Harvey's 'The Show'

[Entity]

Telfair, Monia, Victor, and Ha. What a great draft!

Four guys no longer in the NBA. What? Telfair's still around? How come I haven't heard anything about him in three years?

 

[Tince]

Hey hey hey.... leave Viktor out of it. I loved that guy. Super nice

Hahaha... I heard Ha was nice too!

Victor helped get us LMA, so I've got nothing but love for the guy!

 

[alex42083]

Everyone's favorite quartet

 

[STOMP]

The jump from just making the playoffs to having success in the playoffs is much harder then the jump from non-playoff team to playoff team. So your comparison is not really correct.

Neither Denver nor Houston were able to make that leap without making moves and taking risks. Portland is no different. They are going to have to take a risk to get to the next level. Otherwise, we can all enjoy first round exists in the playoffs for years to come.

Maybe that is cool with you. For me, I would like to attend the finals game where Portland wins it all. Anything other then that is kind of a disappointment for me.

Most teams make several moves every year and every team is continually taking risks. I'm sort of hopeful that the Blazers take a risk staying with Bayless, Rudy, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, and Oden.

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[Boob-No-More]

Everyone's favorite quartet

Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares the night before the draft.

After the trade with Dallas, we have 4 picks left. I can't imagine any way we could end up with 4 worse players than we did in that draft. OK, I lied. I can imagine one way, but that would involve someone kdnapping Kevin Pritchard and bringing in John Nash as interim GM. Great, more nightmares.

BNM

 

[Ed O]

He was severely handcuffed in terms of making trades, I don't blame him a bit - he was order to reduce salary spending. OTOH, he made a poor draft pick in Telfair, and compounded his mistake by not realizing he had, in fact, made a mistake. Thus, he did not take a PG when a choice of the two best PGs in the game today were readily available to him.

The dude signed Theo Ratliff to a huge extension. The guy extended Zach Randolph at the max. I believe he extended Miles, as well.

Re-signing each of them at the levels that he did would be bad enough... but EXTENDING?

It was a radical departure from previous Blazers decision-making and truly breathtaking in terms of how bad it was for the franchise.

Looking at the main trade he made--Rasheed for SAR and Theo--the Blazers actually took on tens of millions of dollars of salary. The whole "ordered to reduce salary spending" might have been true, but he might have been as incompetent at that part of his job as he was at the rest of it.

Ed O.

 

[Sinobas]

Yes, looking back at the Nash era, the only good thing you can say, was he botched so many things, that we sucked just enough for KP to be in the position to bring in some good talent.

But remember, Theo was just having the time of his ass before being resigned. He averaged 4.5 blocks a game during a 32 game stint with Portland after being traded....I think he won defensive player of the year. But still, that was a bit excessive for a 7pt 7 rebound center.

 

[LittleAlex]

A jump from finishing 10th in the West to tied for 2nd in one year isn't major improvement? How is that "just making the playoffs"? We made the jump from a non playoff team to a team who only finished behind the Lakers in the standings and having home-court advantage.

Where you one of those people last summer or at the trade deadline saying we wouldn't make the playoffs without making a major move? If not, then my comment wasn't directed towards you anyway.

Who said it wasn't? I said the next step is harder then that last.

Nope, I assumed we would make the playoffs this last year. I was wrong about the win total (I predicted 48 wins, not 54).

However, I do believe they need to make a move to get to the next level. Perhaps I will be wrong again. I would be more then happy to be wrong about that.

 

[STOMP]

Yes, looking back at the Nash era, the only good thing you can say, was he botched so many things, that we sucked just enough for KP to be in the position to bring in some good talent.

But remember, Theo was just having the time of his ass before being resigned. He averaged 4.5 blocks a game during a 32 game stint with Portland after being traded....I think he won defensive player of the year. But still, that was a bit excessive for a 7pt 7 rebound center.

Theo made the 2nd All D team in 2003-4.

At the time, I couldn't believe that they extended him... I recall it being a 5 year deal at 10M+. Besides giving you nothing to speak of on offense, he had a history of being injured and was on the wrong side of 30. Dude had another year left on his contract. Well, at least we all were able to bask in his wonderful character.

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