SB Nation Blog: HurraKane212

Thuggets = Jail Blazers :-(

HurraKane212 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:10:58 -0000

I left this post on Pickaxe and Roll. I know we all hate the Nuggets, probably more than most fan bases because they represent the parts of our team that we hated. However, we share a common burden with their fans. We know what it's like to have an incredibly talented and mentally unstable team that keeps breaking our heart and the asking for bail money. I say we go over there and show some support for the poor Nuggets.

Here is the comment I left:

I sympathize. We went through several years of this in the Damon, Rasheed, Bonzi, Darius, and Zach show. The Jail Blazers are finally dead, but rebirth has been painful. We went from the WCF in 2000 to a downward spiral where we missed the playoffs for the first time in over two decades and slogged through mediocrity and right into "turribleness". However, now we are on the upswing. I hope for ya'll's sake that your roster gets blown up this off season because you're going nowhere and the rebuilding needs to begin. Like the Red Hot Chili Peppers say in Californication "Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation."
~Nathan

Fan Scouting

HurraKane212 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:59:41 -0000

I have decided to start a fan driven basketball scouting site. There are some excellent fan scouting reports here on BE and I thought that you guys might want to contribute. I'd like to eventually profile every player in the NBA and NCAA as well as all the major foreign leagues.

P.S. Dave, feel free to delete this if you feel it is inappropriate.

http://offensivefoul.blogspot.com/

~Nathan

Stats on how the and why the Blazers have improved

HurraKane212 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:04:19 -0000

http://dberri.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/why-the-blazers-have-improved/#more-689

Just an interesting stat breakdown. Wages of Wins is controversial, but it has it's uses.

~Nathan

Oh, I'm a 300 character word limit and I'm OK, I work all night and I sleep all day!

Man it's fun to read the post Oden surgery projections for this team and see so many stat geeks scrambling to explain how it happened.

More Pistons than Suns?

HurraKane212 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:19:06 -0000

So I was looking at some stats (namely pace and offensive efficiency) and thinking about Brandon Roy's statements about pace in his TNT interview about how it's just not his way to rush or go super fast.
So here is what I think our team identity will be:
I think that we'll be a mostly half-court team that moves the ball a lot. I think we're built to run opportunity fast breaks and provide transition defense. I see us as a jump shooting team with a post presence (Greg Oden) who, unlike Ben Wallace, can score. I see us taking high-percentage jump shots (sounds like a oxymoron but basically moving the ball till we get a man open). I see us using the pick-n-roll a bunch and also some back and forth plays between Oden and LMA.

I see people forced to cover our jump shooters leaving the lane open for Roy and the post single covered for Oden. I see responding to double-teams by passing the ball to an open jump shooter.

What I don't see is a running team or even an "up tempo" team. I see a "moving team." I bet we stay in the bottom 10 teams as far as pace, but rise toward the top in points per 100 possessions.

Comments?
~Nathan

The difference between games

HurraKane212 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:50:41 -0000

In the first game vs the Thuggets we got pushed around and folded like an accordion.
In this game we took their shots and kept right on coming. Joel has been playing like a mad-man ever since Shaq gave him a Spalding Facial. Channing Frye must have realized that McRoberts was about to pass him in the depth chart.

Like Joel said "We aren't backing off of anybody."

P.S. LMA might not play tomorrow. P.P.S. See what happens when we out rebound the other team? God help the other 29 teams when Oden comes in to help clean the glass.

Oden's first steps video

HurraKane212 — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:39:25 -0000

If anyone has a link to Oden throwing down the crutches and walking b4 the Grizz game, I'd love to see it.~Nathan

P.S. we could make a really sweet youtube video next season that shows him on crutches and bummed out (cue soft music) then the scene in the Rose Garden (cue Guitar riff) and then dunking on everybody (cue metal baby!)

Blazer firefox theme

HurraKane212 — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:59:21 -0000

I'd love to have a blazers theme for mozilla firefox. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make themes. I was wondering if one of blazers edges' alumni might be able to create one. A black theme with red trim (and some white) would be awesome. There are already a few sports team themes, but no blazers theme :-(. Anyhow, I've got to get to 300 characters so I'll end it with this question: "We hate the L*kers and the Jazz, I wonder what teams hate us?~Nathan

Oden updates on kneegate

HurraKane212 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:12:59 -0000

Oden updates on his blog:

Another Bump In The Road
[Edit by Dave: The following is a selection of the piece.]

On my vacation earlier this summer i got up off the coach and remember my knee having a sharp pain in it. That was about a month ago. I didn't tell anyone because i didn't want to seem like i was complaining or making excuses for anything plus i wasn't doing anything at the time i realized it hurt, so i figured it couldn't be anything big. After a couple of weeks i had to finally tell someone so i went to St. Vincent's Sports Performance (where i worked out at before draft) and got my knee looked at. That was right before i moved to Portland for good. My knee was swollen since i was here. I finally just said i need to tell my trainer because this is not normal. We went to the doctors the next day to get a MRI and that night me and my mom ended in the doctors office being told that I have to get surgery. Its a light one just a scoop but still its just another set back. I would like for me to be playing and not seem like im a high matinence player but things just keep popping up.

[Edit by Dave: Here is the link to the full piece.]

Great new Oden article

HurraKane212 — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:40:43 -0000

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/1186206971277340.xml&coll=7&a mp;thispage=1

a great article by Joe Freeman (Not Joel...)
Man... now I am really craving a cheeseburger and fries.
Anyhow, hope you all enjoy the article.~Nathan

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A Dudley Question

HurraKane212 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:10:34 -0000

Ok, off and on, both here and at various basketball forums I have seen "the Chris Dudley Debacle" or some similar phrase referenced.
Maybe it's because I was a kid when he was playing, but I don't remember any problems with him. I remember he was a good guy off court and he was the first Blazer I ever photographed at the Rose Garden.
So what exactly is this "debacle" I keep hearing about?~Nathan