Quick on the Blazers summer

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  1. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    I think Hibbert would have been good here. PG wouldn't have fucked his GF.
     
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    What about cheating on his new coach's daughter? How's that going to work out? :)
     
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    Hopefully, very, very badly.
     
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    This one I still don't understand. We offered him the absolute most we could offer. He knew this months ago. Was he expecting the team to clear salary to offer him the Full-MLE? I'm so glad that didn't happen.

    There is no way that timeline is true, but funny the way Quick presents it. The rumor was that the Heat and Blazers discussed that trade around the draft. The part about the cap the morning of July 1st should have said that they figured out how to make the deal work as part of the Butler sign-and-trade that both helps Miami avoid the luxury tax and lets us get Whiteside without giving up additional assets.

    I think what Quick is saying is that they'd have to go the trade route for wing depth to replace Hood if they signed Kanter. Getting a wing for Harkless and/or Leonard probably would've had to involve adding picks or other assets so switching from Kanter to Hood with the MLE really made things go a lot smoother.
     
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    Kanter ended up signing for 2 years, $10 million in Boston, right? So didn't he ultimately lose out on a little money by not taking Portland's initial offer?

    I'm just thankful we were able to keep at least one of our non-bird FA's this off-season. Hood returning is still the win of the summer in my eyes.
     
  6. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Nice article by Quick.

    I was very happy with the offseason. I wanted to keep Hood over Kanter as well. I still can't believe we got him for that contract.
     
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    I hope I am not sounding too cynical or something. First, I never thought that Quick would get on the Olshey bullshit train, but there he is. What a puff piece. I am happy to see that the Olshey team realized that Hood was a more valuable (and more difficult to replace I think) player to the Blazers than Kanter. What surprises me is that he didn't know either before or immediately at the deadline that Hood would sign for the 5.7. He just assumed he wouldn't. It's only because Kanter (for some crazy reason) vacillated that we have Hood and Whiteside. I think that is incontrovertible.
     
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    So, for me, the two best moves of the summer, did happen basically by accident.
     
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    Well, to be fair, without Kanter things were looking pretty bleak. Our center rotation would have been Collins/Leonard.
     
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    Much like Olshey and the Blazers, sometimes ya gotta switch things up.
     
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    I dont get the quick hate, but then I dont know all the history some of you have. For the last 3-4 years ive paid attention to him, he has seemed just fine.
     
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    One thing Olshey is really good at is building relationships with agents. It's highly likely that Hood's agent told Olshey that he was going to look for better offers. If Hood's agent is telling him that the Tax-MLE wasn't going to be enough then you have to plan like Hood isn't coming back.

    It's not an accident that Hood liked it here so much that when free agency started he probably thought, you know what I really don't care about signing somewhere else for more money when I'm happy here. Olshey didn't luck into that, it's the culture he's tried to build around Dame for 7 years.
     
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    Listening to the Woj pod earlier this month (I think it was the one with either Zach Lowe or Brian Windhorst) and he mentioned that the Moe and Meyers for Hassan deal nearly took place 10 days before it actually happened, so I don't believe that the Whiteside trade happened just like that out of thin air as the article indicated.
     
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    That is my take on it also. Not sure why he was working for more? But he got himself a spot and i wish him well.
     
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    He has changed a lot in the last 20 or so years. He used to be a real arrogant piece of shit.
     
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    "So when Olshey last month made a FaceTime call to EnesKanter in the opening minute of free agency"

    WTF??? Why in the first minute? Nobody gives a shit about the rules, so why should we respect the rules? Amateur move by Neil
     
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    So it's now "amateur" not to cheat?
    Was he on line? Were they in position to make the deal according to rules?
    I don't get the complaint? But to each his own?
     
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    would you rather have him openly admit to cheating and possibly get fined and/ or lose draft pick (s)?
     

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