Quick on the Blazers summer

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    It's his contract year? :dunno:
     
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    The Professional Fan Big League Scrub

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    Great stuff from Quick.

    By far the most interesting thing to me was the Jody Allen comment:

    I like winning; I want to win.

    What’s your plan? Go do your job.

    Sure sounds like Olshey has carte blanche. Truly don't believe he ever had this much freedom under Paul. Big deal, IMO.
     
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    ...because now he is finally getting paid real wages! :biglaugh:
     
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    I really honed in on that also. Very nice to read that. Kind of seems like she isn't selling the team any time soon either.
     
  5. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Newspapers are a dying breed....

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  6. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Was Paul holding us back all these years by micro managing?
     
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    I have long thought this. Bless his soul.
     
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    tester551 Well-Known Member

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    Nah. There's still some decent C on the market without teams. If we had a hole there, we could still get a playable player for the min.
     
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    I don't know if "holding back" is the right term, but he was certainly very involved as we know. Jody is like "I like winning get it done." Can't ask for a better owner than that, honestly.
     
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    It's all Vulcan's fault. But, seriously, I won't soon forget Paul's "broken economic model" mantra...

    http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060306&slug=allenportland06m

    ........But his ownership of the Blazers has become a tale of dubious business decisions and a billionaire's dream gone awry. In pursuit of an elusive NBA title, he spent lavishly on players but balked when it came to paying off creditors who had financed the Rose Garden arena.

    The team — rebuilding with young talent and former Seattle coach Nate McMillan — is struggling at the bottom of the NBA and often playing to sparse crowds.

    As some Portland districts underwent a real-estate boom, the development around the Rose Garden arena fizzled. Just last year, Cucina! Cucina! — the last restaurant in an adjacent complex — shut down.

    Even the arena is no longer under Allen's control. Rather than make debt payments, he handed it over to lenders during a holding company's 2004 journey through U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Allen spokesmen now say he has invested some $600 million in the Blazers without showing a profit, and that the team — without control of the arena — is saddled with a "broken economic model" that likely will lose $100 million over the next three years.

    "Paul Allen is both a businessman and a fan, and as a businessman he needs to see immediate improvements," said Michael Nank, a spokesman for Vulcan, Allen's management company. "Our preference is to preserve the franchise and keep it in Portland. But ... we can't guarantee the outcome at this point because we aren't the only participants in finding a solution."

    NBA Commissioner David Stern says he is trying to help broker a settlement that would allow Allen, or perhaps another Blazer ownership group, to take back control of the arena.

    Meanwhile, the mood here has darkened......(continued)


    Here's a side article..

    https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1222/083.html#487f52d5f4ca
     
  11. illmatic99

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    what a ridiculous notion. The money being spent now is Paul's.
     
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    What does that have to do with micro managing?
     
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    Nope. Paul Allen was a very accomodating owner and has spent a ton of his own money on this team.
     
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    micro managing and spending big, are apples and oranges people.....

    One doesn't equate the other.

    Paul was a SUPERB owner who spent hastily for us. It doesn't mean he didnt curb a bit of progress by micromanaging. Just because an owner spends doesnt mean he is spending the best or optimal way and if he was making decisions, it might not have been the best money spent is all @Natebishop3 is saying I believe, and if so, I tend to agree.

    Keep Allen Crabbe? Lots of rumors that was PA, not NO and that's a prime example of a great owner willing to spend, but micromanaging the spending so its not spent optimally.
     
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    There were long rumors that having Jermaine O'Neal go somewhere else and blow up haunted Paul and made him extremely gunshy about trading young talent.

    I think that's why we have clung to so many high potential young guys that never went on to do anything.
     
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    A very nice article by Quick. A big improvement from years past as well. Thanks for sharing.

    Interesting that in the details shows that acquiring Bazemore was an insurance policy anticipating that Hood would not re-sign here. Yet, we got both.
    Also agree that the Summer of Olshey was a win-win. Great anticipation for the brand we will see this upcoming season.
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I had a weird dream last night: Dame connected big-time with Whiteside, the team played outstanding and, well ......it was Nurk who ended up getting traded.

    Oh, and Whiteside re-upped with the Blzers.

    Not quite sure what to make of that. :smiley-hmm:
     
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    You went to bed stoned?
     
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    No, but I had come to the conclusion that this team can't/won't have both of these guys going into the 2020/2021 season. The dream was about a big breakout season for Whiteside.
     

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