Pre-season is coming, but until then news is scant and hopes will be built up and DASHED before our very eyes like the prequel to Star Wars. Will the coaching staff shake-up yield offensive gains or did Cho just hire a bunch of Yes-men so Nate can run wild with running down the clock and chucking up a shot with 2 seconds left.  Will Greg Oden's Knee ever heal? Will Joel Pryzbilla become a 30/20/10 (10 blocks that is) beast?  Will B-Rex ever roam free? Will Rudy continue to eat cheese with his whine? Why did I pay to come to the Rose Garden to get hosed with $10 a beer price gouging?

and finally...

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The season is fast approaching...I say that because I'm about to step into a time machine so that I don't have to deal with this lackluster Portland summer waiting for the Blazer season to start.  Sun, Hello?  

Anyway, with the inevitable signing of Wesley Matthews and the possible loss of Patty "turnover" Mills and Rudy "whiny pants" Fernandez what are some possible scenario's for the Portland roster on starting day of training camp?  Do people still hold out hope for CP3 or have they started taking their medication yet? Tony Parker? Devon Harris? Darius Miles?  John Magic Nash Thomas? What's your wishlist and what is your best guest? Mine after the break.

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What has happened to the optimism on this site? We've been mucking about in the sewage waters of glass-half full all last season.  We only got 50 wins even though half our team was out with injuries. And the politics and he-said-she-said of the Tom Penn/KP/PA saga of epic weirdness.  I get it, all right I GET IT.

But let's have a moment to reflect on your Portland Trailblazers for the year 2010-2011. As long as the genetically engineered robotic zombie apocalypse doesn't happen until 2012 I believe we have, gasp, with no trades at all, a very respectable team.

With all the talk of these "superteams" with lebron and wade and zombie john stockton what I see is a very bizarre chemistry experiment. The l*kers are probably still the biggest threat since Jackson came back. So after the Jump, I present the Blazersedge Nation to your 2010-2011 Portland Trailblazers...

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So you want to write another post about how we should trade Blake and/or Outlaw for some other PG or worthless jackass "banger 4/5" that will never get any minutes huh?  Well guess what folks, it ain't going to happen.

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It's through the looking glass time now people, it's the conspiracy of all conspiracies.  It's the 9/11 truthers wrapped inside the Obama Birthers and smothered in the sauce of the Illuminati Sex Factory located on the Dark Side of the Moon.  And that amounts to one delicious enchilada of conspiracy.

I can't name names or Ben and Dave will both spank me simultaneously, but several of your beloved BEdgers postings are in fact coming from the fingers of one demented typist.  And I have a sneaky suspicion that it is Ron Artest...

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I don't know, but I saw a picture this guy had on his cellphone that totally looks like Tracy McGrady is sitting in this SWEET '81 Pinto all blinged out and on twenties and totally getting an oil change and this guy was all like, "and dude he said he was checking out Portland because he might be getting more oil changes here in the future!"

And you know what that means!  Boy!  Howdy!  Yeah...

When we officially clinch the playoff berth how will you celebrate? 

Maybe a special celebration will need to be in order if we somehow manage a fourth seed. But we will look at that when the need arise and the need is still off in the future of 75 words or so which includes a couple more of these so that it will in fact be that long.

But I digress from the above and the below and such.

There has been a lot of talk of bayless / oden and whether they should be first or second string and where they are going to be in the future.

Well it makes since that our proven, consistent vetern starters should in fact start, and our next generation should be working together on the second unit so they can develop together and get ready to crush opposing teams in the coming years.  In that spirit, here is the line up...

FIRST UNIT:

JOEL - C

LMA - PF

BATUM/MARTELL - SF

ROY - SG

BLAKE - PG

SECOND UNIT:

ODEN - C

TROUT - PF

TROUT/RUDY/BATUM - SF

RUDY - SG

BAYLESS - PG

SCRUBS:

FRYE - backup C or PF

SHAVILK - backup SF (oops....) backup PF

RUFFIN - backup towel boy

SERGIO - backup PG or SG, trading material

Once Martell is back then Batum should move to the second unit.  Well, once martell is healthy which could be well into next season.  Regardless, Batum should see decent backup minutes in a couple of positions, but once Martell is 100% he is our man for the first unit on SF.  I'd like to keep Frye and Randolph because there are excellent players to play in case of injuries.  Say what you want about Frye, he doesn't complain, is a team player and a good person.

Really what I want is Oden/Rudy/Bayless working together for the future...mmmmmm, delicious future....

"The Thunder recently had a 5-1 stretch playing all six games without leading scorer Kevin Durant and with second-leading scorer Jeff Green missing four. Rookie point guard Russell Westbrook has done his share to pick up the slack during their absences, but Oklahoma City's unsung heroes were Nenad Krstic and Thabo Sefolosha ..."

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/art_garcia/03/12/odom_suspension.western.insider.20090312/index.html

Psssst....it's because he can't pass the ball....

Wow, he really dominated Greg tonight, I don't know what those Greg lovin people are thinking.  Durant is like Michael Jordan and Shaq rolled into one super robot of basketball death explosions!

He had a 1000 pts and 400 roebounds tonight.  Wow, and he is still in his high school career.

Oden had 37 fouls and slipped on banana peel.  He is so uncool.  Huge game dominating centers are so abundant in this league, what we really need is someone who is almost as good as Martell Webster.

Boy, if only we had got him instead we could have OKC's record.  That would be awesome!