I dont understand why there hasnt been more of a call for new ownership! The Paul Allen days are over.
Well majority of you guys because Billups is the head coach things going get better. The problem is Billups hasn't coach a game yet in this league.
Your going to totally believe what Haynes said even though earlier like month or less ago he gave out false info about Dame or at least read into more then there was but OK -- sounds like a good idea to me buying everything Haynes has to say --- LOL Just cause it fits the narrative that some of you have in your head so it MUST be true and chances are there is a ring of truth to it but again we are a few days into FA and already people want to judge the roster and ASSUME it's complete. Ya -- whatever
Oubre hasn't been been signed by anyone for the same reason Markkanen hasn't - they both asked for too much. If he ends up signing for less than he wanted, you can bet it would be on a team that has promised him big minutes. I don't want to be that team. Milsap would be okay, although he did really fall off a cliff last season.
Really wish Dame would tell Jody that he's going to demand a trade in exactly one month, so if she wants to get full value for the team, she has to sell it now.
Why would you not believe Haynes? The first report came from Haynes. Dame denied everything that didn't come directly from Haynes. I think the first "could request trade" report from Haynes was just Dame's way of putting management on notice. The whole situation got blown out of proportion by the rest of the media after that story went down. Now we're here. But clearly Dame is frustrated.
neil olshey has done his job really well, blazers have been relevant team for years and people dont want to hear it, but being a playoff team and having a packed arena is what vast majority of owners want, thats money right there if youre small market team like portland, its really tough to contend for a championship as you cant attract big free agents, so the only way to contend is to build a contender through draft and trades, which is not easy at all, if anything, its really hard, otherwise every team in the league would contend... unless you hit big in the draft with multiple players like san antonio spurs or golden state warriors, or draft generational talent or youre a big market, desirable city to live in like los angeles or miami or new york, the best you can hope is being a playoff team and like i said, about 85% owners are happy with that... just a little reality check
I just want us to pick a direction. Trade Dame and tank or go all in. I can't stomach another season of treading water.
I've been calling for Olshey to be fired even before 2016. Then, I was the conductor on an empty train. Now the train is full and the passengers are angry...really angry. My opinion on Olshey hasn't changed. The degree of disgust with his tenure has gotten deeper each year. He's a master of mediocrity. And he's destroying the Dame era with his ego-driven arrogance and myopia I had to laugh when the Olshey apologists here tried to explain when Olshey said the roster "wasn't the problem", he didn't really mean it that way. Yes, he meant it exactly that way and he's out to show everybody he was right fuck this clown and fuck Seattle for allowing this to happen
Thats right on...Performance evaluation for a small market is different that a larger one with the 3 major sports. Fans dont have to live and breath one team when there is local competition. Ask the owner of the Phoenix Suns that were out of the offs for ten straight years if he'd be pleased to be in the playoffs every year with sell outs and wild ass fan forums. He got competition with the dbacks and cards. Financial performance and marketing drives this league.
I'm over it. Sell the team. Fire Neil. Blow the team up. Start over. I just want a fresh start at this point.
I'm starting to think I might need to take a break from this board for a few months. We have absolutely no idea what the Blazers really are going to look like on opening night yet and we have a new coach with dramatically different ideas than his predecessor and everyone is going on this negative freakout because we haven't made the move they want yet and we're back to panicking about Dame based on speculation. I like to watch sports to get away from the awful stuff in life, but coming here is like seeing your whole family as part of the horde of zombies after the apocalypse. It's not fun reading the board these days, and I think it's going to keep spiralling every day the Blazers don't trade CJ or fire Olshey. Seriously, ASPCA and UNICEF infomercials are more upbeat than this board right now.
