Since I decided to establish myself as the ambassador for china fans, I am going to keep the hard working as long as you guys enjoy it. (This one is quick because I need to reset the tone, my introducing post just seems too negative, not my style)

First, bear in mind, blazers is not popular in China, I would say, not popular at all in China. When you open up the website of official nba in mandarin, take a deep breath because 1/2 space is taken by rockets, l*kers and Lebron (ye, not Cav, Lebron). The other 1/2 is equally distributed to other teams. Those with big names like Chris Paul, Melo, D-Wade would benefit more. Another example: the number of kobe’s fans vs. the number of roy’s fans is like 60:1 ( reality hurts). In our defense, we don’t have a home team to root for. No emotion of pride or desire of glory for hometown get involved. The procedure for us is watching a game, falling in love with the flashy superstar, watching more games of him then deciding to root for his team or the opponents. In blazers’ case, few games be seen + not flashy play style of roy+ no big names in the young roaster+ less percentage chance of being champion=no fans in china. (Don’t feel pissed by assuming L*kers’ overwhelming control. Equally numbered rockets fans are pain in the ass for l*kers’ fans. Rockets is our home team for God’s sake. So feel cheer up a little bit?)

Then the topic: china fans’ reaction to those big events during this season (PS: I don’t represent all china fans. I would say the point of mainstream)

1 Signing Andre: wait and see. But in a mood more like waiting for the opportunity to shout “haha, I told you it wont work”. Our announcers just say that roy is a playmaker who initiates the team’s offence, like T-mac type of player. In those teams’ system, the spot of PG is a decoration, who plays the supplementary role to the initiator. Like roy plays offense then he plays defense, roy wants to dribble then he catches and shoots, roy looses the dribble then he picks the ball up before out bounds(I add this one just for fun). (and to be clear, our announcers did not judge the deal by far) Some fans are supporting miller. But you can see most of them are not Andre’s fans but Oden’s who believe that miller is more willing to pass the ball to Oden than anyone else on the roaster( especially roy, we had a big fight on this one)

2 Roy’s all star voting: we are so excited earlier this season. We thought roy would be voted in by rockets fans because his brilliant performance in that series.(believe me, rockets’ fans are powerful in china) However, the result is……ugh. We sneaked in rockets’ fan base and found out that rockets’ fans split into two groups considering roy. The first group is desperately calling for him to join in. They admire him, praise him and call for Mo Lei’s head because of his inability to draft roy in 2006. When Brandon signed that extension, they are done and not have passion left to vote for him. The second group hates his guts for disappointing Yao Ming. Yao’s shot with 1.9 seconds left is his once in a lifetime glory which was taken away by Brandon in the most ridiculous way. Rockets is their home team and Yao is their hero. So no deal…(for comforting you, when Brandon shot them out again on December 6th this season, they made a pool “ which is our most hated player, Deron or roy? Deron 85.9% Roy 14.1%)

3 The whole Greg naked thing: you will get “hey, see the positive side, Oden is much more popular now, where are those ‘fans’ before”, “ it is America for god’s sake” (no offense, just you know, aware of different culture. if it’s inappropriate, tell me, I will edit). “just a youthful mistake. Everybody makes when they are young, not this type of mistake for sure) In the end, fans are ashamed of talking about it and want to forget it as soon as possible. No harm done.

4 The trade : we are sad, I mean, deeply sad. No pointing fingers, few rational analysis. As I said, we root for the team based on our crush on individual player and compliment of team’s attitude. So its like sending away family member in exchange of what, cash, glory... One of us wrote a beautiful and heartwrecking poem on the trade and it made everyone cry. I cannot translate a poem accurately, one sentence is like this “ they (steve and travis) worked their ass off to  accomplish the dream of playoff for beloved team and fans. Ironically, the trip to the dream land earned them a ticket out of beloved home”. And he is evil enough to attach a picture that roy, travis and steve huddled to celebrate the win over Grizzly thanks to travis’ last shot which initiated the 13 game winning streak. So you can imagine how broken our heart is. Besides sadness, we are pissed. In our way of thinking, roy as a leader should have a say in those issues. We are in shock and calling for KP’s head with regard to his ignorance of roy’s feeling.

5 The tragedy of injury : “god, please”, “are you kidding me”, “can I get hurt instead of them”. We are good fans, fans with heart. I would say we are great fans. Life would be much easier for us if we root for lakers(be proud of winning)or the rockets(having so many companion). When roy claimed that he possibly would end his season after that celtic game, our fan base was dead, deadly dead. We cannot find one to write the preview and recap as usual (I mentioned before. The sites are totally run by fans, no obligation involved.)

6 Playoff chance: we don’t care. We care about championship (I should say we refuse to lose. I don’t think china fans have the same definition or understanding like you regarding to championship)but we care about the players more. We want the players to stay healthy and have fun. Most of us do wish the team stays in the eight seed and gives headache to l*kers. But if you ask for faith in beating them, it is better I don’t tell you how much in us.

Ok, hope you like it. Have a nice day. Next chapter “ Nicknames of each blazers in china”. It would be fun, I promise.

I have been hanging around here for a long long time. I enjoy you guys talking, big time. Considering my poor English and the whole T-MAC all-star thing (most of you blame China fans and you actrually have a solid case), I hold my tongue. However, things are getting worse here about Andrew Miller. I cannot shut up any more.

I have been a fan of trailblazer more than two years( when CCTV 5 broadcasted the game against Lakers on 04/09/2008, they say so much good things about the team's stars and uprising future).Since then, I almost watched every game the team played(and more than once of each game). I am activity on most of china websets concerning the team. Here I want to speak up the china fans' version of Andre Miller( not all chinese fans, but what I learn and share with some). I do not expect you guys to agree, just take a look at it.

I will go toe-to-toe with some arguments about Andre Miller I read here earlier:

1 Andre did not earn the start spot because Nate was  looking for the most perfect combination, not better individual player. Like Andre said "if I were the coach, I also would not change the lineup which accomplished 54 wins.

2 Andre could not make Greg shine. Kobe made Shaq shine, not Dereck Fisher( I know you guys hate lakers, I dont hate them but I enjoy you beat them). Trailblazer will become dangerous once roy learn bow to connect with Greg. Greg said "Andre is the fresh air to him" because he got the ball from Andrew more often. I thank andre for that.  I still think there is trusting issue between greg and the other members. we need to fix it. Andre's biggest strengthes are initiating fast breaks and drawing fouls. Neither will benefit Greg in long term.

3 Andre really shot you guys out of win in some tight games. Not because his shot isn't falling. Andre had a very bad habit. Most of his "barely near the rim" shot ended up with long distant board which would  automatically translate into the opponents' fast break points.

4 I dislike him because of this one: his business attitude. The number of china funs is amazingly increased amoung 08/09 season. The announcers and the fans talk about the team's attitude all the time. We believe the young traiblazer is fighting for recognization, pride and honor. His business attitude just looks so uncomfortable to us.

5 Andre hurts the team's chemistry. Last season, the team huddled  in those crisis moments. At the final moment of the sixth game of the rockets series, our annoncers strongly appraised the unity of the team when roy initiated the huddle to comfort each other. Those touching moments can barely be seen this season. I blame it on Andrew because of his disinterests in those tiny but important things.

6 Andre hurts your star player's production. There is no coincidence that his best performance and roy's best performance  did not come together. Some of your judgements on this one is not fair to roy.  I will post another one on this issue later because my English and energy can only carry me this far. ( give you a tip: if I have to choose a leader for this team, I will choose Brandon in a heartbeat)

7Andre overruled your coach on court and disrepected him off the court. I really have hard time to accept it.  It is extremely inappropriate and unprofessional.  The young blazers are uprising on the foundation of discipline and unity. His behavior as a veteran is disgusting on this one.  That is the time i am fully convinced that he is the problem.

I guess I am officially a Andre-basher which I am not.  I believe Andre is a crafty veteran who can take a medium team to playoff. Without him, you guys are done already this season. But for china funs like me who expect roy and greg to take the team to the "c" world, he is not qualified. I welcome any comment, even the one bashing me.  I am just so excited that this is the first time that my voice be heard here.  I want to be the link between china funs and you guys. You are hilarious. By the way, I love the team because of roy at first ( hint: it is weird that everytime kobe played against him, kobe looked like a rookie). Now, I love everything about the team, period.( apparently not miller).