Re: [外電] Canzano: Nicolas Batum is doing Trail Blazers a favo

看板BLAZERS (波特蘭拓荒者)作者poning (快來打我臉)時間13年前 (2012/07/09 11:13)推噓4(4推 0噓 0→)

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恕刪，幫排版。這篇文章大意是說Batum只是幫拓荒者球迷說出他們想跟FO講的話 -譬如說為何FA不喜歡拓荒者-然後希望高層可以聽進去。所以他下的標題是「不管球迷喜不喜歡 Batum正在幫拓荒者一個忙」 http://tinyurl.com/7qllehn Canzano: Nicolas Batum is doing Trail Blazers a favor, whether or not fans like it So let me get this straight: Restricted free agent Nicolas Batum is being brutally honest with us all. He would like to play alongside a talented point guard. He's been frustrated by his role with the Trail Blazers, and wants to do more than stand in the corner, shooting threes. He dreams about playing on a team run by a creative, experienced and offensive-minded head coach. And we're all upset with him? For telling the truth? Feels like we've got this Batum thing all wrong. Batum's agent, Bouna Ndiaye, went public with the news that Batum hasn't been thrilled about the way things have gone the past few years in Portland. I believe I can speak for the good people of Portland when I say: Ain't it the truth, bub. Missing the playoffs is a drag. Watching a dream disintegrate is a bummer. Watching the Blazers run around, defensive about their flaws, ignorant to the truth, busy repeating the same stubborn mistakes, is a tired routine. A talented point guard? An experienced, creative coach? Batum playing loose and free in transition? Where do we sign up? And why does that have to exist in Minnesota and not Portland? Batum just requested the characteristics we all plainly wish the Blazers would adopt. This organization has been as much fun as a paper cut on your eyeball in the past few years. It's become progressively more painful, too. And really, what we're talking about isn't Batum unfairly slamming Portland, but a pretty well-grounded free agent telling owner Paul Allen and GM Neil Olshey that if you want players with options to pick Portland you'd better get on with making the Blazers locker room more fun than a bus stop. Batum's agent has laid out the options for Portland. He'd like the Blazers to help usher Batum's career to Minnesota, via a sign and trade, where he can join coach Rick Adelman, point guard Ricky Rubio and All-Star Kevin Love. Either that, or he wants the Blazers to not match the Timberwolves' four-year, $45 million offer. Or if those two don't happen, Ndiaye said his client might only play one more season in Portland and leave as an unrestricted free agent. The Blazers, meanwhile, insist they'll match any offer sheet. Definitely some bluffing going on here. But, Batum feels like a guy telling the truth about the Blazers, doesn't he? Batum would like it if Blazers fans didn't take any of this rejection personally. Can't help him there. But I can ask that we all take a step back and wonder if maybe the right course of action here isn't to get angry, punish Batum and disparage the guy for being disloyal to the team that drafted him, but to empathize with him, listen to him, and hope Portland's front office gets Batum's message loud and clear. Free agents with options do not want to come to Portland. We've known this for some time. Batum is only the latest reminder. The free-agent snub been mostly blamed on the weather, small market-size and lack of diversity in this region. Really, it's none of those things. Mrs. Turkoglu was only the messenger, people. Players want to make money, get minutes, have fun, and feel like they can win a championship. If you can guarantee those things to a free agent, you could set up an NBA franchise at the North Pole, rename the city "Misery" and you'd have small forwards crowing, "I'm going to take my talents to Misery." Portland hasn't been a fun place to be a fan in all but about two of the past nine years. I can't imagine that the players were having a blast with seven lottery trips, thinking, "You know, I could stay here forever if they'd have me." Allen is a multi-billionaire surrounded by advisers and managers who tell him what he wants to hear. Outside of Allen's sister, Jody Patton, I'm not sure if there's anyone around Allen capable of truly being uncomfortably honest. As much as Batum's criticism feels personal to fans, to Allen, who believed so deeply in Batum, it must especially burn. To Olshey, who is new here, it must be confusing. Batum is saying that he would rather join a franchise that plays its games in an igloo and is a perennial loser than stay in Portland another minute. He's saying he wants an experienced coach, who will open up the offense and utilize the creative talents of players. He's saying that playing alongside a talented point guard would be a rush. And what the Blazers owner needs to do right now is listen to Batum. Then, have his GM go make those things happen in Portland. The way I see it, Batum just did us all a favor. -- John Canzano -- 『也許你想從我身上尋求許多東西。可是我卻一點也沒有感覺自己有什麼被需求。』 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 211.22.7.197