Notice What would you grade the season in retrospect?

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What grade do you give this past season

  1. A

    2 vote(s)
    3.2%
  2. B

    13 vote(s)
    21.0%
  3. C

    31 vote(s)
    50.0%
  4. D

    12 vote(s)
    19.4%
  5. F

    4 vote(s)
    6.5%
  1. KingSpeed

    KingSpeed Veteran

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    Season A. Playoffs F.
     
  2. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    We struggled early, but were able to bring our grade up to a solid B by season's end, then failed the final exam miserably, taking us down to a weak C-.
     
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  3. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    So, you're actually delusional enough to think your repetitious rants in an online forum are going to change the future direction of this franchise? Really????

    BNM
     
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  4. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Neil.Olshey@trailblazers.com
     
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  5. Gronk Brady

    Gronk Brady Well-Known Member

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    This forum is full of posters with childlike behavior... they bring me down to their level... you defend CupPisser when he is constantly name calling and acting childish... but you have a problem when I do it because you disagree with my message...
     
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    It is remarkable how similar this season was to last season. The only difference was last season we thought it was Nurk that turned the season around and we could tell ourselves that Nurk going down in the playoffs was what killed our chances.

    It seems like certain coaches have their patterns. Like I said in some other thread: PJ Carlesimo had an eerily similar pattern to Stotts: start the season slow, but be REALLY COOKING (like 90% win rate in the last month) at the end of the season...then flop in the playoffs.
    Contrast with Mike Dunleavy, who tended to have shitty second halfs of the season but then turn it around in the playoffs. Was that because his brand of call-every-play, exploit-every-mismatch coaching just worked better when things slow down in the playoffs?

    I don't think Stotts is the problem, but sadly, given our cap situation and slew of bad contracts, and assuming Allen hasn't lost faith in Olshey and doesn't want to do a Hinkie, the only thing that would get me excited for next season would be a flashy coach hire like Jay Wright.
     
  7. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    The irony here is by trying to keep the reality fresh in fan’s minds, your message has gone stale in record time. If everyone puts you on ignore, or just skips over your posts, because we've heard it all before (and before, and before, and...), who exactly are you reminding.

    The only thing I'm reminded of is you're a 1-trick gimmick poster that just posts the EXACT same rant over and over and over without adding anything new to the discussion.

    BNM
     
  8. Gronk Brady

    Gronk Brady Well-Known Member

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    I think fans read for forums, they take in information and form opinions, they debate friends, who debate other friends... all these people buy tickets... if they are unhappy with the product and stop going to games maybe change will happen... would rather try then let that condescending weasel Olshey try to sweep everything under the rug with no accountability
     
  9. Gronk Brady

    Gronk Brady Well-Known Member

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    I think you constantly being on Neil’s jock strap is the one trick pony
     
  10. Gronk Brady

    Gronk Brady Well-Known Member

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    Obviously no one is putting me on ignore because you keep responding to my posts
     
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  11. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I'm pretty sure Paul Allen is the one who ultimately holds his GM accountable. He hasn't hesitated to fire GMs in the past if he wasn't satisfied with their performance. Pritchard was very popular with the fans right up until he was fired by Allen. He was considered a boy wonder and savior of the franchise after drafting Roy and Aldridge and rescuing us from the dark days of the PatterNash era. Cho wasn't even here a year. The fans barely knew what he looked like, let alone had any reason to run him out of town.

    By repeating the EXACT same rant in every post in every thread, people are already tuning you out. Many will end up just putting you on ignore, because they already know what you're going to say before you say it. You're not accomplishing your lofty goal of changing the future of the franchise. All you're doing is annoying the fuck out of your fellow forum members. We get it, you don't like Neil Olshey. Just put it in your fucking sig and post something fresh and on topic once in a while.

    BNM
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    @Gronk Brady I have banned you from this thread. You are free to post in the rest of the site but staff is continually having to delete and/or edit your personal insults of other members of the forum.

    You have to stop with the personal insults or you will be removed from the site.

    Thanks.
     
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  13. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    SlyPokerDog is an asshole. Welcome to ignore you clueless fuckstick.

    BNM
     
  14. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Also please stop with the personal insults.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    You're not swaying anyone here with your repetitive posts. They're really just annoying...
     
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  16. Orion Bailey

    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

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    Ohhh shit!!!!!!

    Dude you have to stop with that. First, BNM is one of the brightest forum members here. Second it isn't doing you any good. If you enjoy your time here... you need to chill bro.
     
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  17. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    The players probably deserve a B+ (Damian is carrying a lot of their asses though), the coaches get a C+ for getting this mismatched crew to play hard enough to get into the playoffs, but get dinged for not having much of plan after the bullets started flying. Olshey gets a D- for saddling this team with its terrible contracts and putting it in a position where there's not much else to do but start over, and he can't even do that because of the aforementioned contracts.
    I say D+/C- (and voted D, just to be salty).
     
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  18. riverman

    riverman Writing Team

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    way ahead of you....problem solved..
     
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  19. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    You left out the part where @SlyPokerDog is delusion enough to think his anonymous, repetitive rants in an online forum actually matter.

    BNM
     
  20. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I haven't had anyone on ignore in years (I think PapaG was the last), but it needed to be done. His posts weren't adding any value to the forum. Quite the opposite actually.

    BNM
     

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