A friend of ours who's part of a partnership on a couple of Blazer season tickets was telling us earlier tonight that the league has trashed the quality of the product that he pays to watch. In knocking down the number of Blazer home games from 41 to 33, eight games had to go, and look at the eight opponents who were cut:
Lakers
Dallas
San Antonio
Boston
Chicago
Knicks
Phoenix
Detroit
Those first six were all teams that our buddy wanted to see. The cuts mean that the four East Coast teams on the list won't be coming to Portland at all this year, and the western teams there will show up only once instead of twice.
Funny thing, though -- Blazer fans will get their full regular home game allotment of Minnesota, Sacramento, the Clippers, Golden State, and Utah. From the Y to the U to the C-K-Y. And they'll get two visits from Kevin Durant to remind them that they're cursed.
Maybe it would have been better for the Portland fans if this season had never happened. Between the crummy schedule and the sudden disintegration of the Blazer roster, the outlook is not rosy.
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Ah, well. When are the Globetrotters coming to town?
It is a little worst than that. The Blazers added a pre-season game with Utah on Monday 12/19! This is only a little more than a week since practice started. It is charged to season ticket holders as a full price replacement of one of the cancelled games. Instead of charging 33 home games, it is now 34 games.
I hate to quibble, but the Blazers play the Lakers at the Rose Garden on Jan 5, the Spurs in Portland on Feb 21 and the Mavericks in Portland on April 13 according to the schedule posted at cnnsi.com.
The cuts mean that the four East Coast teams on the list won't be coming to Portland at all this year, and the western teams there will show up only once instead of twice.
Yes, that's why I called it a "quibble." It just struck me as an odd complaint - every team is cutting out nine home games, but Portland should still get all the good games. I suspect every team's schedule (at least in the West) includes some of these disappointments. I understand that the Blazers and the NBA are on everybody's sh*t list right now, so every thing that happens appears to be a slight we need to bitch about.
It's certainly bad that the East Coast teams won't be in Portland (especially since some of them will be in Sacramento, and it seems odd to send them all this way and miss a stop).
The question not whether the Blazers should get all the good games, but rather, whether they lost more than their fair share of them. Six out of eight lost home games are against top tier play off teams with one or more all stars on the roster,( and the seventh is Steve Nash and the Suns). Just seems Stern's push to save Christmas for the NBA resulted in a pretty screwed up schedule for the players and the fans.
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Comments (10)
Ah, well. When are the Globetrotters coming to town?
Posted by Mojo | December 14, 2011 10:22 PM
It is a little worst than that. The Blazers added a pre-season game with Utah on Monday 12/19! This is only a little more than a week since practice started. It is charged to season ticket holders as a full price replacement of one of the cancelled games. Instead of charging 33 home games, it is now 34 games.
Posted by TomC | December 14, 2011 10:31 PM
Bleh-zers.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 14, 2011 10:34 PM
Hey, Paul has to pay for his new space ships.
Posted by Portland Native | December 15, 2011 6:08 AM
I hate to quibble, but the Blazers play the Lakers at the Rose Garden on Jan 5, the Spurs in Portland on Feb 21 and the Mavericks in Portland on April 13 according to the schedule posted at cnnsi.com.
Posted by John fairplay | December 15, 2011 7:41 AM
Did you read what I wrote?
The cuts mean that the four East Coast teams on the list won't be coming to Portland at all this year, and the western teams there will show up only once instead of twice.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 15, 2011 8:38 AM
Yes, that's why I called it a "quibble." It just struck me as an odd complaint - every team is cutting out nine home games, but Portland should still get all the good games. I suspect every team's schedule (at least in the West) includes some of these disappointments. I understand that the Blazers and the NBA are on everybody's sh*t list right now, so every thing that happens appears to be a slight we need to bitch about.
It's certainly bad that the East Coast teams won't be in Portland (especially since some of them will be in Sacramento, and it seems odd to send them all this way and miss a stop).
Posted by John Fairplay | December 15, 2011 9:32 AM
On the other hand, that particular schedule exchange puts the Blazers two or three games closer to a slot in the playoffs.
Posted by Roger | December 15, 2011 9:39 AM
It just struck me as an odd complaint
Funny, that's just the way I felt about your comment.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 15, 2011 9:53 AM
The question not whether the Blazers should get all the good games, but rather, whether they lost more than their fair share of them. Six out of eight lost home games are against top tier play off teams with one or more all stars on the roster,( and the seventh is Steve Nash and the Suns). Just seems Stern's push to save Christmas for the NBA resulted in a pretty screwed up schedule for the players and the fans.
Posted by Drewbob | December 15, 2011 10:49 AM