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Just got done setting up an interview with the great Harry Glickman.

This man is Blazer history.

Post your questions.

As an added bonus, I also have a game program from the night CJ McCollum scored 50pts signed by CJ himself for one lucky person who posts a legitimate questions for Mr Glickman.
 
I know this is cheating so don’t count this question (it makes 4), but if I had 30
Minutes with him I’d have so many questions!!!
How do you feel Paul Allen has done as the owner of the Blazers?
Lucas is considered one of the Fans favorite players, but his stint with Portland was pretty short, what are your thoughts in retrospect about the trade for Calvin Natt?
By the way I wasn’t alive back then, so while I’ve seen Natt and know he was good, just seems like Lucas was an icon of Portland Basketball.

I promise I’m done...
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I know this is cheating so don’t count this question (it makes 4), but if I had 30
Minutes with him I’d have so many questions!!!
How do you feel Paul Allen has done as the owner of the Blazers?
Lucas is considered one of the Fans favorite players, but his stint with Portland was pretty short, what are your thoughts in retrospect about the trade for Calvin Natt?
By the way I wasn’t alive back then, so while I’ve seen Natt and know he was good, just seems like Lucas was an icon of Portland Basketball.

I promise I’m done...
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Ask as many questions as you want.
 
An honor to have you here Harry...after your success with the Portland Buckaroos what has kept hockey from Portland?
What do you think about the current Blazers team and what do you think is needed to become contenders in the near future?
Do you think either Dana Altman or Pat Casey will transition to coaching in the major leagues?
 
Actually, I want to ask Harry Glickman about WWII. During some random readings, I actually did some research and found out he was part of the 12th Armored Division - a brand new and inexperienced division that got called up to spearhead the charge through the European theater - leading to an infamous Skirmish at Itter Castle (where German troops, local resistance, and US troops teamed up to fight the Nazi elite).

If it's alright, could Mr. Glickman tell me about the battle at Herrlisheim (which was regarded as the division's "baptism of fire")? Did he participate in the battle? If so, what was the fighting like? Were there any memories that stood out?

Does he recall General Patton? What did he think of him? I read that Patton took control of the 12th at one point and spoke high praises regarding the division.

And did he have any other memories or experiences during the war that he would like to share?

I figure it might be important to ask these questions so we don't forget history.
 
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What was that weird urban legend about Glickman? Something about an Umbrella or something or another?
 
When will the Blazers win the championship again?
 
Did you drop your son Marshall on his head when he was a child?
 
Why did your son Marshall pull the Blazer cable plug on the assisted living facility? :bgrin:
 
LeeRC said:
Actually, I want to ask Harry Glickman about WWII. During some random readings, I actually did some research and found out he was part of the 12th Armored Division - a brand new and inexperienced division that got called up to spearhead the charge through the European theater - leading to an infamous Skirmish at Itter Castle (where German troops, local resistance, and US troops teamed up to fight the Nazi elite).

If it's alright, could Mr. Glickman tell me about the battle at Herrlisheim (which was regarded as the division's "baptism of fire")? Did he participate in the battle? If so, what was the fighting like? Were there any memories that stood out?

Does he recall General Patton? What did he think of him? I read that Patton took control of the 12th at one point and spoke high praises regarding the division.

And did he have any other memories or experiences during the war that he would like to share?

I figure it might be important to ask these questions so we don't forget history.
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Excellent question Lee
RC.

Just a heads up.
Many WWll veterans do not like to talk about their experieces. Do not be offended if you do not get an answer.

SPD, be gentle on this topic. Do not push him if it is a subject he wants to keep private.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Just got done setting up an interview with the great Harry Glickman.

This man is Blazer history.

Post your questions.

As an added bonus, I also have a game program from the night CJ McCollum scored 50pts signed by CJ himself for one lucky person who posts a legitimate questions for Mr Glickman.
Click to expand...


I don't need you to ask him anything Sly, but you could tell him, "thank you" for me.

I was so stoked to have and NBA team in town! Not only did I go to the very first game, I went to their first practice in the L&C Gym. Got the contract to maintain the Scoreboard there so I could have the excuse to be in the facility. Ha! Oh well that's way it was. Some of the guys I worked with and I, got a block of seats in the old Coliseum, so there were more than me stoked about the Blazers.

I remember an astonishing thing about that first exhibition game, it was against the Lakers. The Lakers was my favorite NBA team at that time. When the game got underway is when the astonishing thing took hold. It did not take long before you could feel the Laker leaving, it was like the Lake was draining right there, as my young Blazers began to push them right out of my heart.
 
Before you landed an NBA franchise for Portland, you negotiated to have an ABA team here. How close did that come to happening? Are you glad it didn’t?
 
MarAzul said:
I don't need you to ask him anything Sly, but you could tell him, "thank you" for me.

I was so stoked to have and NBA team in town! Not only did I go to the very first game, I went to their first practice in the L&C Gym. Got the contract to maintain the Scoreboard there so I could have the excuse to be in the facility. Ha! Oh well that's way it was. Some of the guys I worked with and I, got a block of seats in the old Coliseum, so there were more than me stoked about the Blazers.

I remember an astonishing thing about that first exhibition game, it was against the Lakers. The Lakers was my favorite NBA team at that time. When the game got underway is when the astonishing thing took hold. It did not take long before you could feel the Laker leaving, it was like the Lake was draining right there, as my young Blazers began to push them right out of my heart.
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Ha, got you beat as every Wednesday at noon, Stu Inman, Wally Scales, Neil Johnston and a couple others from Blazer management would come over and play basketball with some of the faculty as well as a few of us students at U of P. None of them ever mentioned the AM metadata though

. :smiley-jumping:
 
Compare David Stern with Larry O'Brien, a top lawyer who got the NBA through the ABA merger without the expected problems. Compare being an owner in the 1970s to now. Do the same for GM, your job. Describe the effects of the 1970s' smaller NBA team staffs: Typically, the majority owner was team President, the minority owner was GM, and there was one Assistant Coach.

Workout/supplements/injury technology has improved. There are more big man tall players. But has average NBA quickness, speed, or dexterity improved?
...Human evolution moves over hundreds of thousands of years, but an expanding sample set of humans might accomplish such an NBA physiological change (e.g. a bigger percentage of American boys learning the game, or more groups included, as in my next question).

The NBA had 2 great immigrations: Blacks in the 60s, and Europeans in the 2000 decade. Each changed the dominant paradigm of playing style and rules (or at least the league-mandated referees' interpretations of the rules). Discuss those changes. Was Stern right when he compromised with the European style to universalize the game, which produced the new Stotts style now taking over the league?

Discuss the history of all the teams imitating the dominant paradigm to survive the era...from the 50s high-scoring big men, to the 60s Celtics-inspired defensive center, the 70s-80s Wooden style which took over coaches' thinking in the Jabbar/Walton heyday, Chuck Daly's dirty defense which took the league by storm in the late 80s, Phil Jackson's dominant wing in the Jordan/Drexler years which coaches copied, and now the new Euro style catching on.

To end with a little humor...Who was tougher on his players, Bill Fitch or Dick Motta? Why aren't any coaches SOBs anymore?
 
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