If you do that, you might as well fire him. I wouldn't want to interview for a team that was treating their employees that way.
MASSIVE misses on talent evaluation both in players he signed and in ones that got away like Hibbert and Parsons. Tied to closely to most of the players he drafts and I've yet to see a really good trade out of him. The Nurkic deal looked great last year but not nearly so good anymore.
I agree about Parsons, but I will argue until the cows come home about Hibbert. We have no idea if Hibbert would have self destructed the way that he did if he had come to Portland instead of staying in Indy. From what we've heard, Hibbert went from a DPOY caliber talent to a total joke after some things happened involving his teammates in Indy. There's no guarantee that would have happened if he had been a Blazer.
Not denying that, but we often bring up his drafting and talent evaluation as a reason to keep him. His record ain't that stellar in that aspect either.
The game passed him by and made him obsolete. League went even more 3pt heavy and GS started playing a mobile 6'7 guy a C. Took him completely out when he wasn't free to roam away from the likes of Joel Anthony to guard the rim.
His contract ran out just as that was becoming prominent. Warriors won their first title in 2014-2015. The first year of the deal was 2012-2013 and the last year was 2015-2016.
Here's the problem.... I don't think it's entirely on Olshey. I think it's a combination of Paul and whoever he has as GM. What makes you think that the next guy he hires is going to be any better than Neil or Cho or Patterson or Nash or KP?
Interesting theory..... go take a look at the Hornets roster and let me know if you'd like to swap teams.
At this point I'd be willing to give someone else the keys. Six years is a really fair amount of time to pick a viable direction aside from mediocrity, and I'm not sure that Olshey has been able to do that. What's worse is that his mistakes are really handicapping us from going in any other direction at the moment. It will probably now take a fresher, more objective pair of eyes to move forward from them.
Just heard an interview in which it was disclosed that Cho insisted on the Hornets drafting Malik Monk, while Jordan really wanted Donovan Mitchell. Also said that Cho probably will be fired within the next few months.
I know all you realists, aka pessimists, aka experts hate the word Potential. But if Collins and Nurk reach theirs by 2020 I think we're good. I would say when LMA left for nothing, but Massively probably occurred with the Turner/Meyers reality.
