I'm always ready to think ill of Olshey, but I believe Haynes about as far as I can throw him, and I believe he has actual inside info even less.
I don't believe you. What evidence can you produce that PG and (whatever team he was on - The Thunder?) were ready to go?
If Dame knew and wanted the trade, it would have happened. If that's the case, it not happening is not Olshey's fault.
Accordingly to Haynes, Olshey knew if he made a big move and it failed, it could cost him his job, and he was more worried about his own job security than taking a swing. That seems perfectly in line with 9 years of transactions he made. If Olshey was working for Dame, then we should've got rid of Olshey a long time ago. If our GM only takes marching orders from Dame, might as well have someone who is likable, does interviews, doesn't talk down to everyone, etc.
Butler was traded for Covington, Bayless, Saric and a future 2nd rounder with one year left on his deal. That wasn't a ton at that time.
Hopefully this gets better soon. Ticket market is usually better as the season progresses. It has been terrible thus far. COVID-19 has played a part in this. However, this team is just not fun to watch right now. My son said he almost fell asleep last night. Not sure anyone is excited to see this mess right now.
Multiple sources all around the team and league are saying it’s “A Talent Issue “ but you want to stay with your opinion? I guess?
Guess it’s what you consider “Cowardly”? He certainly never had a problem doing things we consider wrong?
Except I literally sit here breaking down film and why each defensive mistake happens, so to sit here and say I don't base things off substance is silly. Chauncey is saying the same thing. And yes, I'm more focused on the Blazers than their opponent. So what?
I know what I see, and I'm confident in what I know about the game of basketball. If I had the ability to do a full on, hour long breakdown of our defense, I would. The offense is talented enough, it comes down to the defense, and the mistakes were making on that end are mental. Yet when were locked in, weve had some extremely good defensive games. You can think whatever you want to. This roster has guys that are questionable mentally so I'm at the point if shipping them out for guys that aren't. Never said this roster was perfect.
I don't know how much time you spend breaking down film, I don't know how good you are at it, etc. so that doesn't mean much to me. How many wins do you think we had because the opponent had poor effort vs how many losses were due to our poor effort? How do you measure poor effort vs poor execution? How are you comparing the effort put in the last couple years vs this year? How are you removing your confirmation bias when doing these evaluations? Maybe you are able to do all this stuff, I'm just curious how. Seems like a tall task for anyone, no matter how much self-confidence one has.
