He is who he’s been advertised — a solid backup PG that can run the show at times and hit the spot up 3. He’s unselfish to a fault, but compared to the other PG we have running the show I’ll take that. When he runs the point the game seems to get more ball movement and everyone seems to touch the ball. I don’t have stats to back me up but that’s what I see.

After hitting 3’s very early on it seems as though Outlaw has fallen in love with his jumper. I know there’s a lot of upside to him but of late he doesn’t seem that different from when we had Al Thornton settling on jumpers. It’d be nice to see someone with his athleticism get to the rim a bit more. If I had to choose, moving forward, I’d keep Butler as a backup 3 and bid adieu to Outlaw.

And I like the addition: umm, we’d rather have Camby? How are the Portland fans finding Camby, is another good question.

Blake seems to be more valuable and likeable than Outlaw at this point. SB is a pretty good complement to BDavis. Everybody was pretty geeked up after his first couple of games (with BDavis out), and now he has settled into the basic backup role, and he’s pretty good. it’s not the highest thing on the Clips’ list of priorities, but it’s still an important role, and he could do a good job filling it.

And yeah, it’s hard to say what works when it’s all on the “rental” basis.

Outlaw would look better as a Clipper if he wasn’t so similar to RButler. They’re both different from the Al Thornton type, but they don’t adequately solve the Clippers SF problem. For Outlaw to be good and solidly embraced, he would have to be markedly better than Butler, and that doesn’t seem to be happening, or even close to it. Butler is hitting shots these days and it’s probably not a coincidence: he seems to be consciously outgunning Outlaw.

The Clippers prove it can ALWAYS get worse.

We thought Al Thornton was a black hole who took too many shots and didn’t rebound enough (especially for his height and jumping abilities).

So how could Travis Outlaw be any worse, right?

Wrong. He is worse. Especially since it finally seemed to dawn on Al to start improving on rebounding and defense this season and passing it more when he was guarded.

Travis seems to think that having someone in his face is an excellent reason to rise up and shoot over him. Which is ok if he makes it, but mostly you wish he would have passed it to someone with a higher percentage shot.

I don’t know if it’s the Clipper uni or just maybe the pressure of not having a contract next year, but he’s jacking up shots like he’s Kobe “Black Mamba” Bryant – those shots where in the air, you scream NO!!!! but then say DAMN if they fall in.

As much as I absolutely despise Kobe, I can honestly say I’ve never seen anyone come close to being as consistent as him in making so many BAD shots. One on one, one on two, one on three, forget your lame teammates, falling away off one foot, 26 feet out, over a 7 footer and Shane Battier’s hand on your nose shots.

Travis Outlaw is not Kobe Bryant. Stop taking those shots when your team is trailing. Go for it all day when you’re up by 20.

Rant over.

I hate the polls. But I like Blake as a counter to Baron. Outlaw’s okay, but jacks up too many jumpers… and doesn’t make enough. As was said, it’s probably understandable but I doubt he’s winning friends in the Clips organization….

Blake is a serviceable back up point guard if we ever find a good starting point guard. Outlaw
chucks too many shots and he’s not my kind of player.

Both a decent, but neither really are important to our near or long term future.

The Outlaw is coming off a serious injury and adjusting to a new team and still has been quite respectable. The game against the Bucks gave a good glimpse of what Blake can bring to the table.

They are two quality players who can easily be starters or outstanding backups. Neither one has any off court or character problems. Blake is well known for his extensive charity work.

If the Clips are looking for a backup point guard and starting small forward. There probably won’t be many much better options than Blake and Outlaw. The few better options will likely be a lot more expensive.

As a Blazer fan, with the two ex Blazers on your team I now also root for the Clippers.

(Also have become a Villanova fan on account of Dante Cunningham, sad to see them drop out of the tournament)

I certainly think the deal was to the benefit of Portland. Blazers had logjams at both positions- I think we are shakier with Jerryd Bayless rather than Blake at backup PG but at some point you have to just bite the bullet and put the ball in the hands of your young inconsistent guys like Bayless and hope that he can get the job done.

Similar at forward, we have a less fun to watch but more steady backup forward in Dante Cunningham so I think Outlaw had to be let go to assure that Cunningham and Webster get some playing time.

I am hoping Blazers do not try to get either back again simply because I think they have to gamble on their young guys coming through rather than having a roster full of insurance policies. (although the deep roster did save their bacon in the 100 year flood of injuries this year)

I really like Camby and obviously he fills a desperately needed role. He looked kind of shaky in his first few games but is improving lately, starting to show his passing ability along with his rebounding and blocking skills. I only wish he wouldn’t shoot jump shots- I saw him make one once and I still thought “I wish he hadn’t shot that” because it seemed like a fluke.

As for whether the deal was positive for Clippers- don’t know if it was a win/win for both teams but it looks like the Clippers may have at least gotten about a breakeven out of the thing. One key benefit for the Blazers was reducing their problem of too much depth, when people say “you can’t be too deep” I think the Blazers performance early in the season before the injuries hit heavily suggest that “you bet you can be too deep, it is a corrosive situation to have players deserving of playing time to be spending 48 minutes on the bench.” (even though the Blazers had a pretty good record during that period, a lot of it was that other teams were really struggling early in the season and the Blazers had the talent that they should have been among the NBA leaders early in the season.)

Should be interesting, Camby vs Stoudamire tonight.

Getting Outlaw may have been an inherently risky situation. The guy’s contract runs out this year, he missed most of the season with injury, so it figures that he could be obsessed with trying to generate some stats to bolster his quest for a good new contract.

The smarter thing would be for him to go out of his way to play team ball, since his market value is going to be largely based on his past performance and he would probably earn some kudos showing he can play unselfish ball, even if his stats for the year don’t amount to much.