Blazers want to bring Pritchard back now?

2nd place money can't be all bad! Plus, I'd be entertainment. STOMP would probably try to jump me on the first day, and BoobNoMore would sit in the corner talking shit about me to other people!

 

Mixum must be reinstated first.

 

So, even without the injuries, you think the Blazers are closer to winning a title today that they were two years ago? I disagree. Even without the injuries, the team is older and less deep.

I wasn't referring specifically to trades (and if I was, the Camby trade was well over a year ago, before the rumors of Kevin Pritchard falling out of graces with Paul Allen). Trades are the job of the GM - something we don't have right now. Last year's draft, with a lame duck GM was a disaster. Nothing we got out of that draft helped us one bit. Now, were going into this year's draft with someone who has never completed a trade in his life, and hasn't exactly identified the best available college prospects in recent drafts, even though that was his primary job, running the show. To me, that doesn't inspire confidence and make me think we will come out of the draft any closer to a title than we are now - and we're currently not very close.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Without any stability in the GM position and an acting GM with zero experience making draft day trades, I see little reason to be optimistic about this year's draft. Back in 2006, we had KP, plus Steve Patterson and John Gabriel all involved. What KP lacked in experience making trades was more than augmented by Patterson and Gabriel. This year we don't have KP, or Gabriel, or even Patterson, Tom Penn or Rich Cho. Sorry, but with Brandon Roy's sudden, negative career arc, we NEED to get SOMEONE who can contribute immediately out of this draft, or it's another step backwards. Building a championship contender in a small market is hard enough as is. A team like Portland simply can't wiff on the draft year after year and expect to get any closer to contending. Even during the Jailblazers era, we pulled guys like Bonzi and Zach out of the draft. They may have been knuckleheads, but they did make immediate contributions. I honestly think if KP hadn't been on the verge of being fired, our draft would have went down better last year that it did.

BNM

 

MickZagger would be in the corner lifting weights all summer! BeerBoy would be the token happy gay guy!

 

But when you say all his moves in the last year are moving this team in the wrong direction, what moves are you talking about? The moves with the GM?

Also, you want to say that PA doesn't allow GMs to do their job, so who made the move for Matthews and Wallace? Either the GM had the ability to do his job and give credit to him or the GMis just a puppet and give credit to PA for those moves. It can't be give credit to the GM but dis PA for not allowing GM to do his thing.

This years draft is meaningless. If the Blazers rush to get a GM in place for the draft or kept Cho just for stability for a #21 pick, that would be a huge mistake, IMO.

If Cho can bring us Wallace, imagine what a wheeler and dealer GM can do . . .

 

Man, I rarely post anymore, more-so just lurk about, but holy shit.....every time I come here, the most simple threads and topics turn into the biggest bunch of dramatic pissing matches I've ever seen..... wtf is up with that...