How anyone can be sunshine and lollipops right now is beyond me. How anyone can trust Neil is doing what is right for this team after 9 years of verifiable fuck ups... Pardon us if we don't exactly trust he knows (or cares) what the fuck he is doing.
You kidding me? Looooong time ago. Paul Allen didn’t play he took this shit serious and ran a tight ship. He was a huge basketball fan since he was a kid
There are few things, that are beyond obvious right now. 1. CJ is Olshey's golden boy and in his eyes CJ is worth Embid. Rest of the league see CJ value differently. Hell, no one even cares about him, cos everybody wants Dame now. Cos of Dame situation, CJ value is even lower now. Ergo: There is no point to trade CJ now. 2. Billups wants shot with Dame. Of course he would be disappointed to came here and lose Dame on day one. Trading Dame would make his start much harder. I think there is nothing wrong about waiting few months and check the waters for Billups. What I hope, he can put CJ on a leash and put him out from being one-dimentional player. If Billups will have positive "new coach" effect on the team, CJ's and Nurk's value will go up significantly. Other thig is, that after few months we will know what Little can do and if Blazers should let him play in S5 or just a backup. All in all. Stotts was the main problem here in my view and it is better to wait and see what Billups need and make this big trade later.
this is Olshey level stupidity from Daryl. I want him to post playoff numbers now. Also... good luck getting Ben to buy in after Doc and Joel threw him under the bus.
The worst thing for Portland fans is if Dame is traded right now. Presumably, they'd be announcing a new youth, reconstruction direction and plead for fan patience. And it would be yet another life preserver for Olshey. If he's bewitched Jody/Kolde this long, they'll easily go along with his new plans centered around his freshly acquired draft capital. Allowing Olshey to lead a rebuild from scratch is the worst possible outcome, and priority one has to be his removal. To wake them up, Olshey has to fail with his latest bill of goods of acquisitions and hires. They need to hear louder and louder fan dissent and they have to take it the rear financially. Dame's discontent and no confidence in the management has to be persistent all year. Basically, need a wave of anti-Olshey momentum so large that it will finally drown him. It will be a sucky season, but I think the sour taste in our mouths will be medicine instead of poison this time.
This is a depressingly plausible point. What we REALLY need is Dame to go to ownership and say "it's Neil or me"... Oh, wait. They'd choose Neil, wouldn't they? Crap. Okay, FIRST we need some numbers guy to tell them the value of the franchise drops by half if we trade Dame...
Beasley is very interesting as he certainly has talent. Hopefully he's matured while playing in China? I could see Dame & RoCo having a positive effect on him. This is the era where you do see guys coming in or back later and being productive.
