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Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 3:18 am
by Moonbeam
The list so far is here.

Project Guidelines:

Spoiler:
1. Each thread will be open for 48 hours. After 48 hours have passed, the thread will close if a single player receives a majority of the votes. If not, the top 2-3 candidates will enter a runoff period of 24 hours. During this period, you may switch your vote to one of the reduced list of candidates if you voted for someone else.

2. When making a formal vote, please include the player's name in bold. This helps me keep track. Please include a justification for your choice. It may be brief, but simply writing the name of your choice will not be a counted vote.

3. You may switch your vote, but please emphasize this in bold.

4. Please only consider each player's performance with Portland.

5. We all have our favorites, and we all have our own criteria. I believe the discussion and learning from this project will be more important than the placement of the individual players.

6. Have fun!


Runoff Guidelines:

Spoiler:
If at the end of 48 hours, no single player has more than 50% of the votes cast, the top 2* candidates will enter a runoff vote.

1. Original votes for one of these 2 players still count.

2. Those who voted for one of the candidates outside of the top 2 must cast a vote for one of the top 2 candidates for their votes to count.

3. Those who did not vote in the first 48 hours are still welcome to vote in the runoff.

4. Anyone is welcome to change his/her vote if swayed by the arguments of others.

* If there is a tie, more than 2 candidates may enter the runoff. In this case, please list your preferred order among all of the candidates, and a point system will determine the victor. The points will be allocated as follows (using a 3-player runoff as an example): 3 points for 1st place, 2 points for 2nd place, 1 point for 3rd place. If votes don't make a preference beyond #1, the remaining candidates will get the average points for the other ranks. If at the end of this process, there is a tie, the winner will be the player with the most preferences in a 1 on 1 comparison.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 1:19 pm
by Brandon-Clyde
I'll start the voting Steve Johnson Great low post scorer(54% fg% as a Blazer) and an all star with Portland

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 4:05 pm
by Norm2953
Not a big fan of Cliff Robinson but he had a fine career with Portland so I'll go with him
over Larry Steele.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 5:09 pm
by PDXKnight
I'm going with cliff Robinson. He has relatively decent longevity as a blazer and his prime years were solid. I don't love his impact on winning games so much but ultimately he has more criteria than most guys left so I feel obligated to go with him

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 5:28 pm
by a_sensei
I'm continuing to vote for Mychal Thompson with a slight edge on Uncle Cliffy. Reasons specified in the past few threads.

Moonbeam, you had talked about changing the voting to a top 3 (run off style) a few threads ago. I would support that since our choices are probably going to get more diverse and there aren't a huge number of folks voting.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 6:54 pm
by JasonStern
vote: Cliff Robinson

long tenure in Portland with multiple 20ppg seasons, all-star, 6th man of the year, had an impressive ironman streak, etc.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 10:02 pm
by zzaj
1) Paxson
2) Cliffy
3) Mychal Thompson

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Thu Sep 3, 2015 11:42 pm
by Masterfully
zzaj wrote:1) Paxson
2) Cliffy
3) Mychal Thompson

Paxson got voted in at #12.

Sticking with Robinson for reasons outlined in several other threads. If it was criminal that Petrie fell to #13 then it's something much worse than criminal that Robinson is still out there.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Fri Sep 4, 2015 4:42 am
by kdawg32086
Uncle Cliffy. Key player for a very long time, all star, 6th man of the year and an iconic image of 90s Blazer basketball with his headband.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Fri Sep 4, 2015 12:33 pm
by DaVoiceMaster
I'll go with Cliff Robinson. The guy had a nice career in Portland, came into the league with a good veteran Blazers team and could play 3 positions. He filled a huge need for the Blazes and he did it well.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Sat Sep 5, 2015 10:38 am
by Moonbeam
I'll stick with Mychal Thompson. The better playoff performance clinches it for me over Cliffy.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Sat Sep 5, 2015 10:40 am
by Moonbeam
Tally:

Cliff Robinson (7): Norm2953, Oden2, JasonStern, zzaj, Masterfully, kdawg32086, DaVoiceMaster

Mychal Thompson (2): a_sensei, Moonbeam

Steve Johnson (1): Brandon-Clyde

And Cliffy gets in!

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Sat Sep 5, 2015 10:41 am
by Moonbeam
a_sensei wrote:I'm continuing to vote for Mychal Thompson with a slight edge on Uncle Cliffy. Reasons specified in the past few threads.

Moonbeam, you had talked about changing the voting to a top 3 (run off style) a few threads ago. I would support that since our choices are probably going to get more diverse and there aren't a huge number of folks voting.


I am still considering switching the initial voting, but I don't want it to discourage discussion, which is getting a bit dry.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Sat Sep 5, 2015 1:58 pm
by Norm2953
Getting near the end of the voting for after Cliff, we're left with good role players like
Larry Steele, guys who had 1-2 really good years in Portland or the current players
like Batum and Matthews.

Re: Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #14

Posted: Sat Sep 5, 2015 10:35 pm
by zzaj
Masterfully wrote:
zzaj wrote:1) Paxson
2) Cliffy
3) Mychal Thompson

Paxson got voted in at #12.

Sticking with Robinson for reasons outlined in several other threads. If it was criminal that Petrie fell to #13 then it's something much worse than criminal that Robinson is still out there.


Doh! Yep, I keep forgetting who is on the Master List already!