Blazers of the Decade

[illmatic99]

Thought this would be a fun exercise.

List 'em, and provide some justification if you like.

Best Overall Player.
1.
2.
3.

Best Offensive Player
1.
2.
3.

Best Defensive Player
1.
2.
3.

Best Team (season)
1.
2.
3.

Most significant accomplishment (for good or bad)
1.
2.
3.

Most infamous occurrence
1.
2.
3.

Three adjectives that describe the past ten years
1.
2.
3.

Most significant goals for this next decade.
1.
2.
3.

 

[illmatic99]

I'll start.

Best Overall Player.
1. Roy
2. Randolph
3. Sheed

Best Offensive Player
1. Roy
2. Randolph
3. Sheed

Best Defensive Player
1. Sheed
2. Pippen
3. Przy

Best Team (season)
1. 08-09
2. 02-03 (when we lost to the Mavs)
3. 01-02 (last one with Dunleavy)

Most significant accomplishment (for good or bad)
1. 54 wins with the youngest playing roster in the league
2. 2006 draft
3. Getting through the rebuild relatively fast (five years)

Most infamous occurrence
1. losing in the first round in 01, and breaking apart that 2000 team
2. Oden MF
3. Qyntel

Three adjectives that describe the past ten years
1. character-building
2. (relatively) unsuccessful
3. rejuvenating

Most significant goals for this next decade.
1. at least 2 titles
2. MVP for one of the players
3. 10 straight playoffs

 

[alex42083]

Best Overall Player.
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Scottie Pippen

Best Offensive Player
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Arvydas Sabonis

Best Defensive Player
1. Rasheed Wallace
2. Joel Przybilla
3. Greg Anthony
HM - Ruben Patterson, Theo Ratliiff

Best Team (season)
1. 1999-2000
2. 2008-2009
3. Doesn't matter..

Most significant accomplishment (for good or bad)
1. Reaching the WCF, and turning a 3-1 deficit into Game 7
2. Getting to the playoffs last season
3. Getting Roy and Aldridge in the same draft

Most infamous occurrence
1. Game 7 2000
2. Greg Oden microfracture
3. Jail Blazer era

Three adjectives that describe the past ten years
1. Heartbreak
2. Rebuilding
3. Proud

Most significant goals for this next decade.
1. Win at least one NBA championship
2. Get Greg Oden healthy
3. Develop Roy/Aldridge/G.O. into one of the best trios in NBA history

 

[illmatic99]

hm... I figured 99-00 as last decade. Subtraction fail on my part.

 

[DaRizzle]

You guys gotta figure out the starting 5 of the decade

 

[Public Defender]

Best Overall Player.
1. Brandon Roy
2. Scottie Pippen
3. Rasheed Wallace

Best Offensive Player
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Damon Stoudamire

Best Defensive Player
1. Scottie Pippen
2. Joel Przybilla
3. Rasheed Wallace

Best Team (season)
1. '00-'01
2. '01-'02
3. '08-'09

Most significant accomplishment (good) - sticking to "good" because the "infamous" category covers the "bad" stuff
1. nearly making NBA Finals in '01
2. reaching playoffs in '09
3. series of moves allowing Blazers to rebuild without a long period of mediocrity

Most infamous occurrence
1. WCF Game 7, 2001
2. Oden's injuries
3. Cheeks holding onto his job for so long

I'm not too keen on the other two categories, so I'll just stop there.

 

[Public Defender]

You guys gotta figure out the starting 5 of the decade

I'm game... but I'm going to totally cheat by putting two players technically out of position.

PG: Scottie Pippen
SG: Brandon Roy
SF: Rasheed Wallace
PF: LaMarcus Aldridge
C: Arvydas Sabonis

 

[Minstrel]

Best Overall Player.
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Scottie Pippen

Best Offensive Player
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Zach Randolph

Best Defensive Player
1. Rasheed Wallace
2. Scottie Pippen
3. Greg Oden

Best Team (season)
1. 2000-01
2. 2008-09
3. 2001-02

Most significant accomplishment (for good or bad)
1. Getting within a quarter of the Finals in the 2000 playoffs
2. Nearly coming back from a 3-0 deficit to Dallas
3. Drafting Greg Oden

Most infamous occurrence
1. Collapsing in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals in 2000
2. Rasheed Wallace getting a technical for looking at a referee funny
3. Rasheed Wallace saying that a major motivation was "CTC" [not that it mattered to me, but it certainly seemed to inflame a lot of folks]

Three adjectives that describe the past ten years
1. Frustrating
2. Frustrating
3. Disappointing

Most significant goals for this next decade.
1. Winning an NBA championship
2. Being a perennial contender
3. I don't have a #3

 

[Entity]

PG: Scottie Pippen
SG: Brandon Roy
SF: Rasheed Wallace
PF: LaMarcus Aldridge
C: Arvydas Sabonis

This, and...

Best Overall Player.
1. Brandon Roy
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Scottie Pippen

Best Offensive Player
1. Brandon Roy
2. Zach Randolph
3. Rasheed Wallace

Best Defensive Player
1. Rasheed Wallace
2. Scottie Pippen
3. Theo Ratliff

Best Team (season)
1. 1999-2000
2. 2008-2009
3. 2000-2001

Most significant accomplishment (for good or bad)
1. Re-earning respect
2. Recent NBA Drafts
3. 13 game winning streak

Most infamous occurrence
1. 2000 WCF Game 7 4th Quarter
2. Jail Blazers
3. Pattergate

Three adjectives that describe the past ten years
1. Roller coaster
2. Renewed faith
3. Patience

Most significant goals for this next decade.
1. Championship
2. Health
3. Consistency