My thinking is that they gave him a lot of rope, and now there's nothing left to grasp on... so they are watching him fall. I don't think it's asinine for someone to give someone 5 years and then say "okay, I've had enough". Now only if Olshey could do that with Meyers...
Sure, I understand that. What I don't get is less than two days into free agency when we've known for two years that we had no cap space that people are somehow saying this is the last straw when it has always been here.
I've been on my second to last straw too, but I think its straw man to hold someone accountable for not being able to do what we want them to do, when we KNOW they cant do it.
Signing PG to that contract and going way over the cap into big time penalties, is a hedge signing, and I predict they trade Westbrook in the next year and fill in around PG.
That trade bought him another year, in my estimation. Problem is that it's now been a year and a half.
The two years are part of the problem. Many fans had hope Neil would dump some of the bad contracts. Example @DennyCrane preached this mess was fixable, and the bad contracts were tradable. Now he is too embarassed to post anymore. Neil dodged the problem for two years. But he did not do enough to fix the problem. This off season, his mess hit the wall, and many of us are running out of patience with him.
The boldfaced part is right. Fans are now catching on to what I've said for years. Month after month, year after year, tradeless Olshey disappoints and produces nothing.
23 out of 30 teams didn't produce what the Blazers did during this past regular season. How can you accurately say that producing nothing? How would you categorize the other 23 teams? just curious...
Lillard's heroball wins the games, not the Stotts system, and certainly not Olshey's years-at-the-beach nonperformance.
expiring contracts at the deadline in Feb will be in demand by superstar teams with bloated payrolls...that's when you fix bad contracts
So because Portland's GM drafted Dame and the other 23 teams that had a worse season record, because they are Lillardess, and the fact, Dame has tuned into a 1st team all pro, sounds like a score of production for Team Blazer. For me I like to measure success objectively against measurable goals. We are now going into the 4th season of a huge rebuild so, imo, weighting performance goes up a few notches for sure. If they are trending in the opposite direction this next year and we haven't taken another step towards contention or getting out of the first round, then I would be calling for a change with no scared cows at all. Realistically only a couple teams would be able to contend against GS fro the next couple years anyway.
Nobody's just giving up a star for an expiring contract. And even if they were, Olshey ain't gonna do anything with them.
