Rumor Report: Owner Paul Allen investigating whether Trail Blazers’ problem is roster or coaching

Can we get Trader Bob back? I want a GM that's not afraid to make major moves.

 

I’d settle for fans who realize that the CBA isn’t the same today as it was 20 years ago.

 

Shouldn't he, like, be thinking about those things, like, every day?

How is this a story?

 

He always makes it sound like it’s some secret society super power. I mean Allen has the money but for fucks sake have you seen the guy? He wears the same shit everywhere and that outfit total probably costs 50 dollars and Allen is worth 20 billion.

 

My first thought after reading the article was.... "Shit. We should have had a pool on the timing of this event. I would have won some money. Or at least the ability to say "I WAS RIGHT!".... for a few weeks.

 

In other words, you'll settle for the permanent mediocrity we've had since Whitsitt left. No surprise, since you're always afraid of change.

Whitsitt would excel in today's CBA, just as he did then. He was a brilliant GM who could get something out of nothing, and was destroyed by Oregonian peanut-brain moralists.

But...Currently, if we can only fire one or the other, we would gain more by replacing Stotts than Olshey. Stotts is farther below average than Olshey is below average.

 

Lmao. You're hysterical. "Paul is thinking like me everybody! Go me!"

Who says he's ready to blow it up? Where'd you read that?

 

Neil chose a flawed path, handed out some stupid deals to really mediocre (and worse) talent, and here we are. Is Stott's part of the problem? Yeah, probably a little bit, in that I'm not sure he's great at getting the most out of his bigs, but it's tough to make a decent omlette when all you've got are some eggs and some moldy cheese.

 

He wasn't wrong.

 

There were other reasons. Cho wasn't the leader needed. For one thing, he was afraid to talk. Allen took others' advice in hiring him, soon realized Cho wasn't up to it, then spent a year researching it himself and doing the hiring himself (while the Oregonian heckled).

 

The Vulcan "mothership." Give me a break. No other owner's billion-dollar company is so derided.

 

Disagree.

 

I think Neil is having his Trader Bob rush right about now...this guarantees roster moves...

 

Bullshit. Complete, and utter bullshit.

Whitsitt destroyed himself. He built a championship roster (the best roster money can buy) and after one poor shooting 4th quarter, panicked, blew it up and couldn't stop meddling.

The team was mediocre before Whitsitt got fired. He made it that way. First round fodder his last three seasons in Portland.

We know by the fact you haven't changed your avatar photo in 20 years that you're a Whitsitt apologist, but stop trying to rewrite history. I won't allow it.

BNM

 

I have this ability quite often and it gets pretty boring actually.

 

You hated Whitsitt even while he was GM. You see the consequences since he left. If he was so bad, why did the team immediately sink into a pit and never recover? The Blazers should have entered a golden, sunny time, if he was so bad. History has proven you absolutely wrong. An ordinary person would climb under a wet rock and hide with the Oregonian worms, but you continue to spew doctrine about how bad the team was under Whitsitt, contrary to history.

What happened to your comrade-in-arms ProudBFan, who worked in the same room as you, if I recall correctly. He led the war on the ESPN board to purge the team, and you were a lieutenant. So were crandc and about 5 others. An equal number, including Maris and me, led the side of virtue against you evil-doers.