Dark days on the horizon?

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this says it all...

bye kpee

"Kevin is the GM here," says Miller. "I can never commit to anybody being around long term. I don't know that I'll be here long term. That's just not the way it works. To me, Kevin is our GM, and my feeling is we should focus on finishing out the season, trying to win games, trying to have a successful run in the playoffs. That should be our focus right now. The situation with Tom was in isolated incident. It's unfortunate, but hopefully we can put it behind us."


thats pretty clear.... lets wait till summer to blow it up

 

I swear, we could win the NBA Championship and there would still be threads about something bad we did or some sort of negativity. Tom Penn left our team, not Brandon Roy.

 

This could easily be his agent playing for a contract.

 

More like burning a bridge or two.

 

Right, agents always play above board don't they?

Organizations are used to dirty pool from agents.

 

Not the most reassuring sight: In the wake of Tom Penn's firing, neither Paul Allen nor Kevin Pritchard were sitting in their customary courtside seats. Instead, Blazers President Larry Miller was flanked by Vulcan Flunky (and Paul Allen's college roommate), Bert Kolde.

 

Why did they say it was the worst thing that could happen lol who freakin cares.

Fuckouttahere KP. I am over it.

 

I can't believe people are relating losing a VP of Bball Operations along with a GM and calling it a sinking ship

 

If Pritchard is fired, I will no longer support the team. In fact the way this is all going down, I'm not sure I want to support the team any longer. That's tough, as I've been a fan since 1984, when I was seven years old.

 

What bridge? You don't know dick like the rest of us. You seem to revel in drama, going so far as to make shit up. Sounds like a 14 year old girl bitching about her best friend's mom for grounding her because she went to school dressed slutty.

Did you know the Blazers won last night, on a last second shot by Roy? That's drama.

 

Assuming we lose kpee (reading between lines) I would say the ship is still afloat... HOWEVER... major moves need to be made to get us at the lakers level. Time to part ways with guys like martell and rudy. Bring in a legit 3rd scorer. An iggy type. Buy greg knee braces and limit his minutes. Resign camby and hope bayless figures IT out. Remember this.... kpee is kinda like nate. They are good enough to get you so far but to take the next step... you need upgrades IMO.

Wow though... what looked so great has turned into a coin toss on the future. Thats for sure.

 

Don't buy it. KP has done too much for this organization to lose his job. Without him we're the Twolves, and any new GM that would come in would ruin what he has built.

Basically it makes no sense, which is why it's not happening.

 

having followed this board for years I sure can

10-2 and relatively healthy = dooooooomed

STOMP

 

That was my initial thought as well. I don't like being used in this manner by that guy.

 

The big unanswered question is why Tom Penn was fired. If he was fired because there's something about the way Pritchard and Penn operate that they don't like, then the fans among us who appreciate Pritchard have every reason to be worried.

But the way Penn was dismissed - in a sudden firing, rather than giving him an opportunity to resign - says one of two things: a.) that Penn did/said something really bad and the Blazers needed to get rid of him ASAP, or b.) the management structure has sunk to a new low in lack of professional respect for the people who brought them to where they are.

There was a quote from Larry Miller in today's Oregonian that led me to believe that it could have been "a" above.

 

Perhaps Paul Allen's health is making him impatient.

Or Penn is just a douchebag who wore out his welcome.

 

Why does anybody give a fucking shit about Tom Penn? Hell I can't even remember ever hearing of an assistant GM being fired in the past making news. Get the fuck over it.

Only in goddamn small Portland. I swear.

 

I have no idea whether KP's job is in jeopardy and neither does Henry Abott. It's crazy the amount of hand wringing that goes on around here over this kind of thing. Maybe PA wants somebody who's got a better record of making trades than KP has managed to pull off. Maybe KP gets the axe. Maybe KP gets demoted to Penn's job. Whatever, life will go on. Whomever is GM this summer has the richest owner in the league behind him and tons of assets. For now, can't we just get into playing out the rest of this season?