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What is your interest level of the team?

  • I still watch/listen to every game with complete fandom

  • I will watch/listen to most games, get excited/hopeful

  • I catch the games when I can

  • I'm starting to do more things instead of sitting down to watch/listen

  • It's gone. Talk to me next year.

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barring the team moving to another city, I will always be a fan. But my interest has definitely waned a lot this year.
 
oldfisherman said:
I like our players, and think very highly of them.

I have become more interested in the business side of the NBA than the game. I keep active with the Blazers because I want to see how Olshey gets himself out of the mess he has created.

However, I have lost interest in the NBA game for several reasons.

1) I believe the overall talent level in the NBA is very weak right now. There is a shortage of quality starting level players. The other day I looked at all the PFs in the league trying to find one to trade for. I was amazed to find out that I had never heard of some of the starters. There are several teams that are playing SFs at their starting PF position. That is bad.

2) Too many quality players have joined each other to form a few super teams. If I was a good player on a non-super team, it would make me question how much of my body to sacrifice for the team. I probably would just play well enough to stay healthy and to keep the checks coming.
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riverman said:
I miss really good passing and skilled post play the most...the 3 pt shot is starting to water down the style of play. I think the league needs to construct a real minor league system for each team and change a few rules for playing in the paint...goal tending for one. I like to see goal tending to be called really sparingly in obvious cases where you couldn't take the ball out of the cylinder but blocking off the backboard should be allowed more
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You both make great points. But then, we're all old guys. Back in the day (admittedly the league was smaller ) virtually every team had a guy that averaged at least 15 & 10 at the PF position. Not any more unless you count now gone Tim Duncan. And as Riverman noted, most teams either had (or tried hard to find) a big "aircraft carrier" at center. A guy who could pretty much owned the key and who acted as the hub of a wheel, directing traffic, calling out screens and hitting the cutters. They also made the drive to the hoop more thought provoking and problematic. Today's game is pretty vanilla. Too many guards who are clones of each other and too many soft small forwards. I too have looked over rosters to try and figure out who might help the team, and the few who come to mind are untouchable. As Old Fisherman noted, the talent is really diluted right now. We have a tough row to hoe, at least for the shorter term.....
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
You both make great points. But then, we're all old guys. Back in the day (admittedly the league was smaller ) virtually every team had a guy that averaged at least 15 & 10 at the PF position. Not any more unless you count now gone Tim Duncan. And as Riverman noted, most teams either had (or tried hard to find) a big "aircraft carrier" at center. A guy who could pretty much owned the key and who acted as the hub of a wheel, directing traffic, calling out screens and hitting the cutters. They also made the drive to the hoop more thought provoking and problematic. Today's game is pretty vanilla. Too many guards who are clones of each other and too many soft small forwards. I too have looked over rosters to try and figure out who might help the team, and the few who come to mind are untouchable. As Old Fisherman noted, the talent is really diluted right now. We have a tough row to hoe, at least for the shorter term.....
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Which is why I think the key to being successful is a good frontcourt. Mostly every team has at least one good guard. Sometimes, all star guards have awful games, and guys like Yogi Ferrell drop 30.

But rebounding always translates. Size is always consistent. Rim protection is always consistent.

I feel like a frontcourt of M.Gasol and Whiteside would be a lot more effective than a backcourt of CJ and Dame. Hell, Aldridge + Lopez would be a top froncourt.

The combination of Plumlee, Aminu, Vonleh, and Leonard is a bottom 3 frontcourt. The league has gone guard-heavy, but I think that means having a good big man gives you even more of an advantage than before.

So until we fix that, I have little hope. Our big men are frustrating as fuck. My interest will spike once (if) we acquire a real big man.
 
I watch games when I'm not working and feel like seeing a comedy (aka the Blazers defense).

For real I enjoy watching games, but most of the players on this team don't have a future on our team and so it makes it tougher when you don't have young guys to see develop. I guess Im still interested in all the losses we rack up.
 
So what if we could get Noel and Ibaka (re-signed) + a couple of 1st for CJ and Crabbe as the main parts of the trade? Front line would be much better and our defense would improve immediately. Dame would have some balance to go with his back court game and we would still have Turner/Harkless/Aminu at the wings. It's a lot of outside shooting to give up but Ibaka can help stretch the floor and I think the Blazers are too reliant on the '3' anyhow.

The thing is, could Stotts coach that team?
 
TBpup said:
So what if we could get Noel and Ibaka (re-signed) + a couple of 1st for CJ and Crabbe as the main parts of the trade? Front line would be much better and our defense would improve immediately. Dame would have some balance to go with his back court game and we would still have Turner/Harkless/Aminu at the wings. It's a lot of outside shooting to give up but Ibaka can help stretch the floor and I think the Blazers are too reliant on the '3' anyhow.

The thing is, could Stotts coach that team?
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and could/would Olshey trade one of "his guys"?
 
Little to none. I love dame and cj but they aren't the type of players that made me love the NBA. Clyde, Jerome, Buck and other players like Magic and Dominique were what hooked me.
 
I will always watch the Blazers when I can. But I will rarely pay to watch the Blazers. This is one of the least interesting teams I've watched...though the last several years there have been a lot of not-very-interesting iterations of the Blazers. Nate and Terry made/make it hard to get excited.
 
Less than any year for as long as I can remember. May just be me getting older though? Hate the new broadcast crew. Hate the fact the GM didn't know last year was a fluke and re-signed everyone. Hate the same old bullshit excuses from fans. Hate Dame saying we have to get better but never puts in the effort defensively to get better.

I love my Blazers, but if I'm being honest, I don't really care about them this year
 
blue9 said:
I will always watch the Blazers when I can. But I will rarely pay to watch the Blazers. This is one of the least interesting teams I've watched...though the last several years there have been a lot of not-very-interesting iterations of the Blazers. Nate and Terry made/make it hard to get excited.
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Nate was boring. But I think some of Terry's problem is the players the organization chose to invest in and build their future on. Damian is a nice player but I don't think he is the flashiest or funnest player to watch. I feel that way about a lot of these guys. That and I agree with the Bodyman. The game is nothing what it used to be in the 80's. It's just not as fun and I have to say, I admire the Blazer fans for continually to buy and come close to selling the arena out night after night. Surprises me a lil but and it really makes it difficult for this owner and organization to do anything else. If what they are trying to do is drive off interest.
 
Let's just take a breath and not quit just yet. We still have a shot at playoffs and if we make playoffs, we have a shot at title. If we DO fall out of contention, then I'll take the step back. There's too much basketball to played. Look at Miami. They didn't give up on their season at 11-30 and now they're the hottest team in the league. I personally refuse to be a fair weather fan and desert the team when they need the fans most. I hope the fans at Moda feel better about the team than most of you. It ain't over.
 
KingSpeed said:
Let's just take a breath and not quit just yet. We still have a shot at playoffs and if we make playoffs, we have a shot at title. If we DO fall out of contention, then I'll take the step back. There's too much basketball to played. Look at Miami. They didn't give up on their season at 11-30 and now they're the hottest team in the league. I personally refuse to be a fair weather fan and desert the team when they need the fans most. I hope the fans at Moda feel better about the team than most of you. It ain't over.
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Denny, sell website and retire. We now have the ultimate in stupid posts. Shot at a title? Multiple gunshots as in killing 4 players from the other teams? Oh my Lord.
 
KingSpeed said:
Let's just take a breath and not quit just yet. We still have a shot at playoffs and if we make playoffs, we have a shot at title. If we DO fall out of contention, then I'll take the step back. There's too much basketball to played. Look at Miami. They didn't give up on their season at 11-30 and now they're the hottest team in the league. I personally refuse to be a fair weather fan and desert the team when they need the fans most. I hope the fans at Moda feel better about the team than most of you. It ain't over.
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We have a shot at a title? I guess every team that hasn't been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention has at least a .00000000000001 chance at a championship.

There's a difference between being a faorweather fan and doing other things instead of watching a game because this team is disappointing.

They openly admit other teams give more effort than them. So why should we give 100% effort to support them when they admit they don't give 100% effort?
 
KingSpeed said:
Let's just take a breath and not quit just yet. We still have a shot at playoffs and if we make playoffs, we have a shot at title. If we DO fall out of contention, then I'll take the step back. There's too much basketball to played. Look at Miami. They didn't give up on their season at 11-30 and now they're the hottest team in the league. I personally refuse to be a fair weather fan and desert the team when they need the fans most. I hope the fans at Moda feel better about the team than most of you. It ain't over.
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It's not fair weather, it's called being realistic... historically, the probability of winning title from 7 or 8 seed is ZERO. I'm sorry you spent so much money traveling with the team, but the roster construction is flawed... we have 80+ mil committed to 4 guards... this team is going nowhere without some major trades. Lillard and CJ combo will never work... until Neil realizes that this team has no chance.
 
KingSpeed said:
Let's just take a breath and not quit just yet. We still have a shot at playoffs and if we make playoffs, we have a shot at title. If we DO fall out of contention, then I'll take the step back. There's too much basketball to played. Look at Miami. They didn't give up on their season at 11-30 and now they're the hottest team in the league. I personally refuse to be a fair weather fan and desert the team when they need the fans most. I hope the fans at Moda feel better about the team than most of you. It ain't over.
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I said to not talk about fandom. Its the exact reason the poll results arent public.

I made it so each individual person could speak about it if they wanted to. Dont do any heirarchy fandom in this thread please.
 
I haven't been emotionally invested in Blazer basketball sense Portland lost Batum/Matthews/Aldridge/Rolo.
I do still try to catch every game though.
 
Neil when he first came to the Blazers: "I'm only going to acquire players that move the needle"

And after all these years, all he's done is acquire backups and casts offs. Then he decides to play them a ridiculous amount of money and call it good? Where do we go from here? Nowhere!
 
I have supported the team for over 40 years. Through the good times, and the bad. That said....

Like many of you, I had VERY HIGH expectations for the team this year. Watching them play now is such a depressing, disappointment. I honestly feel that I would get more enjoyment watching a 5 on 5 pickup game of our random board members. I think it would be exciting, and a blast to watch or play in. Sure, there are a lot of old farts here, but I would totally expect everyone to put in SO much effort, that many would be on the verge of a heart attack. Am I wrong??? I find it really pathetic that our paid professionals can't put forth that effort, for each and every ENTIRE game. Rant over (although I could easily go on, and on.....)

So yes, my interest is fading quickly.....
 
Had no raised expectations, thought summer was wasted, proved me right, hoping they trade all summer pickups for 1 or 2 solid 3pt-line defenders. Throw Vonleh in the deal too.
 
Honestly I can't say I'm that emotionally invested in the Blazers. I'm proud to be a Blazer fan and I love the connection the club has to the local fans. Most NBA teams are just another mindless diversion but the Blazers are really the only game in town. Sadly, that really doesn't mean much in modern NBA. Big Market, Big Visibility, Big Superstars.... we don't really have the facility to sign or even retain a ton of premium talent. Maybe if we had San Antonio's setup.... but they still appeal to players because of their locale. We are lucky to have Allen. He believes in the club and town. Whether that translates into being a contender anytime soon..... (lifts arms) We are in the NBA because teams like Golden State need us on the schedule basically. I get as passionate about that as I can.
 
I still try to watch every game. although I work Wednesday and Friday evenings; but even there in the last two weeks I twice paid a client $10 to let me go home three hours early so I could watch. I hoped for most of the season so far that the team could get it together; now I don't think that will happen so I just hope that one or two players will go from being a role player into a solid consistent producer. I'm most disappointed in what seems to be a lack of fire sometimes. Also disappointed that Olshey can't do the small things. like hire a damn bigman coach, or that at this point the team (Olshey and Stotts) doesn't start focusing on the future instead of this season.
 
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OneLifeToLive said:
Nate was boring. But I think some of Terry's problem is the players the organization chose to invest in and build their future on. Damian is a nice player but I don't think he is the flashiest or funnest player to watch. I feel that way about a lot of these guys. That and I agree with the Bodyman. The game is nothing what it used to be in the 80's. It's just not as fun and I have to say, I admire the Blazer fans for continually to buy and come close to selling the arena out night after night. Surprises me a lil but and it really makes it difficult for this owner and organization to do anything else. If what they are trying to do is drive off interest.
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Don't get me wrong - our roster is definitely flawed. But this team could do quite a bit better if they were better coached. One of the things I hate the most is sticking with a coach once it's clear they aren't getting the job done - that, more than anything, keeps me from being invested in the team.

With that said, I want to under-achieve even more than we already have. At this point, every win is a step in the wrong direction. So, by all means, stick with Terry until the end of the season. But if he isn't fired this summer then it's going to be another wasted season next year.

Totally agree on the lack of talent throughout the NBA - it's pretty pathetic these days. Players have increased their athleticism and individual ability to be superior players to those who played in the 80s/90s, but the mental game just isn't there. And even some of that can be blamed on coaching - it's not the players' job to draft the plays, it's just their job to execute them...and our coach has them running the weave outside the 3-point line.
 
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