I'm So SICK & TIRED of Neil Olshey

He said the team doesn’t need major change, and refuses to entertain trading CJ... we have no cap room... there is no path to upgrading roster without trading CJ... no one wants Meyers and Turner

How do you expect to improve roster without trading CJ?? Please answer the question

 

I never said it would change what happened.

all win streaks are not equal when it comes to evaluation status of a team.

 

Used car salesman Neil Olshey says fans are overeacting by judging season on 4 playoff games... yet this clown is calling the season a success based on only 13 regular season games... because outside of that win streak the team did not play well at all... and he is condescending to fans who question anything is wrong with this team

 

I want some of what your smoking. First off, we improved greatly in defense this year and all season long, and played decent and then good basketball(13 game streak) before that streak at the end of the season. Collins got better as the season when on and got more mins and I think this is what a lot of people are overlooking. Oshley knows that for the Blazers to get better, it has to come within, and that is when Collins comes into play. I really hope Collins came develop into a Paul Gasol type at the 4 from us. We have been successful over the years through the draft, Z-bo, Broy, L.A, Dame, C.J. That is what it's going to take. You think free agents want to come here? Even if we had tons of cap space this summer, no big name is signing with us, that's reality. Through the draft and trades is the only way we are going to get better.

 

Well I know more than you so you can't accurately speculate as to how much I know!

Now you're putting words in my mouth. I want a big splashy trade? I wantnimrpovement whether it be now or for the future. I want a big splashy trade? I'm one of the few people who think CJ and Dame can work together, and just need a new coach in order to do so.

 

With all that improvement, if every teams stayed healthy we would've likely been a lottery team.

 

It seems like he'll refuse to trade CJ because that's his draft pick and his boy. Do you really disagree with that? (Key phrase: "It seems")

Neil could say whatever, he just shouldnt be condescending towards the fans because they hold the organization more accountable for playoff success than the organization itself.

 

And when Oden and BRoy went down didn't that hurt us? Or does it only count when it happens to some other team? I'm suspecting that we would have gone quite deep with those two being healthy.

 

this post needs to get over itself

 

This post needs to learn to take some light-hearted joshing.

 

Yes? But we're talking about the state of this current team in relation to the rest of the West, and just because we got the 3rd seed doesn't mean we're the 3rd best team.

Utah, Minnesota, New Orleans, and maybe San Antonio (depending on their situation) are likely better than us.

 

Guilty as charged. I'm referring to me.

 

No, just as being no. 1 doesn't mean you're the best. But it does mean you're pretty good.

Didn't we beat Utah in the last regular season game? I think I might have been at that game. I also believe we beat Minnesota in our last meeting. And I'm pretty sure that all of our New Orleans games in the regular season were whisker close. There's also the January 7 game against the Spurs that we won. Not saying that we were better at the twilight of our season but we were very competitive against all those teams.

 

Utah was on the 2nd night of a back to back. And I'm basing these teams off of how they're built in regards to post-season basketball. Utah is better built to succeed in the playoffs than us. In our last game with Minnesota, Butler didn't play. We beat New Orleans in our last regular season game, but they crushed us in playoffs. That's the theme of this. We're not built for playoff success, and mostly everyone can agree with that, even if they disagree as to why. Some will say it's the roster, others (like me) think it's because of the coach. But to keep talking about what happened during the regular season is pointless. The playoffs are a different game, and this year, that was shown to us by the Pelicans.

 

What about the games when we were without Nurk and Lillard and Turner and Harkless? Don't they count for something or does it only count when it happens to another team?

 

Haha. This is what I'm talking about.. You're inferring that I have some sort of bias against Stotts/Olshey, and that I'm not accounting for our injuries and only holding our injury luck against us because of said bias.

But I'm glad you asked:

Missed games:
Between Lillard, Turner, Nurkic, and McCollum: 16 games missed (combined)
which is less than:
Leonard: 73 games + playoffs
Cousins: 34 games
Rondo: 17 games
Butler: 31 games
Gobert: 26 games
Paul: 24 games
Curry: 31 games (every GS starter missed at least 9 games)


And that's not to mention our injury luck in terms of facing teams missing players. For example, Myles Turner missed 17 games, and we played Indiana twice, both times he was out.. Considering we play Indiana 2 out of 82 games, and 2 out of his 17 missed were against us, that's lucky for us. There's many other examples like that, that I can't name off the top of my head, where an opposing team had their best player out against us when their best player only missed a few games that season.

 

I thought the very definition of being a fan of a sports team was that you primarily supported your team. Has that been supplanted with being a true fan is booing your team?

 

I knew the O-Liver would take that super seriously!

I suck at trolling the guys that have been on the forum for a while... But you guys? Mwahahaha.

 

How many games did BRoy miss? I'm pretty sure it was more than a few. I won't even bring up Oden or Joel Przybilla.

 

I discount wins? Because I don't like Stotts as a coach and think this team is better than most make it out to believe? That's something completely made up and false.

Like I said, Utah is built better for the post-season. Defense becomes more important in the post-season, and team-oriented offense succeeds more often than hero-ball. How does that mean I wasn't glad when we won games? Again, that's something you just made up.

You keep touting the regular season, and because I think the playoffs are different and we're not built well to succeed in the post-season, somehow I don't show great fan support? I don't show great support even though my broke ass managed to go to 10 or so games this year and cheered till I nearly lost my voice in nearly every one of them? Even though I watched every game I possibly could on TV and when we wouldn't win it would put me in a poor mood for the rest of the day since I really care about this team winning? Because of my opinion being different than yours, somehow that's all irrelevant and I'm not a good fan?

Get outta here.