What Olshey has done

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    "Yes, Blazer fans, I'm aware that we've built an excellent team, won 54 games and a playoff series last season, and are on pace to win our division title this year, but the fact is, we can't guarantee that Aldridge is going to re-sign this summer. You know the axiom--get your all-star to re-sign, or get something for him. We simply can't risk losing him for nothing; that would be inexcusable. So with that, we wish Lamarcus the best of luck in Miami, and now officially welcome your newest Portland Trailblazers--Luol Deng and Hassan Whiteside."

    I'm sure that would have gone over wonderfully at the trade deadline.
     
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    Schilly Well-Known Member

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    Come on Tlong, that's the best you got?
     
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    Right, to think that season ticket holders are pissed now, but they wouldn't have been if you broke up a 50 win team last offseason or at this past trade deadline
     
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    But he lost Aldridge for nothing! That's inexcusable!!1!1!!!1!
     
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    Posts with the solution of "trade LaMarcus two years ago" are asinine. Posts with the solution of "convince LaMarcus to go to a team he doesn't want to go to because we might get something for him" are delusional.

    Which one is this post?
     
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    Phooey.

    Being a useful rotation player makes them neither "worthless" nor a future star. What the hell is wrong with just being honest?
     
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    Big cop out, tlongII!! When exactly would you have pulled the trigger on a LMA trade rather than losing him? Keep in mind the shrinking value as he was closer and closer to actual free agency!! Who would have paid what? Olshey didn't stand a chance.
     
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    Unfortunately every one is being honest, but people who tout themselves as Realists tend to fall on the side of pessimistic. I think it's a self preservation mode, "Expect little so I don't feel let down".
     
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    He didn't say "future star". He said "good guys for the future", in which he included CJ, Meyers, Crabbe, and maybe Vonleh, all of whom he deemed bench players. Thus, he was decreeing that Aminu, Davis, and Harkless were all not even worthy of being future bench players--hence, worthless.

    As to what's wrong with being honest--nothing. I wasn't criticizing Blazers Roy's honesty; I was calling out his judgmentalism and close-mindedness.
     
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    Inman (drafted Drexler '83, Bowie & Kersey '84 and Porter '85) Buckwalter (drafted Sabonis '86) and Petrie (traded Bowie for Buck Williams '89) built those early 90's favorite teams.

    Edit: sorry this was directed toward another post/quote.
     
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    Blazermania was even higher back in '77!! You obviously didn't see it or you wouldn't confuse it with fandom in Portland circa 1990-1992.
     
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    Grandpa alert!
     
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    Some of us were born after that. I was born right before (May 1977), so no, we didn't GET to see any of that. The best we have is 1989-90.
     
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    I was born 1973, but really was too young to even remember that championship. Hell, I didn't even become a Blazer fan until 86
     
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    Sounds just like me, Born 9/21/73. Became a big Blazers fan in 88'
     
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    Damn pops! using a cane yet?
     
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    Born in 75, first memories of blazers probably 83 or so.
     
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