Yeah I was fine with the Collins pick at the time and still am today. He got injured and guys later were home runs. That always happens with the draft. Now the Swanigan pick is the questionable one. Just not an NBA body and all sorts of question marks. Little was fine as a late pick. Trent/Connaughton/Barton were very good for the 2nd round Simons pick was very good. The extension, development, role were the issue with him. I always wondered if we flipped him for max trade value and kept Norm on that nice contract how much better we could have been. Just a ton of years the Blazers gave up 1st round picks for irrelevant vets. Its about half of the years Olshey was GM. The 2016 contracts also killed any ability to build talent or assets on the roster. The post Aldridge years the Blazers weren't contenders with a young Dame/CJ they should have been aggressively building assets. I kind of wonder if that series we beat the injured Clippers was such a false sense of accomplishment that it set the franchise back.
Yeah. Then giving guys like Meyers some stupid overpaid extension when he had zero market. All of the crappy GM's do that just to validate their stupid prior actions. I certainly like that Cronin has been willing to flip directions very quickly on multiple acquisitions. GPII, Ayton, Nurk extension, etc. Good that they view sunk costs as sunk costs and just move on.
he's definitely a lot more competent more than that is he isn't an insufferable condescending douche-nozzle like Neil
