Comments on: Woj: Matthews signs 5-year, $34M offer sheet with Blazers http://ripcityproject.com/2010/07/10/woj-matthews-signs-5-year-34m-offer-sheet-with-blazers/ A Portland Trailblazers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Lance http://ripcityproject.com/2010/07/10/woj-matthews-signs-5-year-34m-offer-sheet-with-blazers/comment-page-1/#comment-4403 Lance Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:48:16 +0000 http://ripcityproject.com/?p=4855#comment-4403 The truth is what it is. How you receive it is up to you. The fact of the matter is we have been eliminated twice in a row in the first round and very much out played in both series's. It isn't like we are one play away from being a championship team. Tell me what we have done to take that next step to pass those 4 other teams a head of us (and not just the Lakers). The we have to find a way to beat the elite in the East if we can get that far. I know there is till time to make moves this off season, but until (if) those moves are made to add another true talent the glass is half empty. If it makes you feel better, we will call the glass half full. Which is all psychosomatic because the quantity in the glass is the same either way you wish to describe it and nobody has ever proven one description leads to better results than the other. It is just a feel good way of doing so. The truth is what it is. How you receive it is up to you. The fact of the matter is we have been eliminated twice in a row in the first round and very much out played in both series’s. It isn’t like we are one play away from being a championship team. Tell me what we have done to take that next step to pass those 4 other teams a head of us (and not just the Lakers). The we have to find a way to beat the elite in the East if we can get that far.

I know there is till time to make moves this off season, but until (if) those moves are made to add another true talent the glass is half empty. If it makes you feel better, we will call the glass half full. Which is all psychosomatic because the quantity in the glass is the same either way you wish to describe it and nobody has ever proven one description leads to better results than the other. It is just a feel good way of doing so.

]]> By: natsthecat http://ripcityproject.com/2010/07/10/woj-matthews-signs-5-year-34m-offer-sheet-with-blazers/comment-page-1/#comment-4401 natsthecat Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:29:01 +0000 http://ripcityproject.com/?p=4855#comment-4401 very glass is half empty sentiments! very glass is half empty sentiments!

]]> By: Lance http://ripcityproject.com/2010/07/10/woj-matthews-signs-5-year-34m-offer-sheet-with-blazers/comment-page-1/#comment-4399 Lance Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:35:44 +0000 http://ripcityproject.com/?p=4855#comment-4399 I guess since we missed out on the top 4 perimeter players in Miller, Redick, Morrow, and Korver a 5th option type in Matthews fits right in this situation. If it isn't sad enough we are going after 5th option players, it is most likely that we don't even get him since Utah has lost 2 players already and has the cap to re-sign him. Total disaster of an off season for Portland no matter how you slice it. We will still be good, but IF everything goes right we will be challenging for a top 4 seed...and that is a big IF with our history. A championship is a pipe dream. I guess since we missed out on the top 4 perimeter players in Miller, Redick, Morrow, and Korver a 5th option type in Matthews fits right in this situation. If it isn’t sad enough we are going after 5th option players, it is most likely that we don’t even get him since Utah has lost 2 players already and has the cap to re-sign him.

Total disaster of an off season for Portland no matter how you slice it. We will still be good, but IF everything goes right we will be challenging for a top 4 seed…and that is a big IF with our history. A championship is a pipe dream.

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