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Labinot41 said:
Yeah i bet he is the reason. It's all about his fucking Money. I mean, look at Okc, they don't care about money. But our owner who is rich as fuck of course does
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Are you freaking kidding me? This is the same owner who didn't want to pay James Harden.
 
BlayZa said:
again, previously we've waited over a week etc and all we got was an extension for meyers and ET being signed for more than he ever should have.
im not sure time is the issue here....
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1st of all, ET was a day 1 signing.

2nd of all, there is value in waiting. Ed Davis was later in free agency. Mo Williams took nothing to play here. Last year Tyreke Evans signed for nothing with Memphis.
 
hoopsjock said:
Are you freaking kidding me? This is the same owner who didn't want to pay James Harden.
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Time has change . Look at their payroll now. He want's to Keep his Star Player Happy and they make moves, while we signed fucking Stauskas
 
hoopsjock said:
1st of all, ET was a day 1 signing.

2nd of all, there is value in waiting. Ed Davis was later in free agency. Mo Williams took nothing to play here. Last year Tyreke Evans signed for nothing with Memphis.
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Ed Davis was a day 1 signing as was Aminu I thought
 
Labinot41 said:
Time has change . Look at their payroll now. He want's to Keep his Star Player Happy and they make moves, while we signed fucking Stauskas
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You are acting like this is Euro soccer where teams can just do whatever the fuck they want. Free agency is not and never was going to be the way this team improves this summer.
 
Hoopguru said:
If Neil acquires a decent front court player with playoff experience, some will change their tune, just as some will if he doesn't get anything done.
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Exactly. I've been a huge Neil supporter his time here. I gave him a pass on Afflalo trade. Meyers and Turner we're terrible moves but I still wanted to see what he did next. Now he has made no improvements since. I'm starting to side with the fire Neil side, questioning if another GM would make better moves.
 
hoopsjock said:
I get that there is a group of people who have hated Olshey for years but what I'm saying is it doesn't make sense to me that the people who were indifferent or liked him are now turning on him because of free agency. It's like they've never experienced a free agency period as a Blazer fan. This is how it always is and to expect something more this year is on those people for having completely ridiculous expectations.
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My thinking is that they gave him a lot of rope, and now there's nothing left to grasp on... so they are watching him fall.

I don't think it's asinine for someone to give someone 5 years and then say "okay, I've had enough".

Now only if Olshey could do that with Meyers...
 
Strenuus said:
My thinking is that they gave him a lot of rope, and now there's nothing left to grasp on... so they are watching him fall.

I don't think it's asinine for someone to give someone 5 years and then say "okay, I've had enough".

Now only if Olshey could do that with Meyers...
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Sure, I understand that. What I don't get is less than two days into free agency when we've known for two years that we had no cap space that people are somehow saying this is the last straw when it has always been here.
 
hoopsjock said:
Sure, I understand that. What I don't get is less than two days into free agency when we've known for two years that we had no cap space that people are somehow saying this is the last straw when it has always been here.
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I've been on my second to last straw too, but I think its straw man to hold someone accountable for not being able to do what we want them to do, when we KNOW they cant do it.
 
hoopsjock said:
Are you freaking kidding me? This is the same owner who didn't want to pay James Harden.
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Signing PG to that contract and going way over the cap into big time penalties, is a hedge signing, and I predict they trade Westbrook in the next year and fill in around PG.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Exactly. I've been a huge Neil supporter his time here. I gave him a pass on Afflalo trade. Meyers and Turner we're terrible moves but I still wanted to see what he did next. Now he has made no improvements since.
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I am pretty sure the Nurkic trade was after, so that's not true.
 
hoopsjock said:
Sure, I understand that. What I don't get is less than two days into free agency when we've known for two years that we had no cap space that people are somehow saying this is the last straw when it has always been here.
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The two years are part of the problem. Many fans had hope Neil would dump some of the bad contracts.

Example
@DennyCrane preached this mess was fixable, and the bad contracts were tradable. Now he is too embarassed to post anymore.

Neil dodged the problem for two years. But he did not do enough to fix the problem. This off season, his mess hit the wall, and many of us are running out of patience with him.
 
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hoopsjock said:
I get that there is a group of people who have hated Olshey for years but what I'm saying is it doesn't make sense to me that the people who were indifferent or liked him are now turning on him because of free agency. It's like they've never experienced a free agency period as a Blazer fan. This is how it always is and to expect something more this year is on those people for having completely ridiculous expectations.
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The boldfaced part is right. Fans are now catching on to what I've said for years. Month after month, year after year, tradeless Olshey disappoints and produces nothing.
 
jlprk said:
The boldfaced part is right. Fans are now catching on to what I've said for years. Month after month, year after year, tradeless Olshey disappoints and produces nothing.
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23 out of 30 teams didn't produce what the Blazers did during this past regular season. How can you accurately say that producing nothing?
How would you categorize the other 23 teams? just curious...
 
Hoopguru said:
23 out of 30 teams didn't produce what the Blazers did during this past regular season. How can you accurately say that producing nothing?
How would you categorize the other 23 teams? just curious...
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Lillard's heroball wins the games, not the Stotts system, and certainly not Olshey's years-at-the-beach nonperformance.
 
oldfisherman said:
The two years are part of the problem. Many fans had hope Neil would dump some of the bad contracts.

Example
@DennyCrane preached this mess was fixable, and the bad contracts were tradable. Now he is too imbarassed to post anymore.

Neil dodged the problem for two years. But he did not do enough to fix the problem. This off season, his mess hit the wall, and many of us are running out of patience with him.
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expiring contracts at the deadline in Feb will be in demand by superstar teams with bloated payrolls...that's when you fix bad contracts
 
jlprk said:
Again, Lillardless.
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So because Portland's GM drafted Dame and the other 23 teams that had a worse season record, because they are Lillardess, and the fact, Dame has tuned into a 1st team all pro, sounds like a score of production for Team Blazer.

For me I like to measure success objectively against measurable goals. We are now going into the 4th season of a huge rebuild so, imo, weighting performance goes up a few notches for sure.
If they are trending in the opposite direction this next year and we haven't taken another step towards contention or getting out of the first round, then I would be calling for a change with no scared cows at all.
Realistically only a couple teams would be able to contend against GS fro the next couple years anyway.
 
riverman said:
expiring contracts at the deadline in Feb will be in demand by superstar teams with bloated payrolls...that's when you fix bad contracts
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Nobody's just giving up a star for an expiring contract.

And even if they were, Olshey ain't gonna do anything with them.
 
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