Dark times...

[MIXUM]

Coming to these boards right now have an ominous feeling. Almost like a deserted town yet still has the local dwellers still making up whats left of the town. An eerie feeling here, within the blazers and just in general.

Man, i never thought it would get this dark in such a short amount of time. It makes me sick that our season is over before xmas. sick. i dont know where this team goes now. i have to wonder if losing to the wiz was rock bottom? or is there more to come in these dark days ahead? its beginning to feel like all hope is lost. i dont think the fan base can survive another rebuilding era. a loss on sunday puts the hammer down on the final nail in our coffin. i thought after boston game we were ready to turn it around but i was sorely mistaken.

its sad.... really sad. i feel worse about this team then the bassy, charles smith, miles team.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Well, at least you got to be all sorts of right about this season. That's gotta count for something, yeah?

 

[MIXUM]

i would trade it to make the playoffs. in fact i would have rather wrote mixum was wrong.

primus doesnt need to honor the bet. i would rather see the blazers turn this around.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

i would trade it to make the playoffs. in fact i would have rather wrote mixum was wrong.

Yeah... I totally hear ya. *sigh*

 

[Nikolokolus]

"All hope is lost?" It's basketball, not nuclear winter. Whatever happens there will continue to be a team playing a facsimile of basketball at the rose garden, there will continue to be drafts, trades and new faces, so as Cubs fans are wont to say, "There's always next year."

 

[MIXUM]

for this roster... all hope is lost. and theres gonna be a lockout... so no there is no next year.

 

[Nikolokolus]

for this roster... all hope is lost. and theres gonna be a lockout... so no there is no next year.

Some might call that a good thing ...

 

[Minstrel]

Some might call that a good thing ...

Really? I'd rather more basketball to watch, even if my team sucks or struggles, then no basketball.

 

[andalusian]

Really? I'd rather more basketball to watch, even if my team sucks or struggles, then no basketball.

That might actually do good for this roster, however. Roy getting a long rest, GO, if he is still a Blazer taking all the time he needs to recover.

 

[Minstrel]

That might actually do good for this roster, however. Roy getting a long rest, GO, if he is still a Blazer taking all the time he needs to recover.

Technically, giving Roy and Oden a year off from basketball is within the Blazers' control, lockout or not. My guess is that the doctors they consult will say that an extra year off won't help their conditions.

Of course, Oden's contract status makes giving him a year off tough. But that also makes losing a year to lock-out dangerous...will the RFA rights exist in the next CBA in exactly the same form?

 

[Natebishop3]

Trade Cho!

 

[Rhal]

The year hasn't started out as expected, lots and lots of bad news with no good news shining threw seems to be the case week in and week out. I'm definatly no longer hyped about this season and doubt we will make the playoffs unless something drastic happens but i'll still tune in for every game and even attend some with any extra cash I get. Even with the not fun basketball we play and the train like scenarios that play out in the second half i'll still be there to witness everything.
Guess what i'm getting at is... well we are no longer were we wanted to be, but id rather look to the future then dwell on everything thats negative thats been happening. So #1 pick here we come!

 

[jlprk]

The year hasn't started out as expected, lots and lots of bad news with no good news shining threw seems to be the case week in and week out.

The only news that cost us wins was Roy. I expected the Oden news. The Pendergraph and Williams news doesn't matter. It's really only one bad thing that happened, not many.

But the Roy event is really three--1) the loss of Roy for awhile, 2) its permanence forever, and 3) the enormous contract he just started.

So it seems like many bad events. It's like looking at cascading reflections of yourself in a carnival house of mirrors.

 

[Shooter]

The really pitiful part is that this losing streak has included some of the worst teams in the league. I would never have guessed that Portland would struggle so mightily against teams like Washington and New Jersey.

 

[MIXUM]

amazingly they played very well vs boston. i hope they arent gonna be good vs good teams and awful vs bad teams

 

[Entity]

I don't feel worse about this team than the Bassy/Miles team, but I definitely feel worse about them than I have since June 2006. I think you're right. Something is going to happen. Ominous feelings don't just go unanswered around this franchise. It would be a surprise if they stuck with the status quo by New Year's.

 

[Public Defender]

This is a different kind of disappointment than I think we fans who've been with the team a long time have been through.

We've seen a team full or problems and promise fold under pressure - in the '99 WCF against the Spurs, when the team unraveled after Sean Elliott's "Memorial Day Miracle."

We've seen a team built to "win now" choke unexpectedly and go from on track to the NBA Finals and a likely championship to out of the playoffs and ushering in an era of Laker dominance - all in the course of a quarter!

The year that followed was among the most embarassing ever - in which the team tried desperately to fill a few holes, and wound up digging deeper ones, with the loss of Brian Grant and Jermaine O'Neal, and the addition of Shawn Kemp and Dale Davis.

We've had to endure a rebuilding era in which bad draft picks (Sebastian Telfair, Viktor Khryapa, and arguably, Martell Webster, among others) mired the team in mediocrity.

Then, Blazer fans were given real hope for the future, when after all this disappointment, the team managed three amazing rookie selections in the span of two years: Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Greg Oden. And now, not only has Oden not panned out, but the weight put on Brandon Roy appears to be too much for his knees to carry; and Aldridge can't make up for the loss of these two other supposed "pillars" of the future.

The type of dashing of hopes this season is different. It's not a sudden collapse, like in '99 or '00. It's not a single roll of the dice like in '01, which didn't work out. It's the product of a multi-year rebuilding effort that now appears for naught. Perhaps not acutely painful, but creates an ache that doesn't go away - and probably won't for years, as the Blazers rebuild once again.

 

[THE HCP]

i dont think the fan base can survive another rebuilding era.

If you were raised a Blazer fan......... If your parents were Blazer fans......... if you are a REAL Blazer fan you'll survive this. True Blazer fans don't run and hide when shit gets rough. The losing is rough, but that's what makes the winning that much better. To say you aren't going to follow this team or sell your tix just because they are losing if funny to me. Way to keep the negative threads coming.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

If you were raised a Blazer fan......... If your parents were Blazer fans......... if you are a REAL Blazer fan you'll survive this. True Blazer fans don't run and hide when shit gets rough. The losing is rough, but that's what makes the winning that much better. To say you aren't going to follow this team or sell your tix just because they are losing if funny to me. Way to keep the negative threads coming.

Glad to provide you with a laugh.

 

[Public Defender]

True Blazer fans don't run and hide when shit gets rough. The losing is rough, but that's what makes the winning that much better.

Yeah, I agree. I wasn't raised a Blazer fan, but I was raised a Red Sox fan, and the fact is, losing is part of every team's story. In fact, I do think of being a fan as being part of a very long story, and you have to admire the tough times along with the fun ones. I can imagine that it must seem easy to be a Miami fan right now, or a Laker fan, but both of those franchises have had difficult times to deal with.

I might get hazed for this, but losing teams can actually be more interesting to follow. Reminds me of the Tolstoy quote (yes, I had to look up who said it originally): "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Yeah, I agree. I wasn't raised a Blazer fan, but I was raised a Red Sox fan, and the fact is, losing is part of every team's story. In fact, I do think of being a fan as being part of a very long story, and you have to admire the tough times along with the fun ones. I can imagine that it must seem easy to be a Miami fan right now, or a Laker fan, but both of those franchises have had difficult times to deal with.

I might get hazed for this, but losing teams can actually be more interesting to follow. Reminds me of the Tolstoy quote (yes, I had to look up who said it originally): "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Good points; there's a lot to think about there.

 

[Minstrel]

If you were raised a Blazer fan......... If your parents were Blazer fans......... if you are a REAL Blazer fan you'll survive this. True Blazer fans don't run and hide when shit gets rough. The losing is rough, but that's what makes the winning that much better. To say you aren't going to follow this team or sell your tix just because they are losing if funny to me. Way to keep the negative threads coming.

Telling people what to do with their money or how to be a fan is taking the team flack position a bit far. You work for the team and are an unapologetic company man, which is fine. IMO, it gets a little obnoxious when you start writing screeds about what a "true fan" is, especially when it involves lots of money spent on tickets.

 

[DaRizzle]

Free Mixum

 

[Natebishop3]

So let me get this straight... a Laker fan is going to come in here and tell us that we need the troll back?

 

[DaRizzle]

A friend of the POR family is

 

[Natebishop3]

A friend of the POR family is

You're more of a friend to the Portland family than he was... what does that say?

 

[yenniedn]

Yeah, I was kind of getting the feeling that things were too calm around here - too full of anticipation for a team that, for the second year in a row, persevered through ridiculous injuries to key players and is (for the first time in a long time) days away from their first playoff series that they have a very good chance of winning. All in all it just seemed it was too good a feeling to be a Blazer fan.

I reminisce about the days when no matter what the team did good or bad, we always had one member here that was smarter than us, better than us who would take any bit of good news and turn it into something bad. And take any tiny bit of bad news and flame it into a raging inferno. Ah yes, those were the days! Gone are all the mornings we awoke to warm, steamy piss in our Cheerios. If we want piping hot urine in our breakfasts now, we have to unzip our own pants and piss on it ourselves! Frankly, I'm too lazy to do that every morning so, yeah, bring back the DJ.

 

[BlayZa]

nothing wrong with having an alternative point of view, in fact i used to appreciate the difference, but my god - he became intolerable and more and more baiting. was just so fuckin tiresome.

 

[Natebishop3]

The people who miss him are the ones who like to stir the pot. It's not a coincidence.

 

[PapaG]

The people who miss him are the ones who like to stir the pot. It's not a coincidence.

I don't miss him, other than he added an entertainment element to the board. I do think it's a bit naive to think that those who campaigned for his banning didn't bait, troll, and stir the pot with him, though. Now, there are more posts then ever of the "great post/repped!" variety, with the same rep circle demonstrating the same groupthink. Disagreeing with an opinion outside of the small huddle is considered "trolling".

Plus, you just stirred the pot with your post by calling out other posters, which is a bit ironic.