Player exit interviews and statements - 10 am

I don't care to go back and find the tweet, but I find it interesting that both Evan and Moe - pretty much the only players who have played under someone besides Terry - mentioned that our offense relies almost entirely on Dame/CJ. Harkless expressed this sentiment at the beginning of the season, and Turner expressed it in his exit interview.

 

Hearing Neil talk just reinforces the idea that he has no creativity when building a roster. I think he honestly thinks “what do you expect me to do?”.

 

When I, errrrr I mean people I don't know, have performance issues I would "guess" that a good strategy is to tout the foreplay skills and spend extra time doing foreplay so when the four pump chump thing happened it wouldn't seem as bad.

This is exactly what is happening. Olshey is trying to have us remember the expensive dinner and the romantic walk on the beach during sunset and not the 30 seconds it took to climax when the clothes came off.

 

I'm so fucking tired of Olshey. I hate that dude.

 

Anybody wanna organize an event to go TP the Rose Garden?

 

meh, they want access next season...

 

And that’s the root of the problem... too much pseudo power from this middling franchise

 

I think Neil is just trying to slither under the radar until Turner and Meyers are off the books, and I think PA is really going to give him those 2 extra years for some reason.

 

I know I'm in the extreme minority here but I would like to see what Olshey actually does this summer and not just base my thinking off of events that haven't even occurred yet. I still think they skirted the tax the last two years knowing this year they were going all-in. If I'm wrong about that then I'll be right with you guys in September. If I'm right though Olshey has several avenues between the draft pick, tax-MLE, and the two trade exceptions to improve the roster. The fact that he still has a job to me signifies that he has been ordered to get below the tax line based on the teams performance the last two seasons up until the trade deadline. If Allen expects the team to "get better" then the only true way to accomplish that this summer is to go into the tax.

 

I have followed my local NBA team, wherever I have lived, since 1971. I have been through a number of GMs. Not one ever praised himself. The team-employed broadcaster might, keeping it subtle and indirect. But Olshey roars like a lion in self-praise.

If he were smart, he'd have Calabro or Wheeler run events like today, and make himself and Stotts scarce.

 

Rockets GM Darryl Morey said he's the most underrated GM in the league. I like Olshey too and aren't as down on him as others here. People keep talking about him being lucky by making the acquisitions he did. Stop the what ifs. He got a huge steal in Nurk. He drafted Dame and CJ. He trade for Collins. That's not to say he hasn't made mistakes. He has. But, I'd like to keep him another season with a different coach. We desperately need a different coach.

 

I think it depends on how you feel about Collins. If you are excited about his potential then this year was an improvement because we had a better record while getting decent minutes down the stretch from a rookie. If you think he has little potential to be a solid starter then, yeah maybe this year was not better.

Same for Nurk, because even though we had him last year it was only for 20 games and that is not long enough to truly evaluate a player. Nurk got a lot more consistent IMO.

My point is although the result was the same, it seems better because we added younger players and still won more games. I can't include Baldwin because he barely played but he could be a steal. Now we need to steal a SF who can score and has good handles.