Olshey Accelerated Rebuild Due To Portland's Intense Devotion To Blazers

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    http://basketball.realgm.com/wireta...-Due-To-Portlands-Intense-Devotion-To-Blazers

     
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    Love it, Mad Respect Neil.
     
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    I was going to start a thread this morning in appreciation of what Olshey has done here, but this one will do. The thread title I was going to use was:

    Neil Olshey: Chemistry Professor

    He kept the core pieces together and melded just the right accessory ingredients to the mix to create a compound much stronger and more powerful than the individual components. If the Blazers can stay healthy, he should be a shoo-in for GM of the Year.
     
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    The suffering of the last decade has made this all the sweeter - love it!
     
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    I think he's one of the top GM's in the league. I really hope Paul locks him up long term.
     
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    FYI

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    We talk Blazers' resurgence with 1 ot the NBA's best national writers @WojYahooNBA at 3:00 PM on #WheelsAtWork on #FoxSportsPDX
     
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    Olshey made us average on purpose?
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    16-3 is average? You need to check your math.

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    Average? How you figure?
     
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    Neil is one of the biggest assets we have on this team. He just gets it. He understands what this team is for the community. He understands that we truly bleed Scarlet and Black. Olshey is PIMP
     
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    So what he's saying is, he scrapped a plan he thought would be the most effective way to build a long-term title contender, and instead went for short-term-gain-long-term-loss quick fixes because the Blazers' soccer-mom fans don't have the patience to do things the right way?

    :gasoline: :pokecrap: :shitstorm:
     
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    Your amount of trolling is positively correlated to the Blazers winning percentage. Why is that?
     
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    I am not trolling.

    I am stating a belief I have had since the summer, that we will be neither good enough to do any real damage in the playoffs nor bad enough to rebuild with more talent. Until the all-star break, my opinion won't change.
     
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    And when we prove you wrong? What then? Because you are basing that "mediocre" comment on opinions without facts backing it up. Basically giving us a "hunch feeling" of your opinion.
     
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    then you need to open your eyes, if you can't see how good this team is then you have a rather sizeable blindspot, Barring injuries they are a serious WCF contender. Yeah it's an opinion but yours sucks IMO
     
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    There is absolutely no case you can make that we are average. So you either haven't been paying attention, or you're trolling.
     
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    what's well "below average" is MM's cognitive ability, unreal, but then again the sig implies mediocrity
     
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    I get that you are a homer, mags, but literally less than a handful of national "experts" thought we would do anything but MAYBE sneak into the playoffs. They probably based that on the same things I did. Performance last year. Lopez having a history on injury issues. Being extremely inexperienced on the front line with our reserves. Those reserves performance last year. So that is why I thought what I thought, and said a couple of weeks ago when asked that I would either stay with or change my opinion after the all-star break because that would really be a true test, instead of 19 games, a fairly easy until the last couple of games SOS, and an EXTREMELY easy road schedule so far.

    You root blindly for the team you love, which is great. I love them as much as you, just more reserved with a wait and see attitude
     
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    I could be wrong but I thought it also might have something to do with Paul's health? The whole city of Portland knows there is nothing that Paul Allen wants more than a Blazers championship.
     
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