Rumor Report: Owner Paul Allen investigating whether Trail Blazers’ problem is roster or coaching

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    The lieutenants who work at owner Paul Allen’s Vulcan, Inc. mothership have been analyzing data and asking important questions. Two NBA front-office sources said they were contacted in the last 10 days by the Vulcans and asked whether they thought Trail Blazers struggles were due to a broken roster or poor coaching.

    “Paul is getting antsy,” one of the league sources said, “he thinks they should be winning more.”
     
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    It's not either/or. I think some of both.
     
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    Ooooooh shit. Here we go. Buckle up.
     
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    I am glad we have an active owner who isn't satisfied with mediocrity and has taken an interest in his team's sucess . This team definitely has some issues that need to be resolved if we don't want to be stuck in basketball limbo. I personally think we might have a new coach in 2018. We also have some clear roster issues. This team as it stands is a 8th swept in first round team, just like last year.
     
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    The problem is Neil is so stuck on the Dame and CJ combo working... he has a good eye for talent but I’m afraid his unwillingness to trade CJ and balance out the roster Will be his downfall... only a matter of time
     
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    Uh, this is from Canzano even if you didn't link directly to him. That should tell you all you need to know.

    But yes, I am sure Paul Allen would like to win more.
     
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    In other news, Paul Allen has been in cryo sleep since 2015.
     
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    Lol. We.
     
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    The article ridicules Allen for thinking the same as we all do. "Antsy." The writer, Dan Feldman, says that Stotts and Olshey have done "fine" jobs. The writer says that Allen has a quick trigger for firing GMs, but that's not what the local media said when they campaigned for years to fire Whitsitt, and put the team into permanent mediocrity.

    The local media has a very low BBIQ.
     
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    Psst.

    Hey Paul, it's both
     
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    Ironic since Portland is usually very medioce.
     
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    If Neil doesn’t make something happen before the trade deadline then he should be let go. The contracts to Meyers and ET are two of the worst in the league and other than CJ we don’t have enough desirable assets on the team to make any real splash. I’m not a huge Stotts fan but this roster is so fucked.
     
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    I know everybody gives stotts shit and yeah he does dumb shit sometimes but it’s honestly the talent. Just not enough of it outside of dame and cj, nurks not doing great. Only role players doing consistently well this season are Davis and aminu. Every other player is inconsistent or they just don’t show up. So you either trade cj and get some players who can play in return or try and make trades, get some actual players on the team around dame and cj
     
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    Hell yea ! I love Paul Allen. Clean this garbage up. I’m glad Allen is thinking along my lines and ready to blow this shit up because clearly it ain’t working
     
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    Canzano is funny how he runs with this Vulcan thing. Does Vulcan exist? Sure. Is it some super secret group like the Illuminati? No.

    Its probably just a team of advisers/friends of Paul's.
     

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