Poll: Who do you blame for the Blazer current state of Affairs

[Boise Blazer]

Who is to blame?

 

[Nikolokolus]

I blame Bert

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Larry Miller. He promotes a culture of mediocrity.

 

[MickZagger]

Hat man.

 

[magnifier661]

I blame Sly Poker Dog. He is lucky at every game he goes to. He should pack his shit up and travel with the team dammit!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I would also like to blame George W. Bush.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Players . . . although I don't know if I blame them, they are just a medicore group playing like that.

I beleive the play at the PG position has been the most disappointing and if you got to blame someone, Felton PG play and the lack of a true backup PG is killing the Blazers this year.

Edit: good point jefe . . . I blame Obama for all this too

 

[RR7]

all of the above.

 

[Natebishop3]

The man at the top.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

The man at the top.

You sound like Tebow.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

The players. LA12 is the only one playing consistent bball. Well, I guess Felton has been consistently horrible!

 

[B-Roy]

Kingspeed.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Kingspeed.

Actually, I kind of blame myself for even watching the last few years.

 

[illmatic99]

Injuries.

 

[bigbailes]

my vote would be for larry miller but since he's not one of the options i'll go for the man that hired him. to me the long term outlook on this team with a meddling owner and president doesn't seem to be to bright.

 

[HailBlazers]

Who is to blame?

Lockout, Brandon Roy's Knee's, where are those options?

 

[oldmangrouch]

Lock out? More like cop out. You can't blame something that impacted all teams equally.

As for the Roy situation, I would refer everyone to what happened with the Colts. The team failed to respond to adversity, and basically the entire front office and coaching staff got sacked.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

poor management

 

[Boob-No-More]

David Stern and/or God.

BNM

 

[HailBlazers]

Lock out? More like cop out. You can't blame something that impacted all teams equally.

You can when teams faced unqual amounts of personal changes.

 

[e_blazer]

I would also like to blame George W. Bush.

True, but you also have to blame Barack Obama. I mean, sure, he inherited this Blazers mess from W, but has he made it any better? No! It's gotten worse under his watch! Friggin' politicians.

 

[BBert]

After much reflection, I'm going to have to go with Paul Allen. He's responsble for (supposedly) allowing the Vulcans too much control, Bert Kolde too much control, for the Pritchard and Cho fiascos, for Larry Miller, for the lack of a GM, for his bias for anything "Seattle", and most egregiously, the fact that Nate McMillan is still coaching this team.

 

[e_blazer]

Actually, upon even deeper reflection on the important issue of whom to blame, I'll go with the knees of Brandon Roy and Greg Oden. Any other factor is not even close to those bastards in keeping the Blazers from contending for a championship.

 

[BBert]

I thought about blaming injuries, but no. Shit happens. It's what you do after shit happens that matters. This is just a total fail, from the top down.

It is to the point now that I'm feeling really bummed, not about the team, not about the players, but about Nate. I'm literally 'tired' of him. He's bumming me out. It feels like when you've been on a long trip, or away from home for a long time, and you can't wait to get home, but you know there is still a long way to go, and it feels like you are never going to get there. Just draining and demoralizing. Nate may be just the tip of the iceberg, so he is visible and he gets the heat, but I just really need a different coach for my team, now. The overall clusterfuck though, and the fact Nate is still bumming me out and making me tired, falls on Uncle Paul.

 

[SnakeOiler]

Who cares? It's just a game. Blazers rule even if they lose some games.

 

[e_blazer]

I thought about blaming injuries, but no. Shit happens. It's what you do after shit happens that matters. This is just a total fail, from the top down.

Honest question: do you really think that any management in the NBA could recover from the unexpected retirement, within a couple of weeks of the start of a lockout delayed season, of its franchise player and yet another knee surgery on a major player that you were expecting back? I don't think Red Auerbach or Jerry West in their prime could have scrambled and recovered from that.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Honest question: do you really think that any management in the NBA could recover from the unexpected retirement, within a couple of weeks of the start of a lockout delayed season, of its franchise player and yet another knee surgery on a major player that you were expecting back? I don't think Red Auerbach or Jerry West in their prime could have scrambled and recovered from that.

Could they have salvaged this season? Maybe not. If they saw that they couldn't save this season, would they have made moves with an eye to the future? I would certainly think so.

 

[MickZagger]

Greg Oden.

 

[Darkwebs]

Injuries have been the biggest factor in our demise. Next would be our General Manager group, who have failed to weather the storm of injuries to 2 of our big 3.

 

[jlprk]

SlyPokerDog is at the root of most of our problems, but I don't blame him for Bayless.