Color me unimpressed with this guy... he got lucky with CP3 (and overpaid for him considering the other offers) Traded the pick that ended up being Kyrie Irving.. and hired Del Negro... what am I missing?
So which is bad? Having too few people helping or having a big decentralized bunch, with some Vulcan and some Larry Miller staff? I'd rather have a large team, connected approach. Who does. His picture needs a reddish background.
TRAIL BLAZERS TO INTRODUCE OLSHEY ON TUESDAY New GM to address media at 4 p.m. press conference WHO Trail Blazers General Manager Neil Olshey Trail Blazers President Larry Miller WHAT The Trail Blazers will introduce their new General Manager, Neil Olshey, at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Olshey, who becomes the 10th general manager in team history, comes to the Trail Blazers from the Los Angeles Clippers where he served as the team's Vice President of Basketball Operations for the past two seasons. For more information on Olshey, click here . WHEN Tuesday, June 5 at 4 p.m. WHERE Harry Glickman Media Room Rose Garden Arena
100% sure this will be on trailblazers.tv as well so you "common folk" can watch live in between D&D games from your mom's basement!
Eric Gordon & 10th pick is overpaying? Other teams were offering Steph Curry or Rondo and their picks.
Considering Gordon played what 10 games all year and now wants a max contract (It was reported he turned down a 4 year almost 60m contract) and anyone who thought the Wolves pick was going to be top 5 didn't take into account the shorten season + no reason to tank +love would give them a decent shot at a not so insanely crappy record. They got a great deal for cp3.
Let's not forget that Neil wasn't fleeced by the Blazers for Eric Bledsoe at the trade deadline. I think the Blazers were offering Crawford and were turned down. Meanwhile Bledsoe blew up in the playoffs and helped them in their run.
Rumor has it that Sterling's wife had final say on the coaching hire, "she thought he looked nice." is what I remember reading somewhere.
There's a slight allusion to Sterling's wife in this truehoop article from last week, as for the rumor that she had input on his hire, I'll have to dig deeper. http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/44190/vinny-del-negro-lives-to-see-another-season
Olshey is a decent choice. I'm glad they finally have a GM in place. Of course he'll probably be fired within a year though...
Ask and ye shall receive: http://blogs.trailblazers.com/Broad...188/EntryID/1645/BroadcasterID/8/Default.aspx Brian Wheeler's blog from a year and a half ago so take it for what it's worth.
I feel better; this guy seems to have a lot of the right experience and he hasn't done anything real stupid. I'm gonna be optimistic and assume that if they can't get a difference maker in his prime for those picks that they will keep them and make a couple of good selections. I'm OK going either way on that; I think it really depends on what kind of deal they can or can't make.
What a great coup for the Blazers! It feels like a breath of fresh air just blew the doors off the Rose Garden.
He also refused to give up Bledsoe to the Hornets in the Chris Paul trade; I think that actually held up the trade for a couple days.
