Trade Machine

All right all there is a new and improved, revamped, easier to use ESPN Trade Machine, and this thing is addictive, seriously play with it for a bit, it's like NBA 2k8, except you can't override a trade. Good times!

Good little article by Jason Quick in the Oregonian here. My thoughts, as it is about finishing, is that in a year or two a lot of these games that the Blazers are in control of in the fourth will start becoming blowouts more often than nought. I mean of course teams can always come back, and usually do, unless the game is way too out of hand, but with the experience of these close games, both the wins and the losses, there is a huge learning curve with how to execute late in a game to ensure victory. And really does anyone think we would be this much better late in games than the last couple of years if this team hadn't suffered all of the close defeats and last minute heartbreaks over the last couple of years. Jack, Outlaw, Webster, Przybilla, as well as Roy and Aldridge to some extent, had to suffer a LOT of late game bungles over the past two previous seasons. Our team might be young, but they have already had a LOT of mistakes to learn from, always a good thing, as tough as it was to watch as a fan. Like Nate said in the article, it just goes to show the kind of growth and improvement these players have had to endure. Anyways I say watch all of this to change over the course of the next few years.


I guess this could bring up bad memories for some Blazers fans, but a funny side note about the Jermaine O'Neal trade on TrueHoop today.

Mike Barrett gives us an update on Roy on his blog. He also talks about the Indiana game on Saturday and talks about how many back to back games we have had against teams who have had a night off. Interesting stuff, apparently the last team we played who was coming off a back-to-back was Chicago on January 3rd, and the next time it happens for us will be on February 29th, thanks schedule gurus of the NBA, thanks a lot!

Great, great, great, great, great, great, great video here, candid interview of Brandon Roy by ESPN's LZ Granderson, once again it just goes to show you who we have with this guy, even if he wasn't our best player he would be our cornerstone.