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Let us hope Brandon R O Y doesn't follow in his foot steps; When I hear the name 'Damon Stoudamire' I don't think of phrases like, 'Good decision maker', 'Quality passer/defender' or 'Smarter then my breakfast toast'. Thinking about 'Mighty Mouse' evokes images of weak defensive play a shoot, shoot and maybe pass PG and most prevalent 3 legendary arrests for pot. The hit list includes in chronological order; 1)An empty home owned by Stoudamire on the west-side of Pdx is searched by Police after a house alarm is repeatedly set off. The search reveals a gang of weed, which Damon's father PSU legend Willie Stoudamire takes the fall for. 2) After a game against the Sonics Sheed and
Stoudamire roll back to Pdx in Stoudamire's yellow H2. You and I may get away with this one because we aren't rolling a truck that screams, 'Pull me over' but the Blazers caught Blazing. Pulled over for speeding cops find residue on the floor boards and a Bob Marley tin filled with weed. 3) Completing his degree from UA Stoudamire tries to leave town and attempts to board an airplane in Tucson. Maybe it was the summer course work or bong rips but D-Stod straight up gives airport security a ball of tin foil filled with gas after setting off the metal detector. Tinfoil?! I forgot this is supposed to be about Brandon, who got screwed on the ROY vote. However he is not the first Blazer rookie to be put over a barrel by a Raptor. As a Huskie Roy had it coming..
Brandon Roy is as Pacific Northwest as they come, that's why I ordered this tee right after I heard he won ROY. The former Pac-10 player of the year got robbed by not being named unanimously.. Brandon isn't the first Blazer freshman to be robbed by a Toronto Raptor; for the 95-96 season
Arvydas Sabonis finally decided to come play for the home squad years after a Hall of Famer and a sick, sick, sick, sick, sick and sick cast had been broken up. Apparently Sabonis was not interested in making the Blazers a dy-nasty from the mid 80s til probably the early 90s. Fortunately he did eventually cross the pond for the 95-96 season. Sabas starting for a playoff team averaged 18 and 8 lost the ROY to a player from the Toronto Raptors, at the time an NBA doormat franchise. Can anyone name that player and his drug of choice? WARRIORS ALL THE WAY!!!!!
If he were as clutch as Brandon.. On February the Tenth of 2004 Seattle Seachicken WR Jordan Kent played a monster game against a monster team the Pac 10 juggernaut University of Washington Huskies. Kent posted 19 points and 16 boards but was hardly appreciated by the UO student section, The Pit Crew by the end of the game. With his father's team up by 3 with 41 seconds to play Kent was fouled by Dawg Tre Simons. Only needing to hit 1 free throw to make it a two possession game Kent missed both and Will Conroy scored his seventh consecutive point for the Huskies to send the game into OT where e
veryone knew the Ducks would lose it. It's worth mentioning Brandon R O Y missed a 3 pointer as time expired in regulation that would have won the game for UW, another really good reason to like the R O Y. The Ducks would go on to fall to UW 95-88 and split the home stand against the Washington schools; but the victory against the Cougars was beyond hollow. Kent played at Mac with a lot of energy and respect, the guy is a class act that could not hit a damn free throw. I am happy that he was drafted by the home-squad here in Seattle, and am looking forward to him giving me a good reason to buy his jersey. There, I got rid of my beef with 3 men that I wish were as individually smart (Stoudamire), classy (Robinson) and clutch (Kent) as my man Brandon R O Y. I'm done being a hater with everyone not named Zach Randolph and Darius Miles. I appreciate all the hard work the 3 previously mentioned Pacific NW ballers have put in so I could write about them, I look forward to watching you on the TV, minus Robinson in any dunk contest.
