Why do folks assume they will lose a large part of the fan base? I am a Blazer fan, not a KP fan. KP is an ok Gm who has made his share of mistakes, and his share of good decisions. Let's get real here. If KP was fired, some part of the fan base might be peeved for a day or two. But nobody really gives a shit enough to stop being a Blazer fan.
Man, I've been following this a little bit, and you guys are just plain out of your mind if some office hacks ends up firing the basketball guys in your organization. At first I thought this was just a lot of talk about nothing, but Ford is right. That "press conference" yesterday was really freaking strange, and it doesn't bode well for anything. All I can say is that I'd like to have KP running my Bulls, or even here in Indiana running the Pacers. I guess Greg from nowhere and other folks might not know what they have till it's gone.
Well said. I've been increasingly critical of KP in the past year, but that's not because I wanted him fired, I wanted him to correct course and learn from what I perceive to be some minor errors. I want him to succeed because I think he's a pretty damn fine talent evaluator and I want to see him make the full transition to excellent talent consolidator and team builder.
It took Pritchard four years to build this team. It took some douche bags in suits one week to bring it all down.
Were Pritchard's hands tied last trade deadline? What about this trade deadline (for a more higher risk/higher reward deal)? What about during the offseason? Was there something more behind the Turkoglu fiasco?
I don't know if this has been mentioned by any of you, but why the fuck would Pritch go behind ownership's back and offer a deal to Roy and Aldridge that wasn't actually offered by ownership? That's like me walking into a car dealership offering 40,000 for a car on behalf of my father, and he's not yet sure even what make, model, or price range he's settled on yet. I don't get any of this.
That's not the issue, it was trying to publicly side with Roy and Aldridge by not owning management's position during the negotiations; he made it clear he was frustrated with people above him (Vulcan or Allen?) playing hard ball.
Ok. Thanks. I hadn't understood it that way. So he was playing good cop, and the Vulcs were angry, vicious, prick-dipper cops. Gotcha. But, if he publicly sided with Roy, where were those comments. Do you recall that? I don't.
In the Oregonian. And I should say that he never said anything explicitly anti-Vulcan or pro Roy, it was just implicit in his tone
