Who is your favorite Blazer that kinda got shafted by the Franchise for one reason or another?

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Chris Craig said:
Yeah, Wallace and Wesley Person for Rahim, Theo Ratliff, and Dan dikau
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Yeah. Bad trade in retrospect, though at the time Rasheed was thought of as a cancer and Theo Ratliff was supposed to be the next Mutumbo
 
PCmor7 said:
Jermaine O'Neal. He played well when he got the chance. Then we traded him for essentially an over-the-hill, less-talented version of himself when we could have put him in the rotation in the very same spot.
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Against Shaq? Not bloody likely. That trade was made because Davis was the only player on the planet who had anything even remotely resembling success in slowing down Shaq. Jermaine didn't get the shaft from us, he got a freaking reprieve.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Yeah. Bad trade in retrospect, though at the time Rasheed was thought of as a cancer and Theo Ratliff was supposed to be the next Mutumbo
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A half a loaf of moldy bread and a dried-up hunk of government cheese would have been a good trade for Rasheed Wallace.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
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Kenny Anderson is probably my #1. I was kinda pissed when they traded him for Damon. I was excited b/c Damon was supposed to be dope but I really didn't like him all that much. I like Kenny's game and his attitude in Portland, he really got hosed by Dunleavy.

He has a documentary coming out soon, so that should be exciting.

http://mrchibbs.com/
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If we have Kenny instead of Damon we win at least one title with that squad. Could have totally turned around how those era Blazer teams were remembered. Kenny would have an entirely different legacy as well. Damon would've been a fuckup regardless.
 
PCmor7 said:
Jermaine O'Neal. He played well when he got the chance. Then we traded him for essentially an over-the-hill, less-talented version of himself when we could have put him in the rotation in the very same spot.
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How was Davis over the hill? He was literally an all star the season before we traded for him. He just wasn't a flashy guy but I loved DD. He worked his ass off and he was a great teammate. Hilarious dude.


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Not really a favorite... but Travis Outlaw.

Once he was traded for Camby he went from potential 6th man of the year candidate to completely irrelevant.
 
I can't say that I feel too bad for Travis. The guy got a huge deal from Brooklyn.


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Orion Bailey said:
Is that who we traded him for? UGH....
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We've got an extremely poor record of getting assets back when we decide to get rid of our starting PF. I'd actually say getting NOTHING for LMA was better than the returns we got for Sheed and Zbo.
 
BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 said:
Not really a favorite... but Travis Outlaw.

Once he was traded for Camby he went from potential 6th man of the year candidate to completely irrelevant.
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Whaaaat!?! Outlaw was never a 6MOY candidate, and never could have been. He was (is he still playing?) godawful at basketball. He was athletic, but way too dumb to ever be in the rotation on a good team.
 
One I think worth mentioning would be Channing Frye. He lives in Portland and loved it here but Coach McMillan never gave him a chance. I played in a charity kickball tournament with him and talked to him. There was a time when we were playing the Rockets and Oden had 5 fouls, Przybilla had 5 fouls, and Aldridge had 5 fouls. Frye rode the bench that whole time. I asked him why and he said something to the effect of McMillan wouldn't let him shoot 3's and they argued so he got benched. He left that team that offseason and went to Phoenix and killed it from deep that season.
 
alidarjarok said:
One I think worth mentioning would be Channing Frye. He lives in Portland and loved it here but Coach McMillan never gave him a chance. I played in a charity kickball tournament with him and talked to him. There was a time when we were playing the Rockets and Oden had 5 fouls, Przybilla had 5 fouls, and Aldridge had 5 fouls. Frye rode the bench that whole time. I asked him why and he said something to the effect of McMillan wouldn't let him shoot 3's and they argued so he got benched. He left that team that offseason and went to Phoenix and killed it from deep that season.
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Channing frustrated me when he was here, but I loved the guy off the court. I still hold out hope that he'll come back and be our color guy when Rice retires.
 
alidarjarok said:
One I think worth mentioning would be Channing Frye. He lives in Portland and loved it here but Coach McMillan never gave him a chance. I played in a charity kickball tournament with him and talked to him. There was a time when we were playing the Rockets and Oden had 5 fouls, Przybilla had 5 fouls, and Aldridge had 5 fouls. Frye rode the bench that whole time. I asked him why and he said something to the effect of McMillan wouldn't let him shoot 3's and they argued so he got benched. He left that team that offseason and went to Phoenix and killed it from deep that season.
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Thing is, Frye was supposed to back up LaMarcus at the 4, not Oden/Przybilla at the 5. In order for LaMarcus and Brandon to be more effective, Frye needed to be shoehorned into playing out of position and away from his strengths.
 
Natebishop3 said:
How was Davis over the hill? He was literally an all star the season before we traded for him. He just wasn't a flashy guy but I loved DD. He worked his ass off and he was a great teammate. Hilarious dude.


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Please, save the smugness. Davis was 30 years old. He was coming off the worst shooting performance of his career. His points per game were slightly up from the previous two seasons, when they had declined into single digits. He only started more than 45 games twice after the Blazers acquired him. And there are a lot of guys who work hard and are great teammates that I don't want to acquire ... he was a role player that the Blazers traded a future multi-year all-star who did everything Davis did and more to get.

I usually agree with you, Nate, but this time you sound like Dale Davis' mom.
 
BlazerWookee said:
Against Shaq? Not bloody likely. That trade was made because Davis was the only player on the planet who had anything even remotely resembling success in slowing down Shaq. Jermaine didn't get the shaft from us, he got a freaking reprieve.
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I'll give Davis the advantage defensively at that point. Offensively, though, O'Neal in his very first season with the Pacers was superior. You know, you can offset some of what Shaq can do by actually making him play on the other end of the floor, come away from the basket, etc.

And for all this advantage Davis supposedly brought the Blazers, he didn't even average 30 minutes per game or start more than half the time his first year. In fact, he only averaged 30 minutes per game as a Blazer once in his career.
 
PCmor7 said:
Please, save the smugness. Davis was 30 years old. He was coming off the worst shooting performance of his career. His points per game were slightly up from the previous two seasons, when they had declined into single digits. He only started more than 45 games twice after the Blazers acquired him. And there are a lot of guys who work hard and are great teammates that I don't want to acquire ... he was a role player that the Blazers traded a future multi-year all-star who did everything Davis did and more to get.

I usually agree with you, Nate, but this time you sound like Dale Davis' mom.
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You make it sound like Jermaine was currently an All-Star when we dealt him. He was a under-used bench player who had yet to really show anything on the court. He wanted out. He wanted to play. We had Sheed and Sabonis starting. Where was he going to get the opportunity to play that he got in Indy? We thought we were on the cusp of winning it all, and Bob was making moves to try to achieve that. Giving playing time to a kid that needed to be able to play through mistakes was not on the priority list. Sheed wasn't even old at that point. He was in his prime.

The Davis/Jermaine hindsight has always been absurd in my book.
 
Luke Babbitt. Just kind of tossed him to the side, he was a candidate for 6th Man of the Year!
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Nah, we would've benched Duck and gone super small with JK and Buck and the 4/5. That would've been a fun team to watch.
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No we wouldn't have. How old are you? I remember that time like it was yesterday. Drazen wanted to start and Adleman wanted him off the bench as a super sub with Danny Ainge. That was the big man era and Duck had an EFFECTIVE 1 handed jumper that kept big men away from the basket. Did we go small? Nope. We traded Petrovich.
 
BigGameDamian said:
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From a referee's (not a Blazers fan's) perspective that tech was almost as bad as Joey Crawford T'ing up Duncan for clapping on the bench. He even broke a ref unspoken rule and says "WHACK" when he throws it. C'mon man! That's internal ref jargon! I wouldn't have given that tech. You need to have thicker skin than that.
 
BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 said:
Patty Mills
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Yes 100%. We drafted the guy thinking he would play in Europe for a few years and when he didn't what he went through was pretty crappy. I suspect that Paul Allen told the coaching staff to stick him on the end of the bench out of spite.

Off topic about Jermaine: I really wish the Blazers would have just let Brian Grant go and played that next season with Jermaine getting all the backup 4/5 minutes. If there was a statement like "We love Brian but we simply couldn't afford to pay him what Miami offered, we understand he has to do what's right for him and we wish him the best" we all would have been a hell of a lot happier. Instead they traded for Kemp and they had that epic melt down got crushed by the Lakers in the first round. If they had just let Brian go and given Jermaine plenty of minutes we probably would have gotten crushed by the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals instead.
 
chris_in_pdx said:
End of discussion.

Medical staff convinced Walton to take painkillers to come back prematurely from a foot injury, and ended up breaking said foot because he couldn't feel the pain. The end of the 77-78 season was an epic injury shitpile that saw players like Willie Norwood, Dale Schlueter, and Jackie Dorsey see meaningful minutes because Lucas, Gross, Neal, and Steele all went down with injuries. But Walton's issues with his feet were well known and instead of giving him the time to recover, as they did when he got injured midway through the 76-77 season, they rushed him back on the court taking drugs he wasn't comfortable with and it ended up costing him a good portion of his career.
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Should've gotten a 2nd opinion.
 
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