Oct 23 2008
Player Previews: Brandon Roy
The best place to start with any Blazer preview will be at the top. Specifically, it’s the dude who goes around winning rookie of the year, shows up in All-Star games and embarrasses the competition, and worked out this whole issue in South Ossetia. He’s a modern day Renaissance man, the kind that Da Vinci would write derogatory graffiti about in jealousy, the kind Ben Franklin would make envious pamphlets about. His all-around skills once saved the Dornbecher children’s hospital during an earthquake. True story. And after it happened, he used his ball-handling skills to juke the Earth so hard, it moved itself back in time. Hence why we have never heard of this event.
Anyway. Brandon, no matter what anyone says about Greg Oden or LaMarcus, is the heart of this team. He’s still the guy who’s done the most in the league, and he’s the one that the team will lean on in tough times when points are tough to come by. His handle is non-pareil and his outside shot is just becoming better and better. Basically, this is a man with no weakness on the basketball court. He can find ways to outmatch any defender in the NBA not named Ron Artest. On defense, he’ll be able to follow his instincts more and take more chances like the rest of the team because Greg Oden will be playing keeper with Przybilla behind him. You get cocky when you have 12 good fouls behind you rather than 6.
Here’s the issue though, dude’s so humble you won’t hear word one from him about it. He’ll say “we’re just taking it one game at a time” and actually mean it, and then stop by the dancing lady from above the tunnel to the locker room’s house and rescue her pet parrot without making a big fuss about it. He actually thinks both teams played hard.
Basically, Brandon will put together another Brandon type season again. I’m not too sure if he’ll make it to the All-Star game again, but if there’s a long winning streak again, you can count on seeing Brandon on the big stage.
Brandon’s Halloween Costume:
He has to be the man who nearly united every gang in New York, those 120,000 strong. Cyrus was a uniter and a great leader who told it like it was, just like Brandon.
