Poll: Who do you blame for the Blazer current state of Affairs

True, but you also have to blame Barack Obama. I mean, sure, he inherited this Blazers mess from W, but has he made it any better? No! It's gotten worse under his watch! Friggin' politicians.

 

After much reflection, I'm going to have to go with Paul Allen. He's responsble for (supposedly) allowing the Vulcans too much control, Bert Kolde too much control, for the Pritchard and Cho fiascos, for Larry Miller, for the lack of a GM, for his bias for anything "Seattle", and most egregiously, the fact that Nate McMillan is still coaching this team.

 

Actually, upon even deeper reflection on the important issue of whom to blame, I'll go with the knees of Brandon Roy and Greg Oden. Any other factor is not even close to those bastards in keeping the Blazers from contending for a championship.

 

I thought about blaming injuries, but no. Shit happens. It's what you do after shit happens that matters. This is just a total fail, from the top down.

It is to the point now that I'm feeling really bummed, not about the team, not about the players, but about Nate. I'm literally 'tired' of him. He's bumming me out. It feels like when you've been on a long trip, or away from home for a long time, and you can't wait to get home, but you know there is still a long way to go, and it feels like you are never going to get there. Just draining and demoralizing. Nate may be just the tip of the iceberg, so he is visible and he gets the heat, but I just really need a different coach for my team, now. The overall clusterfuck though, and the fact Nate is still bumming me out and making me tired, falls on Uncle Paul.

 

Who cares? It's just a game. Blazers rule even if they lose some games.

 

Honest question: do you really think that any management in the NBA could recover from the unexpected retirement, within a couple of weeks of the start of a lockout delayed season, of its franchise player and yet another knee surgery on a major player that you were expecting back? I don't think Red Auerbach or Jerry West in their prime could have scrambled and recovered from that.

 

Could they have salvaged this season? Maybe not. If they saw that they couldn't save this season, would they have made moves with an eye to the future? I would certainly think so.

 

Greg Oden.

 

SlyPokerDog is at the root of most of our problems, but I don't blame him for Bayless.

 

If management really was counting on Brandon and Greg being major contributors this year, then I blame them for not having much of a plan. Those two should have been seen as "gravy." Now on the other hand, were they dealt a shit sandwich? For sure. But Paul/Nate/Larry/Bert still hasn't hired a GM and we're closing in on the mid-point of a very short season.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

 

Can't disagree with that. Frankly, I think that the biggest mystery hanging around this franchise is why there hasn't been a GM hired. I suppose it made sense to stall when it looked like the season might be totally lost...why pay a new GM to sit on his butt? But why wasn't there a process in the works to make a quick hire once the season got going? To me, this is one sign that seems to point to PA considering selling the team. A new owner would likely want to pick their own GM.

As far as the injury thing goes, I was more thinking of Chad Buchanan. I think he did a pretty decent job given what he was dealt that couldn't have been foreseen.

 

No.

 

Those are pretty good answers. No doubt the injuries killed us. But I've been unhappy with a lot of things for a long time, Nate the longest. At the moment, with the current state of affairs, I'm all out of hope for the future. It feels like a really long trip, and a long way to go.

 

I agree with SnakeOiler. Please don't start threads about the team in a Blazers forum. And absolutely never say anything negative or question anything that they do

 

As for the actual question, I think you have to start at the top. With PA being such a hands on owner, it's his fault. It's his fault we don't have a stable GM. It's his fault the GMs we have had have drafted injured players over and over. Reading that The Blazers knew about potential injury issues because of the different leg lengths on Oden, and drafting him anyway, is insanity. Continually drafting Euros in the first round and getting little to no value out of them falls on the active owner. Keeping a coach here that has proven he can't win in the playoffs for as long as he has is the fault of the owner.

Now PA has done great things too, but the answer to the question asked is the owner.

 

As for the people employed by the team.....

The GM has done a kiss poor job finding the fit talent

The coach has done a piss poor job taking advantage of a full roster

It's not the players fault that byte aren't very good

 

The entire brain trust; Allen, Kolde, Buchanan, Miller and McMillan.

 

I blame bad luck that at least 2 out of three studs we drafted were busts due to knee problems. If we had 2 of the 3 healthy, we wouldn't have this thread. The fact that KP's last two drafts sucked ass doesn't help, either.

Go Blazers

 

The Blazers have said that they knew about the risk of both Brandon's and Greg's knees before they were drafted. It has nothing to do with bad luck, and everything to do with our front office making poor decisions