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

I've always loved that guy! He's been famous for so long.

 

Oops. You beat me by only...33 hours.

 

Was assistent GM for SAS and is now one for BKN.

 

A big man coach would get the big men to play like big men. This contradicts the whole Stotts philosophy, in which big men are busy making zippy passing decisions instead of receiving the ball for easy beelines to the basket. And little men, when they find themselves under the hoop for layups, whip it out to a teammate standing 30 feet out.

This is why Stotts and Olshey will never hire a big man coach.

 

They don't need a big man coach full time. If the Blazers just brought in Walton or Sabas for a few off-season workouts, it would do wonders.

 

All that and the only thing I learned is you flunked 4th grade math.

50 is not > 50.

BNM

 

.....or on track because they win a 3rd game in a row playing the lowly Hawks. Combined record of the Lakers, 76'ers and Hawks....35-68.

 

Deleted that before you posted. Correction:

Your eyes are failing. Try reading the sentence. I said we entered eternal mediocrity, not a sunny time.

But...
In the nine seasons Bob Whitsitt was the GM, the Blazers teams won >= 49 games 5 times (6, if you prorate the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season).

In the other seasons, the early years, he won 44, 44, and 46 as he rebuilt without missing the playoffs. All winning seasons. His last season was 50 wins; as soon as he left, 41 wins, 9 fewer. Can you imagine a 9-win instant drop at the departure of Olshey or Pritchard? He had a fantastic 9-year run. No other Blazer GM has come close.

 

Canzano and Blazers Edge often make the opposite criticism, that Allen "meddles." In other articles, they reverse themselves and say he's an absent owner. It can't be both. Either he manages the team too little, or too much.

I think, while he asks the GM daily e-mail questions to keep the GM motivated, he lets the GM do what he wants. Later, Allen plays catch-up to any bad consequences. I wish he had time to be a "meddler," but he has many other enterprises going, and doesn't meddle there either.

 

That’d be fun, scoring 70 points a night