Zombie Fire Olshey

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  1. CupWizier

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    You've spoke to Olshey? You seem to make a lot of claims with nothing to back it up. And if you agree that is all we can do then why do you whine so much about it?
     
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    Jade Falcon Just to piss you off.

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    For the same reason you bitch and moan about Trump: entitlement. I'm entitled to an opinion, for the same reason you are. Olshey is a terrible GM, and we'll be better off the moment he's fired.
     
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    Nice deflection. Differece is trump provides plenty of ammo to dispute where you just pull crap out of your ass and fabricate stuff to fuel your agenda.
     
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    Conventional wisdom is to not draft 2 players at the same position. Otherwise, you guarantee that one won't get a chance to play for years, which slows his development and clogs one valuable roster spot.

    Olshey has now defied this wisdom for the 2nd year in a row (Simons-Trent, Collins-Swanigan). Before that, he did the same with McCollum-Crabbe, and you notice that both late bloomers took 3 years to show anything.

    Drafting even a single guard, and not 2 guards, is also a wasted pick anyway...as long as Olshey keeps the overpaid McCollum, and Stotts' guard-oriented system plays starting guards an exhausting number of minutes. Bob Whitsitt would have tossed this late pick into a trade for an underrated 2nd-year forward already in the NBA.
     
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    You call graduating from HS at 16 being a late bloomer! :)
     
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    It wasn't a deflection. You've demonstrated nothing but immaturity and the emotional range of a child since we've met. You can't call someone out for whining when that's ALL you do in the OT. It doesn't work like that.

    And you want to talk about ammunition.....take out Collins, and Nurk, and then tell me what improvements Olshey has made to this team in the past 3 years.
     
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    Considering the tools he has had to work with he brought in Davis, Aminu, Harkless, Napier, Nurkic and Collins and had a team that had the 3rd best record in the west this past year. Sure you will comeback and say we failed in the playoffs, but 4 teams always fail in the first round and Spurs and OKC were 2 of them.
     
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    Let me ask you this, would you have drafted Porter if we had a lottery pick?
     
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    Okay, NOW we're getting somewhere here.

    Okay, so he brought in Davis (good bench player), Aminu (frustrating at times, but good on Defense), Harkless (he's either hot or cold....many people think we can do better), Napier (good bench player), Nurk, and Collins. Again: in 3 years, besides Nurk and Collins, what improvements has he made that has UPGRADED the roster?

    He hasn't. Besides Nurk and Collins. He continuously passes on FA, and because of that, we're forever stuck in 40-win territory.

    He did good putting what were supposed to be temporary hold-over pieces in place when the old crew left Dame and Portland. But he hasn't done shit to improve that roster since. Again: with the exception of Nurk and Collins.

    Trades? Nope. FA? Nope. Draft? Again...besides Collins, nope.

    The playoffs? We should have been the 6th seed if it wasn't for injuries to other teams during that winning streak last season.

    And never mind the terrible contracts he's given out; contracts which we are now stuck with because no other GM in their right mind is going to take them off of our hands for any price.

    He's an awful GM. Paul is a fool for keeping him around.
     
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    It has become very obvious you prefer to just whine so i am done discussing this with you. Enjoy your day as i prefer not to be drug down by such a pessimistic person. I actually enjoy things in life. Try it some time.
     
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    Could have fooled me with the garbage you post in OT. You need to get over the fact that not everyone agrees with you, and grow up. Seriously.

    Enjoy your day.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I'm just curious why we keep drafting teenagers while our team is mediocre and struggling to advance.
     
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    No no.....we're not allowed to ask that, Nate. Not on RC2! Just supposed to blindly accept what comes.
     
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    Because we can't draft 5year vets?
     
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    24 of the 30 1st rounders look to be teenagers. What your asking for is what is supposed to happen in free agency or trades.
     
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    You questioned JOs trade stock in his first years in pdx, you are wrong.
     
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    actually what I was referencing was that a player (I just happened to use Oneal) can still have value and be traded with little playing time in their first couple years.
     
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