Greatest Blazers Ever: Vote for #15

[Moonbeam]

The list so far is here.

Project Guidelines:

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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:

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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.

Who earns the last spot on the proverbial all-time 15-man roster? Mychal Thompson? Steve Johnson? Sidney Wicks? Kiki Vandeweghe? Rod Strickland? Scottie Pippen? Damon Stoudamire? Zach Randolph? One of the more recent "core" guys like Batum or Matthews?

[Masterfully]

This is a tossup between Buck and Thompson. I'll got with Buck now since the team got good about the time he took over PF duties.

If we are going to be voting top 3:
1 - Buck Williams
2 - Mychal Thompson
3 - Sidney Wicks

[Norm2953]

The last player on my 15 man team would be Mychal Thompson who was the 1st pick of the
1978 draft and had 7 solid seasons in Portland. His teams had the misfortune of playing
against the early 80's showtime Lakers who along with the Celtics made playoff success
for every other team futile.

We need a coach for this greatest Blazers team and there is no question that would be
Jack Ramsay

[PDXKnight]

Im gonna go with Damon Stoudemire. Damon was a relatively important player on some solid Blazers teams and he holds the all time record for points in a game to this day (though i expect Billiard to break that this year).

[zzaj]

1) Mychal Thompson (put up some pretty great numbers)
2) Rod Strickland (very underrated PG, holds a couple records and put up some gaudy numbers)
3) Scottie Pippen (he was a shadow of his former self with the Blazers but his competitive presence elevated the team)

[a_sensei]

Mychal Thompson for reasons previously documented.

[DaVoiceMaster]

Some more names to consider: Mychal Thompson, Lionel Hollins, Johnny Davis, Dave Twardzik, BobbyGross, Calvin Natt & Kenny Carr.

[kdawg32086]

Mychal Thompson. 8 seasons in Rip City, top 10 all-time in scoring, top 5 all time in rebounds, and #1 all time in blocks. Also made an all rookie first team.

[Brandon-Clyde]

Steve Johnson-One of the best low post scorers in Blazer history. 54% Fg% as a Blazer and an all star

[Moonbeam]

I'm going to vote for Mychal Thompson again. The playoff performance seals it for me over Cliffy.

[Moonbeam]

Tally:

Mychal Thompson (6): Masterfully, Norm2953, zzaj, a_sensei, kdawg32086, Moonbeam

Damon Stoudamire (1): Oden2

Steve Johnson (1): Brandon-Clyde

Klay's dad gets in at #15!

[Moonbeam]

This is a tossup between Buck and Thompson. I'll got with Buck now since the team got good about the time he took over PF duties.

If we are going to be voting top 3:
1 - Buck Williams
2 - Mychal Thompson
3 - Sidney Wicks

Buck is already in at #11.

[Masterfully]

Oh wow! I change my vote to Brandon Roy. Haha