Missed badly on Meyers....and then re-signed him. Missed even worse on Zach....who he traded 2 picks to get. Yuck! Hit on CJ....except you already had a small, ball dominant guard who wasn't much of a defender, but was better. Dame had already been identified by Buchanon and the scouting staff. Neil basically got hired and made the pick that everyone else had sold Paul on.
We won't know because they are protecting the identity of the person or persons who came forward but because they seemed so supportive of Neil even as recently as the Billups hiring and subsequent scandal, I have to think that Vulcan felt that the complaints levied were enough to scare them that inaction would be horrendous for the Allen Trust's PR or that it could get them into an ugly legal problem. I do not think they were playing the asshole card. I think that the investigation turned up information that made them feel compelled to fire Olshey even if they wanted to keep him.
In the end, was Olshey fired for cause? Are the Blazers trying to get out of paying him? I haven't seen any reports regarding that (though I may have missed them), but it'll be interesting to see.
Everyone I've listened to, including Jason Quick, Dan Marang and Mike Richman have all said that their sources indicate it wasn't any one specific incident that brought up this investigation, and they don't even really know why its all come out now.
couldn’t have helped I’ll say that. But they said he violated code of conduct. Does that mean they don’t have to pay him?
What connections could any of those guys have that would get them past billionaire corporate NDAs and an organization in the Paul Allen Trust that is trying to protect it's reputation. I just don't see why any of those guys are reliable sources of information about how this all got started or what was discovered unless they have specifics about either of those two things.
Just sounds like a way to get out of paying him, but actually with that wordage I can't tell whether they will still pay him the rest of his 3 years. Perhaps some lump sum severance that isn't as much as his total contract.
Snell is fine as a part time backup, and DSJ has been great as a 3rd string PG. Often the last few years we haven't had acceptable starting forwards.... so now having 4+ players that can contribute off the bench is actually really good. This teams problem is at the top of the roster and key starters, not the middle of the bench.
It said right in my post CJ was a hit. But given that we already had a much better version of CJ, it wasn't the best use of the pick.
I have a feeling until Jody sells the team we won't move on from this era. Am I weird or anyone else like that?
This is actually a good case study. Olshey knew just enough to recognize that CJ does have a degree of talent and value. Mistake 1: he wasn't a great fit. Mistake 2: he handed him to a coach that tolerated (or even encouraged) his bad habits. Mistake 3: he convinced himself CJ was the second coming of Dame. He over-valued him into a bad contract and the status of untradeable commodity.
