NYTimes: Murphy's law applies when Portland picks #1

[Shooter]

The Trail Blazers’ 1984 selection of Sam Bowie is now considered one of the worst draft decisions any team in any professional sport ever made. Their selection of Greg Oden may end up being viewed the same way. Somehow, history may be repeating itself, and any number of people in Portland are shaking their heads in disbelief.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/s...azers.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Trail Blazers&st=cse

 

[MIXUM]

things have gone from bad to worse.

oh abd btw as i said last season... westbrook over roy

 

[Sinobas]

A healthy Oden is better for our team than Durant. I still believe that. Too many scorers just start negating each other's talents.....it's appears to be happening in Miami, as I suspected it would. But with his injuries (and injuries to Roy for that matter), yes, I'd have to say it is almost a repeat of Bowie over Jordan.

Why does lightening strike this team in the ass so many times? It's just unreal. I suppose, the only consolation, is that even getting the #1 pick was a 1:1,000 shot. It's not like we earned it with a losing season.

But no...all those years of futility didn't net us much in the Draft either, because we drafted Webster instead of taking Paul or Williams, we drafted crap like Telfair and Woods.

Here we thought Brandon Roy was the ONE TIME we struck it rich, and now he's already burned out with injuries. Fuck.....you just can't take this game too seriously, it would be too depressing.

 

[hasoos]

What is the point of posting this on the board? Really do we need any more articles from the press ripping on the Blazers about Oden on the message board? I have only seen these articles pretty much every week while Oden has been hurt for the last few years. Hey what do you know. Another writer ripping the Blazers over the same shit they were ripping them over 3 years ago, 2 years ago and this year. What a fucking surprise.

 

[Shooter]

.....you just can't take this game too seriously, it would be too depressing.

Yeah, that's pretty much where I come out, as well. I love this team, but sometimes the bad luck and the misfortune are so hard to take that you have to step back and ask yourself what's really important. Portland has apparently done something to piss off the basketball gods, because it seems we can't get a break anymore. I'm just glad I was around for the championship in '77, because I'm not sure we're ever getting another one.

 

[Natebishop3]

things have gone from bad to worse.

oh abd btw as i said last season... westbrook over roy

Huh? We never had a shot at Westbrook.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Huh? We never had a shot at Westbrook.

Hush you, you're getting in the way with your "facts"

 

[Shooter]

What is the point of posting this on the board?

Did you read the article? It had some interesting quotes by Roy and Oden, as well as other facts that are not regularly discussed here. Anything that appears in the national media about the Blazers, and especially in the most widely read paper in the country, is going to be of interest to Blazer fans on this board. If you don't wish to read it, just move along.

 

[KingSpeed]

Dont understand thread title. We didn't pick number one when we drafted Sam Bowie.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Greg seems like he's more interested in clockin' the ho's than basketball. Money and the girls, the NBA lifestyle. "Portland is small like that", well, Kevin Durant seems to not mind it in OKC, a city HALF THE SIZE of Portland.

At least we struck it rich with Nic Batum.

 

[Shooter]

Dont understand thread title. We didn't pick number one when we drafted Sam Bowie.

"Top of the draft" is a pretty good description of the #1 and #2 picks.

And the article doesn't even mention Walton, our #1 pick who had an extremely injury-plaqued career.

 

[Masbee]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/s...azers.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Trail Blazers&st=cse

Since when do you - a rapid partisan of the right - consider the New York Times - the Liberal Paper of Record - to be a valid source of quality information?

And, more to the point, once I read the very beginning of your quote, I didn't bother with the article:

"Sam Bowie is now considered one of the worst draft decisions any team in any professional sport ever made. "

This is simply not true. In fact, it is quite absurd. Maybe if the writer had said, "drafting Bowie over Jordan is the most regretful choice made in Basketball draft history." But, that is not what he said.

Oh sure, in the age of ruined sports commentary thanks to the destruction of intelligent thought by ESPN and the SportCenter morons, there are recent oft repeated mantras that pass for some sort of "Truth", among those would be that anybody that didn't bow before the altar of The Goat from the moment he took his first dump is a loser and idiot.

But real sports fans know there are many worse draft decisions, especially when you consider all sports.