Shams: Olshey being investigated for workplace misconduct

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  1. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Isn’t being a Barbarian what got Olshey in trouble in the first place?
     
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    Peak irony if Olshey gets fired because of how he treated people after going on and on for years about culture.
     
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    Are we going to wait to trade CJ after he shoots his way into being untradeable?
     
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    He looks like he’d head butt Olshay in the bridge of the nose if he ever talked shit to him.
     
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    Danny Ainge

    I don’t trust any of the in-house guys - they all were fine with the path of perpetual mediocrity.
     
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    Marshall Glickman I think is in Bend still?
     
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    no-one want to deal with danny ainge
     
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    Billups' honeymoon should be up in a few months.

    CJ and Nurk are still taking fire. RoCo can fill in the complaint department when needed.
     
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    I like Danny Ainge a lot. Good drafter, big balls. He’s had some health issues though. Not sure if he’d want to get back into it.

    What about Sam Hinkie?
     
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    ewww no not Hinkie. Ainge would be interesting. Doesn’t he live in Oregon or something?

    my main target would be Bobby Webster.
     
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    Boston people pretty happy about Ainge being let go. I’d take their word for it
     
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    He also said that was his guess. Do teams often hire GMs from the outside in the middle of a season?
     
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    Or just world class asskissers.

    Some people vibe with the boss and some don't. Doesn't mean you can treat the other staff like a total dick.
     
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    They were hired by Rich Cho. One would presume, if they had a problem with Olshey, they would have left earlier. I don't see any reason for loyalty. There's a few articles I posted earlier in this thread about the dynamic between these guys and Neil and how he bucked convention to keep them on after getting hired. Seems fairly professional from the outside. Who knows how it is internally?
     
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    My coach in HS was run out of town after two years, but I actually appreciated his intensity compared to the next coach who came along. He wasn't perfect and it wasn't always easy, but I never had a more dedicated coach in all years of playing sports. Some parents complained and that's all it usually ever amounts to. Some people complaining. I don't think Neil is a bad GM and I think he takes the job seriously. I don't think it's very likely to create championship opportunities in Portland for any GM, and now that front office moves are being dictated by moral hysterics, it's just another avenue with which petty authoritarians have squandered any appeal for me for the things that I appreciate. This society is more and more just straight trash and it's people without scruples(whom think they have scruples) ruining it for everyone else who thinks truth matters more than feelings. I can't wait until they start firing coaches for yelling at players because it's "harmful". Weak. Weak. Weak. Life being dictated by theatre kids.


    I just wanted to add about those concerned parents - they fucking ruined my senior year of basketball. Did they get a timeout for that? Were they concerned about my well-being or the lack of return for all the hard work I put in under the old coach? No, their outrage was selfish, myopic bullshit and I was just an externality of it. That's how it always is with moral authoritarians - they never get their own comeuppance. These people are far worse than Neil Olshey as human beings, I promise you.

    I should also add that the same thing happened for my senior season of baseball. Parents complained about an assistant coach being rehired, so the AD told the head coach he couldn't hire him. Head coach resigns. I was never asked what I thought about the assistant coach despite playing varsity since my freshman year. So senior baseball season dramatically disrupted right before the start of the season. Four different head coaches in four years of varsity baseball. I don't know, maybe Neil is a closet Hitler and I am just wailing without evidence, but I saw this coming from the mob in the summer. I see this kind of subversion everywhere in society these days. Stories just completely blown out of proportion and context. It's like, yes, it's okay for the coach to yell at me when I fuck up. I don't care because I FUCKED UP. I don't cry about it, because I FUCKED UP. Then you have to say, wait maybe the coach got it wrong once or twice and HE FUCKED UP, we are all human. You forgive and acknowledge the dedication he's giving and the operant conditioning he lives in. Nope, we can't do that! We have to assume we are ALL FUCKING EGGSHELLS!!!
     
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    Give me Brent Barry
     
  20. Paine Tablet

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    Why not? You can pay minor league players in baseball peanuts because context, so why does a basketball front office/media exchange have to be a personal hugbox? Boxers punch each other - should we do away with that because it promotes violence? All this does is create more opportunity for hysterics to levy their hammer with more and more of their own petty, authoritarian bitchiness.
     

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