OT: Winner in the Jackson trade?

how have the GSWs done in the decade between Nellie stints? Their problems start with their douchebag owner.

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GSW was doing fine when Mullin was given the F/O spot. He got them some good players, he got Nellie to coach (and when Nellie coaches, he can still be pretty good). What Nellie did to them was decide that he wants to play GM as well, threw Mullin under the bus and decided that as a de-facto GM and coach he can do as he pleases.

Sure, the owner is not too smart - but for a short while there, he actually had it going OK. Mullin was not bad for them at all, but Nellie just ruined whatever hope Mullin actually gave them.

Anytime someone gets a job thanks to a past friend and uses that job to screw everything around and throw that past friend under the bus... well...

 

Really? I figure him to be the big loser. He requested to go to Clev, NY or one of the texas teams. Usally when big name players demand a trade, the organization trades them to a winning playoff team.

Either Sjax isn't a big enough name they felt they had to treat right, even on the way out . .. or he is a big name and GS wanted to screw with him one last time and sent him to Charlotte with Larry Brown . . . not what most vets would consider an ideal situation.

What is Sjax going to do now, demand a trade from Charlotte?

 

That isn't too different from what happened with Rasheed Wallace when we dealt him to Atlanta.

 

True . . . so you think he will be dealt again?

 

Not likely. Right now Larry Brown needs half of a team, and he needs guys who can score. Jackson can definitly score. Right now I don't see teams offering a lot for Jackson, and that is why he is in Charlotte. I also see Charlotte as needing scoring, and that is what Jackson can do. This will give them a second scorer to go with Wallace, and should take some pressure off of their younger players.

 

Maybe not right away (the way Sheed was), but if Brown can get him back on track, I would expect them to try to flip him for value next summer.

 

I get all that, but that is why I think Jackson is the biggest loser out of all this. He wanted to go to a championship conteder or big market team. He got neither.

 

Sure he did. But I think that he wanted to get away from Don Nelson more than any one of those things you just mentioned.

 

Playing for a coach who likes to slow it down, is a bit of a drill sargent and despises quick three point shots . . . let's see how long he goes before demanding another trade or says something negative about Brown or the organization.

But maybe I'm wrong here (I seem to be the only one thinking he is the big loser). I can't find any quotes from Jax himself on the move. Does he tweet?

 

bump...

 

Yeah, Charlotte made out like bandits...

 

sorry, but you're blaming the wrong guy. Cohan and his right hand man team President Robert Rowell are the main villains in usurping Mully according to the local press. Nellie is the name the general public recognises and for a 2nd time has fallen on Cohan's sword of cheapness & meddling. Having lived in the Bay Area now for most of Cohan's ownership era makes me feel so lucky to be a Blazer fan.

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I'm glad we made that trade and got a SF, we really need one.