Zombie Fire Olshey

I figured you were gonna say "Say Less"

 

Neil to Blazer fans this summer:



“RUN IT BACK!”

 

This dude is about to run out Dame and our shit ownership is gonna let him.

 

Im all for a GM change if we can get the right one.

Ive wondered for a while now why it is people think Prestie is such a great GM? Under his management they've lost Harden, Durant & Westbrook, plus gets kick out of the playoffs, but yet he survives?

 

Bravo! He's got all this draft capital , but most of it will have to go towards re-acquiring proven NBA TALENT. The draft is a crapshoot. Especially the later picks. You can luck out on a 2nd rounder, as much as a late 1st round choice. And a lot of those picks are from Good teams, not lottery bound teams. How long till Shai gilgeous-alexander says, "I'm outta here. But everyone licks his jock like he's a freakin' genius.

 

Presti had the right idea for a small market team. Acquire talent through the draft. I may be wrong but I feel like he traded Harden because of $$$ directions from the front office. He got back Kevin Martin who was a good player and multiple picks in that deal. Obviously not what you would want for Harden but better than nothing.

Also, look at him now. Dude is sitting on a billion picks. They have a bright future again.

I would take Presti in a second over Olshey.

 

Yeah, how many more years will that bright future take?
Its easy to have garage sales for picks, Im sure Neil could take Presties route and liquidate for picks and that bright future.

 

Sam basically bought himself more tenure as their gm, as he building a new successful thunder future. I hope Neil doesn't try the same approach.

 

If he isn't going to use his future picks to surround dame with another all star he should. Making the playoffs isn't good enough and shouldn't be good enough for any team. At least Presti is trying. Got closer doing it his way than Olshey has. Neil is content with 1st round exits.

 

For a year i was off the Fire Olshey train, i think he did a good job last offseason, now i'm back. The more i read about him and the fact that he's incapable to build a contender around Dame, and his obssession with CJ makes me really angry. His behaviour in press conferences is so embarrassing, like a small child who has not grown up. Motherfucker thinks he's Mr. Perfect. Fuck him

 

And if i ever hear from Woj or anyone else again that "PORtlaND wAs sO CLosE" to get a star i'm coming to Portland and punch Olshey in his snake oil face. I don't wanna hear that shit anymore

 

I was one of the 6 B- votes.

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/grade-the-blazers-roster-changes.360079/page-2#post-5045988

 

Hey…HEY!!!!
You leave the miracle of snake oil out of this!

 

I was one of the 20 B+ votes but that being said I was still complaining about not having moved CJ as I have been for like half a fucking decade. I just thought that RoCo and DJ were good moves... which I still do. I didn't really put together how bad of an idea that Kanter and Melo being on the bench together was. I also thought we'd use Melo as instant offense not a heavy rotation player. I also didn't take into account Terry's inflexibility when judging the DJ signing.

If Stotts uses DJ correctly, if we never played Kanter and Melo together because Melo was getting limited minutes, if Zach was back by mid January so he took all of those minutes away from both Melo and Kanter... then I think the B+ would have been a good grade.

I overestimated Stotts even though I already wanted him fired. I didn't know that one of the team goals was to protect Melo's legacy. I believed the Zach timetable.

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/talkin-blazers-neil-olshey-embraced-204224113.html?src=rss

 

Fire him yesterday. His year one pick of Dame seems to have been pure luck as he's been as right as a broken clock in a 12 hour span. Given how badly he's misused resources, at 31 Dame should be dealt... I just don't trust Neil to do it.

Obviously I'd support most any change, but how bout Channing for GM?

STOMP

 

thanks for the link Fez

this part is right on, IMO:

 

TLDR - Fire Neil.

 

Embracing stability... Neil Olshey translation: Show a lazy stubbornnes and never admit to yourself or anyone else when you're wrong.

 

i just realized Philly hired Doc Rivers before they brought Morey on last year. Maybe still in the cards that Neil gets ousted.