Let us readdress this issue shall we? Nate McDillon :fail:

On this point, I 100% agree with you.

The local media would like people to believe that TraderBob never did anything right, that every player he acquired was a scumbag, etc, etc.

For a couple of years there, the Blazers were the second best team in the league. They had the bad luck to face the best team in the WCF. The hatred directed at him by the media was absurd.

 

You are halfway to heavenly enlightenment, grasshopper. One who questions who the Oregonian opposes in excess, will probably question who the Oregonian favors in excess. Thus sayeth Shao-Lin or Zarathrusta or someone.

 

Well maybe he shouldn't have traded Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis and Brian Grant for Shawn Kemp.

When you trade a young player for an experienced veteran, it's usually because you're going for it all now and don't want to wait for that young player to develop. The only problem was Jermaine O'Neal was already putting up better numbers than Dale Davis that very next season. When it works out like that you pretty much just got hosed in a trade.

Won't even bring up Shawn Kemp...lolololol

 

That is not true at all. For one year, the Blazers were the second-best team in the NBA, with by far the highest payroll. The other year in the WCF was the strike year, which was obviously a crapshoot since the #8 seed Knicks made the NBA Finals against the Spurs. That was the year of back-to-back-to-backs in the regular season, for those who remember. The year after the 2000 WCF choke, the Blazers were swept in the first round, and we were in cap purgatory.

You people crack me up!

 

you think you speak for the masses???

"Wasn't a great GM" is what his son may say at his funeral. McHale is regarded as a failure as a GM by every Wolves and general NBA board I've ever checked in on. In 12 seasons, he advanced past the first round once. Some threat... maybe some of the masses here who want him calling the shots in Blazerland will speak up

you're on record umpteen times bashing Pritchard. You're also on record wanting exactly the sort of move he just made. Having made it you're still bashing. Time to change out your broken record because... it's broken

it really wasn't you that I was addressing posting your blatant contradictions, it was others who might be reading this thread. I'd read your opinions prior to the trade when you posted them which is why this struck me as a worthy small task. It took just a few minutes to post the links as they only spanned 3 weeks prior to the Camby deal. I'm sure there is plenty more if someone actually felt digging through your stuff was worthwhile... of course thats always been option that no one seems to care to do.

so sorry that I couldn't give a shit about the other tasks

STOMP

 

Brutal, ruthless, but spot-on. jlprk just got clowned.

 

Lol. All I've learned from this thread is that some of you care way more about proving your "argument", while disproving your opponent's "argument", than anything related to the Blazers. Carry on ladies.

 

I was thinking something similar. I see a lot of energy expended that doesn't really strike down anything I said. It doesn't matter that McHale was a lousy GM. If he were Coach, he would still be a threat to Pritchard as a temporary replacement. Duh. This is so obvious that yes, I speak for the masses. As for getting clowned, how was I clowned? Despite smoke and fury, I see no worthy arguments against the obvious, just attempted ridicule and clowning.

 

You're a cartoon character. I appreciate this trait.

 

I have to disagree. The 99 team was darn good.

 

They were good, but I don't consider the strike season much more than an asterisk.

 

29 posts in this thread for you now. RUN FOREST RUN!!!

 

The O'Neal/Davis trade was at least partly a function of Jermaine and Dunleavy not getting along. It may well be that Jermaine, like Zach, needed a change of scenery to mature and reach his potential.

As for Grant/Kemp.....wanting Kemp was a horrible decision, but from everything that was said at the time, Grant wanted out of Portland. TBob freaked at the notion of losing him for nothing, and so he went with the Kemp S&T. It would have been better to just let him walk.

That one really bad move doesn't define his entire tenure anymore than KP's mistaken pursuit of Hedo defines the job he has done.

 

Thanks for the update. Try to add something relevant the next time you post. I do appreciate being able to understand your post this time, however.

 

The 1999 Blazers were a great team that simply couldn't beat the Spurs. We had a great series against Utah though.

 

Hi Dan.

 

Come on now. Both of those trades were shitty, and both impacted the team in a negative manner. Plus, if O'Neal was traded to placate Dunleavy, then that's an extra mark against Whitsitt for choosing a journeyman coach over a budding All-Star.

 

Hi Dan. When will you let your true colors come out in the OT forum?

 

I don't understand why people regret the O'Neal trade so much. He never took the Pacers anywhere.

 

I don't regret it, but Dale Davis was a fucking steaming pile of shit, and we still made the playoffs. I think O'Neal would have made a difference teamed with Zach in the early 00s.