Canzano: Blazers on fast track to lost summer

I think Miller has a plan, but it's nothing like the old plan and it's based on something other than knowledge of basketball players.

We could call it the Hindenburg Plan, or the Titanic Plan.

 

I think the only concrete plans Lazy Miller had coming into the season were his vacation plans. After that...

 

Where was Canzano when Pritchard kept having lost summers?

 

Bingo great post as usual. I think we need a new PG, but still I agree generally.

 

What's YOUR plan given the Lakers and Heat? It's Oden or he won't be the only one who's a bust. Unless you got a trade idea for a Superstar lined up you can forget about a ring. Also that Superstar better be a Center if we want to have a prayer of beating the Heat.

 

Does anyone in this thread honestly think we can win a title without a healthy Oden I mean really? If Oden ISN'T healthy then he isn't tradable. Also what pieces do we have to trade for another star to put next to Roy? Gut the entire team for Melo? I mean seriously let's hear a viable way to win without Oden being healthy. That is the plan if it don't work, we'll revisit this all when the Heat dynasty is over. It's that simple.

 

How can anybody answer that question without knowing what the new CBA is going to look like? Whatever roster you build right now, may be blown up 2 years from now.

Even if everything breaks right, can the current roster realisticaly contend for the 2011 title? I'm not convinced they can. That leaves 2 basic options. The first is to use Oden as bait to trade for someone like CP3 *without* having to gut the rest of the roster. The second is to wait until the post-apocalypse, when it is a very real possibility that every team will be thrust into some degree of rebuilding.

That's a big part of the reason I want the team to hire an analytical guy like Cho as GM. With most (if not all) teams reeling, it would be a real advantage to have a GM who can grasp and exploit the nuances of the new (hard)cap system.

 

They had that guy, and they also had a guy with a scouting background pounding the phones. I hope Cho remembers to give Paul Allen credit, and I also hope he doesn't give many interviews! Is one a month the allowable amount?

Canzona nailed it in this column. The organization is a mess right now. Thankfully, the talented players that the fired GMs brought in likely don't give a shit and just want to play ball and win games next year.

 

Yes, we did have those guys. At this point, the odds of finding an upgrade are pretty small, but maybe the team can luck into somebody at the same level.

In the abstract, KP and Penn were not irreplacable. The team is now finding out that *in practice* the guys who are actually available aren't anything special.

 

I agree with that, and I'm happy those guys brought in players that can make up for the bumbling front office.

 

If our plan is to hope Oden will be healthy and build around him; where is our backup plan if he isn't healthy? It seems we need to obtain (better that we had already done it) a big man with potential and start developing him. Pendergraph doesn't seem to have much potential.