If you are a Blazer believer who is tired of watching games alone in the heart of Laker country and you want to get dressed in the ol' black and red to root the boys on in a MUST WIN.  Join me tomorrow night at Dillons on Hollywood and Vine at 730.  

Dillons is like an irish hooters, but they have 3 dollar beers and plenty of TVS.  Now LETS GET IT!!!

(I'll be the one going crazy)

The only way to move forward from the current Frail Blazers era is by changing the culture of injury that haunts Rip City.  I believe the best solution is to try something brand new that happens to be yet very very old.  

Yoga.

I bet if he Blazers would have a mandatory 1:30 yoga session even once a week.  Injuries would go down.  

Significantly. 

Not to mention mental health.  Concentration.  Visualization.  Ask any sports psychologist, the elite athletes biggest muscle is their brain.

The jokes on us now.  We are synonmous with injury.  While they laugh we blame.  This is a vicious circle.

Start the yoga program and they might laugh too.  We would ignore the laughs and wait for the benefits.  Then see who laughs last.

If we get a great yoga teacher there is literally no downside.  No harm that can come of this. 

Its simple streaches held with breathing.   

And would do much to relieve the stress and pressure that these guy are under night after night under the lights.

I know that some players do some yoga for some streaching but I'm talking about making this front and center. Part of a paradigm shift overall team philosophy about health.  Its preventive medicine.  Its progressive thinking.    Its the type of thing that only city like Portland could pull off.  

And yes, there a business advantages that go along with the spiritual.

One can see Blazer yoga mats for sale at the Rose Garden. BLAZE incense!  Couldn't hurt our popularity in emerging Basketball markets of the East.  The symbol is basically the ying-yang anyways!

You guys, I'm super serial.  

Its a movement.  #blazeryoga on twitter.   

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NEP4life

Sometimes, when things are bad, it helps to think of the worse case scenarios.  This is why, when Greg Oden got hurt the first time, I read "The Road" and felt a lot better!  Personally, I think this kind of adversary is the fire that will forge the team into a stronger, sharper steel.  We should count our blessing and thank this team for working so hard, cause hey, it could be worse.  A lot worse!

the terrible, terrible music that the PA played at OKC.  ugh.  are you kidding me?  stop yelling at the crowd to clap your hands, my bro.   and 'we will rock you, the cd skipping version' over the entire 20 seconds of a blazer offensive set with 5 minutes left?  really?  this is allowed?  i was distracted.  i was pushing napkins wide right on the way to the garbage pail.  i missed the toliet with my nature calls.  i missed the pillow with my head. i mean,  its like psychological audio warfare. like what the feds did at waco.  and then on the other side,  oklahoma city needs to be prodded into clapping?  they would love to clap but they just don't when?

could we have played better ?  no.  probably not.  not with the distractingly horrible DJing of the THUNDERDOME.  

though earl watson and nick collison would make a good master blaster.

these are just my observations.  just my thoughts man...

i was reading this article by the Toronto Star writer Dave Feschuk and I had a flashback to the bad ol' days of Steve Patterson.  Man, remember when we had all these needs?  And now our biggist need is more time in the game to play all our guys.  I mean, how are we gonna find playing time with all these guys?  KP is an artist...nee...a master gardener.   This current blazers is his masterwork,  a garden of basketball. . 100 % organic.  The victories taste sweeter then the ones during the Trader Bob era because we've watched them grow.  They taste earned.  Good for you too.  Low in fiber. No saturated fat now that Z-bo's gone.

Read the article here:

http://www.thestar.com/article/549993

It's pretty hilarious for its bitter, bitter tone (member that?) and then the comments that just kinda melt into collective head banging over the drafting of Andre (wet penne) Bargnani OVER Barak ORoyma and LaSmoothus AllRight

Hey don't be mad canada.  Shhhh.  Why you actin' like that?  All crazy.  You know we love you.  Shhhhhhh,  Yeah Naismith naismith whatever.  Shhhhhh.

A quote I got from Truehoop:

Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: "If coach Gregg Popovich has his way -- and he almost always does -- Sunday's yoga session won't be the last of the preseason for the Spurs. 'Concentrating on flexibility, relaxation, lowering of anxiety -- that sort of concept is what we're looking at,' Popovich said. 'It's something new for us this year. We're going to do it for a while and see what we think.' Though some Spurs players -- most notably resident wise guy Matt Bonner -- cracked jokes about the team's new new-age bent, many players gave Sunday's session rave reviews."

Enough with the pilates b.s.: lets start getting our prana strong and blazing a champion-trail! 

Manifest the rings this year! 

Visualize it blazer-maniacs.  We create our reality.  Everybody knows it.  Lets picture the O'Brian trophy being hosted in the living room of Portland. 

Picture the Lackers going down in flames.

Picture the Celtics yelling at each other!

Hold the image in your mind and it will come to be! 

Go blazers!

Namaste!

The practice of yoga is not only an ancient and sacred art of realizing the truth about yourself; its also a great workout, increases flexibility and allows you to relax, unwind and de-compress yourself.  Which is something that all of us need, not only the ones shooting free throws in front of 20,000 people.

NFL teams are getting are up on it:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_T957B8rE7wEcuBz4MnoOOS2gnw

I propose a campaign to get the Blazers to hire a yoga teacher to work with the team full time.  On breathing, meditation and asanas. 

There's no downside.  Decrease injury, increase peace.  More victory.

What do you all think?  Who do you think would do it?  Channing Frye probably is already about it.  

KP?  Calling all visionaries.

Is it possible to have 3 rookie of the year Candidates on one team?  

No.  I guess not.  That would be crazy.  Unheard of. Out of the question.

Oh wait.  Unless that team is the 08-09 Portland TRAIL BLAZERS!

Fellas, (and lady fellas)  we have ourselves a conundrum. Lets bang on it.

Granted the ROY usually goes to a talented rookie on a weaker team where he can put up a 100 shots a game, and that's not gonna happen on this loaded weapon 1 line-up that we currently have.

BUT STILL.  Its fun to talk about and get excited for.

SO:

Who do you think has the best chance of being rookie of the year (on the Blazers).

Guys, I'm sayin', it might happen.  I mean....it really might happen.  I think we may need to adjust our time table a little for the men in black to attack the post-season.  I think it could happen this year!! Sure, we'll almost surely get eliminated  instantly, but our young squad could gain priceless playoff experience to prepare for a deeper surge next year, and the NBA finals the year after!   So what do you say, what are the odds?

Was flushed by the newest Blazer, none other then Mr. Fredrick Jones.  Back in high school, I travelled with my freshman team to West Linn for a pre-season mini-tourny.  Freddy was, at that time, a senior and the best player in the state.  Everybody was watching when he leaped and executed an off-the-back-of-the-iron-rebound-into-a-windmill-monster-jam that brought the house down.  Spectacular.  

I'm just saying, I have a good feeling about him being back in Oregon.  A real good feeling.

Two things:  what was the best dunk you've ever seen live?
and
did anyone see O.J. Mayo yesterday?  
he's the real deal.

is what I think Sergio's nick name should be.

Credit to my buddy Aaron.

And repect to the Hedge for his list.

Portland is a coffee town.  Portland is a basketball town.  It makes sense.

I like Espresso.  But he's spanish, and his nickname should refect this.

AND/OR

We need to start calling every assist "Tapas"  

so we can yell:

MAS TAPAS!

and casually observe:

"Sergio's really servin' up the tapas tonight."

and your buddy can respond:

"me gusta."