Okshey did some good and some bad. I'd rank him as a pretty average GM overall. I thought he deserved to be fired for 2016 alone and especially that Turner contract, as well as Meyers.
I'm just not a CJ or Norm hater like many here. Nor do I want change for the sake of change.
I was fine with firing Olshey, just feared his replacement is even worse. Some of Cronin's moves have been horrific, worse than all but two of Neils. The Sharpe pick was the single great gamble he did though.
Hard to know sometimes how much is Olshey and Cronin faults or Jody / Vulcan.
no, none of Cronin's moves have been "
horrific", lol. He executed several trades as a deadline process and you can't isolate one part of what he did and gauge it in isolation. It was a decent trade deadline considering the circumstances and what needed to be done. Sure the fuck was a lot better than the deadline Trent for Powell trade while intending Powell to be the starting SF so CJ could remain the starting SG. Now that was fucking horrific
I have been critical of just about every contract he handed out last summer. I think he could have secured Simons/Nurkic for a combined 7-10M less than he did. However, while that's more than a quibble, it's not some ridiculous overpay like 2016. I really disliked hard-capping the team for Payton; and I still dislike it and every game Payton misses makes me dislike it even more. While I didn't have a complaint about Little's average salary, I though the 4 year guarantee was foolish considering Little inability to stay healthy....and we saw proof of that today
sorry man, Olshey doesn't get a Jody/Vulcan pass. Jody wasn't in charge when Olshey made a max offer to Roy Hibbert or spent his first 2 years assembling the worst benches in the NBA. Jody wasn't in charge when Olshey made max offers to Enes Kanter & Greg Monroe. She wasn't in charge when Olshey traded Will Barton and a 1st for Afflalo. She wasn't in charge when he traded Batum for Henderson and Vonleh. She wasn't in charge when Olshey gave out over 340M in contracts in 2016 and not an all-star in sight. She wasn't in charge when Olshey mismanaged Portland's disastrous 2017 draft. And it wasn't Jody & the Vulcans forcing Olshey to give away
SIX first round picks for Zach Collins, Caleb Swanigan, RoCo, & Nance. Geeeeezuz...wasting 6 first round picks on those guys was mismanagement squared. All of these things was Olshey, not Seattle
Jody & the Vulcan probably did push Cronin in certain directions, and likely not good directions. I agree that Portland has some funky ownership
