Motivation against the Blazers won't be a problem now with Old Man Oden.
A "contender" generally refers to a team that is "in contention for the championship". The Blazers cannot claim to be a contender yet.
Let's see how they play together before we make championship predictions.
Hey, not trying to rain on your parade, your team has enormous POTENTIAL, but right now that's all it is. Enjoy watching them develop.
Hey, I'd be thrilled if I was a Blazer fan. But frankly, teams need a little less talent too.
Every championship team I can think of had two or three All-Stars (94 Rockets and 03 Spurs were exceptions), a solid starting five, two or three guys on the bench that can play, and junk at the end of the bench. There are only so many minutes to go around. And in the playoffs, rotations get shorter.
It will be interesting to see what happens once it becomes apparent that Portland will have to let go of some of this talent. Will they keep the right players? Will they cut the right players? Cleveland once had Mark Price and Kevin Johnson as young players on their team together and decided to keep Price. That move worked out for Cleveland, but KJ had a very good career too. That could have easily backfired.
Good luck, Blazer fan! Hope management doesn't screw this up!
LaMarcus Aldridge will feed off of practicing and being in the constant court presence of a purely dominant big man like Oden. Oden's 1on1 D will only get better having to defend Aldridge in practice.
They will make each other way better than if they were on seperate teams.
Very scary.
You guys that are dissing the moves made by Seattle and the Blazers are kidding yourselves. The West just got even tougher.
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