If this is true.....I am so heartsick and enraged I don't know what to say. Olshey must be mentally ill and Jody must be the dumbest owner in the league. The only other explanation is that they are working to force Dame to demand a trade.
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Lakers fans are talking about starting Carmelo Anthony and are ecstatic. Blazers fans have a perennial playoff team and a promising new coaching direction and everyone's already throwing away the season. Geez, people, get a grip. Give it at least a couple of weeks into the season to see who we actually put on the floor and how Billups fits it all together.
For one thing I'd say 28 teams are looking at the league and saying their roster is not good enough to beat the super teams...I would'nt read too much into Dame's second hand info through Haynes...that and we're not even through the trade season..also Dame probably said that before Melo and Kanter had signed elsewhere or we'd picked up some bench vets...again..Dame is starting a huge contract for multiple years...makes no sense to rock that boat to be a role player in a big city
LOL...what a comparison. Blazers won a championship in 1977. Since then Laker fans have witnesses 11 championships
those people are casuals, they have no deep knowledge of bball or carmelo anthony, they think of him as a star he once was people who follow bball or who follow carmelo, now how the things stand
How much does Neil need to shit on the team you supposedly root for before you stop clinging tenaciously to his fetid, sweaty, tiny nutsack?
Apples to oranges comparison. Actually, seems to me by your reasoning that Lakers fans should be more upset because they know what it takes to win and Carmelo Anthony starting isn't likely to help them do it. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled b****-fest.
We have an all-time franchise best player, the best clutch player on the planet, so of course we had to have a Neil Olshey running the franchise for his entire career. FML
I understand this tweet now. Olshey needed Billups as someone with enough respect and cache around the league but also supports his ridiculous notion that our roster is good enough. End of the day, just a time buying move for Olshey.
I think it's years of being condescended to by Neil and having him do very little to try and get this team to a contending level. Now we have (for most of us) our favorite athlete of all time, who has always said he wants to stay here his whole career obviously as sick of Neil's shit as we are and not sure where he wants his future to be. We also had Neil say that the roster wasn't the problem last year and most of us just couldn't disagree more with that sentiment. Now it appears and this is all media influenced conjecture, that he wants to run it back with a very similar roster... the only big change being a new coach. That roster includes a starting unit of a 6'2" guy and two 6'3" guys... which is a real experiment that we saw go horribly wrong last season. So the frustration is warranted, the fear that Dame will leave is warranted because he said that was a possibility and the dissatisfied conjecture that we will have a roster unimproved and very similar to last year's roster that lost in the first round to a hobbled Denver squad that got swept out of the second round is understandable. We're probably not giving Chauncey enough credit but he's never coached a game so we don't know how much weight to put on his shoulders.
If you say so. None of us has a clue how this all fits together yet, but people are calling for firings, saying Dame wants traded, cancelling their season tickets. It's like watching Lloyd Bridges yell "They're headed right for us" and jumping out of the tower at the end of "Airplane" before the 747 lands safely. There's frustration ... and then there's what's been going on on this board the last couple of days.
This is some weird stuff you had to say man. Dame wouldn't be a role player on any team in the league. We didn't get bench vets markedly better than Melo and Kanter in my estimation and I guarantee you that's Dame's take because he fucking worships Melo and loves Kanter. The second hand info we just got through Haynes wouldn't trouble anybody if the last time we heard Dame speak on U.S. soil he hadn't said that he didn't know where he sees himself in the future and the team needs to show urgency in trying to win a championship to help him figure that out. But we should all be sunshine and rainbows, I guess.
