My interview with Jerome Kersey!

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SlyPokerDog said:
Who was your favorite player to match up against as a Blazer?

Not any favorites because we had so many rivals up and down the west coast.

The toughest?

Oh man that's a tough, hard question, I could have Xavier one night, McDaniels... Xavier because he played that same physical small forward position, he had good size, but then I got James Worthy of the Lakers some nights, and Thurl Bailey who was 6'10, 6'11 at Utah. I had a lot of tough match ups.

The dirtiest?

(Laughs) You gotta realize guys utilized their talents in different ways sometimes, I'd say Stockton, Malone at times and all those guys I'd play against in Seattle.

When you played, who was the league's most underrated player we've forgotten?

Duckworth, he didn't get all the accolades he should have. People didn't realize how good Duck was, I watch film now and Duck is getting up and down the court, he's getting dunks on breaks, for a guy to be that agile at his size was pretty incredible.

Did the players dislike the Lakers as much as the fans did?

We disliked everybody! When we stepped between the lines we didn't like anybody. It's a little more buddy buddy right now, guys shake hands and get a little chummy before the game but when we stepped on the court there wasn't much of that buddy buddy stuff. We felt like every night you're the enemy, you might be a friend but you're not my friend until after the game, not while the game is going on at all.
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I'm thinking I should have broken up the interview into 3 parts and instead of just dumping the entire thing on the forum I should have released a part a day. Releasing the entire thing makes it a little hard to discuss individual answers.

Anyway, the quoted section above was my favorite part of the interview. There was an attitude and toughness you had to have back then if you wanted to succeed in NBA. I tend to forget that when I think back about what made the early 90's Blazers so good.

It makes me wish I could bottle some of that attitude and give it to Batum. Batum is a very good player but he doesn't always have the same killer take no prisoners attitude that Kersey did.

I cracked up at his answer to the Laker question, the "we disliked everyone" is the mentality I'd like to see our current team take on.
 
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My Gary Payton question got a good response from him, I was glad to hear him comment on the hand checking rule. I think it was a good interview and responding to the interview is going to give you a lotta pages on this thread Sly! Well done.
 
I liked his responses to my series of matchup questions. He definitely had his hands full most nights.
 
BlazerAce said:
I liked his responses to my series of matchup questions. He definitely had his hands full most nights.
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I did too. His answers to those also makes me miss the rivalry with the Sonics.
 
Sly is big time now! I remember when we were all weirdos that posted at O-live, and now look at ya! Started from the bottom now we here!
 
Kersey said:
It's a little more buddy buddy right now, guys shake hands and get a little chummy before the game but when we stepped on the court there wasn't much of that buddy buddy stuff. We felt like every night you're the enemy, you might be a friend but you're not my friend until after the game, not while the game is going on at all.
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I wish we'd go back to this mindset. Too much friendliness with the opponent. If I was coach you'd get benched for hugging the opponent before a game.
 
Blazers Facebook linking here with one of my questions in the lede

Suck it HCP, the nerds have achieved consciousness
 
blue9 said:
I wish we'd go back to this mindset. Too much friendliness with the opponent. If I was coach you'd get benched for hugging the opponent before a game.
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I enjoyed that question and answer, Kersey was and still is a warrior.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
One of the greatest moments I've ever had as a fan.

RIP
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I was trying to remember if it was Kersey you had as your guest... it's true. What a moment for you, Sly. Glad you got to have it.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Who was your favorite player to match up against as a Blazer?

Not any favorites because we had so many rivals up and down the west coast.

The toughest?

Oh man that's a tough, hard question, I could have Xavier one night, McDaniels... Xavier because he played that same physical small forward position, he had good size, but then I got James Worthy of the Lakers some nights, and Thurl Bailey who was 6'10, 6'11 at Utah. I had a lot of tough match ups.
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