretty interesting, his "peak" wasn't nearly as high as I thought it would be.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I actually find drexler's pretty interesting, his "peak" wasn't nearly as high as I thought it would be.
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Agreed. Drexler was of course an amazing player and had great longevity. But I think what defines the 'Drexler era' was his supporting cast: Porter, Kersey, Duckworth, Buck, Robinson.... Without those guys, Drexler may have had to take on a greater load and had higher individual numbers, but the team may not have been as successful.

Let's hope the 'Dame era' can assemble half of the supporting cast Drexler had. Nurk and CJ are a good start, but we need 1 or 2 more players to step up if Dame is going to take this team to the next level.
 
42N8Bounce said:
I posted this in another thread, but figured it might also fit in here.

Here's a graph I created to look at the rise and fall of the different Blazers eras over the last 50 years -

View attachment 27653

Lots of memories over these years. My family has been season ticket holders since 1974. I've grown up with the Blazers. Now my 18 year-old son is a huge fan.

With the rise of Dame, I think we have some exciting basketball to watch over the next few years.
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That is a really cool graph. Thanks for that. The Sabas and Roy trajectories are super depressing though.
 
42N8Bounce said:
I posted this in another thread, but figured it might also fit in here.

Here's a graph I created to look at the rise and fall of the different Blazers eras over the last 50 years -

View attachment 27653

Lots of memories over these years. My family has been season ticket holders since 1974. I've grown up with the Blazers. Now my 18 year-old son is a huge fan.

With the rise of Dame, I think we have some exciting basketball to watch over the next few years.
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What is the scale on the left?


I would not rate Wicks as leading anything.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I don't think Cheeks was a good coach, I think he was a great person though. He's probably a good assistant too.
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Yes to both the later two. But you are right, he was not really a good coach, just better than we have suffered since.
You need to go way back to Adelman to find good, and Dr. Jack to find great.
 
42N8Bounce said:
PER
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/1972.html
I included any player that led the Blazers in PER for at least one season, and played for the Blazers for at least 4 years.
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Thanks.

Wick should be known for leading asshole though. I don't think that belongs on your chart.

Wicks was even an ass to his teammates. I think it was Bob Gross that called out to him in practice, hey Wicks! I don't know what the communications was to be, but Wicks responded, You can call me Sidney, or you can call me Mr. Wicks. Then walked away.

It left most of his teammates dumbfounded.

I took my Pop Warner football team to a Blazer game after we finished the FB season. 10 year olds, and Wicks was the man of the day. They wanted his autograph, two of the boy approach the Blazer Bench at half time with Wick standing near by.
They called out, Hey Wicks! I cringed, just by seeing the look he mustered up. The boys got the same damn treatment, he proceeded out to jack up some of his long shots. The next year we did a little better, we got Walton to come to their practice, it was real close to the new house he had built. He drove onto the field, driving his B210 from the back seat. Front seat removed. Damn! it was quite a sight.
 
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