[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>HearToTemptYou</b>!

How does everyone else feel? Agree, Disagree?

Disagree 1000%.

Ed O.

[Tom]

Cussing and anger won't make things better...only heart and desire from players and management... I'm a bengals fan i know this.

[Nightfly]

Originally posted by <b>Ed O</b>!


Disagree 1000%.

Ed O.

Why?

[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>HearToTemptYou</b>!

Why?

-- Whitsitt has made a large number of excellent moves, and he's built a team that is top-10 every year, and quite often around the top 5.

-- With a little bit more luck, we woulda won a ring 3 years ago. It's not his fault that the team had one bad quarter.

-- The team is still young. Pippen and Sabas are not, obviously, and Davis is long in the tooth. But Wallace, Wells, DA, RP, and (to a lesser extent) Damon and McInnis are all young members of our core. ZR and Qyntel are showing a lot of promise and they're even younger.

-- PR and fan warm, fuzzy feelings are irrelelvant to me. I don't care if he lives in Afghanistan and checks in on the team once a year if he keeps the team as competitive as he has.

Those are the four main reasons. I've kept them brief because I've made my feelings apparent elsewhere before and nothing's changed in the last 3 games to change my mind.

Ed O.

[Speed]

Yes, Gym, though we're trying to go for roles closer to my age nowadays.

Go Blazers

[Speed]

BELIEVE HARDER.

Thanks to all who believed.

Now, we're gonna win in Dallas, then we'll come back to the Rose Garden and tie the series, then next Sunday, we'll go to Dallas and make history!

Go Blazers

[Speed]

BLAZERS

IN

SEVEN


BELIEVE HARDER

[Minstrel]

If Portland wins in Dallas, I might start believing there's a chance to win the series.

I did believe Portland could win this game. I have to say I didn't, and still don't, think Portland can win the series.

But I'd love to be wrong.

[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>Minstrel</b>!
If Portland wins in Dallas, I might start believing there's a chance to win the series.

I did believe Portland could win this game. I have to say I didn't, and still don't, think Portland can win the series.

But I'd love to be wrong.

THAT's the spirit: realism with a tinge of optimism.

To update my "chance that Portland will come back from 0-3 to win" (figuring a 50% win rate at home and a 25% rate in Dallas)... they currently have a 3% chance of winning the series. Twice what it was this time yesterday!

Ed O.

[Speed]

as i said.... the MEN have been separated from the BOYS.

Thank you BLAZERS!!!!

The coward fans don't know a THING about heart and desire when they claim that our players don't have it.

GO BLAZERS!!!

[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>Tom</b>!
Cussing and anger won't make things better...only heart and desire from players and management... I'm a bengals fan i know this.

Wait... you're a Nets fan and a Bengals fan?

Or are you a Cincinnati fan so you root for Kenyon and therefore the Nets (and RP and the Blazers... although my theory breaks down since NVE is on the Mavs so that should cancel out).

In any case: Bengals and Nets. That's a lot of bad pro mojo the last 15 years or so.

Ed O.

[Speed]

WHAT??? You can't wait til after Game 5 to jump on the bandwagon!!!

The team needs your support DURING game 5!!!

As for the percentages, the Blazers have a 100% chance of winning this series.

Go Blazers

[Minstrel]

Originally posted by <b>Speed</b>!
WHAT??? You can't wait til after Game 5 to jump on the bandwagon!!!

The team needs your support DURING game 5!!!

I think your little jihad is getting out of control. Nowhere did I say I wouldn't support the team for Game Five. I think they can win the game and will be rooting for them.

I just said I don't currently believe the Blazers can win the series, though a change in circumstances can change my mind.

[Speed]

a change in circumstances??

you mean like the circumstance of us winning Game 5??

LOL!!!

EXACTLY. That's called being a FAIR WEATHER FAN. "If we're up 3-1, I think we can win the series. If we're down 1-3, I think we can't." Ummmm.... that's bandwagoning.

Go Blazers