Jesus folks: Everybody calm down. Chill the fuck out. It is Jay - Son - Fuck - Ing - Quick. If you react to a Jason Quick story - IT'S ALL ON YOU! We have been down this road before.
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Sorry I don't agree. While I agree with you that Jason Quick isn't the best source, in the situation I tend to believe him. The reason being, is that when negotiations are not going as an agent wants them to and they think some pressure needs to be added they leak to the press. This has been done for years, and this is the exact type of situation that this would happen.
Well.. the good thing is I don't think it can get any worse than a report saying your team is not giving the franchise player he wants, can it?
The article also appeared on the front page of the Sports section in the printed Oregonian, which actually makes me believe that either Roy's agent or LMA's agent leaked this information to Quick. Whether the information is true or not, I don't know, but I believe that Quick was at the very least told the information by one of the players' agents.
People love to criticize Quick yet they get all giddy about a twitter that says a person of interest is on a plane to Portland. Sad. Besides, why don't the Blazers and Roy have a deal yet? What could possibly be holding it up other than what Quick has reported? Aldridge I can understand. There's not an exact number for him. Roy is easy - max deal for 5 years.
Roy could have just said something like Kobe did, like GM is too busy to worry about extending a contract right now, let him do his thing and worry about Roy later. Kobe said that to his GM. Same type ish. Chill the fuck out everyone.
People are so selective of what they want to believe. Quick reports Millsap story ---> Everyone believes. Quick reports contract story ---> Quick is a douche.
I made it through almost four pages of that original thread before I had the same reaction. I'm guessing your reaction time was a bit quicker.
It's all coming crashing down. Roy's pissed off and he's gonna take his qualifying offer and leave us high and dry. This blows.
dammit, why isn't every other post "in pritch we trust"? this was the mantra throughout other terrible moves and screw ups he's done. y'all chose to give him the free pass and now you're upset?
sorry but you've got it wrong. Quick is a douchebag period. The Millsap story brings up an interesting possibility that we can mull over and discuss the different facets of. If you reread the recent thread here you'll see that quite a few posters hold off on accepting it at face value in part because of who reported that Portland has interest. Personally I was just as interested in Millsap two days ago as I am today. He's a quality young RFA on an over the lux tax rival that Portland would seem to be able to target. The 3 way Hinrich thing is another interesting thing to discuss. But a poster posting their thoughts about the Blazers making some move suggested in an article doesn't mean that poster believes this deal is really on the table. We're nobodies just blathering about possibilities because we like to talk Blazer hoops. STOMP
How about some details about his terrible moves and screw ups. Not just 'he should have made a deal', details....like what deal?
