All-Blazers Bench Team

[Orion Bailey]

Jesus. I am sooooooo bored.

feel ya man.

next week lets go with the blazers worst starting five ever. Any combination that makes a starting five.
Whats the worst ever?

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

feel ya man.

next week lets go with the blazers worst starting five ever. Any combination that makes a starting five.
Whats the worst ever?

I assume it has to be players who actually started for the Blazers

 

[SharpesTriumph]

feel ya man.

next week lets go with the blazers worst starting five ever. Any combination that makes a starting five.
Whats the worst ever?

Worst starting 5 in game that matters, so before tanking point of season would be interesting.

Or worst player to have 5th most starts on team in a season.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Worst starting 5 in game that matters, so before tanking point of season would be interesting.

Or worst player to have 5th most starts on team in a season.

I think the caveats should be worst starter who was tabbed as a starter on opening day roster. So this is a player that (even if their was an injury to someone who would start otherwise) the organization was planning to have start at the start of the season.

 

[tlongII]

Lloyd Neal

Neal (left) in 1977
Personal information
Born December 10, 1950 (age 69)
Talbotton, Georgia
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school Talbotton (Talbotton, Georgia)
College Tennessee State (1968–1972)
NBA draft 1972 / Round: 3 / Pick: 31st overall
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career 1972–1979
Position Center / Power forward
Number 36
Career history
1972–1979 Portland Trail Blazers
Career highlights and awards

• NBA champion (1977)
• NBA All-Rookie First Team (1973)
• No. 36 retired by Portland Trail Blazers

Career statistics
Points 4,846 (11.1 ppg)
Rebounds 3,370 (7.7 rpg)
Assists 632 (1.5 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Lloyd Neal

Neal (left) in 1977
Personal information
Born December 10, 1950 (age 69)
Talbotton, Georgia
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school Talbotton (Talbotton, Georgia)
College Tennessee State (1968–1972)
NBA draft 1972 / Round: 3 / Pick: 31st overall
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career 1972–1979
Position Center / Power forward
Number 36
Career history
1972–1979 Portland Trail Blazers
Career highlights and awards

• NBA champion (1977)
• NBA All-Rookie First Team (1973)
• No. 36 retired by Portland Trail Blazers

Career statistics
Points 4,846 (11.1 ppg)
Rebounds 3,370 (7.7 rpg)
Assists 632 (1.5 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Weird seeing “round 3” in the draft part, been a while since there was a third round.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I thought it would be interesting to lookup who had great bench season. My criteria was who started less than 1/3 of games and played over 1500 minutes in a season

2019 (2018-19) Evan Turner
2018 Shabazz Napier
2017 Allen Crabbe, Al Farouq Aminu, Evan Turner
2016 Allen Crabbe, Ed Davis
2015 Steve Blake
2014 Mo Williams
2013 -
2012 Jamal Crawford
2011 Rudy Fernández
2010 Juwan Howard
2009 Travis Outlaw, Rudy Fernández
2008 Jarrett Jack, Travis Outlaw
2007 Jamaal Magloire, Travis Outlaw
2006 Jarrett Jack
2005 Darius Miles
2004 Ruben Patterson
2003 Ruben Patterson
2002 Derek Anderson, Ruben Patterson
2001 -
2000 Detlef Schrempf, Greg Anthony
1999 Rasheed Wallace, Jim Jackson, Walt Williams (915 min lockout equivalent)
1998 -
1997 Chris Dudley
1996 James Robinson, Arvydas Sabonis, Buck Williams
1995 Harvey Grant, James Robinson
1994 -
1993 Mario Elie, Clifford Robinson
1992 Danny Ainge, Clifford Robinson
1991 Danny Ainge, Clifford Robinson
1990 Clifford Robinson
1989 -
1988 -
1987 Jerome Kersey, Jim Paxson
1986 -
1985 -
1984 Fat Lever
1983 Kenny Carr
1982 -
1981 and prior did not track games started

https://www.basketball-reference.co...&c2stat=gs&c2comp=lt&c2val=27&order_by=season

Only player who probably should have been mentioned and has not was Ruben Patterson. He had some very effective years on the court. Crawford was also effective in his one season but that year was such a mess.

Man, we had Ruben Patterson on our team way too long. Why did we stay Blazers fans?

 

[KSF-ERIC]

There are certain bench guys who can completely change the complexion of a game. I'd definitely put Ruben Patterson in that category. Everything, both good and bad, just happened faster when he was out there. Ditto for Rudy Fernandez, come to think of it.

Funny I forgot about Crabbe already. May be the best pure shooter coming off the bench we ever had. But he was pretty much useless at anything else. Can't believe we gave him an $18m/year contract, or that New Jersey helped us quickly erase that mistake.

Petrovic and Steve Kerr (who everybody forgot about) were better.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Man, we had Ruben Patterson on our team way too long. Why did we stay Blazers fans?

He was good at basketball and we averaged about 50 wins a season during his tenure.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Man, we had Ruben Patterson on our team way too long. Why did we stay Blazers fans?

I usually ask myself this question, every year or two. I've never got a good response.

 

[Shaboid]

Steve Blake is always my dude.