[mook]

we don't have a small forward who really deserves the starting spot. Miles is our best SF, and he clearly plays better and with more intensity as a starter, so it seems pretty obvious who we should go with.

oddly enough, I thought we already learned that lesson last year when Rahim took his starting job for part of the season.

[Tince]

As happy as I am for us to win, I'm real bummed with the lineup that did it. The young guys like Jack, Webster, and Outlaw don't play. Miles played a ton (not well), and so did Lenard and Ratliff. So our future sat on the bench, and that players we want to get rid of played, not good.

[mook]

anyway, nice game by Telfair.

I think his biggest problem is that he picks up his dribble too much. his last basket came off of a Steve Nash "waterbug" right through the gut of the defense, zipping himself into a little open spot to make an easy ten footer on the baseline.

Portland needs to just let him take five seconds as soon as they bring it into half court and just let him dribble around a little in the interior, feeling for a seam. if there's nothing there, then you pull it out and run Nate McMillan post offense.

[mook]

Originally Posted by Tince

As happy as I am for us to win, I'm real bummed with the lineup that did it. The young guys like Jack, Webster, and Outlaw don't play. Miles played a ton (not well), and so did Lenard and Ratliff. So our future sat on the bench, and that players we want to get rid of played, not good.

well, there's only so much losing a young team can take. obviously, this game did nothing to develop Outlaw, Jack or Webster, but Telfair showed some real growth, and I think you still have to count Randolph as part of our youth movement (although he didn't have a great game).

it is a little depressing to see Lenard play and succeed while other future potential SG's have played and mostly failed.

[e_blazer1]

Originally Posted by theWanker

well, there's only so much losing a young team can take. obviously, this game did nothing to develop Outlaw, Jack or Webster, but Telfair showed some real growth, and I think you still have to count Randolph as part of our youth movement (although he didn't have a great game).

it is a little depressing to see Lenard play and succeed while other future potential SG's have played and mostly failed.

It's abundantly apparent that this team needs to find starting caliber players for the starting spots next season so that our best young players can learn the game from guys who actually know how to play it. IMHO, handing a starting spot to players who haven't been around long enough to really learn the NBA game doesn't do anybody any good. Veterans win games and losing sucks.

[mgb]

Originally Posted by theWanker

we don't have a small forward who really deserves the starting spot. Miles is our best SF, and he clearly plays better and with more intensity as a starter, so it seems pretty obvious who we should go with.

oddly enough, I thought we already learned that lesson last year when Rahim took his starting job for part of the season.

I think Viktor deserves the start at SF because of his hustle and intellegent play.

[Tince]

Originally Posted by mgb

I think Viktor deserves the start at SF because of his hustle and intellegent play.

I think Webster will be our starting SF within two years. We need a vet. to play SG and bring some stability in our backcourt along with Telfair (if that's who we go with).

[bballchik]

Originally Posted by Tince

As happy as I am for us to win, I'm real bummed with the lineup that did it. The young guys like Jack, Webster, and Outlaw don't play. Miles played a ton (not well), and so did Lenard and Ratliff. So our future sat on the bench, and that players we want to get rid of played, not good.

please tell me you see these things are related. young guys=can't win. vets=can win. (notice i didn't say lose and win because the vets aren't that great to pull off the win every time or anything) but they at least posses the ability to and knowledge how to pull out a win. i don't give a crap if blaze played tonight at least we won dammit.

[Tince]

I totally see it bballchik...

It's a sad, but true reality.

I want to keep Jack and Telfair, slide Webster to the 3, bring in a vet to play SG, and get a center who can knock down an outside and pass the ball. If we have to let Joel go to do it, I'm ok with it.

I'd like to keep Joel over Theo, but I don't like either making more than the MLE.

[Utherhimo]

well miles is playing to be traded thats simple, webster was out of the line up, theo playing to be traded, lenard playing for another paycheck.

Telfair and zbo hit the last two shots and telfair showed that trading blake wont be a big deal.

trading: miles, theo, blake
maybe trading: dixon
hoping for a s&t: Joel


telfair is improving a lot in this month I think its all starting to sink in and he is understanding Nate even more now look out telfair will soon replace blake. Notice how blake was making the TO and wasnt in the game at the last.

good game telfair!

[mediocre man]

It has nothing to do with vets can and rokks can't. It has to do with tonight Lenard was hitting his shot period. If he shoots like he has since he got here then the Blazers lose by 10 and things are like normal.


All this game did was lose us ping pong balls. It doesn't help the young guys to win but sit on the bench the entire game.

Tell me how Jack, Outlaw and Webster benefited from this game.

Miles is still the biggest waste of skin in the league and has no business playing one single minute.

[Demiloy]

Originally Posted by SheedSoNasty

What's up with the ****ty refing? We can't seem to buy a call.

Did you watch the last shot by Yao?

[hasoos]

IMO the team played pretty well last night, out of all the games left, this was one of the 2 I thought they might win. Telfair had an excellent game, and I agree with the poster above who said he should test the middle every time. That is the same type of thing Steve Nash does, he dribbles through and looks for weakness. The big thing I noticed is that Telfair is getting the hang of running the pick and roll, he would have had 10 more assist last night had Zach just put the ball in the bucket.

[mgb]

Originally Posted by mediocre man

It has nothing to do with vets can and rokks can't. It has to do with tonight Lenard was hitting his shot period. If he shoots like he has since he got here then the Blazers lose by 10 and things are like normal.


All this game did was lose us ping pong balls. It doesn't help the young guys to win but sit on the bench the entire game.

Tell me how Jack, Outlaw and Webster benefited from this game.

Miles is still the biggest waste of skin in the league and has no business playing one single minute.

This game was all about not having the losing games in a row record by a Blazer team and/or worst losing streak at the end of a season by a NBA team. That is no longer over our head and I think that was important enough just for team self respect g