Nurk: “I was told that no one would be traded and that only the coach would change”

What do people expect Neil to say to players? That he would trade everyone and blow up the team?

 

"Shrug"

It would be one way to separate the hungry players from the ones with a sense of entitlement.

Frankly, I thought Stotts was too soft and I am hoping the new coach puts a little fear in them. Statements like that from Olshey just cut the coach off at the knees.

 

"we always look for ways to improve the team"

players are not stupid, they know they can get traded anytime

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...eans-hornets-eric-gordon-is-he-happy/1902665/

"You can say one thing and do another, but at the end of the day I don't get into it. With the things that I've been in with GMs, where I had one GM (former Clippers GM Neil Olshey, who now is in Portland) say that you'll never get traded and the next thing you know that ends up happening a few days later. And now you have another GM who says you're going to be here long term, so you would expect that to be the longest term that you can for being a part of this team (contractually). And I am here long term, but I could've had an opportunity to have five (years) instead of four."

 

... and Portland gets which players in return? Dame would fit great next with those guys but that trade isn’t going to happen, either.

 

Not saying anything against Stotts, but I think Nurk will respect Billups more than Stotts.

 

It's called "not tipping your hand." Olshey only has trading juice if other GMs think he's not desperate, and that only happens if players think they're safe.

At $10 million a year, Nurk's job is to play basketball. Neil's job is to maximize assets. Telling Nurk people are on the trading block hurts that.

 

So Nurk is abetting Olshey's tactics, knowingly or more likely unknowingly.

I like it.

 

I mean, he could say nothing?

 

9 years of

 

He didnt say anything. This is like third hand info

 

and it's gone through translation to boot. There is no way that Neil said what he said at his news conference and that no one would be traded. He talked about improving the roster and Dame needing a second star during his press conference. Well to get a second star at least someone will have to be traded.

 

If it was translated from Serbo-Croat maybe what he said was more along the lines that Olshey told him he wouldn't be traded. Maybe. Since mostly what we do is speculate.

 

nine years of ridiculous expectations more like it.

 

i can translate it perfectly

 

So you're saying my conjecture is invalid.

Curse you

 

you mean Olshey expecting CJ to become a superstar?

 

"invalid" in my first language means a person that has no arm or leg or finger etc, im not sure what the term is in english language

pronunciation is a bit different, but the letters are the same

 

It can also have that meaning here.

My conjecture is missing all its limbs.

It doesn't have a leg to stand on

 

I hope I didn't offend anyone with that joke.