Everyone around the league and their mother knew that Ezeli was done. Turner and Meyers deals were so awful, what did he expect? that they will improve the team to the point of dragging it from being a 3rd tier team onto the level of the Clippers? I just don't see the rational in his decisions, i can understand the Crabbe part ,but that's about it. I really believe that he could have cut at least 2 of Meyers-Turner-Crabbe-Ezeli if he really wanted to, but not even a distant rumor on them being semi-available.
actually it's not true...Ezeli had a setback that hurt his value to us and as a trading piece, he was a low cost risk making basically Chris Kaman money and Turner in my view is going to be a keeper..better than Batum in the long run. Meyers...yeah...he's disappointed everyone.
No GM signs players thinking they're going to be bad--saying "they didn't play to his expectations" is obvious. The point is, he's paid to have the right expectations--i.e. evaluate players properly. He failed, that's on him, not the players.
yep, he gets credit for a good Nurk trade and gets correctly hammered for most of last summers overpay signings
take a look at what went down, only transaction that we could have had interest in was the Nerlens trade, The summers signings hamstrung us so we really could not do that deal, yeah as I have said that's on Olshey and/or PA. Nerlens will likely get paid close to 20 mil since Nets are out there and can toss up another max deal. Given what I have seen so far from Nurk I think he was as good a get as Nerlens and has one more yr on a cheap deal and we got a 2017 1st. And frankly Nerlens and Nurk are not going to work together IMO, so having both was not a good idea and add to that we need to give Nurk all the minutes he needs to grow with this team and not be in another situation like he was with Jokic.
You are right. The goal should have been achieved after the 2015-16 season was over. Trying to fix this financial hell shouldn't have waited till yesterday.
The goal should have been achieved when Allen Crabbe was with the Idaho Stampede.....he never fooled us....Olshey should have watched those games and moved the Stampede to Eugene...he should have watched Meyers dance to Michael Jackson or coddle his dog...he should have kept Snoop Dogg's entourage away from Dame's recording sessions.....he should have told CJ to avoid the allstar game at all costs because it would possibly make him lose confidence in his 3 pt shooting
If your question is, who could Olshey have signed instead of Crabbe and Leonard... http://www.basketball-reference.com/dleague/years/2017.html#all_leaders
Olshey needs to save face this offseason because he knows his job is on the line. I'm a big Olshey supporter, but you can't saddle a team with luxury tax for a mediocre product and expect to keep your job. Neil's biggest downfall as a GM is that he falls in love with his "guys". Lillard and CJ are his guys. Is that a duo that can become an elite team? Or is it better to split up the atrociously bad defensive duo? Its a decision that Neil's job depends on, IMO.
If he couldn't sign the right people last July (you homers said, the summer's not over, he created this luxury tax problem because he plans to trade some of this great talent for even better players who make a lot less) or by the preseason (you homers said, he's not done dealing) or by the time the season got underway (you homers said, it's been his plan all along to wait till the February trade deadline) or by the trade deadline yesterday (now you say, no problem, he's waiting till some unknown point in the future), then what makes you think he can solve his problems this summer (when you'll say, he never planned to solve the problems he created, April Fools)?
And your plan was to...... not match, lose the players for nothing, and sign D league players instead. Not a horrible plan, but I don't see how we would be any better off. Unless you think we are could have been players in free agency with all the extra cap space, which history has shown....... we never are. So either way we are in about the same situation. And either way, as we all know, you would be bitching about it.
There's a 2000-pound weight hanging over us. It will force him to give away players by paying teams with our draft picks (you asked what the problem is, which I didn't get to because I figured you were joking, but there it is). The weight will drop on us, and we know when. He keeps getting chances to drop it slowly, but he can't move it. So it will drop suddenly unless he finally does something with his one remaining chance this summer. The more times he has failed (I listed them in the last post), the higher the probability that he will not have the talent to succeed with his last chance. This ascending probability of failure is why it is usually best to not wait till the last minute to do things.
