Joel: "Don't Count Me Out" (Canzano)

[ABM]

FWIW.........

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...sf/2010/09/trail_blazers_future_rests_on.html

 

[XXPrimusXX]

That's awesome. Glad to hear he hasn't lost any fighting spirit.

Joel is a warrior.

 

[jlprk]

You read Canzano carefully for the first 5 painful minutes. Then you realize the hole you're in, and condense the next 3 hours of reading into a skimathon, skimming the pond, leaping pebble to pebble. You finally glimpse the finish line on the horizon, so you thakfully skip everything between here and there and desperately jump off the cliff to the bottom of the page.

 

[Rhal]

Glad to see he is in high spirits. As much as I do not want to see him traded I think he is going to be gone by the end of the season. Maybe we can bring him back next season with the Mid level

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Pryz is such a stud!

 

[Draco]

Mixed up in there is Mr. Lunch Bucket -- Przybilla. I refuse to bet against the guy, even as I write this knowing precisely the hell that goes into fully recovering from the injury. Even as others say a full recovery for a professional athlete can't be done in less than a year, if at all. Even as Przybilla said he knows, "I may not be 100 percent for two or three years," none of us should count him out.

I'll count Joel out. Every NBA player who has had this injury came back as a diminished player. Joel was a bench level talent pre-injury, so post injury, that makes him irrelevant in the NBA.

 

[THE HCP]

I'll count Joel out. Every NBA player who has had this injury came back as a diminished player. Joel was a bench level talent pre-injury, so post injury, that makes him irrelevant in the NBA.

Go away!

 

[Draco]

Go away!

It's a public Blazer message board so I'll shout out my opinion wherever I want thank you very much. If you only want to hear rosy good news why don't you put me on ignore and go sit in a room with Mike Barrett; you two can talk about how every player is in the best shape of their lives, is going to have a career year, and they will never have injuries again.

When negative posters rip on Oden and say the team needs to cut all ties with him I’ll passionately disagree. When optimistic cheerboys say Joel will return to form this season I’ll passionately disagree. I’ll compare our players with other similar cases, and in Joel’s his outlook does not look good.