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http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/10/behind_the_blazers_locker_room_19.html

Recap

-Brandon is going to have a player's only meeting before the season starts about expectation and roles

-Starting five will be Blake, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, Oden

-Joel is fine with coming off bench

-Joel defended Andre Miller in regards to his condition test failure, and hasn't heard any negativity come from Andre's mouth. He also expects Andre to have no issues with being a backup point guard.

And then there is this quote at the end of the story,

“Andre wants to win. He has the same mentality I do,’’ Przybilla said. “He understands what Coach wants and what the team needs from him to win. Seriously. I have never heard him say one negative thing, ever. It’s like Nate I and were saying the other day: We put him in for Sergio, and we got Juwan for Channing, and we got Martell back from injury. There’s no way we shouldn’t be better.’’
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OUCH Sergio and Channing get pwned!
 
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There's no doubt that if this team can accept their roles, they can do something special this season and the next few seasons. I love that Greg will be in the starting lineup now. Good stuff.
 
LOL @ All the doom and gloom people Bitching about Joel starting!!!!
 
I wish Roy would learn to be more of a team player- heretical as this sounds. If he could learn to play with the better point guard, then the team would be better off.
 
doom and gloom bitching huh? remember joels a free agent come june. then we will see some doom and gloom.

oh and did you guys need joel or quick to tell you that Miller, Howard, and Webster are an upgrade over sergio and frye lol? Really?

if you watched any blazer game last year.... there were 2 players "who didnt fit with the rest"
maybe sergio and frye? do you remember the espn game vs boston? barry on frye. "that was the worst 25 seconds ive ever seen by any player."

he was talking about frye.
 
anonymous gambler said:
I wish Roy would learn to be more of a team player- heretical as this sounds. If he could learn to play with the better point guard, then the team would be better off.
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How about the better point guard learn to play with him?
 
MIXUM said:
doom and gloom bitching huh? remember joels a free agent come june. then we will see some doom and gloom.

oh and did you guys need joel or quick to tell you that Miller, Howard, and Webster are an upgrade over sergio and frye lol? Really?

if you watched any blazer game last year.... there were 2 players "who didnt fit with the rest"
maybe sergio and frye? do you remember the espn game vs boston? barry on frye. "that was the worst 25 seconds ive ever seen by any player."

he was talking about frye.
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lol I didnt even call you out. Or think of you in this instance. I just find it laughable the huge threads over something that Quick speculated on a week and a half ago. Yet people took that as set in stone. Thats why I take the wait and see approach.. as opposed to bitch and moan approach.
 
B-Roy said:
How about the better point guard learn to play with him?
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Wouldn't it be fair to say that all players need to get used to and adjust to playing with each other? If Roy doesn't adjust to his teammates doesn't he become a one man team?
 
Wheels said:
LOL @ All the doom and gloom people Bitching about Joel starting!!!!
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No doubt. Can I have my summer back. I think I posted a hundred times that Oden would be starting, yet Nate was bashed continually by certain posters. :biglaugh:
 
anonymous gambler said:
I wish Roy would learn to be more of a team player- heretical as this sounds. If he could learn to play with the better point guard, then the team would be better off.
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He led the team in assists last year and is leading the team in assists this preseason. The "better PG" has been a SG who can't shoot this preseason and who average less assists than Roy in more minutes.

I wish people would learn to look at the statistics rather than pull posts out of their asses.
 
anonymous gambler said:
I wish Roy would learn to be more of a team player- heretical as this sounds. If he could learn to play with the better point guard, then the team would be better off.
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That is exactly the point I was making in another thread....concisely put :clap:
 
Shooter said:
Bad idea, according to Doc Rivers:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...lug=aw-rondoceltics102209&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

I suspect Roy's meeting will be more of a "blow smoke up your ass" variety than a "saying things that shouldn't be said" type like Rondo's.

Hard to see how the former can really do much damage. More of a waste of time than anything.

Truth is that if there is going to be a major problem, it's going to flare up because Miller or Rudy isn't happy with his minutes/roles. Hard to see how a team meeting during the preseason changes that.
 
Wheels said:
LOL @ All the doom and gloom people Bitching about Joel starting!!!!
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And those who are so sure he's going to bolt from the team at the first opportunity. I should be from the show me state, because I'll believe it when I see it.
 
Schilly said:
Wouldn't it be fair to say that all players need to get used to and adjust to playing with each other? If Roy doesn't adjust to his teammates doesn't he become a one man team?
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Good point.

It is easy to side with Roy over Miller. (who some Blazer fans have already decided they will never accept) What happens if Oden turns out to actually be that special player we thought we were drafting, and Roy refuses to adjust to him?
 
Roy talks about Sacrifice. But what has he and LMA really sacrificed? If he was all about wanting to improve the team. Why didn't or hasn't he carried more of an open mind about who starts at point? Why did he look like a lil child who was been forced to eat something he didn't want with Andre Miller? I don't agree that he had sacrficed anything. I don't agree with the starting lineup. Nor do I agree with the way the starting lineup come about.
 
I personally would love to see Roy decide to become our PG... A hybrid really, a fusion of Jordan and Kidd. 18-19ppg and 7-9apg. For it to work we'd need a quick guard who can help handle the ball and play off the ball... Bayless? Mills? Koponen?
 
Schilly said:
I personally would love to see Roy decide to become our PG... A hybrid really, a fusion of Jordan and Kidd. 18-19ppg and 7-9apg. For it to work we'd need a quick guard who can help handle the ball and play off the ball... Bayless? Mills? Koponen?
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I'm about as excited to him there as I am to see him at the three.
 
Schilly said:
I personally would love to see Roy decide to become our PG... A hybrid really, a fusion of Jordan and Kidd. 18-19ppg and 7-9apg. For it to work we'd need a quick guard who can help handle the ball and play off the ball... Bayless? Mills? Koponen?
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I've been saying this since last summer--eventually I'd like to see Roy as our Magic with Bayless as our Byron Scott.
 
BBert said:
And those who are so sure he's going to bolt from the team at the first opportunity. I should be from the show me state, because I'll believe it when I see it.
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Joel will stay here and be the best backup in the league. He is on a good team and he doesn't NEED to start.:ghoti:
 
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