Player exit interviews and statements - 10 am

I'm sorry, but I don't see anything wrong with what Neil said. What, do you want a "Woe is me" statement? I'm not insulted by anything he had to say. Does he need to get things done this offseason, damn straight he does. But if CJ does get traded, it better be for an awesome return. By the way, San Antone says they won't trade Kawhi to the West. I think the Blazers have a good team that can develop and get better. I'm patient, but then again, Military service makes you that way. I'm more impatient with real world issues like affordable housing & cheaper healthcare cost. Now on that!, I can't wait long.

 

so you are saying that if the Ebola virus wipes out most quality players and coaches or there is a merger with the WNBA, we have a chance?

 

One piece can make a HUGE difference.

1989: swept in first round

add Buck Williams

1990: NBA Finals

 

Warriors improved from within:

2014- lose in first round

Bench David Lee, start Green

2015- NBA championship

 

Why should we take your posts seriously when you talked all season about us being a championship contender, said we'd win in 7 after going down 2-0, and guaranteed we'd at least reach a game 5?

You kill the value in your own statements by constantly making outlandish "guarantees", which are always too positive. It's not like you're wrong on both sides of the coin, so to sit here being obviously biased towards are situation, when you're positive bias has shown to be completely wrong in the past couple weeks, makes it so that these posts don't mean anything, at all.

 

This! Not another Zach Randolph for Frye/Francis trade. What a disaster! Surely, we could've done better and if not, we should've kept him and make it work.

 

And? The best teams never sit here and say "Oh, we struggled because they're tough". Do you ever here Golden State complaining about a "bad matchup"? No. That's a weak ass mentality and shows that the team needs better leadership since they're bitching about "bad matchups". BE BETTER.

You pick out a couple flukes from the past, and act like it's a trend. It's not. You make an outlandish point, bring up one or two examples that "support" such a claim even though those 1 or 2 instances happened in the past 25 years or so, and then act like they happen every year.

Great teams matchup to everyone. Great teams adjust well to whatever is thrown at them. Great teams don't get demolished and swept while having homecourt advantage in the playoffs because of "matchup problems".

 

How was I supposed to help them meet my guarantee??? I tried voodoo! I cheered on the team in person. What was I supposed to do? I was just trying to be positive. If we had won yesterday (with no help of my own), I would've gained credibility, lol??

 

I added something very important there. If we're trying to emulate their growth, we better fire Stotts.

 

Championship teams do not match up to everyone. They only matchup to 4 teams. Are you honestly saying that different teams don't present different challenges??

 

You have to have a better option though.

 

You would not have gained credibility. When you guarantee something, you're claiming it's "absolutely" going to happen. We could've easily won yesterday, because we had a chance. Us winning a winnable game doesn't give you credibility because you guaranteed it.

But when you claim something has a 100% chance of happening, and it doesn't, you lose all credibility.

 

Considering I think Stotts is a bad coach, that shouldnt be difficult.

My short list:
Ettore Messina.
Ime Udoka.
Mike Budenholzer.
Jay Wright.

 

Not that they don't present different challenges, just that great teams are able to handle and adjust to any "challenge" they're presented with, which we certainly can't do.

 

They DO happen every year. You only play 4 teams! I was just using Rockets and Bulls as examples because they are considered great teams.

 

How do we know they can adjust to any challenge? They only beat 4 teams. Grizzlies were always bad matchup for Warriors but the one time they met in playoffs, they got hurt after taking 2-1 lead. Last year, Grizzlies owned Warriors but they never met in playoffs.

 

Man, I said several times that it was a process to build the team. I'm willing to give Olshey one more chance to make this team better using the assets they have. Cliff Robinson was the 36th pick, we have the 24th pick. Olshey has to hit on that pick. Buck was a really, really good trade that didn't involve giving up anyone necessary for the core and it would be great if Olshey could do a trade half of that successful this summer. Between the TPE's and the tax-MLE the opportunity is there to add talent.

 

I had control over the outcome? So if I cheered louder and we won, I would've gained credibility?

 

The flukes happen every year? We're talking about great teams getting upset because of bad matchups. That hardly happens. That does not happen every year. Your examples are flukes and not a general trend at all. It's an example of you picking 2 outliers out of a sample size of around 50... Take a statistics class and see how relevant those outliers are.

 

I don't think this was directed specifically towards me but I did say that maybe changing the coach (like the Blazers did in 88-89 and the Warriors did in 2015) would be something to look at.