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santeesioux said:
Why is the soccer season that long with that amount of games?
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Yeah they have a long season, I’m not sure why its so long but the # of games is perfect it comes out to ~17 in Portland so you have 2 or 3 a month. The NBA has 7 or 8 games in Portland a month. The question should be why the heck does the NBA have 82 its fatiguing to follow so many as a fan. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to play all of those.
 
I could probably name 50 foreign soccer teams... MAYBE five MLS teams.

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Draco said:
How many fans can name the NHL teams? I could maybe come up with half of them.

I was looking at soccer and its crazy how popular it is in the rest of the world. The most valuable team in the US is the Dallas Cowboys at $2.5 billion but there are 3 European soccer teams with more revenue than them and worth more billions than them.

The great thing about MLS is there are 35 games a year over 8 months so you don’t have all the meaningless games as the NBA/MLB/NHL have. I don’t need to see 4 Blazer games in 5 nights, especially when teams are intentionally sitting players out because there’s too many games. Soccer games are under two hours and don’t have any advertisements. I enjoy the NFL but there are so many damn ads its ridiculous, every injury has ads, every replay, between the touchdown and extra point, after the extra point but before the kickoff, after the kickoff and before the offense is on the field. I’m very interested in Soccer and could see its popularity taking off in the US. The rivalry we have with the Sounders is a ton of fun and gone in the NBA because taxpayers wouldn't fork over hundreds of millions for an arena.
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They have ads on their shirts and around the field, like hockey does on the boards. lol.
 
santeesioux said:
Why is the soccer season that long with that amount of games?
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Because playing twice a week for a whole season is too much for the players. During the season sometimes they have midweek league games, and sometimes they have games for other competition(us open cup)
 
I don't buy the "moda center" boycott so they'd rather root for a team who plays at.....

Jeld-Wen field.

Yeah, no.
 
ehizzy3 said:
has anyone said they're doing that in this thread?
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I mentioned it as a tongue-in-cheek hypothetical.

Though I do believe the competition between the Timbers and Blazers for sports-going dollar is real. Since the Timbers don't play for two weeks (WTF?!) attendance would naturally go up a bit.
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Attendance: 18,834

A slight improvement.
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Back from the game. Tonight was much different than Sacramento. Last game there was literally two 200 sections with less than 50 people in it (took a picture with my phone but don't know how to post it) Tonight those same sections were 75-85% full. Weird the announced attendance is slightly higher as it felt more alive tonight.

Lots of Piston fans. Cheeks interacted with crowd. Sheed was calm and collected. Monroe and Drumonds are big boys.

Ate at Guac Tacos . . . give it a C+. Sizzle Pizza continues to be bland although it was a little hotter than before. So far my only thumbs up is Killer Burger.
 
Strenuus said:
They have ads on their shirts and around the field, like hockey does on the boards. lol.
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lol? Yeah, they have ads peppered everywhere in the rose garden too.... err Moda.
 
Treaty_of_Batum said:
Back from the game. Tonight was much different than Sacramento. Last game there was literally two 200 sections with less than 50 people in it (took a picture with my phone but don't know how to post it) Tonight those same sections were 75-85% full. Weird the announced attendance is slightly higher as it felt more alive tonight.

Lots of Piston fans. Cheeks interacted with crowd. Sheed was calm and collected. Monroe and Drumonds are big boys.

Ate at Guac Tacos . . . give it a C+. Sizzle Pizza continues to be bland although it was a little hotter than before. So far my only thumbs up is Killer Burger.
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Yeah I went to the game, was expecting it to be more dead than it was after this thread but had a solid crowd.

I've been to a few college football games lately, and it just kind of shocked me how calm and quiet NBA crowds are compared to football.
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Attendance: 18,834

A slight improvement.
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Lopez at center and Mo off the bench definitely is! The better this team gets the more fans will show up. Bottom Line.

As Lopez turned in his best all-round effort in Portland, the rest of the pieces fell into place for the Blazers. The bench, which had been highly touted coming in to the season but had hardly been the dominant, difference-making group it was billed to be, had it's best collective outing of the season. Heading into Monday night’s game, the group ranked third-worst in the NBA in bench scoring, averaging just 21.8 points per game.


But the group combined to score 34 points against the Pistons, surpassing it’s previous high by eight.
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Maturing Trail Blazers defeat Detroit Pistons with big night from Robin Lopez, bench
 
I think with this team, it's not so much the points production that makes the bench good, it's the fact it actually consists of players who actually have talent.
 
HailBlazers said:
Lopez at center and Mo off the bench definitely is! The better this team gets the more fans will show up. Bottom Line.
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Yeah I agree. Fans care #1 and #2 about winning. The character crap and anti Jail Blazer attitude is phony. Fans would much rather see asshole thugs win than losers with great character and perfect attitudes.

People complain about Rasheed Wallace but his teams sold out the Garden.
 
This is the first game where I have seen what I was hoping the bench would do, give the starters less minutes.

Starters consistently playing 35-40 minutes will wear this team down by all star break. For Matthews to play less than 30 mins might mean he can keep his intense energy play and withstand the 82 game schedule . . . . or is has Wes lost it. :devil:
 
Why are 100 level fans sooooo stuffy? The times I go, people are telling me to sit down when I want to stand up. I know that old peeps can't stand so long, but it's for the best interest of the team. Get involved and be a true 6th man!
 
magnifier661 said:
Why are 100 level fans sooooo stuffy? The times I go, people are telling me to sit down when I want to stand up. I know that old peeps can't stand so long, but it's for the best interest of the team. Get involved and be a true 6th man!
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They tell you to sit down because you stand up on the seat with your back to the court!

Ive never had issues in the 100s
 
magnifier661 said:
Why are 100 level fans sooooo stuffy? The times I go, people are telling me to sit down when I want to stand up. I know that old peeps can't stand so long, but it's for the best interest of the team. Get involved and be a true 6th man!
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I agree. I've never really liked the fans in the 100 level that much. The 300 level fans are so much better.
 
I've always had a liking to the 200 level crowd. Many get food with their tickets and seem so much more peaceful and easy going than the other fans. :)
 
magnifier661 said:
I may get some 300 level tickets just to experience it! :D
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You really should. I'm thinking that from now on I might just go 200 level and 300 level only. I always feel like i'm "inhibiting" the experience of the 100 level fans the few times I save up to go to a game.
 
I prefer the 400 level. 300 level people are too prim and proper.

barfo
 
Had tickets to the 200's (original BlazerManiac) and the 100's. In the 2s there was better "ambiance", but from the 1s my wife could see jarrett jack cry.
 
Portland currently ranks #11 in attendance, selling about 88% of capacity.
 
This was a long thread and my attention faded about page 2, but I want pipe in on some of the comments raised here. I am a season ticket holder. This is my 18th year. In addition, I have been managing the season tickets for the company where I work. I have a pretty good idea how the casual NBA fan approaches the NBA. It's been the same for the past 15 years since I started handling my company's season tickets. The casual fan doesn't even think about the Blazers until after Christmas. Too much competition from college football and NFL, and now MLS. If they do think about NBA, it is never for games against the Eastern Conference (Detroit) or teams with no stars (Sacramento). So, it is too soon to make judgments about sell-outs and waning fan bases. They will be back.

Comments about the Moda Center and the new management taking the fun out of the experience. The games have changed some this year in that there is more emphasis on basketball and less on noise and glitz and filler. This is because you asked for it. They did research. This is what you wanted. So, there's that.

Personally, I don't know if I have it in me to invest all the time and energy it takes to follow this team. I survived the dark years of dysfunction. And then Oden happened. That opened a big sore, then Roy happened and that picked at that sore, and the lock out ... oh the lock out just killed any joy I had following the Blazers. That sore caused by the lock out is still festering. I don't imagine I am alone in treading cautiously.
 
Scarlett Black said:
This was a long thread and my attention faded about page 2, but I want pipe in on some of the comments raised here. I am a season ticket holder. This is my 18th year. In addition, I have been managing the season tickets for the company where I work. I have a pretty good idea how the casual NBA fan approaches the NBA. It's been the same for the past 15 years since I started handling my company's season tickets. The casual fan doesn't even think about the Blazers until after Christmas. Too much competition from college football and NFL, and now MLS. If they do think about NBA, it is never for games against the Eastern Conference (Detroit) or teams with no stars (Sacramento). So, it is too soon to make judgments about sell-outs and waning fan bases. They will be back.

Comments about the Moda Center and the new management taking the fun out of the experience. The games have changed some this year in that there is more emphasis on basketball and less on noise and glitz and filler. This is because you asked for it. They did research. This is what you wanted. So, there's that.

Personally, I don't know if I have it in me to invest all the time and energy it takes to follow this team. I survived the dark years of dysfunction. And then Oden happened. That opened a big sore, then Roy happened and that picked at that sore, and the lock out ... oh the lock out just killed any joy I had following the Blazers. That sore caused by the lock out is still festering. I don't imagine I am alone in treading cautiously.
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You're not alone by any means.
 
The trend of stars ditching small markets for big markets will only get worse. Superfriends/teams are killing the NBA.

I'll admit, the Oden fiasco took a hit on my fandom.
 
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