Agreed. Although I don't recall a lot of posters on this board having a problem with it at the time either. Hopefully we all learned a lesson on that one.
I was wrong, but I wasn't being paid 8M a year for my opinion....if you read closely, I said "idiot GM", not idiot fan
I liked the acquisition and thought it was an overpay and I don't think I was alone in that. I think there were so many of us that hated Olshey by that point that anything outside him actually taking a swing was viewed as treading water. I still like RoCo as a player and the Clippers got him and his bird rights at an amazing price. I did throw a fucking tantrum when the Rockets acquired Christian Wood in a sign and trade for one of the first rounders and Ariza, saying that if Houston could offer him a starting role on a team that would probably lose the most games in the league we definitely could have gotten Wood by offering him the starting role on a team bound for the playoffs... a lot of people argued with that and asked how Olshey could have possibly known, I said it was his job to have explored all options... it was a whole thing. The point is I think a lot of us were excited with RoCo as a player addition but thought Olshey was a fucking idiot for making that acquisition giving up a player who had just been a serviceable starter and two firsts for a slight upgrade. I think it was widely considered a very Olshey move but with a higher price tag than usual.
I don’t recall. The ability of teams to treat players as combined vs. individual and different from how the other team does … thanks for pulling the emergency break on that one. At the worst EBEC is a good sized TPE any team (or reduction in team salary in a season). As a “small” go-away contract for this season, it works for the Blazers.
Maybe everyone was just resigned to the fact that Olshey would never trade CJ and at least he was doing something. I don't know what he could have gotten for CJ and the two first-round picks but if it would have been something like Josh Hart and Jerami Grant a lot of people would have preferred that.
