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Rastapopoulos

Rastapopoulos

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In Europe, the home of my people, Football teams are grouped in ranked divisions, and there is no tanking because (a) there is no draft, but (b) because the bottom teams get relegated to a crappier division for the next season. This makes for great excitement for the bad teams at the end of the season, which is awesome. However, it also means that your fave team can go from playing Chelsea and Man Utd. one season to playing Scunthorpe the next. When this happens, you have to have a backup team to root for so that you can actually watch some entertaining football, along with dutifully watching your actual team slog through a dreary season.

Well, the Blazers just got relegated. Who's your team-on-the-side that you can cheat on the Blazers for every game they're not actually playing each other?

Mine's the Wolves. They have an actual shot to make the playoffs, and will be fun to watch, especially if Rubio can stay healthy. I also like Utah, who actually had a better record than us in the second half of last season (you know, after they unloaded Kanter).
 
Golden State has always been mine. I tried to BE Tim Hardaway.
 
Was GS before they won. No one likes to root for the favorites.

I've got UTA and SAC right now.
 
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LOL fuck that! Chicago is always the EC team I root for. They are gonna suck to. I think I'm gonna follow Charlotte to support Batum
 
No offense man, but I think you.might be best to back away from the computer, maybe smoke some weed and come back refreshed and recharged in October. The continual meltdown is exhausting and I am concerned for your health.
 
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I'll stick with the Blazers, hope we win the lottery, and pray we don't use the #1 pick to select a center.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
In Europe, the home of my people, Football teams are grouped in ranked divisions, and there is no tanking because (a) there is no draft, but (b) because the bottom teams get relegated to a crappier division for the next season. This makes for great excitement for the bad teams at the end of the season, which is awesome. However, it also means that your fave team can go from playing Chelsea and Man Utd. one season to playing Scunthorpe the next. When this happens, you have to have a backup team to root for so that you can actually watch some entertaining football, along with dutifully watching your actual team slog through a dreary season.

Well, the Blazers just got relegated. Who's your team-on-the-side that you can cheat on the Blazers for every game they're not actually playing each other?

Mine's the Wolves. They have an actual shot to make the playoffs, and will be fun to watch, especially if Rubio can stay healthy. I also like Utah, who actually had a better record than us in the second half of last season (you know, after they unloaded Kanter).
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You must be content with a 1st round and out every year. Changes had to be made.

Back up teams???

Fuck.

Off.
 
I might hate-watch San Antonio, and root for the other three prodigal brothers to succeed, but I have no great love for the NBA outside the Trail Blazers. Maybe I'll use the extra time during blowout losses to write my novel.
 
Pacers are my team outside of Portland.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
In Europe, the home of my people, Football teams are grouped in ranked divisions, and there is no tanking because (a) there is no draft, but (b) because the bottom teams get relegated to a crappier division for the next season. This makes for great excitement for the bad teams at the end of the season, which is awesome. However, it also means that your fave team can go from playing Chelsea and Man Utd. one season to playing Scunthorpe the next. When this happens, you have to have a backup team to root for so that you can actually watch some entertaining football, along with dutifully watching your actual team slog through a dreary season.

Well, the Blazers just got relegated. Who's your team-on-the-side that you can cheat on the Blazers for every game they're not actually playing each other?

Mine's the Wolves. They have an actual shot to make the playoffs, and will be fun to watch, especially if Rubio can stay healthy. I also like Utah, who actually had a better record than us in the second half of last season (you know, after they unloaded Kanter).
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A Scunthorpe reference. Amazing.

Also the only team name to be caught in S2's old curse filter.
 
I pull for the Grizz as my #2.

However, i truly believe the Blazers are gonna be better than most think.
 
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No offense man, but I think you.might be best to back away from the computer, maybe smoke some weed and come back refreshed and recharged in October. The continual meltdown is exhausting and I am concerned for your health.
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No offense man, but don't you know how to use "ignore"? Also, the word "meltdown"?

I kind of wonder at somebody who claims to be a Blazer fan who can maintain a sunny outlook (actually I could end the sentence there, given the history of this franchise) after the past two or three weeks.
 
Ali G (to David Beckham): "You is the best at football, ya know. So you get Posh. So does Sporty Spice go out with someone from Scunthorpe United?"
Victoria Beckham: "That's a horrible thing to say!"
Ali G: "What, is Scunthorpe not a good team?"
Victoria: "No that's... uh... (smiling)"

(sauce)
 
BlazerCaravan said:
I might hate-watch San Antonio, and root for the other three prodigal brothers to succeed, but I have no great love for the NBA outside the Trail Blazers. Maybe I'll use the extra time during blowout losses to write my novel.
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I predict dark themes and double-crossing.
 
It's not a "sunny" outlook per se, but it is relief that it's just done. A lot of us suspected that the lineup wasn't going to get us over the top no matter how good our bench got. And instead of clinging to pieces of that lineup, Neil ripped the band-aid off.

How rare is that for the Blazers? we are used to long slides into irrelevance. This is lightning fast and yeah we area bad team now but we aren't bleh with one way ticket to slightly worse for seven more years.

It's not us being pollyannas; what you're seeing is a lot of people happy not to have the usual stress of being the 8th seed from 1978 to 1988, or from 1994-1998... Never getting better. We are bade but the road is upward from here. We skipped our least favorite part, and that's a nice surprise.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
No offense man, but don't you know how to use "ignore"? Also, the word "meltdown"?

I kind of wonder at somebody who claims to be a Blazer fan who can maintain a sunny outlook (actually I could end the sentence there, given the history of this franchise) after the past two or three weeks.
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Not.gonna ignore yah, as I think you are a good poster with lots of solid points.

As for sunny disposition, it's called choosing to lead a positive life instead of letting things, like entertainment, that I can't control affect my overall mood. Am I happy the flip that has happened to this team? Not at all, but I'm gonna make the best of it and enjoy the team anyway. Been doing it for 35 years, one off season won't change that.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I kind of wonder at somebody who claims to be a Blazer fan who can maintain a sunny outlook (actually I could end the sentence there, given the history of this franchise) after the past two or three weeks.
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And I kind of wonder at someone who presumably follows sports for the enjoyment thereof yet chooses to continually look at the negative side of a situation rather than make even a little effort to see the good or find something they can appreciate.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
It's not a "sunny" outlook per se, but it is relief that it's just done. A lot of us suspected that the lineup wasn't going to get us over the top no matter how good our bench got. And instead of clinging to pieces of that lineup, Neil ripped the band-aid off.
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Note my current avatar. This is not a painless event.

How rare is that for the Blazers? we are used to long slides into irrelevance. This is lightning fast and yeah we area bad team now but we aren't bleh with one way ticket to slightly worse for seven more years.
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You're kidding, right? Oden's knees? Brandon's knees?

It's not us being pollyannas; what you're seeing is a lot of people happy not to have the usual stress of being the 8th seed from 1978 to 1988, or from 1994-1998... Never getting better. We are bade but the road is upward from here. We skipped our least favorite part, and that's a nice surprise.
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But you've also got to concede that, if someone had said while we were among the best teams in the entire NBA for a good part of the first third of last season (and being sold that we had "roster flexibility" to get "a final piece" this Summer) that we would lose 4/5 of our starting lineup, you would not have just shrugged and said "oh good, a fast start on the rebuild!"

Also: there are other teams that do this, and other iterations of the Blazers. But they usually have (a) really high draft picks that you can get excited about seeing in the NBA for the first time, and (b) a clear vision of the future.

Of course I will watch the Blazers - I can't help it, it's a disease. But that doesn't mean I have to lie to myself about how Sysiphean this all seems.

(Of course, it's much worse in English Football. Imagine you follow Exeter FC your whole life. They literally stand NO chance of EVER being good.)
 
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