Ainge For GM?

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

    BLAZER PROPHET Well-Known Member

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    That's ABM's thought.

    Makes sense. He built a championship team and drafted Rondo. He's also from the area. Makes sense.
     
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    I will consider us lucky if we get someone with Ainge's track record.

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    He didn't "build" shit. He traded Brandon Roy for Sebastian Telfair and was handed KG by another failure of a GM who felt sorry for the Celtics.
     
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    oh god no.
     
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    Dear God, no.
     
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    I can't deny his championship, but he isn't on my list.
     
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    The new GM is going to have to agree that blowing up the Blazers is not an option. Allen wants no part of that.

    Basically the new GM is going to have to agree to go with the plans the Blazers have already made, and that's why the Blazers won't find anyone good. Any GM worth a damn wants autonomy.

    Paul Allen, Larry Miller and Nate McMillan are your GM's and Chad will keep the seat warm and give the position a face.
     
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    Oh yes, the Vulcan suck up.
     
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    I think Ainge has a decent track record. Trading a #7 pick for Telfair was bad (but it was in a weak draft, the Blazers just did a remarkable job with that pick) but drafting Rondo was an inspired pick and trading for Garnett and Allen was, respectively, a great move and a very solid move. He's also done a solid job of putting role-players around his best players.

    I don't think Ainge is a superstar GM, but he has some points in his favor. I doubt he'll be looking for a job in the near future, though.
     
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  10. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Never liked that kid. I'd pass. Besides, doesn't he have a job in Boston?

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    Somehow I doubt he would still have one if Paul Allen were Boston's owner:

    More.
     
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    BRING BACK TRADER BOB!!
     
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    That would be so epic. I'd love it. It'd be a disaster or a triumph. Either way, it'd be soooo entertaining :)

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    The true team manager, the Oregonian, won't allow it.
     
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    Here is the perfect GM for our team with everything the folks in Seattle are looking for

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    Bring in Ainge and Adelman. I'd fucking love it. Go Blazers!!

    In Ainge's defense, his team had just lost out on Oden who they believed was their destiny. After losing the lottery and ending up with Jeff Green instead, he makes a few moves and wins a championship THAT SEASON. It wasn't just KG. It was also Ray Allen. AND Posey. And House. And PJ Brown. And Cassell. Very impressive job brought Boston a title after a season in which they didn't even win 30 games.
     
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    Yes, he did a good job. But the job of filling in around Paul Pierce and KG is not the most difficult GM'ing job in the world. If he doesn't get KG handed to him, he looks a lot worse.

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    Ainge was on his way out the door in Boston until one of his Celtic buddies traded him Garnett. Had they won the Oden pick, he would be unemployed.
     
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    who cares who the GM is. It's a huge mess now, and we're just gonna have to sit through another decade of mediocrity.
     
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