Zombie Fire Olshey

Apparently you missed the newsflash?

Here's the deal. He wasn't going to re-tool the roster intending to win a championship over the summer. If you thought he was, or that he was counting on doing that over just this last summer then you are indeed naive and gullible.

 

your personal takes on things aren't newsflashes

I never said, one way or the other what Olshey intended to do, last summer or next summer....that was you. All I said was that your prediction of what Olshey intends to do next off-season is just about exactly what he claimed he did last off-season

 

Oh excellent. Maybe I just missed it.

Can you please post the link in which Olshey said he expects this team to compete for a championship as constructed this season? I'd like to read that article.

 

The bench is a joke. Of course if we had Collins, Nurk and Hood, the bench would look a lot better.

 

Collins and Hood are minor pikers compared to Nurkic, our best player last season.

 

I don't know if there is a link to Olshey making that claim, but then I never said he did. Just that he talked about the quality of the current bench and how this team was going to be better at spacing and ball movement...which he definitely implied would fit better with the core and make for a better team

now, to be fair, I think most people believed that Olshey was spinning a lot of bullshit in July and had his fingers crossed. And his fingers were crossed on tied hands that he had tied himself. He was still trapped in the hole of his 2016 decisions, and in fact may still be trapped there....we'll know more about that after the trade deadline

no doubt....sure with perfect unblemished health, the Blazers would be better

but, just to take this current road trip for example:

* the Wizards would have looked better with Bradley Beal, John Wall, Davis Bertrans, Rui Hachimura, Thomas Bryant, Isaiah Thomas, Moritz Wagner, & CJ Miles. That's 104 points, 38 rebounds, and 17 assists they were missing

* Miami would have looked better with Jimmy Butler, Justice Winslow, and Kelly Olynyyk

* Toronto would have looked a lot better with Paskal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, Marc Gasol, and Norman Powell

and tonight, Karl Anthony Towns is doubtful while Layman is out

Portland is not the only team dealing with injuries and missing players. Yes, Portland has perhaps more long term injuries than most teams, but that's a reason why Whiteside is the starting C instead of a scrub. Portland had plenty of time to find an excellent replacement for their missing C. Most teams have had to make do with what was on their roster at the beginning of the season

 

It was never about this season. The players never want to hear that, and neither do the fans. That's why it's not often said.

Spending in 2016 got us our first WCF in decades. But it wasn't good enough for a championship. Most teams aren't.

But that was as far as that team was ever going to get. It's far better to take our lumps and retool now, rather than trying to do it with that group for another season or two and wasting more of Dame's prime.

Olshey isn't a miracle worker. Nobody claimed he was. But he's as good as anything else we could get our hands on. And a heck of a lot better than others we've had...

 

Anyone knows why Stotts is still coaching this team? Maybe we are hoping for a Lottery pick?

 

Because there is nobody else available who is obviously better...

And yes, once we lost Nurk, Collins and Hood, then brought in Melo I thought a higher draft pick was likely the plan.

 

Would anyone else be okay if Chauncey Billups took the reigns? He has been talked about as someone that wants to coach, I think. He has just as many championship rings as Stotts lol

 

You not serious. Plenty can do better than Stotts.

 

Didn’t want anyone to forget what Neil thinks of Blazers fans...

 

He moved up to draft Collins at 10 when Donovan Mitchell and Bam Adebayo went 13th and 14th.

 

Billups has absolutely zero coaching experience. I'm not saying going after a retread either, but at least have a few years of experience either as a college coach or an assistant NBA coach.

 

I'll take Stotts unless we can get a proven better NBA Coach, thank you very much. One who has had at least as much success as Stotts.

 

That’s one thing Neil said that I liked.

 

I'm pretty happy with Collins. Aside from the shoulder injury.

 

Who?

 

Thibodeau would be my first choice? (Spelling)
Jeff Van Gundy.

 

There are fans who are calling for sweeping changes. Do you think the roster needs tweaking or significant changes?

“The same people that wanted sweeping changes last year?”

(Questioner responds: I don't know. I don't know them personally. I just hear from them all the time)

"Right. Great. Well, last year was going to take sweeping changes because we got swept by Golden State in the first round and all the alarmists overreacted.
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"But this idea that (we need) sweeping changes. Where were all these people that wanted sweeping changes 10 days ago? Where were they? They were the ones bouncing off the walls in the Moda Center when we got the third seed .
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Relative to people back in December who were complaining that we weren't going to make the playoffs and we were in purgatory because we weren't going to make the playoffs and we weren't going to pick high enough. Right? That was the rallying cry. Then it was, 'Oh my God. They're going to blow the third seed because they're going to lose all these games. They're not even going to get home court advantage.' They overreacted to that.”

Man, the disdain this guy has for the fans in Portland. He thinks we are all beneath him. I will never forget that exit interview.