Pritchards done is this article is even half true.... WOW... Get ready...

So lets recap....

Peter V is wrong.

Dwight Jaynes is wrong.

Adam W is wrong.

John Canzano is wrong.

Henry Aboott is wrong.


Riiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhtttt.

 

They are not.

In fact, nobody at all in the NBA is saying this.

Not a single, solitary person.

 

KP has had a sense of arrogance and need for public adoration ever since he has been a GM (and before then), IMO.

If he is a good GM, I'm willing to overlook these things . . . but good GM or bad GM, if the boss (and his advisors) get the vibe that KP is in this for himself only, do you blame management for letting him go?

I think there is a lot to this article because I (like most on this board) follow every move KP makes publically since being a GM . . . and a lot of the article rings true to me . . . the way they described KP fits with the KP I have been following as a GM.

 

In this for himself?

What the fuck does that even mean?

He want's to win and sign a long term contract.

 

Again. They're all right. KP wants more money and he's complaining about it loud enough that someone like the WOJ decided to write an article on it. But so what? KP deserves more money. The Vulcans (Seriously? You name your company after an alien star trek race? ) should give it to him.

I don't see the problem here from KP's side of it. He thinks he deserves more money. I don't see any evidence to the contrary. Why aren't the Vulcans giving him more money?

 

when i hear a rumor about someone or something....

the first time you shrug it off...

the second time... you think about it a bit more...

the third time... im leaning to putting some stock into it

kpee is is done

 

Agreed. I lol'ed at that comment.

 

@JohnCanzanoBFT # Lots of rumblings regarding Kevin Pritchards future w the Blazers today. He's expected to make an announcement in the next 24 hours or so. 15 minutes ago via web

 

Never mind that it's Canzano that writes a sheer guess piece, and then ESPN posts ties into that piece, and then Wojo extrapolates from that piece.

You've heard it over and over again so it must be true.

I think that there could be some legs to this story simply because the Blazers haven't given KP a new contract yet. But, as far as I'm concerned, this is just internet gossip until we get an article that is willing to do something other than cite an anonymous source.

 

I'm going to make a wild internet forum guess here.

KP wants to go a different direction at head coach.

Allen says no.

Pritchard tells Allen it's either him or Nate because he's the GM and doesn't like where it's going. "This is why you hired me Paul."

Allen fires Penn as a warning shot.

Seattle cvnts (unnamed sources ) begin destruction of Pritchard in the media re his ability and character.

Certain fans eat the shit up. claim they "knew all along" the unnamed sources quotes re Pritchard.

Pritchard and Portland agree to part ways.

"One of the best young coaches in the game" enters his second decade of coaching and manages to send the entire city of Portland into a coma playing dire basketball and finishing 3rd in division each season with our "young up and coming team."

Paul Allen fails yet again as Bill Gates was not involved.

Portland continues to live in basketball mediocrity for the next decade. Again.

 

Agreed!

The first time I heard someone call you a troll, I shrugged it off. Meh, just a negative nancy is all.

The second time, I thought about it a bit more. You know, he always does try to interject negative crap into generally positive threads, in a concerted effort to derail them.

The third time, I started to catch on to the game, and have definitely put more stock into it. Unfortunately, some it take a couple of hundred times. Well, here's hoping this happens, for your sake. I know you dislike him, and I really want you to have a positive time in rooting for your favorite basketball team.

 

Woj is a douche, but that isn't the real issue here.

Many fans, myself included, have trouble understanding the idea that the team might value Nate over KP. That doesn't make the claim untrue. A sizable chunk of Blazer fandom would salute KP if he called for Nate to be fired. Even fans who generally support Nate would say "if KP feels he needs to go, it's time." That doesn't mean Allen sees it that way - and at the end of the day, only his vote counts!

 

Both KP and Nate are here to stay.

Drama Drama Drama

 

They (Allen and McMillan) are both Seattle guys. Seattle pride!

 

VULCANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

hail blazers... if that makes you feel better lol

 

I thought it was the garbage conjecture, lack of merit to any post I've ever read and general ridiculousness.

I'm taking a moment from dealing with my father's terminal cancer, not much time left now, and I foolishly clicked into this thread. The perfect mix of ridiculous poster posting an article from the WORST writer in the NBA who has the biggest hardon for Pritchard I've ever freaking seen.

Criticize KP if you want, but using AWOJ as a source? GTFO!

 

It does make me feel great knowing that your the one quoting this "inside information"

Makes for good context.

 

http://www.dwightjaynes.com/man-the-trail-blazers-are-boiling-over

its getting ugly

 

and now more ftom canzano. kpee to make a statemeny this week about future and will dig in...


well the good news is... we dont play till thurs... and this should be entetaining

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2010/03/canzano_blog_when_kevin_pritch.html