Canzano on the soapbox again

[e_blazer]

This time calling out Paul Allen to speak openly about the state of the Blazers and plans to allow the team to compete for a title. He's probably right, but he comes across in his usual sanctimonious fashion. BTW, John, calling Paul Allen a coward is not the best way to encourage him to step forward.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2011/01/canzano_paul_allen_needs_to_le.html

 

[Luther]

Maybe PA will own him on Twitter the same way Dante did....or just pull some strings and have him fired.

 

[Nikolokolus]

And tomorrow the sun will rise in the East and set in the West. It will rain in Portland and somewhere a blazer will be limping.

 

[e_blazer]

And tomorrow the sun will rise in the East and set in the West. It will rain in Portland and somewhere a blazer will be limping.

There's a small chance it might not rain.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Well, in an article from last week the state of the team is clear: Cho is still evaluating...

...........

 

[oldmangrouch]

Well, in an article from last week the state of the team is clear: Cho is still evaluating...

...........

I wonder when somebody is going to tell him that isn't a wireless mouse on his computer.

 

[THE HCP]

Yawn!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Yawn!

Shocking!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Crapzano has two pastimes- kicking people/teams when they're down, and, being a bald face liar. He's a weasel and a rat put together. Oh yeah, he's stupid as well.

I mean, here's a team that in the last few months has lost their franchise player forever and seen the other franchise player go down yet again to a season ending injury. Add to that we have to carry Roy's enormous contract for 4 more seasons and are facing a very new CBA and most likely a genuine hard cap. And that's after the almost certain one or two season player strike. All the while breaking in a "yes" man at GM.

And in the midst of this uncertainty and unanticipated injury news there's Crapzano calling PA a coward and demanding to know the short plan for making us instant title contenders. Crapzano is a complete ass and a joke.

 

[e_blazer]

John must not be aware that the Internet provides easy access to his prior self-righteous rants. Here's what he had to say about the Blazers when the contract talks with Brandon were bogged down last year:

The Blazers still have reportedly only offered four years vs. the five that Camp Roy wants. I'm on record for giving Roy whatever he wants, because he's worth it. None of this explains why the Blazers aren't willing to offer a five-year deal... because the sense here is that Roy would take the max deal and skip off into the rest of his career... also, this is a no-brainer.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2009/07/canzano_roy_asked_for_optout_i.html

Turns out, that there was more to the story than Canzano (or any of us outsiders) knew at the time. Now we know that Brandon's knees were the holdup on the contract and that the Blazers were justifiably concerned about giving him a five-year max deal. They eventually caved because he was the face of the franchise, but that doesn't change the fact that Canzano was on his little soapbox shouting about the evil Vulcans back then and demanding that they tie the team to what now is an albatross of a contract. And now that Brandon's pretty well finished, Canzano has the gall to call out Paul Allen to explain how he's going to instantly turn the franchise into a contender.

Jackass.

 

[Nate Dogg]

I actually like what Canzano wrote this time. PA has been too silent and it bugs me that he can't make an vocal address to the media on what his plan is. Is he here raking up the profits or does he have a goal with this team?

Fans volted in the 2004-05 and 2005-2006 seasons because the team had a "losing record" and they had to slash prices for fans to show up. The team back then had aging players, Abdur-Rahim, etc that seemed not to mix.

 

[Ed O]

Paul Allen has no responsibility or, IMO, need to come out and tell the public about how the team is going to win a championship. He's hired people to do that.

Ed O.

 

[mook]

Is Paul Allen supposed to have a crystal ball that predicted Oden's injury, Roy's injury, or Aldridge's emergence? Does he have some kind of inside psychic knowledge about whether Matthews shakes out to be a 12 ppg, 15ppg, 20 ppg, or 25 ppg scorer? Does he have solid knowledge on whether Batum is the next Darius Miles or Scottie Pippen? Can he tell us if Camby will get injured yet again? Or whether there's an extended lockout next year?

If Paul Allen has access to answers to all those questions, then he should indeed spell out the road map to everyone. If he doesn't, then any grand plan he might have is going to either be really vague or silly.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I actually like what Canzano wrote this time. PA has been too silent and it bugs me that he can't make an vocal address to the media on what his plan is. Is he here raking up the profits or does he have a goal with this team?

Fans volted in the 2004-05 and 2005-2006 seasons because the team had a "losing record" and they had to slash prices for fans to show up. The team back then had aging players, Abdur-Rahim, etc that seemed not to mix.

Hahahahahahahahahahah!! "Raking in the profits," he says ... *wipes a tear*


That's hilarious.

 

[oldmangrouch]

While Canzano is mostly off-target, he is indirectly right about one thing - responsibility is supposed to flow uphill.

He can't predict the future, or give the fans a detailed road-map.....but he can make a simple promise that the people on his payroll will be held accountable for how they do their job.

 

[MAS RipCity]

Here's a good thread that show Canzano going back and forth on Paul Allen

Canzano's Change Of Heart

Seriously though, he's just trying to stir the pot and the fact that we are talking about him, positively or negatively, is exactly what he set out to accomplish.

 

[julius]

At least Canzano waited a bit after the Ducks BCS loss to come up with a new campaign to create hits for his blog and listeners for his 'show'. Shame he keeps repeating the same stories over and over though.

 

[jlprk]

Canzano spins a new angle by opening with an abuse of Washington Redskins owner Snyder-- "controlling and arrogant. He's been heavy-handed, impatient and inconsistent." Sounds just like Canzano. Apparently this week, Snyder vaguely said he's made some errors, and Canzano jealously wants Allen to do so, so Cancer Boy can write reams of newscopy nitpicking every word. He sounds like a lunatic about the Blazers:

They've been a monopoly, the only major league sports team in the state, which has given them a political stranglehold on key players in city leadership. And while that clout is beneficial to running the business, the organization has it all backward. The organization's most valuable asset is a forgiving fan base. It's fans in Portland, and not Allen, who own this team. They buy tickets. They show up at the arena. So the Blazers belong to fans, not the team's billionaire owner who, like Snyder, has been controlling, inconsistent and misguided himself.

The Oregonian behaves like a team owner, but puts up no money to buy in. The paper's owners have elected Canzano to speak for them against the majority of their readers, who hate Canzano's guts. The owners and Editor encourage him to seek influence and control in the team on the paper's behalf.

I suppose that's the frustration in dealing with an owner such as Allen. Nobody really knows what he's trying to do, or what he thinks, because he rarely speaks and when he does, he goes vanilla and doesn't sound much like anything but a man trying not to say the wrong thing.

I'd love Allen to give a Blazers state of the union address. I'd love to hear his thoughts on where the franchise has been under his ownership, and where he thinks this is all headed. I'd like to hear Allen speak to his stakeholders, and do it directly, not through the organization's public-relations machine.

So far, the image of Allen's obligation to fans that I have is him scurrying out the back door of the practice facility on draft day after he fired then-general manager Kevin Pritchard. He left his hired help to speak on his behalf.

It was the move of a coward.

Canzano feels it's not enough to use fighting language for the imaginary offense of not making Canzano's job easy. Owners never play the media game like the paper's boy Pritchard did. When the media tells you one person is popular and another isn't, it's usually because one feeds them rumors and the other simply acts like a professional. The word "coward" isn't enough--Canzano demands a purgatory process. Allen must first submit to becoming the media whipping boy for a couple of years, followed by them allowing him into their fraternity of media darlings. Canzano feels the fighting language won't draw his prey into the open, so hopping up and down, he screams threats of revolution. The only way Allen can avoid this revolt is if he talks to Canzano and becomes another Pritchard.

Blazers fans who invest large portions of their disposable income, their passion and their hopes deserve to know what the CEO of the operation is doing to give them a return. If it's any incentive to Allen, I see a season-ticket holder renewal revolt forming in the horizon. If he cares to squash it, and perhaps turn the wave of emotion positive in the way Snyder did, then Allen should take the floor...

Again, the message from Allen cannot come from president Larry Miller or general manager Rich Cho, or with softball questions handed from Allen's public relations team to the Blazers broadcasting team. It has to be done with transparency if it's going to mean anything at all. Is this organization his "basketball hobby" as it's been called by some around him? Does Allen want to turn a profit or win a championship? Does he have a plan? And just how involved is Allen in scouting and making personnel decisions? Real answers. Honesty. Not rhetoric. Allen has been silent too long.

By admitting to his intended list of destructive questions, Canzano shows this isn't a real try to get Allen to sucker into this. He's just posturing. Canzano is a verbose punk who draws his paychecked courage from some owner punks and an Editor punk who created him.

 

[MARIS61]

Paul Allen has no responsibility or, IMO, need to come out and tell the public about how the team is going to win a championship. He's hired people to do that.

Ed O.

They must be taking an extended holiday "incommunicado". I've heard no nothing more than "we're evaluating" since Larry Miller took over a couple years ago.

I have no idea what they're going to do, and it's pretty obvious neither do they.