This time calling out Paul Allen to speak openly about the state of the Blazers and plans to allow the team to compete for a title. He's probably right, but he comes across in his usual sanctimonious fashion. BTW, John, calling Paul Allen a coward is not the best way to encourage him to step forward. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2011/01/canzano_paul_allen_needs_to_le.html
Maybe PA will own him on Twitter the same way Dante did....or just pull some strings and have him fired.
And tomorrow the sun will rise in the East and set in the West. It will rain in Portland and somewhere a blazer will be limping.
Well, in an article from last week the state of the team is clear: Cho is still evaluating... ...........
Crapzano has two pastimes- kicking people/teams when they're down, and, being a bald face liar. He's a weasel and a rat put together. Oh yeah, he's stupid as well. I mean, here's a team that in the last few months has lost their franchise player forever and seen the other franchise player go down yet again to a season ending injury. Add to that we have to carry Roy's enormous contract for 4 more seasons and are facing a very new CBA and most likely a genuine hard cap. And that's after the almost certain one or two season player strike. All the while breaking in a "yes" man at GM. And in the midst of this uncertainty and unanticipated injury news there's Crapzano calling PA a coward and demanding to know the short plan for making us instant title contenders. Crapzano is a complete ass and a joke.
John must not be aware that the Internet provides easy access to his prior self-righteous rants. Here's what he had to say about the Blazers when the contract talks with Brandon were bogged down last year: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2009/07/canzano_roy_asked_for_optout_i.html Turns out, that there was more to the story than Canzano (or any of us outsiders) knew at the time. Now we know that Brandon's knees were the holdup on the contract and that the Blazers were justifiably concerned about giving him a five-year max deal. They eventually caved because he was the face of the franchise, but that doesn't change the fact that Canzano was on his little soapbox shouting about the evil Vulcans back then and demanding that they tie the team to what now is an albatross of a contract. And now that Brandon's pretty well finished, Canzano has the gall to call out Paul Allen to explain how he's going to instantly turn the franchise into a contender. Jackass.
I actually like what Canzano wrote this time. PA has been too silent and it bugs me that he can't make an vocal address to the media on what his plan is. Is he here raking up the profits or does he have a goal with this team? Fans volted in the 2004-05 and 2005-2006 seasons because the team had a "losing record" and they had to slash prices for fans to show up. The team back then had aging players, Abdur-Rahim, etc that seemed not to mix.
Paul Allen has no responsibility or, IMO, need to come out and tell the public about how the team is going to win a championship. He's hired people to do that. Ed O.
Is Paul Allen supposed to have a crystal ball that predicted Oden's injury, Roy's injury, or Aldridge's emergence? Does he have some kind of inside psychic knowledge about whether Matthews shakes out to be a 12 ppg, 15ppg, 20 ppg, or 25 ppg scorer? Does he have solid knowledge on whether Batum is the next Darius Miles or Scottie Pippen? Can he tell us if Camby will get injured yet again? Or whether there's an extended lockout next year? If Paul Allen has access to answers to all those questions, then he should indeed spell out the road map to everyone. If he doesn't, then any grand plan he might have is going to either be really vague or silly.
While Canzano is mostly off-target, he is indirectly right about one thing - responsibility is supposed to flow uphill. He can't predict the future, or give the fans a detailed road-map.....but he can make a simple promise that the people on his payroll will be held accountable for how they do their job.
Here's a good thread that show Canzano going back and forth on Paul Allen Canzano's Change Of Heart Seriously though, he's just trying to stir the pot and the fact that we are talking about him, positively or negatively, is exactly what he set out to accomplish.
At least Canzano waited a bit after the Ducks BCS loss to come up with a new campaign to create hits for his blog and listeners for his 'show'. Shame he keeps repeating the same stories over and over though.
Canzano spins a new angle by opening with an abuse of Washington Redskins owner Snyder-- "controlling and arrogant. He's been heavy-handed, impatient and inconsistent." Sounds just like Canzano. Apparently this week, Snyder vaguely said he's made some errors, and Canzano jealously wants Allen to do so, so Cancer Boy can write reams of newscopy nitpicking every word. He sounds like a lunatic about the Blazers: The Oregonian behaves like a team owner, but puts up no money to buy in. The paper's owners have elected Canzano to speak for them against the majority of their readers, who hate Canzano's guts. The owners and Editor encourage him to seek influence and control in the team on the paper's behalf. Canzano feels it's not enough to use fighting language for the imaginary offense of not making Canzano's job easy. Owners never play the media game like the paper's boy Pritchard did. When the media tells you one person is popular and another isn't, it's usually because one feeds them rumors and the other simply acts like a professional. The word "coward" isn't enough--Canzano demands a purgatory process. Allen must first submit to becoming the media whipping boy for a couple of years, followed by them allowing him into their fraternity of media darlings. Canzano feels the fighting language won't draw his prey into the open, so hopping up and down, he screams threats of revolution. The only way Allen can avoid this revolt is if he talks to Canzano and becomes another Pritchard. By admitting to his intended list of destructive questions, Canzano shows this isn't a real try to get Allen to sucker into this. He's just posturing. Canzano is a verbose punk who draws his paychecked courage from some owner punks and an Editor punk who created him.
They must be taking an extended holiday "incommunicado". I've heard no nothing more than "we're evaluating" since Larry Miller took over a couple years ago. I have no idea what they're going to do, and it's pretty obvious neither do they.
