Reporter: "Everyone thought it was a 1-year rebuild. When did fans vote on giving you 5 years, which is half of a player's career?" Reporter: "Really? Who is 'we'? And, you just said it was 3 years ago."
"Look, when you lose veterans like we did in free agency in 2015, it's difficult to keep a team as competitive as we did. Usually, teams would be rebuilding for years in that scenario, but we've consistently kept this team in playoff contention."
Your allergy to trades just might be the cause. I got an idea. If you want to rebuild, why don't you try some rebuilding?
The Blazers aren't a usual team. In his last 3 full seasons, Nate McMillan won 54, 50, and then 48 games (.659, .610, and .585). In 3 straight first rounds, he went 2-4 (.333, better than Stotts' 11-24 [ .314] even including his Aldridge years). Then he went only 20-23 (.465) with a bunch of new players and was fired midseason, it was so bad by Blazer standards.
Look, let me first thank all of you who covered our team this year, I couldn't have asked for better submissi... ehmmm, professional reporters! We have a fantastic owner. It was a very successful season, we won the division, Terry did a fantastic job developing young talent, matter of fact nobody in our roster emerged from last year while the likes of Donovan Mitchell shines in other franchises. We have a fantastic owner. We plan on keeping all of our assets, including our impending free agents, we will try to extend them at very maximum numbers in order to discourage other suitors, no matter if the luxury tax will be worth more than the franchise itself. We have a fantastic owner. The plan for next year is to sign Steve Blake and Chris Kaman to the veteran minimum, they are the X Factor missing on our team. We have a fantastic owner. With al-Farouq Aminu at the five we are projected to win 65 games next year. Wait, did I already said that we have a fantastic owner? *Neil, we have Paul Allen on the phone, he wants to talk with you* Oh fuck, better sending some CV to the new soap operas filming in Hollywood.
2nd round against a healthy GSW who added KD and swept Portland in the regular season? Not a chance. Lillard said Portland in 6, and the media jumped all over it. It was said multiple times on this forum. 'What is he supposed to say? Good season, we lose in 4?' VS the Clippers no one expected Portland to even make the playoffs, let alone make the second round. At best, Portland was supposed to lose 4-1. It's still said by many on this very forum, that Portland got lucky with CP3 & BG getting injured. Even then it's a knock on Portland being that they didn't just blow out the Clippers every game after those two went down.
My guess is that he talks about the futures of Collins and Nurkic. He will also probably play the victim, saying that New Orleans was a horrible matchup for our guards. Or he might play the "You fantasy GM's have no f'in idea how hard it is to attract FA's to a town with so little valet parking. Seriously, you have to park your own car here! And you wonder why I had too give Turner so much money!"
Everyone here has forgotten, but I haven't, because I was the one who noticed and called him out for it...and got a lot of criticism from Olshey slaves (employees?)... When Olshey signed Turner, he said that Turner would definitely start. I started a controversy on this board (that a new player should have to earn a starting position, not be entitled to it). Word got to other boards, then to reporters, who asked Olshey, and he wormed his way into ambiguity about it. When the season arrived, Turner was definitely not good enough to start. So Olshey overrated Turner even more than we think, which is already way too much.
