Today I was reading an article by Jason Quick from the Oregonian in which he discusses the fact that Zach Randolph and Darius Miles want out of Portland. Now given previous opinions I have expressed on the bbq, you would expect me to be rather annoyed by this, but I’m not. I’m happy that they came out and expressed a desire to get out of town because now the Blazers’ management will be more likely to take action to ship them out of Portland.

Randolph said that he doesn’t like playing on what is now the worst team in the NBA, and he also doesn’t like the discipline that coach Nate McMillan imposes on the team. I wonder if he realises that the Blazers are the worst team because players like him and Darius Miles ignore the coach and the discipline that he tries to impose. I’m sure that doesn’t compute inside that overpaid head of his though.

I’m pretty sure that if Paul Allen does decide to sell the Blazers, neither of these two players will be here under new management, even if they had not have come out publicy with their desires to be shipped out of town. In the last couple of games, neither Randolph or Miles have had significant (if any) playing time. The group of youngsters that the team has been playing has been showing a lot of energy and the basketball that they have been playing has been extremely exciting to watch, even if there are a lot of errors mixed into their play. I believe the team can build around Sebastian Telfair, Jarrett Jack, and Martell Webster who has been the Blazers best player in the closing parts of the season. If the Blazers win the draft lottery and get the number 1 pick in the draft (please do NOT draft Adam Morrison), we can hopefully draft a solid player who can have an immediate impact. Add to that some veteran players who will be willing to guide the younger players, and the Blazers should be (I hope) in good shape next year and definitely the year after that.

The Blazers don’t need the cancer that is Darius Miles, and they definitely don’t need Zach Randolph’s shoot first, me me me attitude. If the Blazers can find these players a different home over the summer, there will be a lot of excited people in the Portland area.

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