taken from an interview Ben Golliver had with dear leader http://www.sulia.com/channel/portla...d-5fb6-4263-a023-a0eee01cd653/?source=twitter
When I was a kid I used a similar logical assertion with my parents: Why should I clean my room? It's just going to get dirty again. I don't like cleaning my room. I don't think that it's necessary to hire a GM right now... but saying that the search process itself is unpleasant seems like a copout. Ed O.
Maybe we can just let Nate be our GM? He's done a wonderful job picking point guards with Taurean Green and now Nolan Smith.
With Chad's track record in evaluating talent (as lead scout with KP - and in the interm GM role), he really should not be Portland's GM. He seems like a great guy..... I am just not very impressed with the results.
Crazy to think we still don't have a GM in place, and it's not even a priority with the organization. Weird.
This just screams laziness. When Chad was first made interim GM they were saying how this was a temporary gig and they wanted to find someone with experience. A few terrible draft picks and trades later and now they're considering him as the permanent GM? BS
The best young PG we had we waived to sign Joel. I'm sorry to say there was not one poster that agreed with me about Armon when I said again and again we should play him, and all were very high on Nolan Smith's potential. I think releasing Armon was a Terrible move and almost certain that he'll prove himself somewhere else making the organization seem foolish. I would get the consolation of saying "I told you so" but already felt the frustration of nobody listening.
Our drafting has sucked, and I team seems to be underachieving under Nate. I think it's time for some new blood. But they should hire a GM and give him some time for Christ's sake. They didn't even give Cho a chance. Yet they stick with McMoron forever..........
Buchanan is not the guy, unless they want a yes man who only babbles the company line......er wait....I guess Buchanan is the guy. His talent evaluating has been horrible, and the deals they struck have absolutely not paid off.
everyone (besides you) is very high on Nolan Smith's potential??? Hyperbole much remind me of all the solid players that were passed over for those terrible picks. I thought trading Martell for picks and the cap space that was then used to sign Wesley with the MLE was bold and successful. Drafting Elliott looks good with hindsight too STOMP
Wait, who's high on Nolan Smith? He's a 23 year old rookie, that should be closer to being a finished product than not ... I'm not saying Armon was/is better than him (almost certainly not) but I can't think of too many people outside of the braintrust that selected him that think he's got much "potential" left in him.
None of those moves happened while Chad was the GM. But if you really want to go back on their recent draft failures I can gladly pull that up for you.
Who are the Blazers kidding, they have a GM right now in Buchanan. It's not like the Blazers are any less active or paralyzed because they don't have a "permanent" GM. Blazers (right moves or wrong moves) were wheeling and dealing after the season, before the season and during the season. I get what Miller is doing here. Let Chad be the GM without calling him the official GM so if Blazers decide to get another GM this summer they don't go through the same media scrutiny with Cho and firing him after a year. The organization is running as usual. It's tough for disgruntled fans because they got no real GM to point the finger at (althought there is always Nate and Allen). But really not having someone titled "GM" in the organization has been a non-issue for Blazer management.
We as a fan base "regret" not having a GM in the draft too. Could sure use Kennith Faried and Dre Miller right about now. Whole interview here: http://www.blazersedge.com/2012/3/1/2834601/one-on-one-interview-with-blazers-president-larry-miller
