Bayless: "Fuck Telfair"

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Item #2: Bayless vs. Telfair: A budding rivalry?

As the rest of the media horde listened, people starting trying to guess which player asked, but was not given, Roy's shoes.

"...Sebastian (Telfair)?" came one of the guesses.

"(Bleep) Sebastian," a disgusted voice said nearby.

That voice was Blazers guard Jerryd Bayless, whose locker is next to Roy's.

There were a few "oohs" when he said it, and jokingly I turned to Bayless and said "Quote, unquote", playfully threatening to quote him.

"I don't care,'' Bayless said, cinching up his tie.

Later, I went back to Bayless and made sure I could quote him.

"As long as you don't use the cuss word,'' Bayless said.
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http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/03/behind_the_locker_room_door_a.html
 
God I love Bayless. Supposedly Telfair has been getting in our faces, and when we played Minny about a week ago, during an inbounds play, he hit Blake across the face.
 
Bayless is the man and going to be great for the Blazers sometimes laid back attitude IMO.
 
Telfair better that he is out of the league by the time Bayless hit his stride cuz if not it sounds like Bayless will make it his personal mission to eat Telfair alive.
 
This is one of the biggest reasons why we can't trade Bayless, as long as he doesn't turn on his teammates. The dude is a fighter and doesn't back down. I love his attitude. I think he's gonna be one of those guys that you love to have on your team but despise him when he's not.
 
Every team needs at least one "Fuck that guy" kind of player, coincidentally Bayless was acquired for the player that used to fill this role in the 3 years prior, unfortunately him being just a rookie makes it difficult for him to back up his attitude with his game.

Hopefully KP gets at least one more guy like this -- not a headcase, but definitely a hard ass.
 
I would like to see Bayless have a start and get like 30 minutes, just one game. I want to see this guy shine and I think he'd do good on the first unit...

Of course, I'd love to have Webster and Oden back too :)
 
i agree, we definitely need someone with an edge! not too many though....
 
Yea I read that when he was practicing with the Olympic team that him and Chris Paul got into a scuffle after a series of plays going at each other. He isn't afraid of anybody.
 
At the game I went to last week here in Minny I know when Stevie got a T, Telfair was behind it.
 
I love Jerryd's game. I'm rather surprised that he hasn't supplanted Sergio in the rotation yet.
 
tlongII said:
I love Jerryd's game. I'm rather surprised that he hasn't supplanted Sergio in the rotation yet.
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I asked coach Nate McMillan if the Denver performance told McMillan Bayless wasn't ready to unseat Sergio Rodriguez as the team's backup point guard.

"I know he's not. He's a rookie,'' McMillan said. "He's a young guy who's trying to ... he's playing this for the first time and all of sudden you're thrown out there.

"He brings energy and when I make that substitution, I know I'm going to get energy and get scrappiness and defense,'' McMillan said. "But the know-how you have to really ... limit what you do with him out there, simply because he hasn't been through that. Sergio has, he's seen it. So it's not that it made me feel any different about him. I knew it was a tough situation for him and going down the stretch it will be simply because he's a rookie stepping into a very hostile situation. Going up against champion in Chauncey Billups. That's tough and that's why Sergio being the backup and having a little bit more experience than Bayless; it's his time. This is what you work for and you talk about (wanting) - an opportunity.''

Incidentally, McMillan on Saturday morning had a closed-door meeting with Rodriguez after shootaround. Rodriguez said it was a good meeting.

"He told me what I had to work on ... moving the ball, playing defense, getting people involved,'' Rodriguez said. "But defense mainly. It all starts with defense.''

McMillan said he hoped the point Rodriguez would take from the meeting was to start playing with confidence.

"I just told him to play with confidence,'' McMillan said. "The last couple games, defensively, he's struggled some. But also just you've been through this. You've been through this for the last couple years now and I expect you to have a little more confidence going down the stretch and playing these games. We're going to need it when you come into that game, backing up Blake and you've done some good things for us.''

I asked McMillan if it was possible for Rodriguez to gain his confidence when he was playing only five minutes, then getting the hook for the rest of the game.

"Well, it takes a minute to go out there and show confidence. It doesn't take long. You go out there with that confidence. We're in a situation where we can't wait. You don't have a lot of minutes. If you have five minutes, you've made it happen before at five minutes. So if you get five minutes before in the first half, that will get you five minutes maybe in the second half. So you have to make that happen. That's the role he's in. That's the role guys coming off the bench are in.''
 
Spud147 said:
Is he... anti-social?!?!?

I have a great idea!!! Let's get all worried about it and discuss it until our eyes bleed.
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depends does he eat by himself at restaurants? Bayless seems the type that would eat top ramen at home by himself while listening to talk radio while keeping his thermostat set to 64 degrees.
 
Wow I never read this... We need a guy like this on our team.. I love it!
 
Yeah!! Go Bayless! Its so nice to have a player like him. We need to get him some PT now!
 
But I thought the Blazers were supposed to have a high morale level? I don't really care about something little like this, but I'd bet KP and co., gave him a talk bout it.
 
Masbee said:
Why is the thread title "Fuck Telfair"?

In the article is says, "Bleep Sebastian".

Presuming the Bleep is Fuck, it should be:

"Fuck Sebastian"
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Yeah, maybe JB has something about Vettel setting the fastest winter F1 testing times so far. Maybe Sergio and Rudy made an Alonso fan out of him :devilwink:
 
MARIS61 said:
"I know he's not. He's a rookie,'' McMillan said. "He's a young guy who's trying to ... he's playing this for the first time and all of sudden you're thrown out there."
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Bad logic, Nate.

Ed O.
 
A scrub who's barely in the rotation talking shit. Gotta love it.
 
Seems kind of random to me that Jerryd just came out with this and an F you to Sebastian. Other than the Blake thing, which didn't even involve him, what did Telfair do to Jerryd to piss him off so much?
 
alex42083 said:
Seems kind of random to me that Jerryd just came out with this and an F you to Sebastian. Other than the Blake thing, which didn't even involve him, what did Telfair do to Jerryd to piss him off so much?
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I don't care, I want him to have that attitude against every single player who is in the NBA and not on the Trail Blazers.
 
alex42083 said:
Seems kind of random to me that Jerryd just came out with this and an F you to Sebastian. Other than the Blake thing, which didn't even involve him, what did Telfair do to Jerryd to piss him off so much?
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I was wondering that, too. Have the two of them drawn comparisons, maybe? I could see Bayless resenting that.
 
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