Notice Chauncey Billups new Portland Trail Blazers head coach

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are you happy that chauncey billups got the job

  • yes

    Votes: 80 59.7%

  • no

    Votes: 10 7.5%

  • yes, but he was not my first choice

    Votes: 19 14.2%

  • meh, im indifferent

    Votes: 25 18.7%
  • Total voters
    134
Minstrel said:
"Say less" means "I get it" or "I understand" essentially. You can infer what you like about what it is he "gets."
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Interesting?
He said the same thing about the dude that bet his house on the season.
 
Propagandist said:
Fuck your tone.

You are basing your view of Dame on interviews and Twitter. I am basing my view on the physical world, here, in Portland. I'm sorry your hero is a philanderer. It disappointed me too. I would have never mentioned it, if he didn't endorse Billups. All these hypocrites.

Or he has an open relationship.

Again, I'm not judging Dame for his actions, but if you couple his actions with his endorsement of one garbage human and then another potentially garbage human, then Dame sucks too.
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I think it's unfair to say that Dame endorsing a wife-beater and/or a possible rapist to do a particular job is a commentary on Dame's character. Some people believe personal and professional attributes can and should be separated; others disagree. Neither position is right or wrong.

Separately, regarding the implication that you have personal knowledge of Dame being unfaithful to his wife-- I'm certainly not a fan of that. But I'm not sure exactly how that equates to him not respecting women. Seems more like that equates to him not respecting monogamy.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
Interesting?
He said the same thing about the dude that bet his house on the season.
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Yeah, that was more clear, IMO. "Say no more, I understand and got you." It was displaying confidence that he'd win the bet for that guy.
 
Detroit Fans 12 years after allegations...


Portland Fans 24 years after allegations
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THE HCP said:
#FireStottsFireStotts
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Yup, Stotts (as a coach) can get absolutely fucked.

Waste of 9 years.

Glad his ass is gone. If we hired a child it wouldn’t change my mind. Absolute scrub of a coach.

Glad I *never* had expectations of this team in the playoffs (check my post history) since 2016.
 
JoshuaHall said:
It won’t hurt business, at all.
And clearly you don’t know the history of the justice system for black men.
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Wow…….this is one of the most tone deaf comments I have heard in my six years here. Just wow. I can’t wait for you to whitesplain it. Appalling.
 
If the team wins people will forget about his past.

I have seen it before. Nobody had an issue with the Jail Blazers until they started sucking. Conveniently people found their conscience right around the time of Telfair, ZBo and Miles.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
Wow…….this is one of the most tone deaf comments I have heard in my six years here. Just wow. I can’t wait for you to whitesplain it. Appalling.
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Wow…….this is one of the most tone deaf comments I have heard in my six years here. Just wow. I can’t wait for you to whitesplain it. Appalling.

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Minstrel said:
If Billups raped that woman, it's not a "mistake" and passing it off as "everyone makes mistakes" is morally repugnant.

If he didn't rape her or sexually assault her in any way, then there's nothing to even call a mistake unless you mean that, while innocent, he made mistakes that make him look more guilty.
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Side argument because you know I like to argue semantics, but if it’s not a mistake what would you call it? I think you’re equating the word “mistake” with accidents. A bad decision is a mistake, is it not? Now whether it fits the “we all make mistakes” line, that’s another debate that I’m not interested in getting into lol
 
Fairly-Hard said:
I guess if you figure John Canzano and the Oregonian not the local sports media you would be correct.

But-

"Sex-assault survivor Brenda Tracy is in disbelief today. Maybe you will be, too, after you read the details of the troubling allegations pointed at Billups and a couple of his teammates in November of 1997.



A night out at a comedy club ended with a woman calling police and getting a rape kit at the hospital. The exam revealed “injuries to her throat, cervix, and rectum, along with bruising on her back consistent with someone being dragged across a rug. Sperm had been retrieved from her vagina.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/j...y-billups-is-all-wrong-for-trail-blazers.html
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Wow, I was just going to post that this isn't going to be an issue unless some columnist like Canzano makes an issue of it. This is sad.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Side argument because you know I like to argue semantics, but if it’s not a mistake what would you call it? I think you’re equating the word “mistake” with accidents. A bad decision is a mistake, is it not? Now whether it fits the “we all make mistakes” line, that’s another debate that I’m not interested in getting into lol
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If it’s something one is trying to justify, bad decision sounds better than mistake, IMO

Writing the wrong answer on a test is a mistake. Looking over someone’s shoulder, even if you didn’t see the answer is a bad decision
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
Wow, I was just going to post that this isn't going to be an issue unless some columnist like Canzano makes an issue of it. This is sad.
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It’s not Canzano’s fault that

A. Billups was involved in whatever
B. The Blazers hired him with others available with no baggage
 
Natebishop3 said:
Side argument because you know I like to argue semantics, but if it’s not a mistake what would you call it? I think you’re equating the word “mistake” with accidents. A bad decision is a mistake, is it not? Now whether it fits the “we all make mistakes” line, that’s another debate that I’m not interested in getting into lol
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A "mistake" generally (IMO) means a bad judgment or a decision with faulty information. I don't think malicious actions like rape qualify as a mistake. It's not merely a poor judgment (like misreading your audience when making a joke, or even drunk driving which, while it can have horrible consequences, might arise out of your mistaken belief that you're not very impaired) or anything to do with not having sufficient information. It's a purposeful choice to harm someone.
 
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