Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 4: WARRIORS @ BLAZERS - 4/24/17, MONDAY, 7:30 PM (PDT), KGW & TNT

No it doesn't. We are 2 months from a draft in which we have 3 picks. NO and his staff have been scouting for a full year and have been preparing for this event. Firing him now would leave us woefully underprepared and rudderless-- we can't afford to throw away this draft. We HAVE to hit big on at least one of these picks if we want any hope moving forward.

Not to mention, Orlando will scoop him right up and take all his scouting info within an instant.

You don't change executives without a viable replacement in mind, and especially not right before something this important like a draft.

 

I probably wouldn't fire Olshey just yet. If they get off to a slow start next season I would jettison both Olshey and Stotts immediately though. It's all about our 3 draft picks and me having a good time in Vegas this summer!

 

Good thing you're not at the helm.

 

What? You don't want to win?

 

Yea, that's it.

 

But
1. Replacing Olshey doesn't mean replacing his staff.
2. Olshey might be ignoring his staff to "follow his gut"
3. GMs "prepare" for years and end up drafting Meyers Leonard.
4. Who says we're keeping the picks?

 

So you want to fire Olshey, but not his staff? What's the point of firing him anyway? NO has been a good identifier of talent. Misses like Leonard pale in comparison to the hits he had with Dame/CJ. He's an arrogant prick who makes dumb FA decisions, but I like him for the draft. Whether or not we keep the picks is not really the issue: I'd rather we be organized and execute a plan (good or bad), than act like chickens with our heads cut off during such a crucial time.

 

I think the Nurkic deal bought Olshey a little extra time. However, if the off-season doesn't show any meaningful progress towards a better team and the Blazers don't look that good next season, I'd be fine with replacing him. Assuming, as always, that they have someone decent lined up as a replacement. I've never been big on symbolic firings that have no planned follow-up.

 

Every GM has miss on players but what I see of Olshey he doesn't move on from that player when he misses such as ML.

 

Not in the least. This team needed the best talent they could add via the Lottery much more than an ass-whoppin and 4 game sweep. Nothing accomplished. I disagree with those who think they got something out of the Playoff experience. If that was true, they would have started this season differently after going through 2 playoff series last year. It didn't mean a thing. This year's sweep just means they weren't anywhere near GS's class.....which we already knew.

I too hope they truly understand that. It was a nice run with Nurkic but this isn't the first time he has been injured and even when healthy, there is no way he can cover up all the flaws to make them a legit contender.

As for NeO, many people will tell you that Dame was the organization's pick before he got here. Even so, he gets credit for Dame, it gets cancelled out by Leonard. He got CJ but passed on Giannis.....who D69 was preaching the praises of from well before the Draft. I'm still not positive to smallish, ball dominant guards who don't play defense is the recipe for contender status.

 

You'd rather have the 13th pick and an earlier vacation instead of the 15th pick and 4 playoff games. smh. Big fucking deal. 2 pick difference doesn't matter when you have 2 more picks later down in the first round.

And don't tell that we would have gotten lower than 13. Look at the final standings. Short of blatantly sitting out Dame/CJ/Nurk when healthy, we wouldn't have landed a better pick.

 

Yes.

 

I'd rather have the 8-10 pick where they were for the majority of the year. The 'Nurkic Run' managed to scrape them into the Playoffs fighting off mighty teams like Denver, Sac-o-crap and Minnesota...big deal. Without that one brief run provided by one player, this team was a middle of the Lottery team with the reast of their roster.

 

But we have that one player. That's the whole point. We have a major difference maker, and he already made a HUGE difference.

 

Ridiculous.

 

The fact that he agreed with the idiot experts, who seriously thought the Lakers would be a better team then the Blazers that year was more than enough reason for everyone dump on @HCP for his 23 wins prediction. But he was cool with all the jokes about his #23 wins so it's a moot point.

Dame by himself is better then that entire Lakers team that season and it is for that reason alone he should have realized how 'realistic' that prediction was and that the experts didn't know what the fuck they were talking about when it came to Dame and the Blazers.

 

I've can understand wanting to make the playoffs. You don't feel how a pick 2 higher than what we have isn't as important as getting swept like we just did. What do you think we gained form this experience. I have a feeling in 8 weeks you and a lot on here will wish we had that 13th pick.