compsciguy78

Do you remember Dan Dickau?
Gonzaga All-American, married Trailblazer cheerleader, a lot of hype, slow as molasses, outside shooter, little feet...


How does a guy like Steve Blake get less hype then Dan Dickau in college?

Dan Dickau might have been the most hyped guy coming out of the Northwest area colleges in the last 10 years...

Anyways...I love Steve Blakes game. He really helped the Nuggets and I'm sure you guys are impressed with his abilities.

He makes Dan Dickau look like Euroleague status.

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Dan

Cinderella stories always sound neater, especially to NWers.

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Public Defender

Steve Blake's story coming out of Maryland was always overshadowed by the rags-to-riches tale of Juan Dixon. On the court, Blake wasn't flashy, and in addition to Dixon, he was overshadowed by Chris Wilcox and Lonny Baxter - the inside tandem - who powered that team by scoring on the low block. Guys like Dick Vitale loved Steve Blake, but since the Terps' PG wasn't as flashy as, say Kirk Hinrich was at Kansas, for instance, he didn't get that much attention. Finally, who was going to pay attention to a skinny 6'3" PG like Blake, when the 2003 draft was featuring LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwayne Wade in the early picks...? All that said, though, I think the Washington Wizards absolutely scored when they nabbed Blake in the second round. It helped that '03 was a really, really deep draft.

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gatorpops

We will see how Steve and the others do tomorrow when Telfair comes back to town???

gatorpops

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...they've got to be a pain to prepare for defensively.

Public Defender

Telfair? Yeah, that game shouldn't be close, but I'm not one to jinx it.

I forgot that Bassy played for the Timberwolves... part of that "McHale looking out for his former Celtic buddy Danny Ainge" deal that Minnesota may regret for years. Not because they would rather still have Garnett (he wasn't going to get the T-Wolves a ring all on his own), but because they should have gotten so much more than the odd spare parts that Boston sent their way.

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HOWIE

I would think that would go to that other Zag player, whats his name playing for the Bobcats.

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hasoos

Oh yea Telfair is a real test

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cpt.napalm

Steve Blake's wife is one of the only women that my wife has point blank told me is gorgeous. I guess she works out where my wife works and my wife said she's absolutely beautiful. My wife never makes comments like that. My wife then asked me to show her a picture of Steve Blake and she was very disappointed.

But more on topic Blake got less pub because he played on a stacked team in college. I am sure that if you lived in DC you would have heard a lot more about him. Dickau was the only thing going on the zags really it was a team over achieving and Dickau got made the face of it. Blake has also played on teams with superstars in the NBA.

dudleysghost

Blake is alright. He plays competently and works hard on his game. If he got less hype in college than Dickau, it's probably because the Zags were Cinderella back then, and Dickau was probably more of a scorer.

Incidentally, it isn't that crazy for TH to say that he'd rather have Roy than Wade, at least for this team. I saw the thread where all sorts of non-blazer fans were LOLing at him for it, but I have to say I don't think most people outside of Portland know much about Roy or this team. He makes this team go, and he seems to make everyone around him better. It reminded me of when some Toronto fans came in about the time Roy was getting the ROY award, trying to tell us about supposed faults in his game and how Bargnani was equally deserving, and you could just tell they had never actually seen Roy play.

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Mateo

He's as average as they come. I'm not sure how an average to below average player can ever be called "underrated", but so be it. I suppose if his reputation were as an awful player then I guess he would be underrated.

dudleysghost

Some people around here thought he was bad, and that he shouldn't have been stealing minutes from the likes of Sebastian Telfair, but I think the point is that to fans around most of the league he is an unknown, and that he has enough talent to at least be noticable, I suppose?

Anyway, I've always been a Blake fan. He isn't great, but he takes care of the ball, plays some D and hits the open 3 often enough. He's a role player, but the kind of role player that good teams need to have. He will possibly make a great backup PG for us when we are contenders.

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Xericx

Steve Blake is great! Did you see the article about him in the Blazers guide a while back? Good guy...glad he's back in PDX!!!!!

He did get some hype in college..i thought he got on the cover of an SI....but as part of the TERPs back in teh day.



oh yeah, some dude on another message board captured this somehow....blake hit a clutch 3 in a game and the TV screen panned to Blake's fine wifey. hah.

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Xericx

Anyway, for being so hyped, Dickau did only get drafted what....in the late 20s or early 30s in the Yao Ming draft????

He got hype because he shot a lot of 3's at Gonzaga.

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southnc

Good grief! How many times do we see this same argument. "Blake is just average, Blake is just that, blah, blah blah..."

Say whatever you want about him, as I've heard this even when he first came to MD - "too skinny, too scrawny, too slow, not athletic". Meanwhile, you learn that he lead teams to dominating seasons in Miami (with some controversy) and prestigious Oak Hill Academy.

Then, with power-house MD, he promptly starts as a Freshman, and goes on to 4 NCAA tourneys, with 2 Final 4s and 1 National Championship. Go figure - luck, on a really good team where he does nothing?

Then, nobody expects him to make the NBA - he does in one of the best draft years ever - 2003. Then it's assumed he won't last long (aka "the Wiz drafted him for fan reasons"). Yet last year, he is starting PG on a playoff team (Denver).

There more things to this amazing sport than just stats - there are the intangibles that you need to pay attention to. I will say this about Blake: he needs good players around him to be effective. He doesn't really carry a team - he glues them together and makes them more effective, and he is a pesky defender. Now, try and show that in a statistic!