Man, I have been so bored with no basketball. Not seeing whos traded where? Who does good in new systems? Who I wish was blazers and who I wish wasn't. These things keep my mind entertained and I don't go and spend a bunch of money on other entertainment. I am so happy I will finally have a reason for cable :) And I am sure you all feel the same.

I like our new teammates and hope for a great season!!

Merry Christmas Blazer Nation!! And the rest of the nba as well!! :)

I know... I am disturbed as much as all of you that my favorite game and team is not playing soon. I actually finally have cable again and feel extremely short changed by the Lockout. I Just wanna say to the owners, I invested most of my childhood in cards that are worth hardly anything now a days. I lost money too, but I wouldn't stop them from playing because of it. Do it for the love of the Game!

Sorry for the rant, here are my three in order I thought of them.

1. Instead of a partial of the season we will have Oden for most of the season that is shorter. Think about that, we might have him take us further in the playoff seeds having our missing link. No pun intended.

2. Brandon Roy will have time to adjust his game to whatever he can produce as. He could redefine himself to a major factor since he does have amazing BBIQ.

3. The final thing I thought was Lamarcus Aldridge will not have to Tow the team for 82 games and will not feel like he runs out of gas as bad by the Playoffs. I for one feel that is a major plus. The games may be more intense but there is many less of them. Last time there was a lockout it was 50 games for the season. That 32 less games to wear a young team down.

So call it blindly optimistic but I grew up here and I have always loved this team and until recently with the Timbers we had no other great pro league. (Ok maybe the rose city rollers and the Lumberjacks)

I would like to see pictures of random people around town share pictures of people in NBA jerseys dumping there trash or working on there car. Or maybe waiting for a bus or something around town. I think that would be fun to put captions with them too. So show me what Brandon Roy's (normal guy or girl in a jersey) and the gang are doing during the lockout. Should be pretty entertaining. Later fellow B-edgers :)

He is on our D-league, has bulk, size and experience and has shown he can still ball a bit. Better then Chris Johnson the bean pole as you guys say and not Sean Marks. He would be a lot of decent talent at the end of the bench that could blossom to more and tall enough to play the whole front line if needed. Whats your thought everybody, somebody call Cho and getter done!!!

 I am the one fan it seems that is happy with most of the team. Our bench is a little thin right now but for a team that seems to be always banged up we should be thankful to not be lower on the food chain. I have said for years that we needed to build a run and gun team as the second unit. but maybe its time to flip that. It might actually be extremely effective. The last few games got me thinking more about our lineups speed. Lamarcus has always been a dangerous speedy guy. He has shown this recently along with posting on the block like we all wished he would do. I think if you make two squad system mainly depending on the opponent with ego set aside this could work.

A running offensive unit: Andre, Rudy, Wes, Marcus, Lamarcus

And a defensive/isolation Shot clock sucking unit:

Armon/Patty,Brandon/Wes,Nic,Dante/Lamarcus/Sean, Joel/Sean

You could Create the best of both worlds. If Roy is uncomfortable with Andre and he is banged up. Ease him in. Create a unit for half the game he can dominate. no Problem, it also gives him the rest he needs. 

Am I Far off base? I feel this should have been done a long time ago to get the most out of Rudy and Lamarcus.

Listen, I understand all the bad story lines are going on. But can we finally have the Vanilla Gorilla to shore up the middle atleast backing up Camby for like 5 min or so. I for one would think that is a positive. He says he is ready, we as fans are ready for someone to comeback and help. Joel was a badass in the paint and teams didn't get much by him. Joel would be a much needed relief even at a small amount of minutes from him Agreed blazers fans< He would sure up our defense. GIVE ME PRYZ!!! MAKE ATLEAST ONE BLAZER FAN HAPPY!!!

I have sat by and watch for months what you all are writing. And after watching and cheering for every game last season, the two guys I cringed everytime they took the floor was Channing Frye and Sergio Rodriguez. Channing for extreme lack of defense and long brick bombs. And Sergio for all the years of same performances showing his obvious jitters on the floor that made for turnovers, missed oppurtunities and lack of leadership a point guard needs. If you watched last few seasons you know what I am saying and I am glad the team seen that too no matter how nice they are.

Face it Portland, We Have A Great Roster Period!  When you have two guys at the end of  the bench that if they had the chance to play starting SG. They might have been Rookie of the Year. You have a great team.

All our rookies were phenominal for the spots they were put into last year. All four did what they where asked to do and more. (If you could just let Bayless show his dominance sometimes is all I ask for) AKA Nets game last year.

Steve Blake and Joel Pryzbilla were the backbone of the team. No one here gives them enough respect. Steve made sure the offense was effective while Joel locked down the defense. They both fit perfect.

What I wanna see is this young team learn each other so good that even though other teams know them, they can't stop them. This team is stacked with talent when Portland considers big shot Trout a bad player. Whether you have Milsap or pendergraph. We have a two starting lineup depth now. I would like to see our bench crushing the other bench so so bad the other teams have to wear out the starters.

So goodbye C.Frye, S.Rodriguez,M.Ruffin,S.Randolph, and yes R. Lafrentz

And Say hello to my new Leaner and Meaner Blazer lineup.

You want veterans to teach them, M. lucas, N. McMillan, B. Grant, J.Kersey Nuff Said.