Starting 5–Featuring Best. Video. Ever.
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TheBaron: Draft Lottery day! It should be a holiday in Portland. A truly sacred day for any Blazer fan.
29Slim: Oh the day. The day that breaks hearts and builds dynasties. That day… is today.
B: Waxing poetic a little early, don’t you think?
S: Big day.
B: I think that for the rest of my life I will probably always have an eye on the TV or an ear on the radio during the draft lottery, if only to pay homage to the results of yesteryear.
S: Funny how that one day will change it forever. I never cared about the draft lottery before, and I’d venture to say you didn’t either.
B: Tough to care after the Blazers’ history of drafting and lotterizing.
S: I can’t believe you just brought up 1984.
B: It’s okay to bring it up now, after last year. It shows confidence that the demons have been exorcised.
S: On the lotterizing note, 2006 was amazing to me. The one year the Blazers have the best chance at landing the #1 pick, there is no clear #1. It’s the year of Bargnani. The year of Bargnani!
B: If I were a year, and could be known as the Year of Bargnani, I’d be embarassed.
S: Then, Portland drops to 4! Talk about bad luck on top of bad luck!
B: I am convinced that the Blazers’ absolute turnaround of luck from ‘06 to ‘07 came as a direct result of Kevin Pritchard’s determination to make something from nothing. One city’s misery is another city’s jubilation.
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S: Can I do it now?
B: It is time, young grasshopper.
S:
B: It’s just… so beautiful.
S: Are you crying?
B: Define crying.
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B: Okay, shifting gears I suppose. If I think about this lottery any longer I’m going to start believing that Portland’s got a chance at #1 again.
S: .6%, baby!
B: So here’s something to wake you up!
S: Okay, 2 things. 1, you’re at a track meet where things like javelins, shot-puts and discusses (or is it disc-eye?) are flying all over the place and you wander into an “off-limits area?”
B: Please, this guy was a Marine! He’s been in places where things like bullets, grenades and tanks are flying all over the place. Ain’t no javelin gonna stop him!
S: Apparently. And 2, he got a picture.
B: Semper Fi.
S: So it appears.
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S: I suppose we should talk actual basketball, since the conference finals are all set.
B: Whatdya got?
S: I was all excited to have a good, fresh observation for you and the internets. As it turns out, if I observe something, everyone else does too.
B: Well throw it out there anyway.
S: Jannero Pargo was the reason the game was close, but was also the biggest reason NO didn’t get over the hump.
B: It was amazing to me that he repeatedly pounded the ball for 10 seconds before giving it up to his MPV-level teammate, Chris Paul. If Pargo’s going to take some shots, Chris Paul has to be the one to give the ball to him. When you have teammates like Paul and West, you can’t dominate the ball. You tell them where you are, tell them you’re feeling it, and leave it up to them to defer to you if it’s right.
S: So you made the brilliant observation too then.
B: Sorry.
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B: Jerry Stackhouse was on Cowherd this morning, and admitted that he hates the Spurs.
S: Yeah? Did he mention the flopping? The dirty play? The constant whining?
B: Sadly, just the whining. He said Tim Duncan’s the biggest whiner in the NBA. Cowherd then asked if there are any other teams he doesn’t like, and Stack said no one likes Kobe because he’s so arrogant. But they all still love to watch him play.
S: Wow. Hating on the Spurs and the Lakers in one segment? Radio gold!
B: Warmed my heart.
B: So enjoy the lottery tonight. Should be the last in a long, long time for the Blazers.
S: Cheers to that.