Merged: 2pm KP and Larry Miller Press Conference

Maybe the silver lining is gone for Paul Allen.
Looking back before this season it was looking like this team could win multiple championships.

Now with all the injuries, it being evident that LMA is nowhere near as good as advertised, Roy maybe not taking the final step up to superstar, and Oden not even being able to stay on the court, Allen has made a decision.
The Blazers have now regressed to being unsure of even one championship win, and, maybe a decision was made with Pauls own health in mind. Maybe he thinks he doesn't really have a chance to see that come to fruition if his health is deteriorating.

Perhaps Paul Allen has decided to do what is best for the 'Business' side of the team, with his families future in mind?

I hope not, but just trying to read between the lines like everyone else.

 

Except that KP has been pretty effective in positioning himself with the fans as a major cog in the revitalization of the franchise. I don't know if he is, and there are rumblings of attention/credit seeking with KP, but I tend to buy that he's a primary piece. I think the damage to fan relations is on the PR side and whether fans / ticket buyers start losing confidence.

All this said, if KP is fired but progress continues and the team has success it will be forgotten. If KP is fired and the team regresses, starts showing signs off going of the rails it will be yet another Vulcan screw-up.

 

I'd bet on this happening if Pritchard is let go.

 

If it was just a simple GM swap I don't know...but unfortunately all signs seem to be pointing towards the Vulcan suits asserting more control and KP fighting it. So, if KP goes, my guess is there is a big power grab from non-basketball idiots..that's the part that can derail this organization.

 

Right

 

I just watched this whole situation unfold with the Seahawks so I have a pretty good idea how it goes. All they would do is hire new people and give them the reigns, much like they gave to KP. Only problem is that person wouldn't be as good as KP.

There's one type of person they don't like and that's people who have their own vision of how they see things. Mike Holmgren was this kind of person, and that's why Tod Leiweke declined to bring Holmgren back as the GM and instead brought in a guy that's never been a GM before. Pritchard is much like Holmgren in that he has a vision of how things should go and I don't think the Vulcans/Tod Leiweke like those kind of people.

 

Sad, that these days, in sport it's:

$$$$$ > all.

 

while I was against giving DM that contract the day it was announced because it was A) too much and B) all the other teams with capspace that offseason had already blown their wad, I don't think thats a fair criticism of PA. Miles was off to a decent enough start after resigning but then suffered a couple severe knee injuries. On top of the several times his knees had already gone under the knife his body was done.

Injuries have ended or severely altered the careers of players far more talented then Miles. I don't hold management accountable for not having clairvoyance. I especially don't hold it against the owner for backing the decision of his management... thats what a good owner does. If said management establishes a pattern of truly bad decisions and the owner subsequently fires them/lets them go (as was the case here) I really don't see how the owner is to blame.

STOMP

 

kpee has taken us as far as he can.... allen knows it. now you bring in a vet gm to finish the puzzle


one of my biggest issue on here is posters still think we are rebuilding and we arent. allen again could be sicker then we know... and wants to win now. its really reading between the lines. something many on here cant do.

 

Months ago, I predicted that Allen's health issues were going to change the rules of the game, and that KP had to adapt or he would be in trouble. What I never expected, was for the organization to be this ham-fisted about it.

They should have kept the lid on this while the team was involved in a play-off race. Barring that, either give KP a vote of confidence, or fire him and explain why. Don't have the guy twist in the wind, and don't treat the fans like mushrooms. (ie kept in the dark and fed manure)

 

That would have been nice.

ps. That Sean Connery, "Zardoz" avatar is cracking me the hell up.

 

I'm pretty confident it has nothing to do with Paul Allen's health.

 

YOU TOOK MY AVATAR

 

Is that because of the way the Seahawk situation was handled?

 

No.

 

The greatest actor of our era in the greatest movie of his career!

Either that, or proof positive that there was a LOT of drug use in the 70s!

 

Sweet avatar! I'm going to use it too!!

 

another way to know kevs gone....

he keeps talking in the past tense....

hes gone

 

Didn't realize you had it, lol.

 

That's an interesting take. I don't follow the Seahawks closely at all, but it's reasonable to assume they'd follow similar plans in dealing with the sports side in these teams. Did Carroll get personnel control?