Blazers Press Conference announcing new coach 6-29-2021

Jesus Christ, do they want the independent investigation read aloud or some shit?

Why not reveal the ladies name while they’re at it?

 

well, you sad its night and i was like: so what, is it crazy that hes watching press at 9:00 pm

nba games here start at 1:00 am earliest and 4:30 am latest and i stay up every night to watch games

im not staying up cause the nba, but cause im that type of person, but since im a sports fan and since i like nba, i watch them games

anyway, the point is: your comment would made more sense if you said something about me watching games so late and not nurk watching press at 9:00 fucking pm

 

Loved that little twerp Hihkin asking a question he knew wouldn’t get an answer just for brownie points online. WHO DID YOU HIRE SPECIFICALLY NEIL? Fuck outta here.

 

How about if we had some reporters who ask hard questions about basketball and coaching? Never see much of that here in Portland.

 

Why does it gotta be about u lol
Are you a Blazer player

 

There are multiple posts from people asking for the org to post a report from the independent investigation online.

 

He did, but he didn't set up:
If you want experience, go with MDA
If you want upside, go with CB

So, to some it's going to seem like he just hates Becky - she was the more experienced candidate, after all.

 

I woulda told him (highkin) I hired his mom and dad, now shut up.

seriously tho, what a dumb fucking question

“hey who did you hire, what did they tell you, etc”

like wtf?

 

ok they could have answered Quick's question about 1997 vs. the company line by the moderator of 'asked n answered' - id have preferred that CB answered it, even if he only said - look everything i said earlier, family, friends, mindset, awareness around scenarios etc

 

"Dame's happiness always revolves around winning. The ultimate responsibility falls on me and my staff, to put a team together that we can walk into the beginning of the season can compete for a championship. It's making sure Dame's confident, every conversation is that he loves Portland, doesn't want to leave Portland, he wants to retire a TrailBlazer, he's expressed that to me and the stakeholders in the company. And I told Dame, look if you gotta drive my butt every day to make sure we're out on a limb, and we're taking risks, we're doing everything we can to build a roster that and you feel, and the rest of the guys on the team feel that can walk in with the swagger knowing that the roster isn't the reason we can't compete for a championship, that's on me. And you know I readily accept that responsibility. There's different ways we can do it."

"The shorter answer is, it's on me to make Dame happy, and the way to make Dame happy is to put the pieces around him to where he feels he can win a championship."

Direct quotes from Neil. I don't think he's sitting on his hands. I'm critical of Olshey because I think a bunch of his moves suck, but if you don't think he knows he's on the hot seat to improve the roster to make Dame happy you're crazy. First presser when we got eliminated he talked on and on about how the roster wasn't the issue. This press conference was a 180. Why do you think that is? Clearly it was expressed to him by Dame, and if he's not going to trade Dame he's going to be super aggressive improving the roster.

Now he may fail on the latter, but he's going to try. I think he will use as many future resources as he can to improve the current roster. Who cares if he trades the firsts 5 years down the road? If Dame asks to leave Neil won't be here to make those picks anyways.

 

This is the one time I'd like Neil to go FULL OLSHEY.

 

You gotta believe Nurk enjoyed that even more!

 

as i said earlier, it was an easy chance to make billups look good. dumb from the moderator to shut it down.

 

not to mention whichever firm the team hired has a legal contract with the team that precludes them from going in detail. I mean Olshey even said it was proprietary

 

it kinda was, especially since it looked like Billups was ready to answer it. Oh well, if that’s the worst move of the presser so be it.

 

There is nothing wrong with Dame having input on who the coach should be, he's earned the right. All Super Stars get involved with coaching changes.
And to be honest not a thing wrong with Neil stating that he goes way back with Chauncey and knows he can help us take the next step.

 

Ok, the Chauncey era starts now. I like to know who are the assistants.

 

I no longer think that at all....he was an idiot in this presser