but yeah, it’s just an annoying culture. I demand they become as miserable and jaded as we were last season :)

....take a deep breath, and think of Sam Bowie.

There…..doesn’t that feel better?

See Cubs, Chicago

At least their team wasn’t built from the blood of Kevin McHale. Let them gloat, honestly what the hell has Portland had to cheer about in terms of the Blazers since the epic collapse in 2000?

I agree that BE has gotten kind of smug. People are already planning multiple parades when we haven’t even made the playoffs yet. At the same time, I think its the pain of all the losses to you guys and the Lakers that makes us so hopeful that our time is finally approaching. We realize how many bonehead moves our franchise has made in the past, and it makes us appreciate Kevin Pritchard’s moves more than we otherwise would.

Dave’s tone in that post isn’t what he was going for in my opinion. He was trying to tell Blazers Fans not to take these exciting times for granted. He says “we know the feeling…” I agree it came off sounding smug but I think that was an honest mistake on Dave’s part.

because the beaches are free. No one in Portland has to deal with shelling out 10 bucks per family member to sit on the sand. They get a sense of privilege that way even though none of them are old money. Then they think the world owes them basketball championships and free chai tea lattes. I say, CLOSE THE OREGON COAST!

After years of incompetence from Bob Whisitt and John Nash, Blazer fans have a reason for optimism and hope. This franchise has gone to the depths of hell with a team consisting of Randolph, Ratliff, Miles, and Telfair. Blowing draft pick after draft pick and the owner threatening to sell the team potentially leaving Portland. That makes any fan thirsting for a ray of hope. When the future begins to look bright, you start to remind yourself of where you came from. You see, the Blazer fans were like the Sac fans in the draft thread. Cursing, angry, and confused. We were on the otherside.

In addition, I also seem to remember a fanbase thinking dynasty after their team swept the defending champs and subsequent signing of a certain defensive player of the year. Confidence, arrogance, whatever you want to call it, is not unique to Blazer fans.

Seriously… you wouldn’t be cursing out management too?

Blazer fans have dealt with a lot of pain. We can definitely empathize with the pain of other teams, particularly ones that many of us used to like.

Dave was simply saying “look how far we’ve come and appreciate it” and the post itself was HILARIOUS!!!

The kings fans on the blog had no issue and replied back. Funny and cool guys. But if you feel the need to get a jump start on hating the blazers, that’s cool. I know many blazer fans hated the bulls because they were so good for so long.

Congrats on Rose by the way. At least your GM wasn’t like the Sacramento GM or New York.

They wanted Bayless, had the pick before Blazers and Bayless was sliding right down to their laps. KP convinced the Pacers to take him, and dealt around the Kings to pick up the guy they wanted. Sacramento got outfoxed (and let their fans down), and it reminded Dave of the 2006 draft were the Blazers ended up with Martell and JJ instead of Chris Paul…. Bad times :(

We showed up quick. Just being rich doesnt garentee sucsess – jailblazers, cuban, ect. you have to also be a little smarter then the rest. most millinoinares in america are new to there moner, first gen and all, and there is not alot of second gen kids making it big just on name and wallet alone. Now, KP isnt smart becouse of allens cash, allens cash is smart becouse of KP.

admittedly, when I am having a bad day, and the next guy is having a great day, I can get a little resentfull. I can even do this when I have worked hard and through blood sweat and tears, generate only average numbers, and the new guy setting next to me is happily chatting about the near record month he is having. He is not boasting in my failure(or whatever I percieve my efforts to be) , but simply happy and content with his own sucsess. How can I begrudge him that?

Dave was simply adding temper to the fan base at blazers edge, noting that some of our points of discontentment, would infact be relished on anotheer team. he wasnt trying to be a …..... He was simply reminding us of our roots, humility?

I have only seen one blazer fan be a jerk on this site, othwise most coment seam to be made with a friendly vibe.

most of you guys are complete a holes. How about that? What the heck did we ever do to you? We’re “smug”? Why, because we actually are in the midst of a franchise that was as crappy as possible with horrible character gangsters as players, then we get a GM with a head on his shoulders who knows how to take care of business? BTW, no one in P Town is bragging about KP drafting Oden. We know that pick fell in our laps. But maybe you guys should take a look back at the 06 draft and the genius pulled off that jump started a complete turnaround of a wretched mess of a franchise. You know, a lot of people think you guys are smug too. Wow, you got Jordan, congratulations. What have you done since then??? NOTHING. Good job last year too BTW, we know you play in a pretty rough conference. Duh.

Are you kidding? “It’s one thing to worship at the feet of your “shrewd” GM who won the lottery when Greg Oden comes out. ” How is Tyrus Thomas doing in the NBA?

The whole “In KP we trust” has been annoyingly smug. Especially, because a year ago it was Bulls fans spouting the line “In Pax we trust”. Hell, MJ was a genius for his 1st year or so when he found a way to unloaded a bunch of bad contracts. Knicks fans were in love with Isiah at first because he made a bunch of creative moves. It’s easy to look good as a GM with a young team that’s all potential. I respect what Kevin has done in terms of drafting pieces that fit together, but there’s a lot that can go wrong on the way to a championship. And most GMs don’t look nearly as pretty when the stakes are raised higher. It becomes a lot easier to talk yourself into stupid moves once you get closer to that championship.

title says it all.

Even though I probably account for 40% of them. I can’t resist a good ol’ “we’re better than you” fight.

We have all come off the ledge. We’re cool with the Thompson pick. We were just greatly disappointed to watch Augustin and Bayless disappear right before our eyes, painfully similar to watching Brandan Wright and Joakim Noah go 8-9 before our 10 pick last year.

We were cool with the Blazers Edge post. It’s not their fault that we were mad/stupid/mad/stupid/stupid/mad/funny/mad/stupid/drunk/funny/mad/high/stupid. The evening was like a Thanksgiving dinner when old Uncle Lou has one too many.

By and large, the Blazers fans were cool, too. There were only a couple that came over to our site and wanted to start something, and you can’t judge the fan base on a couple of knuckleheads. They are justifiably excited after some tough years. I know how that feels, and I know you guys do, too.

Congratulations again on snagging Rose. After the Kings I have always liked and rooted for the Bulls (actually was a Bulls fan before the Kings came to Sac – Sloan, Van Lier, Love, Walker…OK, I’m old). I hope you jack some guys back east this year.

I got a little agro up there and want to say I’m sorry to all the Bulls and Blazers Edge people on this thread! I just think that this thing got a little out of control, I certainly thought the original post was out of line, but it is a Bulls blog and you guys are entitled to whatever the heck you want to post here! I just don’t think anyone realizes how insane us Blazers Edge people are about posting and reading this stuff. We’re really involved fans, and take our team very seriously, it’s a civic pride, cultural, historical, family thing for us here in Portland. Anyway, while I do totally disagree with this original post, and feel it is within our rights to come here and defend ourselves, I also realize I took it too far in my anger and general attitude of how I said what I said. Here’s to a civil discussion in the future (and PS “your friendly bulls blogger”, KP has modeled this team from San Antonio regarding the culture, etc… He worked there and saw how a successful franchise is built. Please do correct me if I’m wrong (with a link to an article or something) but I’ve never read about him modeling us after the bulls.) Anyway, thanks for accepting my apology and please don’t hold it against the other Blazers Edge peeps!

bahahahahahahahahaha. The Pritchard worship over at BlazersEdge is getting to ridiculous levels.

Check this out:

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/6/28/560916/anatomy-of-a-pritchslap

While we consider your hatred for our team to be a very good sign, it still makes no sense that of all the other teams and fanbases in the league that Bulls fans would choose to hate on Blazer fans.
Blazer fans have endured more suffering that any basketball fans have gone through in the past ten years. Losing game 7 to the Lakers in the 2000 WCF, enduring horrific draft scenarios up until 2006, having our only professional franchise in town be labeled as Jailblazers and considered the laughing stock of the league.
Did we abandon our team when times were bad? No. Many of us stuck by and dreamed of the future when the Blazers would once again be an organization we could be proud of.
Are we not entitled to a little praise for our GM for making brilliant moves? (You have to admit the man is a basketball genius.) And how dare you call us smug after shoving the tired MJ vs SB crap every chance you get!
Congrats on getting Rose, we hope to see you guys in the Finals soon. Keep hating on us, it only makes us stronger.

despite my bretherens defense against this thread….

I agree. we as a whole are fairly cocky arrogant, and pretty down right annoying when it comes to our future….

as to our past…well..who’d know it better than a bunch of bulls fans as alot is shared knot in knot with portland…seperated by confrences and a few longitude and latitude lines….aren’t we all the same? fans of teams with a longing desire to return to greatness…..given the bulls’s greatness was a little longer lived than portlands…by about a half a decade…but still…the same desire to knock the reigning champs of the respective confrences off their blocks?

ah, on to the finals I say…...LET’S GO SETTLE THIS ON THE COURT AGAIN!!!!

;) keep up the good bloogin I say…..

until november… good luck with the rest of your offseason…

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