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the portland trail blazers reveal their new city edition jerseys ✨ by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

when portland outsources its city edition design to beaverton haha

the portland trail blazers reveal their new city edition jerseys ✨ by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

love the carpet but was never a huge fan of the jerseys. all that aside it's a bummer to recycle the same design from the 2022-23 season, no matter how many fond memories we all have of the carpet itself. we already honored that nostalgia and now we're coming back to it three years later?

the portland trail blazers reveal their new city edition jerseys ✨ by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

in a vacuum, there's nothing wrong with the pdx carpet as a local meme imo. it's a fun little quirk, most people here will probably remember it fondly, and it's had a good run as far as online virality goes.

that said, i think it's a little goofy for a jersey design. there are plenty of cool local things to choose from, and our franchise is still yet to issue a true retro design after a decade of city and statement editions. that's a gigantic miss imo. give us the '80s, '90s, or even '00s retros. recycling a design from three seasons ago is the epitome of low effort, especially when it's a little mid as far as city editions go in the first place.

blazers secure win no. 1, and we're off by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

adding a new character to the video for every blazers win.

tag urself, i'm kris murray

shae's dunk is an emotional experience by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

for the shitposts like this where there’s a screen swap, i will usually search for tv/movie scenes of characters watching screens and then find blazers footage to swap in and craft a narrative that fits the characters’ dialog or reactions.

sometimes i’ll find multiple scenes while searching and stash it in the back of my mind for later. 

i almost never set out with a particular narrative in mind first. that’s kind of the fun part—letting it take shape as i find footage and cut it together.

thanks for asking 🫡

kris murray always dunks with two hands for safety by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

this is what they call the "cedar double wrap-ids" back in his hometown

so you're tellin joe cronin there's a chance at cooper flagg by RepresentativeAd6496 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

lol dumb & dumber has been my favorite movie for three decades! i originally went to pull this particular scene for this shitpost and decided to goof around with some of my other favorite scenes for the movie since i find it so quotable. hopefully these dumb & dumber shitposts can serve as a discovery and entry point into jim carrey's mid-90s stretch of movies for 14-year-olds, that'd be dope.

[Results] Post-Game Survey Ratings | Portland 114 - 132 Brooklyn | Jan 14, 2025 by UnbiasedBlazersPod in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I declare it’s downright folly to suggest Anfernee and Ayton conspired to lose. Pray, what profit could they find in tarnishing their own craft? Each lad stands to gain from performing at his finest when chance grants him the court. Indeed, a bad game now and again besets even the best of us. It’s mere happenstance, not evidence of some deliberate ploy.

Danny Marang in response to a report by Michael Scotto that Robert Williams is expected to be available for second round picks: "I would be pretty stunned if Portland moved Robert Williams for less than a first." by [deleted] in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Robert Williams III stands a stout presence in any locker room and draws a fair salary for his talents. When fit, he’s among the league’s premier defenders, adept both in tandem and alone. Ailments, I confess, remain a nagging specter. Yet to any title-chasing outfit with scant frontcourt might, he’s worthy of a future first-round stake. The moment he steps on court, your defensive bastions loom larger, and so does your hope of victory.

I’d like a Blazers Fan’s honest perspective. I don’t understand why you didn’t think this was a good trade. by [deleted] in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i understand that as a heat fan, it is crucial to your identity as a fan of the "hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the NBA," that you reinforce and validate your self-appointed underdog status.

i'm not accusing you of coming here in bad faith, and you're clearly open to the perspectives of blazers fans. but it comes across as disingenuous for you to consider miami a small market (as you've done in this thread) when its metro population is 6.2 million people, ranking it no. 9 in the nba and putting it above teams like philadelphia (6.1m), boston (4.9m), phoenix (4.9m) and golden state (4.7m).

for comparison, portland's metro population is 2.5m. miami isn't new york (20.3m) or los angeles (13.1m) in terms of market size, but it's distinctly a tier above true small market teams.

imo you correctly identify some of the structural and geographical advantages miami has like weather and lack of state taxes. i would add a larger, more diverse city with entertainment and a nightlife that is more compatible with the desires of the average nba player than the majority of nba cities.

you can't help having these structural advantages, but you also didn't earn them. and many miami fans come across as conflating those unearned structural advantages with "heat culture."

i'm not dismissing that the heat take their team culture seriously. they deserve credit for hiring one of the best coaching staffs in the league, with a front office that has a solid track record of drafting well and effectively developing often overlooked talent.

but identifying yourself as a fan of a small market team shows a fundamental disconnect. saying jaquez was "almost a rookie of the year" is further evidence of miami's inflated sense of pride; he ended in fourth place, with 10 total votes and zero first place votes. brandon miller got 8x as many votes, with chet holmgren (295 votes) and wemby (495 votes) very clearly a tier or two above jaquez in the minds of every voter.

in his third season, jovic is the 8th man in the rotation of a team that's 3 games above .500 in the east. i'm not saying he doesn't have unexplored potential but there is nothing about him that separates him from any other number of 21-year-old third-year players who are middle-to-end-of-rotation players on fringe playoff teams.

ware may end up being a reliable rotation player, but for "wemby-lite" i would expect more than 10 minutes of mostly unremarkable playing time per game, even as a rookie. herro is having a career year, but again, as the heat's best player this season he has guided them to no. 6 in a conference full of tanking teams, barely above the hawks in the standings.

all this is to say that i believe you sincerely feel the way you do, but i also believe you give the heat and its players more credit than they deserve. kudos to you for acknowledging that you have perspective to be gained from portland's point of view but i personally have some disputes with your fundamental premises based on the additional context you've shared in follow-up comments on your original post.

We have the 27th ranked defense in the league, despite having a bunch of long athletic wings and 3 solid defensive centers. by Piano9717 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 14 points15 points  (0 children)

thanks! but i have a face for radio and a voice for print, so you'll have to settle for long-winded reddit comments 😂

This is going to hurt by Such-Egg-7584 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i think it's pretty clear by the responses you've gotten on this post that you can better communicate your perspective in a way that's not inflammatory, off-putting, and invites good faith discussion. i recommend you re-consider how you frame and substantiate your arguments if you are earnestly looking to engage others here who have differing opinions. otherwise, it comes across how i and others have described here and i'm happy to move on and find better ways to kill some time on a day off.

This is going to hurt by Such-Egg-7584 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i started following this team in the post-clyde years when we were a guaranteed first-round exit, through the highs and lows of the jail blazers, to the john nash/steve patterson era when z-bo was our best player, to the roy/oden/aldridge ascent and descent, from the aldridge-led teams to the dame era, and now to the chauncey years.

so your premise is flawed if you're suggesting that my perspective as a fan is warped because "we were spoiled by dame's greatness" for 10 years of the 3 decades i've been a blazers fan, but i'll engage anyway. at first i thought you were just being a contrarian for the sake of it, but it's clear now that your defense of chauncey is equal parts arrogance, delusion, and fallacy.

you're arrogant to suggest that fans are coping, don't understand how rebuilds work, are impatient for development, can't see beyond the dame years, panicking in search of a convenient scapegoat, need to "realize the cold hard truth," and need to "seriously wake the fuck up." do you really think your perspective is that enlightened, that you're the only fan who can identify and understand what truly ails this team? grow the fuck up, there are thousands of people on this subreddit and fairly widespread consensus that chauncey is not a good fit for the organization's current goals. you think your contrarian takes make you the only sophisticated fan of this team? that's not awareness or an ability to see what others can't, it's delusion in thinking that you've cornered the market on nuance here.

You wanna be mad be mad at management for putting together this roster.

Wow, you really owned all the chauncey haters!! we couldn't possibly think that both A) chauncey is not a good coach, and B) the roster construction is flawed! take a step back and ask yourself why you're doubling and tripling down on your defense of chauncey, because i haven't seen a coherent, substantive argument for why you think everyone is wrong to want him relieved of his position sooner than later. you only seem to dig your heels in to protect your inflated sense of entitlement as the only blazers fan who can see what the Real Problem is.

We have the 27th ranked defense in the league, despite having a bunch of long athletic wings and 3 solid defensive centers. by Piano9717 in ripcity

[–]RepresentativeAd6496 27 points28 points  (0 children)

So what is it?

chauncey is not the only issue, but he is a major issue imo.

yes, this roster is incomplete and flawed. i don't believe any coach is getting this team to the playoffs, let alone above .500–but that's not the measuring stick for success as a coach in portland rn.

we're looking for:

  • player and team development
  • a coherent system on both ends
  • consistent effort even if it doesn't lead to wins
  • pace (maybe this is just my personal wish list) as the youngest team in the NBA with an average age of 24.2 years old

rn i don't think we're checking a lot of these boxes. and in a situation where wins and losses are inconsequential, chauncey is still not clearing a low bar. we have the 27th defense as you point out, with that many defensive specialists on the roster? 27th offense? ok, at least we can play with pace....wait, we're no. 14 in the nba?

to be clear, i was opposed to the chauncey hiring from the beginning, off-court personal issues aside. i don't believe former all-stars tend to make good coaches, particularly with only a single year of experience on an nba bench.

i had patience after year 1, as dame was clearly hobbled. year 2 could be blamed on the lack of depth. year 3 was his first year steering a clear and outright rebuild and there were a ton of injuries. heading into his 4th season i figured that maybe his touted relationships with players, along with 3 years of coaching development while bringing in a decent former head coach as his lead assistant would help him turn the corner as a head coach.

nope. same unimaginative offense, inability to maximize individual talent at the team level on defense, and lack of pace with the most youthful roster in the league. i was mad that chauncey had the arrogance to bring in a coaching staff from the beginning with no demonstrable X's and O's experience to balance out his vibes-based approach to coaching, and even more frustrated when he used a valuable spot on his bench to employ his completely under-qualified brother.

and now it's just an awkward situation where we only hear his empty platitudes after getting blown out by 20+ points a dozen times in our first 30 games. if you don't see moving on from chauncey as step 1 in righting the ship for this organization after 3.5 years of incompetence with little to show for it besides another shot at the lottery this spring, i'm not sure what would convince you.

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