Highkin: Brandon Roy repping Blazers at lottery

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OneSport3 said:
Warning, this article can be a trigger for the anti-Roy crowd.

https://theathletic.com/4515130/2023/05/12/brandon-roy-blazers-reunion-lottery/

As it could’ve been easily surmised, he found it hard to deal with his career ending so suddenly and so prematurely on the brink of his prime. He didn’t distance himself because he hated the franchise or city like some on here I have foolishly assumed.

From the article:

“Roy had intentionally distanced himself from the Blazers. There were no hard feelings, no issues, no disagreements. There was just too much pain, too much frustration, too many “why me” moments involved in processing his forced retirement. As a result, in the decade since he left Portland, he had shown his face at a Blazers event once — slipping into a courtside seat in March of 2012 to watch Portland play Milwaukee, a gesture to celebrate the birthday of then-Blazers’ guard Jamal Crawford.

“There’s never been a moment when I felt I couldn’t reach out to the Blazers and be a part of the organization. Never,’’ Roy told The Athletic. “I just wanted to stay away from basketball, or from even hearing my name. It was just hard not being able to play … and I was only 28, 29 years old. So, I just stayed away.’’
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That is good to hear. So much for my bad guess.
 
Im sure the best players in the NW flock to play under Roy. Easy to create super teams in HS.
 
It's clear what's going on here. The Blazers are going to move to Seattle and will be renamed the Garfield High School Bulldogs.

barfo
 
wizenheimer said:
maybe aim a lot higher:

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that 82-6 record was before this last season. Roy's team went 25-2 and won another state championship. So, Roy's record is 111-8 with 4 state championships

Billups should worry
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I don't see Roy interested in the demands of an NBA HC job now. That's why he's stayed at high school instead of college or NBA level. He wants to see all of his son's games now in high school and next in college.
 
OneSport3 said:
Warning, this article can be a trigger for the anti-Roy crowd.

https://theathletic.com/4515130/2023/05/12/brandon-roy-blazers-reunion-lottery/

As it could’ve been easily surmised, he found it hard to deal with his career ending so suddenly and so prematurely on the brink of his prime. He didn’t distance himself because he hated the franchise or city like some on here I have foolishly assumed.

From the article:

“Roy had intentionally distanced himself from the Blazers. There were no hard feelings, no issues, no disagreements. There was just too much pain, too much frustration, too many “why me” moments involved in processing his forced retirement. As a result, in the decade since he left Portland, he had shown his face at a Blazers event once — slipping into a courtside seat in March of 2012 to watch Portland play Milwaukee, a gesture to celebrate the birthday of then-Blazers’ guard Jamal Crawford.

“There’s never been a moment when I felt I couldn’t reach out to the Blazers and be a part of the organization. Never,’’ Roy told The Athletic. “I just wanted to stay away from basketball, or from even hearing my name. It was just hard not being able to play … and I was only 28, 29 years old. So, I just stayed away.’’
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Kind of makes sense him coming back. If he'd never been injured, he'd probably still be retired by now. Easier to live with the loss when you look around at contemporaries from the 2006 draft (Aldridge, Redick, Rondo, Millsap) and they are out of the league.

PJ Tucker, Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry are kind of the last of his class, I think. I wouldn't have predicted those would be the last guys standing.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
I don't see Roy interested in the demands of an NBA HC job now. That's why he's stayed at high school instead of college or NBA level. He wants to see all of his son's games now in high school and next in college.
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I wasn't being serious about Roy and the Blazer job

but he's coached 4 seasons as a high school head coach. He has a 111-8 record and 4 state championships. There is not much room between that and perfection. He has to have a pretty good level of coaching acumen to accomplish that. That's true even if he's getting lots of transfers
 
WesleyMatthews said:
I don't see Roy interested in the demands of an NBA HC job now. That's why he's stayed at high school instead of college or NBA level. He wants to see all of his son's games now in high school and next in college.
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When we move the team to Seattle he will be able to watch all the games he wants!
 
Awesome videos, thanks for sharing!

I don't know how someone watches that and is still mad at BRoy. Obviously himself and the organization are on good terms right now if they agreed to this partnership.

But some Blazers fans have a bizarre tendency to throw hate at Blazer players.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Awesome videos, thanks for sharing!

I don't know how someone watches that and is still mad at BRoy. Obviously himself and the organization are on good terms right now if they agreed to this partnership.

But some Blazers fans have a bizarre tendency to throw hate at Blazer players.
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He's my second favorite player all time, so i was super happy they got him to go. Hopefully this is the start of him being around a lot more.
 
tykendo said:
He's my second favorite player all time, so i was super happy they got him to go. Hopefully this is the start of him being around a lot more.
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Yeah I hope so too. I think the main thing is he was very upset having to abruptly retire and still seeing all his peers in the league. Now when someone drafted with him who was younger (Aldridge) has been retired over a year, and had little impact for many years prior, its probably much easier to move on.

Yeah I'm sure the insurance thing didn't help, whether it was people loyal to Paul Allen mad at Roy, or Roy mad at the Blazers he felt they pressured him to retire, or Roy mad the Blazers were mad, or whatever else, who knows. As I said in other posts, everyone at a high level in the organization at that time has now moved on or died so it would be beyond petty for either side to still hold hard feelings.

I remember hearing a few years ago how Dame and Roy often talked, and that reassured me he was doing well and eventually there would be a better relationship here. Glad that has happened.
 
wizenheimer said:
maybe aim a lot higher:

View attachment 55843

that 82-6 record was before this last season. Roy's team went 25-2 and won another state championship. So, Roy's record is 111-8 with 4 state championships

Billups should worry
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As I understand it, Roy had ALL the talent. Every year he had the best players in the state transfer in to his team.

I've been the mediocre coach who blows teams out because I have all the talent. It's fun.

Until you run into another talented team with a legit coach.

So my question would be, how did his team do against other elite teams?
 
Phatguysrule said:
As I understand it, Roy had ALL the talent. Every year he had the best players in the state transfer in to his team.

I've been the mediocre coach who blows teams out because I have all the talent. It's fun.

Until you run into another talented team with a legit coach.

So my question would be, how did his team do against other elite teams?
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Well it would seem 4 state championships mean his teams did very well against the best.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Well it would seem 4 state championships mean his teams did very well against the best.
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The best in Washington, at least. I'm not sure how strong that is. Doesn't say as much if you take the top player from the other top 4 teams in the state because of name recognition.

There are 50 other state champions every year...
 
So.........

BRoy netted us Scoot

I'm still curious about his possible role in the organization... i would love to have him as a mentor for both Scoot and Shaedon
 
Portland2014 said:
So.........

BRoy netted us Scoot

I'm still curious about his possible role in the organization... i would love to have him as a mentor for both Scoot and Shaedon
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Is he still coaching Garfield High?

Maybe we'll see him at a Blazers game next season. I would expect if he is involved its very few dates, he mentioned wanting to be around his kids playing and has turned down all college/pro coaching inquiries.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Dude ran for us until his knees blew up.

Not his fault Kahn decided to pay him another $5 million and jeopardize Paul Allen's insurance claims which you have some bizarre fascination with.
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Actually it wasn't running that did that...he kicked bricks and two by fours doing Maritial Arts much longer than he played hoops. That's what destroyed his meniscus, not running.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Dude ran for us until his knees blew up.

Not his fault Kahn decided to pay him another $5 million and jeopardize Paul Allen's insurance claims which you have some bizarre fascination with.
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Meyers Fucking Leonard has more games played than Roy, yet people hate on Aldridge for leaving

Aldridge should easily have his number retired before Roy
 
Mediocre Man said:
Meyers Fucking Leonard has more games played than Roy, yet people hate on Aldridge for leaving

Aldridge should easily have his number retired before Roy
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We cut Roy, dude couldn't run.

Aldridge left an allstar duo and a team catering to him while confirming a commitment to stay at the start of that year.

If you don't understand something so simple I'm not sure how to help.
 
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