Trails Blazers are a train wreck (good read)

[Brock]

http://www.csnnw.com/pages/landingd...uddenly-the-Trai=1&blockID=648118&feedID=8351

let the trade rumors begin imo

This team wants to run, but it doesn't know how. My goodness, high school teams run the fast break better. These guys don't spread out and fill lanes and don't move the ball. It's embarrassing how many fast breaks are being blown. There is still no real idea of roles and responsibilities. Backups aren't being developed and the young players are mostly dead-ended. The youngsters aren't playing enough for the front office to even figure out if they have a future in the league or not. On a lot of nights, it appears to me that the players aren't on the same page with each other or with the coach. I hear this from basketball people who are in town scouting or covering these games, too. Are they still listening to the coach? Are they buying in to what he's selling? Is everyone pulling together for a common goal? I don't know. But a lot of nights it sure doesn't look like it.

 

[jlprk]

The whispers against McMillan have found a megaphone!

 

[BBert]

Where's the button to rep Jaynes? He's correct on all counts.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Where's the button to rep Jaynes? He's correct on all counts.

There isn't one. It was never needed until now.

BNM

 

[mgb]

Where's the button to rep Jaynes? He's correct on all counts.

I know a lot of the posters on this board doesn't like Jaynes, but I've been a fan of his since he was on the Journal.

I said some of the same things during our last game. No chemistry at all and no ball movement.

 

[Blazinaway]

http://www.csnnw.com/pages/landingd...uddenly-the-Trai=1&blockID=648118&feedID=8351

let the trade rumors begin imo

This team wants to run, but it doesn't know how. My goodness, high school teams run the fast break better. These guys don't spread out and fill lanes and don't move the ball. It's embarrassing how many fast breaks are being blown. There is still no real idea of roles and responsibilities. Backups aren't being developed and the young players are mostly dead-ended. The youngsters aren't playing enough for the front office to even figure out if they have a future in the league or not. On a lot of nights, it appears to me that the players aren't on the same page with each other or with the coach. I hear this from basketball people who are in town scouting or covering these games, too. Are they still listening to the coach? Are they buying in to what he's selling? Is everyone pulling together for a common goal? I don't know. But a lot of nights it sure doesn't look like it.

can't really argue with anything there, I totally agree

 

[Brock]

how does this team have 14 wins???

 

[Wheels]

There isn't one. It was never needed until now.

BNM

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Was about to read it before I realized its from Douchebag Jaynes.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Interesting to me that this OP, who has been rumored to be a long lost poster, uses the same style of quoting someone without making it clear that it's a quote.

Anyway the only quibble i have is a reference to "obvious unrest" in the locker room; haven't heard anything about that.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

As usual, that drunkard gets it partially right- about 25%. He's the real train wreck.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Was about to read it before I realized its from Douchebag Jaynes.

that's an unfortunate attitude.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Interesting to me that this OP, who has been rumored to be a long lost poster, uses the same style of quoting someone without making it clear that it's a quote.

It's not a rumor. Brock == Mixum, or maybe someone who killed Mixum and stole his IP address.

BNM

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's not a rumor. Brock == Mixum, or maybe someone who killed Mixum and stole his IP address.

BNM

So? We have posters every bit as bad or worse than Mixum. People who contribute zip and do nothing but cause dissension. I still don't see why he was banned.

 

[TripTango]

So? We have posters every bit as bad or worse than Mixum. People who contribute zip and do nothing but cause dissension. I still don't see why he was banned.

I can't think if any regulars who currently fit that description. Who are you thinking of?

 

[Brock]

dwight puts the pressure on



"This is one of the worst pro teams outside the D-League. These guys are 4-22 and started the season 2-0. They're 0-10 at home against Western Conference teams. I could go on and on. Just score 85 points and you beat them."

"And seriously, if the Trail Blazers DON'T win tonight, it's officially time to panic."

 

[HailBlazers]

:MARIS61:

 

[blue32]

So? We have posters every bit as bad or worse than Mixum. People who contribute zip and do nothing but cause dissension. I still don't see why he was banned.

He was banned because all he did was cause drama; and contribute nothing meaningfull to the board. The other people that do the same should be banned as well. This board is for Basketball discussion regarding the Blazers, not their personal forum for trolling, personal attacks, 90210 drama, and the likes.

Banning him was one of the reasons why I started coming here more... I dont have to sift through countless crap threads to read good discussion.

 

[blue32]

dwight puts the pressure on



"This is one of the worst pro teams outside the D-League. These guys are 4-22 and started the season 2-0. They're 0-10 at home against Western Conference teams. I could go on and on. Just score 85 points and you beat them."

"And seriously, if the Trail Blazers DON'T win tonight, it's officially time to panic."

agreed. 100%

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

So? We have posters every bit as bad or worse than Mixum. People who contribute zip and do nothing but cause dissension. I still don't see why he was banned.

I think it's evident. I'd mention names, but then the drama starts.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

dwight puts the pressure on



"This is one of the worst pro teams outside the D-League. These guys are 4-22 and started the season 2-0. They're 0-10 at home against Western Conference teams. I could go on and on. Just score 85 points and you beat them."

"And seriously, if the Trail Blazers DON'T win tonight, it's officially time to panic."

So Dwight thinks the Blazers are a train wreck, but it is not time to panic?????

I think Dwight needs to consider the defintion of train wreck before he decides to use it in an article.

 

[Boob-No-More]

So?

It wasn't a value judgement. I was just stating a fact. Brock and the poster formerly known as Mixum post using the same IP address.

We have posters every bit as bad or worse than Mixum. People who contribute zip and do nothing but cause dissension. I still don't see why he was banned.

Not sure why that was addressed at me. I didn't ban him. That's the mods' job. A thankless job I'd never want. So, I tend to not bicth about their decisions one way or the other.

BNM

 

[HailBlazers]

So Dwight thinks the Blazers are a train wreck, but it is not time to panic?????

I think Dwight needs to consider the defintion of train wreck before he decides to use it in an article.

LOL

It's all part of the program, media sensationalism. Same reason there's rarely good news on the news, drama sells unfortunately.

 

[Boob-No-More]

So Dwight thinks the Blazers are a train wreck, but it is not time to panic?????

I think Dwight needs to consider the defintion of train wreck before he decides to use it in an article.

Noi shit. The time to panic is when the brakes have failed and you're headed for a bend in the tracks with no way to slow down, not when you're sifting through the rubble pulling out the charred bodies.

BNM

 

[Nikolokolus]

So Dwight thinks the Blazers are a train wreck, but it is not time to panic?????

I think Dwight needs to consider the defintion of train wreck before he decides to use it in an article.

He didn't say that.

In a column the day before he says the Blazers are a mess ... in his next column he says, if they somehow lose to the abysmal Hornets then it is time to panic.

How is that inconsistent?

 

[Boob-No-More]

He didn't say that.

In a column the day before he says the Blazers are a mess ... in his next column he says, if they somehow lose to the abysmal Hornets then it is time to panic.

How is that inconsistent?

The title of the first column was:

"The trainwreck that is suddenly the Trail Blazers"

and then a couple days later he says if the Blazers lose to the Hornets, it's time to panic.

The inconstency is the dillusion of the term trainwreck. If they really were a trainwreck two days ago, the time to panic has already passed. If there was an actual trainwreck, would the rescue crews sit around for two days doing nothing, and then all of a sudden spring in to action to see if there were any survivors? No, the time to act, to save lives, would have already passed.

It's a poor analogy and inconsistent. To be consistent, what he should have said in the first column is the Blazers are headed for a trainwreck and if they lose to the lowly Hornets the train has gone off the tracks and it's now time to panic.

BNM

 

[jlprk]

I think I can, I think I can....choooo choooo!

 

[RR7]

The title of the first column was:

"The trainwreck that is suddenly the Trail Blazers"

and then a couple days later he says if the Blazers lose to the Hornets, it's time to panic.

The inconstency is the dillusion of the term trainwreck. If they really were a trainwreck two days ago, the time to panic has already passed. If there was an actual trainwreck, would the rescue crews sit around for two days doing nothing, and then all of a sudden spring in to action to see if there were any survivors? No, the time to act, to save lives, would have already passed.

It's a poor analogy and inconsistent. To be consistent, what he should have said in the first column is the Blazers are headed for a trainwreck and if they lose to the lowly Hornets the train has gone off the tracks and it's now time to panic.

BNM

Nah, rescue crew wouldn't be panicking until they saw the second train on the tracks headed their way. THEN it's time to panic. Before, it's just business as usual for rescue workers.

 

[mook]

It's less of a trainwreck and more of an NBA human centipede. Except circular, so everybody is sewed to everybody else. And they're all running really fast, with Nate in the background yelling, "Hustle! Scrap!"



(Just decided my goal from now on is to fit a human centipede analogy into a post every day.)

 

[Nikolokolus]

It's less of a trainwreck and more of an NBA human centipede. Except circular, so everybody is sewed to everybody else. And they're all running really fast, with Nate in the background yelling, "Hustle! Scrap!"



(Just decided my goal from now on is to fit a human centipede analogy into a post every day.)

A worthy goal.