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Hindsight 20/20 always sucks, sometimes.

Telfair sucks so so soooo bad.
 
That was a strange and hilarious read. Proof that a puff piece can be made even in the darkest of days. Enlightening!
 
Meh, you can be forgiven for being optimistic back then. Telfair did show signs of being special, Darius Miles before his knee injuries and losing interest in working hard was a game-changing player, and Zach... well... we all fell for that.
 
I always wondered what turned Mixum into the doom and gloom fan that he is today...
 
Well, I remember clearly, it was the training camp out in McMinnville. It was Nate's first training camp and we had a healthy Miles, Zach was fresh off knee surgery, and Bassy was coming into his second season. That was my last year covering the team. They actually looked pretty decent in training camp, but Miles was injured that season and Bass didn't adjust well to Nate's style.
 
How did YOU get a job covering the team? Hope it was better then the BS you toss around here!

























.............where is the green font button?
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
His PER that year was 9.

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Well he didn't really play his rookie season until Cheeks was fired and Pritchard took over towards the end of the season. Damon was still here and it wasn't until KP was made the coach that he started playing the young guys like Khryapa and Telfair.

Looking back at the schedule, he didn't get consistent minutes until February of that season.
 
HCP said:
How did YOU get a job covering the team? Hope it was better then the BS you toss around here!

























.............where is the green font button?
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You would have loved me back then. I was the only guy writing positive things about the team. This was before Blazers Edge, this was before the Oregonian had much online content, and it was long before the Blazers had anything on their website. It was basically me and Hoopsworld against Quick, Canzano, and the Oregonian. It was an epic battle to stem the tide of negative crap coming from the O.
 
My brother was the Blazers writer on Hoopsworld before Nate. It was a problem that he lived in seattle though and didn't have time to cover the team.
 
Natebishop3 said:
You would have loved me back then. I was the only guy writing positive things about the team. This was before Blazers Edge, this was before the Oregonian had much online content, and it was long before the Blazers had anything on their website. It was basically me and Hoopsworld against Quick, Canzano, and the Oregonian. It was an epic battle to stem the tide of negative crap coming from the O.
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Of course, the O was right about on-court play. Those teams were terrible and, setting aside Zach Randolph, lacking much legit NBA talent :)

Ed O.
 
Ed O said:
Of course, the O was right about on-court play. Those teams were terrible and, setting aside Zach Randolph, lacking much legit NBA talent :)

Ed O.
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Well, I left right after Nate took power. I started out when we still had Sheed and Bonzi. I barely missed out on Pip. I wish I could have covered the team when Pip was still here. The team wasn't THAT bad, and probably would have made the playoffs if they hadn't moved Sheed.

But the O wasn't even writing about the on-court play. It seemed like every article started out, "The Blazers lost last night.... and Zach Randolph got pulled over.... yadda yadda yadda."
 
Ed O said:
Of course, the O was right about on-court play. Those teams were terrible and, setting aside Zach Randolph, lacking much legit NBA talent :)

Ed O.
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MOD FIGHT!:ohno::ohno::ohno:
 
I hated reading the articles about the games back then. They were never really facts about the games, but were seemingly always about Jason Quick's agenda and whatever melodrama he wanted to portray.
 
BBert said:
I hated reading the articles about the games back then. They were never really facts about the games, but were seemingly always about Jason Quick's agenda and whatever melodrama he wanted to portray.
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Exactly... it seemed like there was very little content about the actual gameplay, and mostly just his opinions and biases about the off-court problems that surrounded the team.
 
Natebishop3 said:
He looked pretty good at the end of his rookie season.... but after that.... wow.
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He looked "good" while being on a team lost 21 out of 22 games, or something ridiculously similar to those numbers.

Still, I like your optimism!
 
PapaG said:
He looked "good" while being on a team lost 21 out of 22 games, or something ridiculously similar to those numbers.

Still, I like your optimism!
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That optimism is long gone. Now I'm just jaded and cranky.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Exactly... it seemed like there was very little content about the actual gameplay, and mostly just his opinions and biases about the off-court problems that surrounded the team.
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The team was losing by double-digits almost every single game. WTF was he going to write about? An 8-2 run in the 3rd quarter that pulled the team within 15?

Watching games back then was self-torture. On most nights, you knew they had no chance to win, and were happy if it was close at half time.

Quick had to sell papers ... plus, it's not like the off-court stuff was libelous.
 
PapaG said:
The team was losing by double-digits almost every single game. WTF was he going to write about? An 8-2 run in the 3rd quarter that pulled the team within 15?

Watching games back then was self-torture. On most nights, you knew they had no chance to win, and were happy if it was close at half time.

Quick had to sell papers ... plus, it's not like the off-court stuff was libelous.
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I don't know... some of the stuff the O was putting out was pretty shady. On more than one occasion they would report a quote from a player or coach, but they would leave parts of the quote out to server their own purposes. I busted them on it at least two or three times because I was standing there when the quote was originally given.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I don't know... some of the stuff the O was putting out was pretty shady. On more than one occasion they would report a quote from a player or coach, but they would leave parts of the quote out to server their own purposes. I busted them on it at least two or three times because I was standing there when the quote was originally given.
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Canzano and Patterson's little war was sooooo stupid. Remember when Canzano sent Patterson a box of doughnuts and Patterson sent Canzano a case of Janitor in a drum?
 
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Canzano and Patterson's little war was sooooo stupid. Remember when Canzano sent Patterson a box of doughnuts and Patterson sent Canzano a case of Janitor in a drum?
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The whole thing was very childish.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Canzano and Patterson's little war was sooooo stupid. Remember when Canzano sent Patterson a box of doughnuts and Patterson sent Canzano a case of Janitor in a drum?
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One of the reasons I find it impossible to believe Patterson's revisionist history regarding the Roy/LMA draft. Plus, the fact that the guy hasn't sniffed a job in the NBA since Allen fired him is a red flag.
 
This is the type of self promotion we are used to seeing from HCP.

We all make bad predictions, Nate
 
I will always hate the Oregonian for how they tried so hard to hurt the team. The national media got their slant by reading the local media. Canzano still tries, but it's now haphazard, not systematic (e.g. Paul Allen is the worst owner in sports).

They want players to look up to their reporters as if the paper owns the team. Players who don't, get jabbed in articles.
 
You know, I still don't read the Oregonian because of all that. It's been how many years? I couldn't wait to get my hands on the Oregonian and read the sports page every day from the time I was in Junior High until they started their flame wars against the Blazers. I finally just stopped and I haven't cared to read that paper since.
 
For years I've fantasized about Allen fighting back, like this: If he encouraged a boycott and put it on posters in the Rose and bus ads, it would have some effect. It wouldn't put the paper out of business, but they'd notice some decrease in sales. They'd retaliate with less Blazer coverage, but it wouldn't hurt ticket sales and they'd get many complaints, until they returned to full coverage.
 
jlprk said:
For years I've fantasized about Allen fighting back, like this: If he encouraged a boycott and put it on posters in the Rose and bus ads, it would have some effect. It wouldn't put the paper out of business, but they'd notice some decrease in sales. They'd retaliate with less Blazer coverage, but it wouldn't hurt ticket sales and they'd get many complaints, until they returned to full coverage.
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Paul Allen should have paid off his local creditors when he declared bankruptcy on the Rose Garden. Why the Oregonian never blasted him for that seems odd to me. Also, a boycott involving Paul Allen, considering his track record of "success" at business, would probably have resulted in the Oregonian taking over for the New York Times as the leading paper in the US.
 
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