Zombie Fire Olshey

if your most criticized move is giving Meyers Leonard 10 million, you're doing a good job.

 

He writes for a rag out in Battle Ground, Washington these days.

Guy might be the funniest person I know.

 

Super nice too.

 

Parsons turned us down.

He's a decent GM. Also drafted Leonar_, re-signed him, Ezeli. He's hittingvat about a .500 mark.

 

I remember that too. Oregonian reported 4/94 was our offer. Looked it up last night.

 

Better than what? Last year?

 

Ezeli wasn't really a bad move right ?
It was low risk high reward. Didn't pan out ? Whatever.

 

Memphis saved NeO's butt by coming along and offering more. If they don't, we are stuck with him. The fact remains, the offer was made. Like it was to Hibbert, Monroe, Hawes, etc.

 

I don't understand why people keep using Hibbert as some kind of black mark. The guy was a central piece for Indy making some deep playoff runs. He was an All Star. He had at least two really good seasons after Neil made the offer and then something happened to him. One rumor was that Paul George slept with his girlfriend. I don't know. But if he had come here instead of Indy, maybe he never falls off?

 

I've never understood the Hibbert hate. He would've been amazing next to Aldridge.

 

I never understand the hate for things that are "RUMORED" to not have happened.

 

Exeli was a really cheap gamble that didn't pay off. Odds were against him from the outset, and Olshey was fully aware of it. If it had paid off, they'd be designing the NO statue outside the Rose Garden right now.

 

Better than Gerald Henderson.

 

It's just the nature of this forum. There are some very negative people here who LOVE to see the team and certain players fail. That way they can feel superior and spend years gloating about perceived failures, even ones that never even happened. They are so invested in their own negative agenda, they blindly assume moves that didn't happen would have been catastrophic failures. Because they LOVE to see the team fail, they just automatically assume players who don't succeed elsewhere would have also failed here.

They just look for failure and revel in it when it happens. If I didn't find them so fucking annoying and hate the way they love to shit all over anything or anyone positive in this forum, I'd almost feel sorry for them. But, I don't. They choose to behave in this manner.

After re-signing with IND, Hibbert was an absolute stud. He was the best defender on the best defensive team - and at the time the team with the best overall record in the league. He was definitely playing up to and exceeding that contract. Then Paul George banged Hibbert's girlfriend and the wheels fell off. Hibbert lost all desire to play and it showed. That would not have happened here. We would have had defensive stud Hibbert and no one would have banged his girl. But, the negative nancies completely ignore that and just blindly assume Hibbert would have failed here, too. We got Robin Lopez instead and won 54 games that year and advanced to the second round. Lopez was a good fit next to Aldridge, but Hibbert, pre-betrayal, would have been WAY better. Shit, in spite of how much his performance tailed off after that he still has the 13th highest career BLK% in NBA history. Imagine a happy, motivated Hibbert playing next to Aldridge. We would have easily had the best front court in the league at that time.

The ironic thing is these same negative, buzz kill, douchebags are seeing right now, right before there very eyes, how much the mental/emotional aspect of a situation can impact player performance. After just a couple games in a Blazer uniform, Jusuf Nurkic was widely touted in this forum as the best Blazer big man since Sabonis. The same Jusuf Nurkic that was viewed as a pouting failure in DEN just a couple weeks earlier. I'm just glad none of these know-it-all negative nancies aren't our GM. With their overall negative world view, they would have never considered trading for Nurkic. They love to point out Neil's failures, but he just spit right in their collective eye with the Nurkic trade. And the fact that he got Nurkic AND a 1st round pick is a big fuck you to all those here who are constantly tearing him, and the team, down with their constant negativity.

Nurkic was pouting in DEN and it was effecting his performance. But look at him now. He's in a much better situation and he's balling his ass off. All it took was a change of team, coach and teammates. Kudos to Neil for recognizing that and basically stealing Nurkic and a 1st round pick from DEN. Given how quickly Nurkic turned it around here, it's not all all inconceivable, or even improbable, Hibbert would have been happy here and would have continued to play the way he did in IND before his teammate and his woman betrayed him. But, the negative nancies are having none of that. They won't even consider it. It just doesn't fit their agenda.

Fuck them. Go Blazers!

BNM

 

Turner comes around and actually looks good with the team.
Crabbe finds his way and starts to earn his contract.
Nurkic becomes our center of the future!
Meyers gets tougher mentally and becomes a serviceable player.
Vonleh actually shows in game improvement.
3 draft picks in a deep draft!
The team makes the playoffs and can at least compete with the top teams.

If this all happens will Olshey get the last laugh at all of us who asked for his head?

Do we need to start an Olshey apology thread? Lol!

 

translation.....Olshey is not trader Bob and I miss trader Bob...

 

Has he been? Honest question. Henderson did a lot of things decent

 

I haven't looked at all the stats, but I know Hendersons PER was better. Record too. Not that that has anything to do with either.

 

Mic. DROP.

 

Henderson last season
15.7pts, 5.3reb, 1.9ast (Per 36) PER 12.9, ORTG 104, DRTG 109

Turner this season
13.3pts, 5.2reb, 4.6ast (per 36) PER 12.2, ORTG 102. DRTG 113