I'll Be Greatly Disappointed If.....

[jlprk]

Forget Zach. What if Monty Williams (former Blazer assistant) and Lionel Hollins (former Blazer great who never got a whiff of the Blazer job) BOTH take their teams farther?

Monty got eliminated tonight.

The only thing worse would be a former Blazer assistant coach eliminating us from the playoffs.

 

[Bob Dobalina]

Memphis is now the team I'm cheering to win. Don't mind seeing Z-Bo doing well at all.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

::BUMP::

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Glad to see Z-Bo turning it around.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

What turned it around for Z-bo was his passing. He's no longer a black hole on offense. He can pass now.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

What turned it around for Z-bo was his passing. He's no longer a black hole on offense. He can pass now.

Yep. It was his only real weakness (other than his fondness for strippers... err, the 3-pointer).

 

[ABM]

Quite a scene following tonight's game. Z-Bo sure seems to have a lot of supporters. Surprisingly, many of those part of the Spurs organization...including Pop.

 

[Blazinaway]

Z-Bo gets further in the playoffs than the Blazers. <sigh>

Is it just me?

yeah it's just U, dumb thread

 

[jlprk]

What turned it around for Z-bo was his passing. He's no longer a black hole on offense. He can pass now.

McMillan couldn't teach him this, so he must have found a better coach. How difficult.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

McMillan couldn't teach him this, so he must have found a better coach. How difficult.

Bah, Zack grew up. He is no longer under the microscope that is the sports media here in Portland. We have no idea if he still rolls with the Hoops Family, hits the strip clubs or anything else that in NY would make him cool..

His game is much better all around, but I am still ok with the way things worked out. As far as finding a better coach, well I would like to blast you, say that the coach had nothing to do with it. Fact is you may be right. We had six games in the playoffs to figure out how to break the zone D that killed us, and failed. Could a different coach have done something to get better results? I have to think so.

 

[Sug]

Not sure why it would matter how far ZBO gets exactly. Because he was a former Blazer that was traded to the Knicks? This is nearly as bad as whining about players we didn't draft.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Not sure why it would matter how far ZBO gets exactly. Because he was a former Blazer that was traded to the Knicks? This is nearly as bad as whining about players we didn't draft.

because when he was traded we were told by the sanctimonious blazer fans that he was a guy who would:

1. Never learn anything other than be a ball hogging, bad shot taking black hole on offense

2. Get indicted on some trumped up federal dogfighting issue that would be bigger than Michael Vicks

3. Never get to the playoffs

4. Is a cancer that will never help a team

Those were, I believe, the justifications for trading him for shit. That he was a ticking time bomb before he would get all "gangsta" on us.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I think No. 1 was more of a "hasn't shown that he can learn anything in 8 years other than being a ball-hogging, bad-shot-taking black hole on offense"
No. 2 turned out to be "investigated by the feds on drugs", not dogfighting.
I don't think anyone thought he couldn't ride Oden, LMA and Roy's coattails to a playoff, so I think #3 is a sort of strawman.
No. 4 was more than just the fans, unless you think that that avowed racist B. Roy was afraid of him "going gangsta"