Damian Lillard called him Idaho. A friend of his told me one of their high school coaches calls him BFB for Big Fn Blake
Bryant Reeves
There was also a mid major guy nicknamed Big Continent.
How about The Potato Masher?
I like Idaho, as in “Way to go Idaho!” -Toy Story
Why the obsession to give nicknames to people who 99% of the board will never meet or know in real life? It’s odd.
Good point, S-Dawg
Additionally, doesn’t forcing nicknames automatically make them lame? Isn’t part of a cool nickname that it has to come naturally?
Yes you think it was planned that I become the Black Dragon? Nah i earned that and it came from a teammate
Maybe because it’s fun? CTB is going to ignore 100% of our advice on starters, playing time, strategy, and offensive schemes, but I have fun reading and writing about it.
I thought you were going to say, "CTB is going to ignore 100% of our advice on starters, playing time, strategy, and offensives schemes, but he is going to without a doubt follow our lead when assigning players nicknames."
I earned Salty in the Navy. But they had a field day trying out other nicknames first. I’m glad that was the one that stuck. Also, went by “Ike” later on. I can think of worse Presidents.
A missed opportunity.
My ideas:
Blake
Buchanan
B
BB (or bb)
Buke
Double B
B-dubs
Blake the Snake
The Cannon
The Cour d’alene cannon
Or something out of left field… like Steve
That’s the one.
Oh snap the B is finally revealed!
Idaho… nope,Youdaho
@rushdacote what do your brasilian friends call you? Brasilians love calling dudes the place they are from
You get gringo or americano?
If you let the players come up with the nickname it’ll end up being something terrible like “Fish.” We have to preempt that.
November 2023: Jerry Ratcliffe reports that the team is calling the incoming freshmen ‘Potato’ and ‘Gertie’
(I’d be okay with Spud though. Spud weBB)