If you don't like our offseason, who would you have signed instead?

That's really all you needed to say in this thread. I asked a straight forward question. I'm sorry if you took it as a personal slight towards you, but I was curious which players people would have liked to sign with the MLE/BAE instead of Blake/Kaman.

 

I understand the motive behind the question - and you'll notice that I gave you a direct answer - but the fact remains that Olshey should be held to a higher standard than fans on a message board.

 

I entirely agree with that, but these types of questions help ground opinions in reality. Otherwise, the standard we could hold Olshey to is "Get us a LeBron James every year" which would be silly, since he can only do that once. Forcing people to think through realistic alternatives is one form of perspective.

It's not entirely unfair to say "He could be creative and come up with something none of us could think of," but you can't just use that as a magic spell. Otherwise, you recognize no limitations at all and can just claim that "creativity" can move the mountain sitting in your way.

 

Aminu and DJ's kid playing for the Rockets summer league team

 

What I will say is this, there is nothing to the moves he made. Your son or daughter (if you have them) could have done the same thing. The bottomline is I still have yet to anything creative out of him. These moves like last off season, there was nothing to them.

 

I disagree about last year. Lopez and t. Rob was very creative. In fact, even getting mo was good.

 

I disagree. It would have been VERY easy for him to keep chasing the white rabbit. He could have wasted a lot of time pursuing free agents that he had no chance of signing, but instead he realized that most of the names that he originally targeted was going to be out of his price range and he immediately went after two guys that he knew he could get for the right price.

 

Sometimes obvious moves are also correct moves. Creativity is a great quality and hopefully Olshey has it in spades, but I wouldn't him to pass over the right signing just because it's the one "anyone could have made."

 

It's not that I don't like the players we got it's just the question remains, Who's going to be our stud off the bench?

 

I don't really like our offseason, and I'm not sure that there were any better gets available. It's not mutually exclusive. I can not like the offseason they had, and not have any deals I like better. (And, as pointed out, I'm not privy to the information that the Blazers have....so it's unrealistic to think I know all the possibilities available.)

I'm not mad at the team, or NO. Since I don't have enough information to second guess him, I'll live with what he did. It is what it is.....but MEH, in spades. Probably made the team a little better, but not by much.

And that's passing over the obvious. The Blazers could have gone the trade route. Agree or disagree, the proponents for trading LA have a legit point to make. He is an inefficient scorer that plays average defense. And, (while I don't think it's likely) he could bolt. If the Blazers had traded LA, there were a ton of ways to go from there. I'm not saying I wanted to see LA traded, but those that want an LA trade have a reason to not like the offseason that I can understand.

Here's hoping that we see improvement from the players we have.

Go Blazers

 

Kamen?

Go Blazers

 

Lopez was a plug and play. Nothing creative about that

 

I will disagree. A center was a plug and play. However, that Center turning into Lopez was pretty creative.

 

A larger problem I have with him is his attitude towards this 'smaller'market.

It's killing him

 

Read back when the deal was made. The forum mainly was "meh" about getting him. Much like they are now about Kaman.

In chemistry, sometimes the smallest ingredient makes such a huge impact in the overall physical identity of a compound. You can also have too much of strong chemicals; which only brings explosions...

We got to the second round with what we already had. We were 5th in the west and 7th overall. You should be grateful we have a gm that isn't paying up the ass for players like frye and Hawes.