What's your worst case fears about this offseason?

So I post something on this thread and it becomes your mantra for the next 4-6 months.
I’ll pass.

 

The PG13 deal was all 3 picks and any player but Dame/CJ/Nurk. I thought that was fair. I can’t imagine CJ wasn’t in his Harden deal though.

 

Stolshey bro. Stolshey.

 

Hiring a less than exceptional coach. If we don't get a top flight coach nothing else matters. Blow it up and start over.

 

this is not combative, but what is a top flight coach in your opinion

 

Neil trades Dame for Paul George.

Neil IS dumb enough to do something like that.

 

My biggest fear would probably be that we blow it up and become the Cavs without making the playoffs again in my lifetime.

 

What makes you say that?

 

So are you indicating you've lost the ability to read? This 'place' is full of posters who either equally or even moreso think Olshey is responsible.

 

I dare him to find even one post that says the entire fault should be on Stotts.

 

Not really afraid of a Dame trade, e.g. Dame for Ja as principals would be ok.


Worst nightmare is actually another 1st round loss?

No, worst nightmare is Dame career ending jury.

 

Ideally a coach who has taken multiple teams to the conference championship series. Or somebody like Spoelstra.

I don't think coaches like that are available, so I doubt it will happen unless we get extremely lucky on a newcomer.

This is why I wasn't big on firing Stotts.

 

This is it.

Running it back with a mediocre coaching hire will set this franchise back YEARS.

 

I would rather bring in an unknown with even the smallest of chances that things click and we are put into a position to win a title, rather than sit through another Stotts season where we flame out in the first round.

 

This is kinda how I feel as well. To me, Spoelstra is a no brainer, but after that an established head coach doesn’t excite me

 

This is a great point. How long does it take to know if you have a great coach?

Does it matter if you have a good team? Could you have the worst talent in the league and know if you had a great coach?

 

1. Dame asks to be traded
2. We keep CJ and Norm walks for nothing
3. We hire D'Antoni or a gool ol' boy hire like that... we need fresh eyes.

 

in other words, Meyers and Harkless plus 3 non-lottery picks in the same....for Paul George. Like I've said since then it was not a serious offer, but Olshey fans give him credit for trying.

kind of like offering 20K for a 2021 Lexus...."hey, I tried but the dealership was unreasonable!"

 

what was he convicted of?

 

i see some people are saying: "dame asking for a trade" (i mean, he shouldve known that sooner or later there could come a moment when he wont be happy for some reason and therefore ask for a trade), but i wont say it cause hes been pretty vocal about his loyalty etc, so i dont expect him to ask for a trade and it would be really disappointing if he does that (he surely earned his right to leave)

theres couple of things that im "worried" about and thats a new head coach, blazers cannot hire a coach similar to terry stotts, meaning a guy whos too friendly with his players, a guy who dont hold his players accounatable, a guy who lets players have too much freedom, a guy who like his team to shoot too many threes... we need a coach who knows how to coach defense and who knows how to use his players and maximize their ability

the others are nurk, powell & cj mccollum, ideally youd want to keep nurk and use him properly in order to get best out of him and then keep powell and trade cj mccollum in order to balance the roster, so interesting time lies ahead of us and blazers cant afford to make bad decisions, not in the western conference like it is now