The Rudygasm
Was it only two seasons ago that Joel Przybilla re-signed with the
Blazers? Wow, time does fly. Watching the media’s reaction
to the arrival of Rudy Fernandez reminds me a lot of their reaction to
the Przybilla signing in 2006. You’ll recall the Blazers put on a
big show down
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a ride in a jet ski. The press hated it. I mean they
loathed every second of it. The guys on The Fan along with Canzano
just went on and on about how much it sucked to be dragged down to this
event and how the whole thing seemed cheap and how it was a new low for
the Blazers. How the organization just didn’t get it.
That afternoon was a sign to me that the media was behind the curve on what the Blazers were trying to do. They were trying to reconnect with Portland. They were trying to shed the Jail Blazer image. They were going to rebuild the franchise around solid guys who could play. You’ll recall that was the same summer Canzano and the two guys from the Uptight and The Monkey afternoon show all ripped the Blazers for passing on Adam Morrison and getting Aldridge and Roy instead. The summer of 2006 was a major turning point for the Blazers, but the media missed it. They didn’t catch up completely until that spring, when Roy and Aldridge had asserted themselves as leaders.
I still remember the day Steve Patterson was fired last March. Morrison and his Charlotte Bobcats were in town that day. The Fan and Canzano both went on and on about the end of an era and how the Blazers got it right with Roy and Aldridge. Morrison’s name wasn’t uttered once. How quickly they had forgotten.
Why do I bring all of this up? Because the media is behind the curve yet again on the Blazers. The burn-out is starting to set in on this group. That stunt over the weekend where the Blazers publicized Fernandez’s flight information was just too much.
Sidebar: I guess there’s something in the CBA which prevented Paul Allen from flying Fernandez in on a private jet? Was there a reason they made him fly commercial then made him run a media gauntlet? Dragging him off a plane from the East Coast then into a press conference less than two hours later is plain cruel. End Sidebar.
Expectations on this team have been blown way out of proportion. As a commenter on Brother Jaynes’ blog noted, there are some people in this town who need an intervention. I have a feeling that in six months we’re going to be looking back on this period and wondering what in the heck we were thinking.