Darkest days as a Blazer fan?

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Nate getting fired...Oden crumbling to dust and Roy on bone to bone medical retirement to turn around and sign for two years with the wolves....Raymond Felton jiggling and dribbling the ball off his foot since he couldn't see his feet....Jamal Crawford trying to be a pt guard....Luke Babbit getting the crowd Chalupas.....that was the toughest Blazer season ever...the Kaleb Canales "hard hat lockout" season....nothing tested my interest in the team like that season...even the Telfair era.....
 
This is just 1080 doing their 1080 "everything is wrong with the Blazers" routine.

This era doesn't even register in the top 10 of "darkest days".

88-89 was worse
93-96 was boring central and going nowheres and mediocre.
Odens having 1st Microfracture
Bowies injuries
Ha Seung Jin was a starter
21 wins
Pre-Roy days
Ruben Patterson as a Blazer
Dog Fighting/Playing card ID
Theo Ratliff conning the team into a huge contract he couldn't even remotely live up to
SAR/Theo/Dickau for Rasheed, only to watch him get traded by Atlanta to Detroit and win a title (silver lining: Lakers lost badly in that series).
Watching Jermaine blow up while Kemp and Dale Davis grew fat and crappy.
Trading down to draft Martell instead of Chris Paul (or someone else).
Maurice Cheeks not getting fired as soon as he should have.
Nate McMillan see above.
Oden having 2nd microfracture
Oden having his knee cap explode
Oden having 3rd microfracture
Roy having to medically retire
 
We just fired a GM that basically everyone wanted gone, and Lillard continues to reiterate his desire to stay. How could that be the darkest days?
 
Ugh this shit is so tiresome.
What was everyone’s reaction to olshey getting fired? OH YEAH EVERYONE WAS HAPPY AS SHIT.
Rumors of CJ finally being traded? OH YEAH most people want that….

So two things we’ve wanted for years are happening and now we’re calling this the dark days?
Give me a break
 
RR7 said:
We just fired a GM that basically everyone wanted gone, and Lillard continues to reiterate his desire to stay. How could that be the darkest days?
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because 1080 likes to create drama, because that's what drives ratings. They're just the canzano of sports radio (which is odd since canzano himself has a show).
 
julius said:
because 1080 likes to create drama, because that's what drives ratings. They're just the canzano of sports radio (which is odd since canzano himself has a show).
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Oh, I know. Just, they hated olshey so much on there, it seems like they'd be playing this as a step in the right direction, not doom and gloom. More of a, ding dong the witch is dead sort of thing.
 
I've completely tuned out the basketball shock jocks on radio and other media outlets....found a few youtube podcasts that I think are balanced and interesting and that fills the gap for me...fuck the Stephen A Smiths and those like him who want to project panic around people they don't even fucking know.
 
riverman said:
Nate getting fired...Oden crumbling to dust and Roy on bone to bone medical retirement to turn around and sign for two years with the wolves....Raymond Felton jiggling and dribbling the ball off his foot since he couldn't see his feet....Jamal Crawford trying to be a pt guard....Luke Babbit getting the crowd Chalupas.....that was the toughest Blazer season ever...the Kaleb Canales "hard hat lockout" season....nothing tested my interest in the team like that season...even the Telfair era.....
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That all led to Lillard. Hopefully if we pickup this rebuild will lead to another superstar
 
lol

wut?

It's not even the darkest in the last decade.
 
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Hell, this isn't even the darkest days of the Dame era. I'll take this mess over post-Zach injury, pre-Melo signing bubble year.
 
Oden's knee breaking in the Houston game will forever be my 'WTF am I doing investing so much time and energy into this' moment.
 
No. I’d say the year we started Charles “The Spider” Smith and Sergei Monia. Ha Seung Jin was part of the regular rotation and we were over the top excited about the Vladimir Stepania signing
 
MickZagger said:
No. I’d say the year we started Charles “The Spider” Smith and Sergei Monia. Ha Seung Jin was part of the regular rotation and we were over the top excited about the Vladimir Stepania signing
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I think the difference is now we don't have Mike Barrett talking about how Ha had put on 15 pounds of PURE muscle and was developing at a quicker pace than Yao Ming was, and that Vlad the Impaler Stepania was dominating the local Y.

It's harder to have hope when we aren't hearing about how Keljin is throwing it down in practice and it's literally moments away from being the next Billy Ray Bates and Michael Ray Richardson rolled into one guy!
 
I was around when the Walton team crumbled. Blazers were the champions and 50-10 the next season. Walton got hurt again. Lucas did too. Walton's was serious, then he signed with the San Diego Clippers while suing the Blazers. In 1977 they won a championship and had a dynasty in hand. 9 months later it was all gone

those were dark days
 
Turbulent is different than darkest days.

The title of the tweet might be on to something. Changes are turbulent.

Darkest days? Nah, way misleading thread title.
 
This team has no pulse.
They are very difficult to root for.
In fact, most games, I find myself hoping they,,,,well..........nevermind.
 
illmatic99 said:
hell, it can be argued that these days are quite bright
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I don't think there is an argument to be had. We know there is talent on this roster. We know we have one of the best in the game and one of the best small guards to ever do it leading this team. We know that the biggest hindrance to making the moves that make sense with our mismatched talent just got sent packing. It's a very exciting time to be a Blazers fan.

All of this has been dampened by Dame's ab injury (I dare you to find me one player in NBA history whose career was derailed by an ab injury) and media covering the coach/GM turnover that had to happen as a chaotic harbinger of imminent dark times.
 
Wade Garrett said:
This team has no pulse.
They are very difficult to root for.
In fact, most games, I find myself hoping they,,,,well..........nevermind.
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This team with a hobbled Dame, that most of us have been preaching for years has a bunch of guys on it with talent that have no business playing together because they don't fit. Yeah, it's a bummer to be a little below .500 at any time but imagine that Neil has been the only thing holding us back from getting some value in return for CJ and ridding us of the horrible combo that Dame and CJ are. You don't have to imagine that we have a great back court partner to pair with Dame upon CJ's exit because Norm is definitely that. We have RoCo whose reputation will not let GMs throughout the league fail to bid on him if we put him on the block. Nurk just turned in a 30 point game so we either figure out how to make him work and try to extend him or move him for incoming value.

Yeah, if Dame stays hurt (not logical) and we don't make obvious moves (not likely) this team has no pulse.
 
The reason this is one of, if not the darkest time is there is no direction. It’s been a multi year holding pattern
 
Mediocre Man said:
The reason this is one of, if not the darkest time is there is no direction. It’s been a multi year holding pattern
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One that just ended, during with we got to see dazzling performances from Dame. I just don't see how it compares to the Telfair days. I don't see how it's worse than when we saw Roy and Oden's knees cripple a promising future that was likely a dynasty. I don't even see how these are darker days than when Clyde was traded for Thorpe and this team endured for a period of time led by Cliffy and not much else.

As far as not having direction... both having three GMs in under two years (4 if you count Chad) and Nash/Patterson felt more fucking rudderless than this transition of power. Maybe it's PTSD from those experiences that have people projecting a lack of direction upcoming but I think the clouds actually just parted.
 
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