UPDATE (1/16/10) – The Blazers have used even more starting lineups than I could have ever imagined coming into this season. Who would have guessed that Portland would have great success, beating Orlando last night, with this lineup:
G Andre Miller
G Jerryd Bayless
F Juwan Howard
F LaMarcus Aldridge
F Martell Webster
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I’ve been a Portland Trailblazer fan for as long as I can remember liking sports. I wasn’t alive with the Blazers won the championship in 1976, so I’m not going to include that lineup in my list of favorite starting 5s.
I’ve got a favorite for sure, no doubt in my mind it’s the lineup of:
PG Terry Porter
SG Clyde Drexler
C Kevin Duckworth
SF Jerome Kersey
PF Buck Williams
The lineup I’d like to see right now:
PG Brandon Roy
SG Rudy Fernandez
C Greg Oden
SF Nicolas Batum
PF LaMarcus Aldridge
Another great lineup:
2000
PG Damon Stoudamire
SG Steve Smith
C Arvydas Sabonis
SF Scottie Pippen
PF Rasheed Wallace
November 26th, 2009 at 7:27 am
pg Telfair
sg Damon
sf Darius
pf Randolph
c Pryz
November 26th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Those are all starting line-ups. The best is definitely Porter, Drexler, Duckworth, Kersey, Williams line-up. I’ve been watching re-runs of the early 90’s games a lot lately on Comcast Sports Net in Portland. They’ve been re-running the old Blazers vs. Bulls NBA Finals games – those guys were very good.
I disagree with bringing Rudy into the starting line-up now though. I like that as a 4th quarter line-up (possibly moving Batum out), but I think we still need Rudy to come off the bench late in the 1st to provide a spark for the 2nd unit, especially with Outlaw injured. I also don’t like Roy running the point to start the game – like him working off the ball to start and then handling the ball late. Our current starting line-up is playing very well with Martell @ SF, but I can’t wait to have Batum’s defense back.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am
BTW, I meant to start my last comment by saying, “those are all GREAT starting line-ups.” Ha!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
The old school line-up was the best ever,They battled the Champion Bulls and held there own.I like our team now though,these young guys are improving every game. Our bench is so deep,we can start a lot of different ways depending on who we are playing,so that right there is a blessing.
GO BLAZERS……AND….HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
November 27th, 2009 at 8:05 am
I’m curious why you chose the current five that you did. Interesting to put Brandon at PG and start Rudy. I imagine that the Sarge considered a lot of options, so why would he choose to pass this one over?
November 27th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Bryan is probably right about having some scoring bunch off the bench. i just think that the best 5 blazers on the floor would be Roy, Fernandez, Batum, Aldridge and Oden. Big and athletic!
December 10th, 2009 at 4:43 am
I like the 2000 lineup but with bonzi instead of steve smith: the jail blazers before they were the jail blazers. maybe even replace smith with J.R. Rider ha
December 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
OK, maybe now I have to add Bayless in there. What a great game he had last night!
January 1st, 2010 at 7:34 pm
PG – Telfair
SG – Stoudamire
SF – Darius Miles
PF – Detlef Scrempf
C – Dale Davis
January 6th, 2010 at 12:01 am
how about this for the dream lineup:
PG – Damon Stoudamire
SG – Brandon Roy
SF – Clyde Drexler
PF – Bill Walton
C – Sabonis
January 12th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Combining eras, I’ll go with:
PG – TP
SG – Roy
SF – Drexler
PF – LaMarcus
C – Walton
Bench would include:
C – Sabonis
PF – Sheed – assuming he’d come off the bench for me (my guess is he would cuss me out and punch me in the face when I told him he was sitting behind Aldridge
SF – Pippen
SF – Kersey
PF/C – Mo Lucas – he was a bad dude fellas. An absolute beast and a good player too. Not just an enforcer but a proficient scorer and rebounder.
PG – Dave Twardzik
SF – Vandeweigh – deadly shooter and scorer
G – Geoff Petrie
That leaves me with 12 guys after Sheed punches me out and is released…
January 20th, 2010 at 12:49 am
I think Brian Grant should be added in there –
G – Porter
G – Drexler
F – Kersey
F – Grant
C – Sheed/Sabonis
February 4th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Rachael, i think that putting Roy, Fernandez and Batum all in the starting lineup would just make Portland so long and hard to matchup with.