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Trail Blazers ‏@pdxtrailblazers
Thanks for tuning in Rip City! We'll have photos & video from this morning's workout up shortly!
 
1080 The FAN ‏@1080TheFAN
Jeremy Lamb gutting through a sprained ankle to work out for the #Blazers today. He joins Travis and Wilcox coming up at 12:15pm today.
 
Ben Golliver ‏@blazersedge
Transcript: Blazers GM Neil Olshey Talks NBA Draft, Trades, Joel Freeland

http://www.blazersedge.com/2012/6/2...l-olshey-talks-nba-draft-trades-joel-freeland


This really stood out to me

Are you going with a youth movement and rebuild by deciding to keep the picks?

I don't want to say that but if you're going to add young players you want to know that they're going to fit in, not just immediately but long-term. Joel is not a stop-gap. He's not a guy we're trying to plug a hole with. He's an acquisition that can develop alongside -- our two or three best players, Nic [Batum], Wesley [Matthews] and LaMarcus [Aldridge], they're all guys in their mid-20s. I want to add guys that of their generation so they can all grow together.

The Draft is a player acquisition vehicle. That's what it is. We will acquire the two best players for the franchise by using 6 and 11. I may walk back in there and have three voicemails that completely change my mind. But right now, what we're going to get 6 and 11 in this Draft will set up the best course of action for us going forward. That's not to say that two minutes after the Draft you don't do something. I think right now, relative to where we want to go, we have a better chance of getting there using 6 and 11 than just doing one offs to bring guys in and conveying the picks.
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That sounds like he is going to use the picks to obtain a vet or two
 
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Mediocre Man said:
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I was curious how you got your interpretation from that bit. Then I read the whole transcript, and REALLY wondered.

I do expect them to deal one, or both, picks. Maybe for a player. Maybe to move up. But that transcript sounded more like they were gearing up to keep the picks than to deal them.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I was curious how you got your interpretation from that bit. Then I read the whole transcript, and REALLY wondered.

I do expect them to deal one, or both, picks. Maybe for a player. Maybe to move up. But that transcript sounded more like they were gearing up to keep the picks than to deal them.
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I got the impression from this
our two or three best players, Nic [Batum], Wesley [Matthews] and LaMarcus [Aldridge], they're all guys in their mid-20s. I want to add guys that of their generation so they can all grow together.
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and this
The Draft is a player acquisition vehicle. That's what it is. We will acquire the two best players for the franchise by using 6 and 11.
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The Draft is a player acquisition vehicle. That's what it is. We will acquire the two best players for the franchise by using 6 and 11.
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Not really clear. He says "acquire" not "draft" the two best players. But, he also mentions two players, not best player(s), which implies using the picks. The main thing is he is not interested in using the picks for second tier players. So, I'm sure he would use them to acquire a young vet with potential or use them in the draft--as he should.
 
And then this:

Right now, I just think there's more value to the organization long-term with what we're going to acquire at No. 6 and No. 11 than what we would be able to get back if we conveyed those to somebody else.

And this (which you used above, but if you continue on with the next two sentences, really changes the context and meaning from what you read out of it):

We will acquire the two best players for the franchise by using 6 and 11. I may walk back in there and have three voicemails that completely change my mind. But right now, what we're going to get 6 and 11 in this Draft will set up the best course of action for us going forward.
 
Did Lamb really say he admires Crawchuck's game, as in, thinks that's a good way to play? See ya Lamb. Nice never knowin' ya. (I hope.)
 
^ that didn't tell me shit homey! I have heard no reports of how he performed!
 
One of the reports said it looked like he was 80% on the ankle, which sounds like he was a step slow to me. Also, on the video at blazers.com, his three looks a bit odd. Nice quick release, but not as consistent as I thought it might be.
 
Reep said:
That explains the look on Lamb's face.
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I reckon I find this so funny because of my roots at Oregon State. Makes me laugh and sad all at once.

March 19, 2005
Oregon State player caught drunk with gay sheep

I can't even begin to imagine the taunts that teammates and opposing fans are going to have for Oregon State defensive tackle Ben Michael Siegert. Siegert was arrested this past week for DUI. A starter for the Beavers, Siegert blew a 0.14 blood alcohol level some 90 minutes after being arrested. During the traffic stop, he was found to be in possession of a ram from the university's Sheep Center.

A Benton County Sheriff's deputy found the animal in the bed of a pickup after pulling Siegert over for speeding on Southwest Whiteside Drive about 1:34 a.m.... The ram lives at the research facility on 35th Street near Campus Way and is part of a study on homosexuality in sheep, said Sheep Center manager Tom Nichols.
 
zeded said:
I reckon I find this so funny because of my roots at Oregon State. Makes me laugh and sad all at once.
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Your avatar is ironic. The lamb was bent just like the guy in your picture. And as far as that dude's head is in the sand..... that's how deeps HCP's face was into Lamb.
 
Geoff Calkins: Marquis Teague looked awful for Griz today. Explanation was that it's the end of workouts, he's beat, but it's only a day after Wroten. 3 minutes ago
 
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