You know I would, but I am not displeased with the organization/management as some people. It is cool that some wanted another candidate over this guy who is basically question mark. All of your posts recently have been just that: "Oh if only we had a GM, Larry Miller should be searching not being on vacation, my team is in disarray, whatever shall I do, etc." Of course, maybe now that we have a GM you will show a little variety in your posts.
Excellent choice. Contrary to Odd Enormous's opinion I believe he possesses exactly what the Blazers need. His analytical skills, CBA knowledge, and legal background were lost by the franchise whene we got rid of Penn.
That sums up how I feel too. Of the floated possibilities, Cho is the only one who I felt could be a good and exciting hire.
Randy Pfund has been out of the league for two years. Do we really think at this point he's more up to date than Cho? Sure he has more experience, but is that experience relevant? I'll admit my bias by stating this is the guy I really wanted from the get-go.
Actually, your first post on this topic was how Cho is going to start a rebuild, and is going to ship out Roy and Aldridge for cap space. Even though there is zero evidence to support that claim. Yeah, some "reasoning" you applied to your opinion. So your point is that we hired somebody that is going to make huge changes, and start a rebuild... but we just hired somebody that wont' be able to make a big trade or bring in free agents. Nice logic and "reasoning".
They must not teach sarcasm at Stanford. And again with you adding your inane and off-target two cents. Do you have any original ideas?
Try not to feel so inadequate. None of us can have any "original ideas" on this hire, unless we want to take a wild-ass guess. Yes, he is inexperienced in the GM role. But, IMO, it is more exciting with a higher possible reward to hire somebody that "might" turn out to be good instead of hiring a GM with experience that has proven to be mediocre, or worse than average. IMO, the other candidates have proven to be worse than average, so I prefer to take the chance with Cho.
In a world where Pritchard has already been fired (I know you wouldn't have fired Pritchard, but now that he has been), whom would you have considered a solid hire to replace Pritchard? And the reason to hire Cho is not that Kupchak or Pritchard had success in their first shot at GM. The reason to hire Cho is, after doing due diligence, believing that Cho has the intelligence, knowledge and basketball understanding to do the job best. Hopefully, that's why Portland made the hire. Examples like Kupchak simply show that inexperience isn't dooming, so one shouldn't disqualify inexperienced candidates from the pool of consideration.
Well, according to his bio, you start as an intern with the Sonics while you are finishing your degree in sports law. barfo
I know why Portland made the hire. I'm not too sure I trust those people to make a hire. Again. The problem I have is with the PROCESS we've just gone through starting in March until today. Utter fuckwittery.... IN MY OPINION. To answer your question I'm not sure who else I would have hired. I haven't interviewed anyone or hired a "find me a GM" firm I'm again not sure why my opinion is being questioned over and over and over again when "This just feels right" hasn't been. I've not seen anyone give a reason other than "Just because he's inexperienced doesn't mean he won't be good." I'm not sure if he'll he'll fail or succeed. I don't have a fucking clue. I just can't believe we've come out on the other end of this process with someone who none of us know if he can actually do the job or not at this point in the franchises story. It's totally bizarre to me.
Did you not read the rest of the post? Since you're always crying about not discussing the topic, why don't you discuss the topic?
