This is laughable, BRoy doesn't own this team! Paul Allen and crew need to say..... "Brandon, this is a business, you have no knees, you've been paid well, be grateful you're not a Clipper and ya took 90 mill of my money, now shut the hell up and grab some wood!!" That's it!!!! Build around LA, Batum, Wes and hope Greg and Joel can make one complete center... FIRE NATE!! In the now, trade Miller, Rudy and Marcus and try to get one good young player in return and be prepared to not make the playoffs. This sucks but watching this team continue to lose huge, to crap teams in empty stadiums also doesn't cut it! This is a business and right now it's broken, time to make surgical changes that are going to have to be done anyway. Let's get on with it!
People act like the chaotic, dysfunctional, and distant ownership has nothing to do with the current situation. I've long held the belief that the uncertainty surrounding this team starts a the top. Roy didn't force the Blazers to sign him, and Larry Miller admits to knowing about the knee issues. Hell, I was among the biggest proponents of giving Roy the max, but had I known his knees were really that bad, there is no way in hell you can guarantee a 5-year contract. Paul Allen apparently let Hat Guy work out Oden this summer at the practice facility. What, if any, rehab credentials does Hat Guy possess? If any, they sure didn't work, because Greggers is down for yet another season. Bigfoot is seen more often in the NW than Oden is seen on the court. Paul Allen has a temper tantrum and fires Tom Penn after a season of publicly shaming/shunning KP, fires KP on draft night, and then allegedly still allows KP to run (ruin?) the draft before he packs his shit and walks out of the door. Paul Allen then flies number cruncher Rich Cho halfway across the world, meets with him, and decides that hiring another inexperienced GM will get his team over the top. Hey, it didn't work with KP, but this time is must be right, right??? Then, in his first 5 months on the job, the inexperienced GM manages to trade away Jerryd Bayless to NO for a draft pick without getting another bench scorer in return. And that's where we still stand... The Vulcans can sit Roy, fire Nate, and replace Cho, but I just don't think any of it matters. There has never been a consistent message or voice within the organization, and by all reports, Paul Allen is a guy who falls in love with employees quickly, but can turn on them just as quickly for reasons real or imagined.
I used to love me some Batum, but he hasn't been bringing it lately. Roy has played better than Nico. Nate has to play the guys that are giving him the most.
You forgot to connect your random, rambling, bumbling complaints to any tangible effects on why we're losing.
+1. Primary dysfunction is at the top of the organization (Miller). Its not a culture of winning IMO.
