What Olshey has done

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  1. Schilly

    Schilly Well-Known Member

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    After the Harkless trade I really started thinking about what Neil has done with this roster. Essentially he has positioned this team perfectly with a solid foundation of talented hard working young players, most of them have already proven they belong in a rotation in this league. In addition there are a couple players with huge upside but need to develop and may or may not pan out in Vonleh and Montero.

    All in all this team built perfectly to add another top tier player to via the Lottery this year or free agency next year. The bench and rotation is solid, we just need to add one more All Star caliber piece and we have IMO 2 years to do so, then it's all out gunning for the title.

    I absofreaking love the way Neil is orchestrating things in the wake of being ditched by Lamarcus. He's setting up one Hell of a lemonade stand.
     
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    All while sitting on his thumbs
     
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    He's a fantastic horrible GM, the worst best we've ever had. Everything he touches turns to shit gold. I am very happy angry with this summer's moves.

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    Imagine what he could do if he wasn't sitting on his thumbs.
     
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    Ha! Had to read this twice because this was too good. Job well done sir.
     
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    I'm liking it too, but we really need one of non-Lillard youngsters to break out into star quality and a couple more into solid starter material. Olshey has set us up for a chance, but that a pretty difficult challenge. Personally, I see Myers, CJ, Vonleh and Davis ad the most likely to make those big strides, but Pat, Hark, Al-F and Ed all have an outside chance too.
     
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    I don't know any more. Is everything to us Blazer fans the best of all possible worlds?
     
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    And all this action while he's actually not only sitting on his thumbs but sitting on them in Tahiti
     
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    I shit gold after a night of drinking goldschläger
     
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    Goldschlager is some nasty sh-t bro. Usually end up behind a dumpster when I've been drinking it.
     
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    I shit my pants just thinking about drinking goldshlager
     
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    It's better than brassschläger


    Or foolsgoldschläger
     
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    Aminu
    Davis
    Harkless
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    Project Pat

    All 25 or younger but they all have one thing in common: they can't create their own shot.

    Lillard and CJ are the only players currently on the roster who can. It'll be interesting to see how Stotts uses this core.
     
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    Olshey is being patience and logical. He isn't just trying to throw a roster together like a lot of GMs...the sly Son of a bitch is building something marvelous.
     
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    IMO he's collected young talented players that haven't developed yet on other teams and is hoping 1 or 2 of them turn into either a starter or productive role player. If youre rebuilding this is a great way to do it.
     
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    For the sake of discussion take this team and add a high Lotto pick to it.
     
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    This. Exactly.

    Aside from Dame and Aminu, we're ties to nothing for more than 3 seasons.
     
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    We will be three seasons, OR MORE, away from being a playoff team. Not acceptable.
     
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    Lillard might be the only player on the roster to average more than 30mpg next season. Every other position is more or less even

    After that it's not going to matter who starts. Whoever is playing better that game will get the minutes.
     
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    feel free to be miserable about it. Personally I like to find the positives in what is actually going on so I can enjoy the process.
     
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