Comments about ‘Team of the future: Young Blazers should be title contenders in a couple of years’

This Blazer fan appreciates the compliments coming from a rival town paper.

We are indeed stoked about Portland's future, but we also know that you don't win on paper, so we still have to show it on the court.

I hate the Jazz, but it's out of respect for how competitive those guys are day after day. I still can't believe how quickly they have recovered after Stockton and Malone left.

I am also looking forward to seeing some epic battles in the future, like we had back in the 90's. Heck, come to think of it, they have had a couple of those this week already! Previews for things to come???

Again, thanks for the article.

Most Basketball minds realize the West will be dominated by two teams in the 2010s. It won't be the Phoenix suns, the Spurs, or the Mavericks.

It will be the Utah Jazz, and the Portland Trailblazers.

GO BLAZERS !!
ODEN, ALDRIDGE, ROY WILL BE VERY DOMINATE FOR MANY YEARS!!
OUTLAW, SERGIO, WEBSTER WONT MISS A BEAT RIGHT BEHIND THE BIG THREE

Great article. The Jazz and Blazers are going to be two of the best teams in the NBA for years and years. We've had our rivalries in the past from the 80's and early 90's Drexler era to the Brian Grant vs. Karl Malone slugfest almost a decade ago.

If rounds 1 and 2 are any indication, epic is the right word for what round 3 of this great rivalry will be.

Maybe the Jazz can learn a lesson from the blazers.

Develop the young players now, during a period in which you don't honestly have a chance to win a championship.

Really, why are the jazz waiting, play the young plyers now, give them a positive atmoshpeher to play in, swearing and cutting players down has never cause any player to blossom.

Coach them, let them play, let them make mistakes, give them a chance to grow.

BLAZER FAN HERE
living in portland for almost 10 years, i have never been more proud of our trail-blazers, not even when we had Rashead,Sabonic,Pipen,Damon, etc

Jazz fan is gonna go postal if Portland keeps up its promising play only to have Paul Allen steal Deron Williams from their club.

Portland will have a ton of cap space the year both D Will and C Paul become free agents, and rumor has it Portland's GM is hot after one particular player.. a PG.

I would agree completely - if the Blazers played the Jazz 82 games a season.

They "weeded out the problems" indeed. Not just figuratively, but literally.

And we had a glimpse of what was to come last year..
Portland never tanked,they played their guts out,even drawing ire from some fans on they would play themselves out of a draft spot.
What did Brandon say about that ?

"We are here to win,we care more about that than a draft pick"
One more promising thing about next year?
Rudy Fernandez..oh my gawd does he have mad skillz.

Thank you for a good article !