SB Nation User Blog: lyfefindsaway

Greatest Blazer Dunk

lyfefindsaway — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:28:14 -0000

did it involve the glyde

Id be intrested in reading what you people think is the greatest Blazer dunk that you can remember..Im sure it involves Clyde or Gerome..also have you noticed that when a big man gets posterized its usually because a guard was playing lousy perimeter defense or the offensive player just blew past his man..and caught the big fella out of postion ..I.E. john starks, david thompson or mj (freak athletes) ..guards generally dont go that strong to the hoop when those 7 footers are lying in ambush mode. its a good way to get on i.r.. I hate to say it but its probably going to happen to greg sooner or later..and it will be played all over you tube and sports center..I .hope he realizes that it wont be his fault

contest entry: my favorite memory

lyfefindsaway — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:40:36 -0000

I hate to beat a dead horse but here i go

My birthday is December 18th and ill always remember being in the house that clyde built and watching Brandon scorch the suns for 52 big ones,, but thats not my favorite blazer moment.. its (surprise surprise) the day we won the championship!!..but let me give it to you from my perspective

The day started out other wordly.. my friends and I decided to skip school (we attended year around school) and walk downtown to hang out at the carnival, because nothing is better in Portland than rose festival time.., it was the first time I had ever played hookie!! Every thing was going deviously as planned until we reached the Broadway bridge, it had became jammed and was stuck in the up position.. We were only 11 yrs old and didnt really know that we could back track and go accross the Steele so we waited it out..about 30 minutes into our wait, a sea of red black and white came pouring out of the Memorial Coliseum, every one was yelling and screaming and dancing.. A platinum blonde that was the spitting image of Olivia Newton John grabbed me by the face and planted a sloppy kiss right on my lips.(my first interracial kiss.. umm ok my first kiss period) and asked me why wasnt I happy. I asked her why should I be and she said that we had just won the world championship!!

I cant lie I knew of the blazers, because of the trading cards that used to come in loaves of wonder bread, and the coloring books that I got whenever my parents filled the tank at shell..I knew that Larry Steele was a thief.and that Lionel Hollins was a train of some sort..I had a hard time understanding the "two for Larue" thing

The bridge finally came down and we were escorted down town by a convoy of cars honking horns..all the way to the water front.. and once we arrived at the carnival it was a ghost town,, every one had started to vacate the fun center and they were driving down front avenue..honking their horns as well!!!

I never imagined that the Portland Trailblazers and the game of basketball could be so exciting and important to the whole city

Well when I got home word had already reached my mother that i didnt attend school and I was placed on a one week punishment...three hours later there was a tap on my window..it was my friends again they were playing hookie from their punishment to go to the after party being held at a club called Genevas!! so I crept out the window and headed down the street to Williams and Skidmore.The block was closed off and there was an off the hookparty going on with dancing and eating and music blaring! I hugged Maurice Lucas, and high fived Herm and Johhnyeven Big Bill was there and everyone started doing that twirling thing he did with his hands over his head when he was signaling for the motion offense "We Are The Champions" by Queen and "Got To Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye played at least 50 times that day and I still get chills when I hear either song on the radio

A few years later those same two friends and myself took Wilson High school to within one game of the state championship

(1984 we lost to corvallis by 3 in the first round but beat every other team by a 20 point margin in route to the conselation trophy....on the same floor in the same building where magic was born

Im not a fan

lyfefindsaway — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:19:09 -0000

I live in Dallas now,, you dont hear about the mavericks too much down here out of season because of the 8 major college and the nfl team taking the spot light and we arent even going to go into the high school foot ball, with the air conditioned luxury suites and press boxes... I worked in san antonio for a week... all I heard were complaints about manu playing in the olympics and how they were going to be in trouble in the western confernce finals.. the more I hear thier pompous bull crap , the more I realize how much i love my blazers... having a sweet team ,(the deepest in the history of the league is what is circulating in these parts by the way,, they do know about the blazers here because of lamarcus ) is icing on the cake..im not a fan im a blazer,,and ill be one if we go on this 12 year run or end up in the lottery again 12 times.. no matter where we end up or where I end up im a blazer just sayin

Why are you all so worried about bayless

lyfefindsaway — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:33:48 -0000

If you have an astute college educated gm that was and im pretty sure still a good basketball player, one who played in a top rated program, one who played on a national champion, one who learned the game from a hall of fame coach in Larry Brown,, ..one who then went to work for the spurs and learned how to build a champion from the internal and up close teachings of greg popavich,, one who has a laptop computer that has the software that his boss mr microsoft has loaded onto it.. one who does not make choices on the fly but is very studious and involves all his staff

why are we second guessing the man who took brandon roy and lamrcus aldridge over adam morrison and the head case kid in chicago...... sit back and relax.....

now lets get wnba back to portland..so i can get to see candace parker in person

Murphys law!!!!

lyfefindsaway — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:24:33 -0000

Im moving to virginia beach virginia on august 5th.. the good thing is ill be making $1000 a week,, the bad thing is i cant see the blazers,,maybe when they play the wizzards i guess..but my question is i have have to live out of motel rooms for a year..does anyone know if you cant get live stream to a lap top or even tape delayed...life is so cruel..first comcast ,,now a career.. whats next a championship parade that i cant attend!!

where do you get your info from?

lyfefindsaway — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:39:07 -0000

I asked this question once before..what sites should a blazer fanatic look at each morning with the hot cup of java near by.. its evident that we all look at Oregon live and most of us check real gm. I go to http://www.hoopsworld.com every now and then http://www.hoopsworld.com/ is pretty intresting at this time of year.... http://www.prosportsdaily.com/nba/nba.html has some intresting things to say if you truly love the game and blazer content is not hard to find all blazer fans owe it to themselves to peruse this site http://www.clubblazers.com/ and insider news is pretty frequent here http://www.ripcityforever.com/ can anyone else add to my pleasure it would be greatly appreciated thanks

Now i am aware that this is a subject that has been addressed but i need to just put my 2 cents in..I posted that "baddest man on the planet " post on purpose.. It was a one man protest to say that blazer fans come in all colors, sizes, and educational back grounds. I am sure that there are blazer fans who cant even read or write (my grand father was one god rest his soul and im not ashamed to admit it) what makes you think that because a person dosent express themselves in an eloquent and formal way that their opinions are not worthy of consideration.. what you are doing is making people who are timid and meek scared to say any thing, and in my opinion that dilutes this site, I would never stoop so low as to assassinate the character of those offenders and say something like "you probably have the personality of a door knob" I would never do that, I wanted to go and look at the collection of posts of the edgers who are so preocupied and see what meaningful contributions do they make to this site.. but unfortunately I dont own any hip boots..

thanks for letting me vent,, I apologize to Dave and Ben..

oh yea I think I need to say my obligatory "SHO NUFF"

who is the baddest man on the planet

lyfefindsaway — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:40:43 -0000

How do you qualify as being the " best" player in the world...needless to say he will never play for the trail blazers under this regime... its not culterish .. this bad man needs to be a selfish scoring me first player.. his attitude needs to say .." i dare you to try and guard me.. kobe, labron, kevin, dwayne, paul, this player needs to make the average man want to bypass wendys, and mcdonald for a week to go and see him when he comes to town this player needs to make the nba schedule games because of his presence (one vote for greg) , he needs to make the game seem as if the average guy on the assembly line or in a suit in an office feel like " I can do that" when in reality by the time you got down the floor the play would have been over.... he needs to be the first player in the gym and the last one out..just to set an example.. he needs to be fan friendly, have marketable skills and be a supreme athlete (one vote for brandon) he needs to have an extremly high basket ball I Q he' knows what he is supposed to do and what the other four players are doing on every play in the book.. He needs to be an outstanding defensive player.. and above all he needs big hands...for real .. you need big hands

This off week i was bombarded with l*aker and celtic rhetoric, even given an opportunity to watch rasheed and scottie dissapear again ... no thanks.. ...a lot of ex blazers have played in some meaningful celtic or laker games..thats what held me..watching the ex blazers compete

have you noticed how many high lite clips involve the blazers?..out side of bill walton and clyde drexler all our other clips are of us getting embarrased trounced or posteriized

and how many nba best and personal records have come at our expense

we are very deserving of what our future is going to be we deserve a break ..we deserve a stallion in this one horse town...we want the best, and we have it, at least have have a team that you have to respect. every body in the league knows who we are and cant say any thing bad about us..how can you argue the fact that greg, rudy, brandon and lamarcus, have chances be the best four players in the world at their postions in the next 5 years... but we fans can turn real quick .. they all but hung greg pop on a cross in spursville while he was coach and gm.. remember that once upon a time his career was in jeapordy, funny how a super star can make you the man. riely, popavich, jackson borwn (larry not hubie) rivers,scott...and next year mc millian. every one is hyped on greg and rudy... I bet brandon roy comes back and has a blazer record setting year. dont over look this man and he is seeing that we are. its not rudys team or gregs..its brandons .. brandon roy.. NBA Allstar

Most blaze up with mr Noah

lyfefindsaway — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:39:44 -0000

I know im going to get "torched" on this one but the nba dosent care about its players smoking mary jane!! they only address it because of the public outrage!!! we know its illegal and ill moral , we know that it will be legal and probably still ilmoral one day, we "know "that at least 70% percent of the league blazes up.. and id venture to say that the only blazer i would bet my life on not smoking pot would be travis,,,yes even brandon and lamarcus!! dont be mad or upset the truth hurts...I think chris bosch gets lubed before he does after game interviews..the players are given advance notice of drug test except for rookies who get them randomly ,, ..The Players union protested when mr Canzono made the pact with damon..because they didnt want their superstars to have to stand up to that ... they were scared that mj and barkley would have to figure out a "reason" why they couldnt do the same...didnt they find over a pound of bud in Rpbert Parrish's trunk...he did not do one day in jail!!!!,,, ...and oh yes greg has seen a few rolling papers in his time i bet lol it really dosent matter just leave it all on the floor I guess

I wrote this to take some of the pressure off that "lets go L*ker post

Do you get the feelin

lyfefindsaway — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:12:16 -0000

that we are really watching some special blazer history in progress..must have felt this way at woodstock..i mean the drexler teams just basiclly came out of the wood work to dominate the league..this time we have front row seats (most of us..thanks comcast) the internet, and a history of horrible teams and characters that we hadnt had before...the rise to the top is a heck of alot more intriguing this time around.....Am I the only one who cringes every time brandon goes hard to the basket..i didnt do it when twardzick did it....We should have a Paul Alleen day in portland..the man is responsible for our heartbeats..... I have just one bad thing to say about mr allen and thats FIRE...he should have kept them..it was a vulcan move I bet.... I know its his money but this is a hot bed for womens basketball..It would be a class act if he brought back wnba and did it right... put a championchip caliber team out there and you have southwest washington and all of oregons female and children population in the palms of your hands... he loses more than what it would cost to run the team in vegas on a week end..I know its his money but im just saying
Im armchair quarter backing because i probably wouldnt attend too many games if any... but it would be the classy and right thing to do

MICE OR MEN

lyfefindsaway — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:10:48 -0000

coming off that road trip you have to wonder how tired is the youngest team in the league..On one hand you figure that young legs spring eternal..but on the other it's like ..."dam its a long season and i got tickets to Barbados over the break.. i pray that not one of our blazers think this way ,,,now is the time to see how competitive these guys are going to be the rest of the way...2 game losing streak..were dead tired and get to sleep in our own beds for two weeks...although we play tough competition...we know that if we produce ,,brandon is going to orleans representing the wild wild west...he's going either way but our play dictates.what uniform hell don....its up to us,,,,are we mice or men