Neil Olshey Hate Coming Soon

I appreciate the sentiment, but with today's NBA salaries I don't much care about how they move their family from one mansion to another. The players get paid millions of dollars to help the team win. If they aren't winning then I don't really care how nice they are in the locker room or how much they have grown as a person.

 

uhhh have you seen production on the court that would make you think otherwise? we have like 4-5 NBA caliber players on the entire roster

 

I don't blame Olshey for Crabbe, Leonard, Davis, Vonleh and to some extent Harkless not making strides towards being quality starters or at least fighting for a spot..I think the front office is disappointed to some extent just like fans are...Neil thought Crabbe and Leonard would become double double guys....I did to. It's on the players in my view for not living up to their contracts. We have no players avg double doubles on the roster...that doesn't win championships usually

 

So if the market value for a Maserati is $500,000, you'll go into debt one summer to buy it, then in February when you can't pay the sales tax, cry, "But it was market value!"

The fact that someone paid "market value" is irrelevant if it exceeds his budget.

And if we won 50 games but Paul Allen had to pay the $30M luxury tax next season, I guarantee that at least one person would care, negating your statement.

 

I think the idea is to turn around and flip the Mazerati for $500,000, and maybe a toaster. If you do this, market value matters.

 

You just have to hope you didn't buy a Camry for $500k.

 

He actually bought a used Pinto for $500k, but if that's the market price, and he can get his $$ + more, then it was a good investment.

 

Yeah, but that's not market price for a used Pinto. If you go out today and buy a used Pinto for $500k, you didn't just set "market price," you got took.

So we have to hope that Olshey didn't get took, eh?

 

This, I couldn't have put it more clearly. However, the same is true of every transaction.

 

"Market value" is set by the market, in this case the half-dozen GMs who paid double the usual last summer. Olshey was one of that small group. He was a large part of setting the new market values.

If 15 Pintos are on sale in the summer, and I offer $17.5M for one, and a tiny number of other GMs do the same, claiming that now, this is the new market price, thus making their own statement true...it's a lie to claim the next February, "But I was forced! I just paid the market value!"

 

Note the similarity of dates. The trade deadline was right after Canzano's twitter of Feb. 19, 2009. I registered here 7 months later. When I started a thread on ESPN titled ""Fire Pritchard" at exactly the noon deadline when it became obvious that he was the world's worst trader, I took shit from the pimply squeeky middle school moderator until I quit. The tot even kept wiping out Gramps' game that I was running, pissing off the 15-20 consistent participants we had.

 

It's not Olshey or any other Blazers GM in the past. It's daddy worbucks Paul Allen. He loves the draft and he loves his young players.

 

That Crapzano mistake retweet made my day.

 

At least his mistake isn't starting at center tonight. If indeed John Holmes starts

 

Remember, trades can be announced an hour or more past noon today. The league could be backed up in approving deals.

 

Also remember that some GM's don't like to be stuck in purgatory like ours does.

 

That's a damning statement if I've ever read one.
There is no way in hell I would ever see either one becoming double double guys.

 

Getting fired from your shitty radio show.....