I'm not saying you didn't take a position, I'm saying that the rhetorical question you've been posing throughout this thread (If Cho was terrible, shouldn't they fire him?) is hardly a good defense of the franchise or even all that meaningful in the long view. Yes, I'm not debating whether the move was good or bad. From the publicly known results, it seems excessively hasty and silly, but who knows if he was sexually harassing people behind closed doors. What I'm saying is that the franchise seems erratic and without any clear idea what they're doing. That's bad, irrespective of whether Cho needed to go or not.
I meant from Day One after the Bayless trade. Cho is fired. Should have never had the job in the first place. I was right.
Jay Allen from a source: Cho was seen in the NBA as a guy who had a hard time making a decision. OE and I called that from his first lunch in Portland.
I am not sure why you are complaining about that fact. If any of us wanted the well established "facts" as they are filtered, reviewed through multiple layers of attorneys, PR flaks, and battle tested execs and public figures, we can just go to their web site. All the "truth" available at Blazers.com. The purpose of forums like this is to question, speculate, hypothize, tear apart and mull over all the rumours we can get. And to do so immediately, well before all the information is out there. Talking out your ass is a prerequisite for making interesting posts. Regurgitating "facts" that are well known and readily available is pretty boring and of limited value.
That's right! A GM should be evaluated by his culinary preferences. He is indecisive about his Asian menu options - he is a calculating man that can not be decisive over his numeric formulas (See Cho, Rich) He is a cake aficionado - he wants everything to be happy and sweet without taking into account the health risks (See Pritchard, Kevin) He likes McDonald - he is a frugal man that is willing to sacrifice taste, style and substance for cruel efficiency of speed and mass-production at the cost of results (See Patterson, Steve) He likes Ben and Jerry - he is a nice man that likes to mingle with the common man - but can not understand that ice-cream is not a real nutritional value (See Nash, John).
I get that. I also suspect that Cho, as nice of a guy and as wonderful as he may have been with the CBA and player stats, wasn't the guy that should be Blazers GM. I've watched him throughout the season, from his first painful interviews, to the meet and greet, where I thought he was nice but really awkward, to how when we see video of him from the practice facility he always seems to be sitting away from coaching staff and other front office folks. I think he just isn't GM material. If that's the case, and I'm willing to admit my impressions could be wrong, then getting rid of him now, before the draft, is the best thing for the Blazers regardless of how others may view them. The sooner we get a qualified GM hired and taking the controls, the better.
Since Rudy is such a key essential part of our team in that his looks bring in the chicks to games, Cho face palming when Rudy missed a free throw against OKC must have been to over the top.
What makes you think I'm complaining about that fact? After a dozen years or so on message boards, I think I have a pretty good handle on the dynamics involved. I was just noting for the record that nobody here has a good idea as to what the real facts are and that absent that, it's pretty hard for me to jump on the "OH MY GOD, THE BLAZERS ARE TOTALLY INCOMPETENT CLOWNS BECAUSE THEY FIRED CHO" bandwagon. This could equally well work out to be the best day in recent Blazers history. But, if you're really enjoying the freakout, I'm sorry if I disrupted you.
So will his 2 assistant GMs get the boot too?!? Larry must no have felt they were not squared away enough to take Cho's spot if he moved Buchanan to the interim spot. Just give the job to Chad Buchanan. He would do a great job if you ask me.
I thought they were incompetent clowns when they fired Penn and Pritchard, and then hired a completely inexperienced GM. Perhaps firing that inexperienced GM, who helped make the team older and not better, is perhaps the first competent move they've made in some time.
