It takes a serious emotional investment to be really upset over what the team does. Usually those with a serious emotional investment are big fans, is my point. I'm not saying you have to cuss or yell to be a fan...
I think fans will move on and forget most of this as soon as there's a 4 game winning streak with the new guys...CJ was a painless transition for me..my bottom line is I don't want anybody in a Blazer uniform that doesn't want to be here. Period.
All fair criticisms. Thank you for taking the time. Shes also (finally) given Joe resources he's asking for. She's paying for a G League team. She's added roles and staff to the front office to strengthen the scouting department. She's not a natural to the process like Paul was, but she's been at every draft and attends the vast majority of games even through tanking. So she seems engaged to me. Like I said, She's been imperfect but improving. I don't think she's as bad as some would have you believe.
I'd say the hiring of Schmitz looks to have been a VERY shrewd move. The last two drafts seem to have been very effective. She just bought the G-League team. They're talking about arena renovations. I too am hopefully we can hurry this up and get the team turned over to Phil Knight, but I don't for a minute believe our on-court product has been diminished by Jody Allen. Paul died in 2018 - our roster problems had mostly been baked in by then (thanks to the GM he hired).
I also believe that many of the decisions were dictated by Paul with the knowledge he knew his days were getting short and did not want his final days to be watching a rebuild. Holding on to LA and spending like there was no tomorrow (because in his case there really wasn't) the offseason we extended everyone/signing Turner support this theory. Of course Olshey made plenty of mistakes and was a giant ass, but IMO not all of it was his doing.
The Blazers haven't had an "identity" in years....it's been a constant roster shuffle to see what sticks. The last real identity was Aldridge, Lopez, Batum Mathews and Lillard....after that it's been tag team roster composition.
