Blazers fire Hughes!

[Draco]

Yeah he had to be fired; if the statement is true an assistant coach can't be the one to first say it in front of a camera. If the report is false he can't be stirring up rumors.

Sucks because it sounds like he was a good assistant and will be hard to replace.

 

[maxiep]

You really want to bring Monroe in on a lie?

Exactly right.

 

[Sinobas]

Why fire him after one slip up? If he's a good coach, slap his hand and move on. It didn't have any bearing on where LaMarcus was going to sign. If someone only wanted to come here because of LA then we wouldn't want that player if LA left.

 

[Sinobas]

I think this makes the Blazer front office look like petty little girls. Oooh, they told our secret. So the fuck what? What are you going to do with all the cap money Neil?

 

[Scalma]

Why pick Milwaukee? At this point Philly might be a better team.

Say what? Have you checked out milwaukees roster?

 

[Pinwheel1]

How did what he say effect our chance of signing free agents?

What he said was stupid. It made no sense to say it. But I just don't think he should have been fired for it if he was an excellent developmental coach. Maybe he wasn't. I don't know. And maybe there is more to the story.

 

[tlongII]

It was a stupid move. Reactionary and vindictive. Everybody already knew Aldridge was gone. The guy has been great for Leonard who is one of our few bright lights under the dark clouds that now cover the franchise.

 

[Nikolokolus]

It sucks we lost the big man coach, but the dude fucked up. Not firing would set a wrong example to your other employees

What exactly is the precedent they are setting here? One strike and you're out?

 

[e_blazer]

Given Hughes' propensity for saying thinGS he shouldn't (this plus the Kaman is a retard quote from his days with the Clippers ) I guess I'm not surprised at this. Sad, but given the other news of the day, small potatoes.

 

[Red Rooster]

Bring back the jailblazers, fuck it. Rehire Whitsitt, get all the jlprk bad boys, and Ariza every MF who dares go to the basket, while assistant coach Sheed sets a league record for technicals from the bench.

"Make It Badder".

Now we're the "Bail"Blazers.

 

[magnifier661]

What exactly is the precedent they are setting here? One strike and you're out?

Be smart

 

[riverman]

It definitely was not helping any sign and trade we could've been working on..free agents weren't the danger in this leak..trades were. Once it got out nobody needed to trade for Lamarcus..they knew he was leaving anyway. The Spurs would have done a deal. After that, why would they?

 

[Scalma]

What exactly is the precedent they are setting here? One strike and you're out?

It was a pretty big fucking strike and a totally justified firing.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Given Hughes' propensity for saying thinGS he shouldn't (this plus the Kaman is a retard quote from his days with the Clippers ) I guess I'm not surprised at this. Sad, but given the other news of the day, small potatoes.

Yeah I agree. Neil may have been looking for an excuse.....and got one.

 

[Scalma]

The only one to blame here is Hughes

 

[oldmangrouch]

Discipline him for breaking team policy - yes.

Fire him for telling the truth? Just goes to show how tone deaf this band of bowling shoes really is. Nothing positive will come of this.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Be smart

That's dodging the question.

 

[Scalma]

Discipline him for breaking team policy - yes.

Fire him for telling the truth? Just goes to show how tone deaf this band of bowling shoes really is. Nothing positive will come of this.

WETHER ITS THE TRUTH OR NOT IS INSIGNIFICANT. WHEN YOU GO TO BATTLE YOU DONT TELL YOUR ENEMY WHICH SIDE YOURE FUCKING ATTACKING FROM.

 

[Sinobas]

WETHER ITS THE TRUTH OR NOT IS INSIGNIFICANT. WHEN YOU GO TO BATTLE YOU DONT TELL YOUR ENEMY WHICH SIDE YOURE FUCKING ATTACKING FROM

Get real dude. You are taking this way too seriously.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I'm pretty sure the penalty for High Treason is death. Get a rope!

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Bottom line is that he WAS a good development coach, but there are actually a lot of good development coaches.

 

[magnifier661]

That's dodging the question.

Bro, that leak may have been more damaging than what was shown publicly. Maybe multiple deals were dropped immediately after. This could be major loss of revenue for ticket sales, national media, etc.

If any employee loses millions for 1 mistake, they are fired. Pure and simple

 

[Scalma]

Get real dude. You are taking this way too seriously.

Thankfully so is Neil.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Bro, that leak may have been more damaging than what was shown publicly. Maybe multiple deals were dropped immediately after. This could be major loss of revenue for ticket sales, national media, etc.

If any employee loses millions for 1 mistake, they are fired. Pure and simple

If it was practically a fait accompli that Aldridge was leaving then you can bet that his agent had told several teams, which means other agents around the league were aware of it too.

Losing free agents because of this seems like a stretch since the entire agent community and their clients would be aware of what was happening behind the scenes.. Yes, Hughes fucked up, but I think you're overstating how damaging it actually was.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

It might've affected Monroe.

Yup, they were trying to close on Monroe when that news came out. He quite possibley set the franchise back years with his off the cuff remark. I think he was most likely just regurgitating the ESPN story, but damn what a dumb thing to do. If Greg was inclined to sign here he was probably like "What?" "LA's leaving?" "That's not what you told me!".

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Why couldn't Stotts have been the one to say it?!

 

[oldmangrouch]

WETHER ITS THE TRUTH OR NOT IS INSIGNIFICANT. WHEN YOU GO TO BATTLE YOU DONT TELL YOUR ENEMY WHICH SIDE YOURE FUCKING ATTACKING FROM.

Reminds me of the halycon days of my youth: "how dare the press report we are bombing Laos - that's classified!"

Except that the Laotions already knew, and the Vietnamese, and the Chinese, and the Russians. The only people who didn't know were the American public...so how is that a secret?

LMA's agent had already told every GM in the league that his guy was going to be on the market. He probably told them a year or more ago. The only people who didn't know the truth was US.

 

[magnifier661]

If it was practically a fait accompli that Aldridge was leaving then you can bet that his agent had told several teams that which means other agents around the league were aware of it too. Losing free agents because of this seems like a stretch since they would be aware of what was happening behind the scenes through their agents. Yes, Hughes fucked up, but I think you're overstating how damaging it actually was.

I'm not basing it on just out team. This is the business.

Think if Paul Allen went in the meeting at IBM and said "We really don't have an OS".

 

[Nikolokolus]

I'm not basing it on just out team. This is the business.

Think if Paul Allen went in the meeting at IBM and said "We really don't have an OS".

Except in your example IBM would already be aware of this.

Aldridge moving was not some "sooper sekrit." Once Batum was traded and no offers were extended to Matthews, Rolo, we traded for Plumlee, etc. it becomes really easy to deduce what's happening if you aren't looking at events through the lens of being a fan.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

What exactly is the precedent they are setting here? One strike and you're out?

I work at a university, and yes, there are certain things I can't do - even once - or they'll fire me.

My son works at a gas station, and yes, there MANY things he can't do - even once - or they'll fire him.

I've talked to a company that makes detectors. They are very secretive about the exact formula they used in their detectors. You can bet that if a tech or engineer facebooks their formula, they are fired.

Any time there is proprietary information involved, you can get fired for violating it, even once.

What do you do? Is there NOTHING you can't do without being fired for doing even once?