SB Nation User Blog: Pritchslap

Ate Cotton Candy. Saw Big Greg. I was there.

Pritchslap — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:03:03 -0000

So I took my 5 year old daughter, 7 year old daughter, & wife to their first NBA game. Clipps vs Blazers.

I drove up from San Diego, so it was about a 2.5 hour journey. Luckily I brought a DVD player & snacks for my girls. The silence was golden. I was wearing my Blazer warm-up jacket & my daughter was wearing a Jersey. We were flying our Blazer colors. I hit traffic & missed all but about 3 minutes of warm-ups. I had hoped to go grab an autograph or photo before the game, but the ushers at Staples center are total Nazis. The Nazi’s needed to protect the fortress of lower level seats at all costs. Can a cute blonde 5 year old girl in blazer jersey run down for a quick pic, 50 minutes before the game? …NO picture for you! They are seriously hard core. I did not let that temper my enthusiasm & excitement to see my boys go to work. I was SO excited to see RAMBO (my preferred lineup), but the little ladies needed some food. There were lots of Blazer Fans in the house & I got a lot of “Go Blazers” comments, which was great. After getting McDonalds happy meals & CPK salad & pizza it was RAMBO time. John J. RAMBO looked a bit rusty, like RAMBO had not shot anybody with a flame tipped arrow or killed anyone with their survival knife in quite a long time. They were not “on”at all out of the gates.

Impressions:

The GOOD:

GREG: Confident. Quick. Strong. I was loving the new & improved Greg. I yelled SUPER LOUD after one of Greg’s plays. I scared both my daughters & my wife got a little mad & said, “That was WAY TOO LOUD.” (You can take the kid out of Portland, but you CAN’T TAKE PORTLAND OUT OF THE KID!!) His mind & body both seemed solid. He just seems like he exudes so much confidence out there this year. He looks good. Boom, Boom, Pow would be his theme song. Last year I worried a bit about what big Greg was going to do. He did miss a couple offensive shots. Who cares!?! Loved the put back dunk. Loved the strong baseline move to the basket that drew the foul on Cave-man Kaman. I like his aggressiveness, mind, & body. This is GREAT news for T-Blazer fans.

JUWAN HOWARD: Looks great. He looked smooth out there. He had a sweet move & shot over one of the Clipps. He was looking the guy in the eye like, “Yeah SON. I’ve been dropping deuces on fool’s heads like that since before you were in your father’s daddy bag. That shot was silky smooth like a eating French silk ice cream while wearing silk pajamas. I’m gonna be here all day, SON.” (Ok, maybe he did not say that…but that I what I THOUGHT he was saying from my seat.) :0) Looked: Confident. Seasoned. Solid. Glad to have him on our team. He will not hurt us and can definitely contribute.

ANDRE: Love his strong takes to the hoop. I like Andre a lot. He is going to be great for this team.

The BAD:

ROY: I hate to say it, but ROY looked just Terrible. Ordinary. Incredibly frustrated. (You know those games where he is complaining for calls, while a fast break is going on at the other end). He just did not look good.

RAMBO: Just looked like they did not know what they wanted to do.

The CLIPPERS:

I must say, they looked pretty dang good. They could sneak up & bite some teams this year. Again, this is pre-season, but they have some talent. They moved the ball pretty well, got some good looks, seemed fairly fluid out there. They have some players. Blake Griffin looks like a strong kid. Baron Davis looked like he was playground balling-having fun, loose, looked good. Eric Gordon looked pretty good. Cave Man Kaman looked decent as well.

Staples Center Notes. Already noted Nazi ushers. There was only 1 cotton candy sales guy walking the arena. Just ONE. My 5 year old REALLY wanted some cotton candy. Really, really, really badly. Most of the first half for her was tracking the pink fluffy cotton candy guy doing a snail slow circle around the arena. She missed most of the game because she was keeping a keen eye on Cotton Candy Man. Unfortunately he started near us & worked around the arena away from us. I had to walk half way around the arena to track down that large plank of pink fluffy ccotton candy. As other have noted, there was barely anyone in the arena. Place was dead. No energy. It was like the energy of one section of the rose garden. One very small section. Or possibly the energy of one of the bathrooms at the rose garden. I would have loved to move down to some better seats, but the Nazi ushers made sure that did not happen.

Cotton Candy: 4 dollars. Carmel corn: 5 dollars. Wetzel Pretzel: 5 dollars. The memories: Priceless. Family had a great time. I brought sleeping bags and pillows. Everyone slept on the drive home. Good times. Go Blazers!!

Help! Cool Experience at Away games. Last year I remember some fans in an away city emailing mike...

Pritchslap — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:11:22 -0000

Help! Cool Experience at Away games. Last year I remember some fans in an away city emailing mike barrett and MB pulling some strings to help them meet a few of the guys & get better tickets. I live in Southern Cal (San Diego) & don't get to go to any games. I'd be all over the fanfest type stuff if I lived in Portland. I want to take my 5 and 7 year old daughter to the Clippers Blazers pre season game tomorrow. I'm hoping they can get an autograph or pic with one of the blazers. Anyone remember who the previous poster emailed to get a few strings pulled?

Hoping for a "mini fan fest" for a few young girls that I'm trying to teach the religion of blazer basketball, down here among the unsaved LA Clanker souls.

Thanks, Andy

Anyone have a link to the original blazer theme song? I want to use it as my ringtone!

Pritchslap — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:44:51 -0000

Anyone have a link to the original blazer theme song? I want to use it as my ringtone!

BlazersEdge on Facebook - JOIN NOW PEOPLE!

Pritchslap — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:02:01 -0000

BlazersEdge on Facebook - JOIN NOW PEOPLE!

Blazers Edger's UNITE! Here is the official link to the BlazersEdge group on Facebook. You should join now...if you are a true blazer fan.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1017877916&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=8084237975

How can we get Danny Granger? I think he would be an incredible fit in P-Town. 32 points 5...

Pritchslap — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:29:46 -0000

How can we get Danny Granger?

I think he would be an incredible fit in P-Town. 32 points 5 assists, 4 boards tonight beating the Lakers. Avg 24.2, 5.5 rpg, 2.4 assists.

He signed a 5 year extension this year for somewhere between $60-64 million. ...so 12.8 mil/year. Do we have ANY shot at a trade to pick up Granger?

Solid person. Solid all star calliber talent at the 3. Travis+Martel+?

Help! Download entire Blazer schedule

Pritchslap — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:24:23 -0000

Help! Download entire Blazer schedule

Somebody help! I want to download the entire schedule & have it put in to my outlook calendar. (Instead of manually typing every game in to my calendar...ONE by ONE). Does anyone have a solution for this? When I go to the La L@kers website they have an easy one click download for outlook to plug the whole season in to your calendar: http://www.nba.com/lakers/schedule/index.html When I go to our website, from what I can see, we just have to type it in. Here is our website: http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule/index.html Any ideas? Dave-can you make a humbe suggestion to the good folks that manage the blazer's website? Thanks! Andy

UPDATE: The Blazers website just added a link, after I emailed them about it. Here it is: http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule/download_schedule.html It is not ready yet, but apparently will be soon!