How the Trail Blazers became the most overrated team in the NBA??

[mgb]

This guy is certainly long winded.

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Any success this season will start and end with Coach Nate McMillan. Pritchard has done the leg work with the roster, he's given McMillan the keys to the kingdom; McMillan has all the pieces he needs to challenge the Lakers for Western supremacy. Mr. Sonic has spent four years grooming this team, and they ARE A TEAM in every sense of the word. The closest thing Portland has to a superstar is Roy. But he's not a superstar, and he'll never be, but he's very, very good. The only way they'll win is if they play like a symphony. There's no throwing-it-in-to-Duncan-or-Howard-or-handing-it-to-Wade-and-clearing-out-or-giving-it-to-Carter-or-playing-catch-with-Bosh-and-Calderon. Sub-par coaches of championship caliber teams, coaches like Doc Rivers and Mike Brown, can win with a hands-off approach because they have players who can handle the weight. Garnett doesn't need Doc Rivers. LeBron doesn't need Mike Brown. Portland doesn't have either of those players. That is why they need McMillan.

Right there I for one disagree.

 

[MrJayremmie]

LOL.

Portland has no player they give it to and get out of the way? Give me a fucking break.

This guy must not watch many Portland games.

 

[mgb]

This is obviously just a LONG article setting up a attack on Nate. Fans that think we can't win it all with Nate will love this article.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Wow. Just...wow. I think it's pretty obvious that his objectivity is just a little bit clouded.

Here's my favorite example of why aiming for the stars is a grave mistake. It touches on all the crucial points. It came 9 years ago. I watched it unfold live, on a small television, in a crowded dorm room in Corvallis. The entire exercise took about ½ an hour. Its ramifications have lasted nearly a decade.

Sunday June 4th, 2000. The scene was Los Angeles, Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals...

Clearly this guy is suffering from long-standing emotional issues. He really never got over 2000, did he?

It took me a long time to learn that I'll be much more fulfilled if I aim low. Most dreams go unrequited. But before they fail, the dreamer sometimes gets a look, a glance, a glimmer behind the curtain at the life they could have had. How could you go on as a blacksmith after you spent a night with the princess? You're gonna be miserable forever.

Just a &%$#ing ray of sunshine, ain't he?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

On a related note, I talked to a high-school kid recently who told me that he'll never be able to be a Blazers fan again because they ripped his heart out in 2000. Yet somehow, he's a die-hard Yankees fan. I guess he just wasn't paying attention during the 2004 ALCS...? How is it that our 2000 collapse is deemed worse than every other in history?

 

[Idog1976]

Because it was a scripted Hollywood ending. Bob Costas: "It would take a MIRACLE for LA to win now.". Referee's: "That's commisioner Stern's signal, swallow your whistle on one end, even ignore Shaq clotheslining Steve Smith on the drive." Portland choked it away, but not without some help from their friends in black and white. I can see not watching the NBA anymore after that, but don't rest all the blame on Ptown.

P.S. I'd rather win with this team a 1,000 times more then the 2000 team.

 

[Draco]

On a related note, I talked to a high-school kid recently who told me that he'll never be able to be a Blazers fan again because they ripped his heart out in 2000. Yet somehow, he's a die-hard Yankees fan. I guess he just wasn't paying attention during the 2004 ALCS...? How is it that our 2000 collapse is deemed worse than every other in history?

Well considering the Yankees have won one out of four world series I'm sure he has other years to remember.

The Blazers have one fluke year that went their way in '77, big difference.

 

[Schilly]

There is one thing he is right and wrong about. Hands off coaches are really successful with very talented teams.

 

[MIXUM]

anyone who doesnt think the blazers are the greatest team ever assembled has no place on this board including the poor guy who wrote this article


and thats why blazer fans get made fun of

 

[Ed O]

I didn't read the article, but anyone who thinks that dreams can be "requited" sort of needs to learn English a little better.

Ed O.

 

[THE HCP]

When he used "Bosh to Calderon", he lost me!

 

[SodaPopinski]

anyone who doesnt think the blazers are the greatest team ever assembled has no place on this board including the poor guy who wrote this article


and thats why blazer fans get made fun of

I like how you finger-pointed Blazer fans from an outsider's perspective as if you aren't one. Now that that's all cleared up, move along to the Lakers board where you belong.

 

[LittleAlex]

It was the Vince Carter as superstar thing that blew my mind. That hasn't been true in nearly 7 years.