Neil Olshi**y's Summer

Neil: "Let the cake bake."

Holy shit, this fucking guy.

 

Did he really say this KP quote somewhere?

 

No. But his strategy says the same exact thing.

 

Gold standard?
He tells Rozen that will not trade him to his face then do it?
I know there is no loyalty DR was very loyal to them like Dame is, so if we told Dame is isn't getting traded and then turn around and do it, this town would want to crucify Neil.
The players around the league have commented that DR had lied too and it will hurt their future in signing players.
Gold Standard....what has this guy done to make him that? Decent GM but gold standard?

 

There is no strategy.

 

Yes, he is gold standard because he can separate emotion and logic. He is operating in the best interest for the city of Toronto and their fans, trying to win championships, not settling for being mediocre... he is not there to make players happy or for financial savings.. he respects the fans, which is something you can’t say about Neil

 

Masai trotted out Derozan and Lowry in attempts to get over the hump for 5 straight years, all the while shifting pieces around them. 5 years he built his team around that pairing. 5 years! And he's the gold standard. For trotting out the same pairing for 5 years! Neil builds around his backourt for 3 years, and he should be fired for being stagnant. Fuck outta here with that shit. After 5 years of shifting pieces in the hopes that it would work with those two, he finally moved on, and yet Neil doing the same in less time is doing a bad job.

 

Who is giving out $4.4m for role players right now?
I believe Ed would take mins
If he didn’t take the offer, Neil would be an asshole for not giving him advice of taking the money
If he wasn’t with us, and turned down Brooklyn, why wouldn’t he be in the same boat as the other bigs who are currently jobless?

 

@Gronk Brady 's premise is wrong, but Toronto won 59 games last season after winning 51, and 56 the years prior. They even got two games in the conference finals against Lebron's championship team in year 3 of their build. There are obviously parallels with our situation and Toronto's but they've had a lot more success than us. We haven't won enough to warrant this kind of complacency.

Then again, the complacency is a result of Neil putting us in cap hell to begin with, so all this is a moot comparison. Apples and oranges.

 

I wish I could like this 1000x. Can't agree more.

 

1. How? KOQ got about the same and he’s better than Davis. Look at all the other bigs still on the street as well.

2. Zach averaged about 18m in the rotation. That number should go up next year. If Ed stayed, it would’ve stayed the same.

3. Assumption

4. He obviously wasn’t needed here. That’s why they moved on. Neil even explained, in detail, why.

 

Right NOW doesn't have any bearing. The decision was made early in the FA period (or before FA began) to not bring Ed back.

That was a mistake by NO.

Ed wanted to be here. Dame wanted Ed here. Ed provided MUCH more to this team than either Caleb/Meyers (who will get his time) or Staukuas (who took his roster spot) ever will.

 

I think for the fac

Was he the gold standard in Denver?

 

He got a massive haul for Melo who was going to walk one summer later. Terrific deal for DEN actually

 

I need one of those

 

we they mediocre?

 

I gotta be honest.... I think the nature in which Paul runs the team seems to court a certain type of GM. If you don't fit that type, you get run out of town (Cho).

Trader Bob
KP
Neil

They all had the same kind of used car salesman vibe going on. Maybe it takes that kind of person to convince Paul to get something done. I don't know. But the more I hear about our front office and how things are conducted, the less enthralled I am with Paul as an owner. Corporate culture is from the top down. Period.

I love Dame. I love our team of players. I really like Terry and the coaches. I can't stand our front office, and I just have a feeling it begins and ends with Paul Allen.

 

Dame said he is not looking to jump ship; not looking for the easy way out; he's here to compete, and take the challenge.

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Pierre Corneille

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Moliere

Dame Lillard gets it.

Greatest Blazer of all time.

 

I think it'more Paul Allen and his GM's just get the blame for it. I remember after Prichard left he said it's hard to sell Paul on ideas involving moving good assets.

 

Not to be a broken record, but....

With the Clips, NO only had to deal with the fans when things went right. When anything went wrong, the bandwagoneers just watched the Laker games. Portland fans are many things - but we are rarely indifferent!