If you owned the Blazers

[Sug]

You would be the worst owner in the NBA, and that goes out to everyone in here, myself included. I know because I have been reading your posts for years. If you were fortunate to be the billionaire owner of the Blazers you all would have flipped the roster 30 times in the last ten years, had 18 different coaches, 20 different GMs, and probably would have pulled the unprecedented move of actually coaching the team yourself.

Talk all the shit you want about Vulcan, but they have been in control for years, and here you sit reading and writing about the team they have controlled. You have a passion for their product, you think about it all the time, you give at least 4% of your day to their product each day of your life, some of you more like 10%, during the season more like 15 to 20. Bitch and moan, but Vulcan owns you, they have hooked you, and you cannot stop.

KP, Penn, Nate, PA, Hat Man, Patterson, Nash, Sheed, Rider, etc....it does not matter you are an addict for the crack that is the Blazers.

You are so passionate that you have to speculate, you can't control it. You think you know better, you know you know better, and in the end you are a sheep in the field that is controlled by Vulcan. It hurts sometimes to keep it real, but here you are reading, hanging on every piece of Blazer drool that rolls down I-5 into the local Blazer media.

We eat the scraps that fall from the table that is Vulcan, and yet you want to bite the hand that feeds you. The good news is that I love your passion, and I am right there with you. We should take a moment though to realize that we are a minority, we are a small band of Blazerphiles that just can't get enough, we should embrace this. We should also keep some perspective because to the majority or Portland and the world nobody cares about KP, Hat Man, or who you think we should draft.

 

[BGrantFan]

What a meltdown. Everything OK? Do you work for Vulcan? If so, I think you work for a horseshit organization. I was a fan of the Blazers long before Vulcan started fucking everything up just as things are starting to go well ... again.

kthnx

 

[maxiep]

I often pondered whether or not I'd be a decent owner, and I actually think I wouldn't be bad. The key to management is defining a strategy, recognizing and utilizing expertise and then hiring the right people to execute that plan. You don't change plans willy-nilly. You don't look at the everyday ups and downs, you focus on the trendline. We used to be the model under Weinberg, with stability, fiscal discipline and innovation. In fact, teams used to come and study how we worked. Under PA, we've lost it. The San Antonio Spurs are now that franchise.

I used to be a huge PA fan and still admire his willingness to spend money on this team, but he can't leave something well enough alone. His mercurial nature I think hurts the team. There seems to be constant turnover and turmoil in the front office. Without stability and trust, it's difficult to optimize your performance as an executive. I could give two shits if Tom Penn or Kevin Pritchard offended Paul Allen. I've said harsh things to my bosses over the years and have had the favor returned when I became management.

Results are all that matters, and this group has had undeniable success on the court. I can't think of another team that could have sustained the injuries we did and still won 50 games. We have a damn farm team in Europe upon which to draw. The culture around the team is better than it's been since the early 90s. Have there been some misses? Sure, but no management group is perfect.

It's not always the most fun, but sometimes it's the moves you don't make that have the best results. Instead, Allen has become Jo-Jo The Idiot Circus Boy with his pretty new pet. So, could I do a better job if I owned the team? In the short-term, no. There's a learning curve. But give me 3-5 years to get a feel for the league and I think I'd be a better steward of this team than Mr. Allen.

 

[Sug]

What a meltdown. Everything OK? Do you work for Vulcan? If so, I think you work for a horseshit organization. I was a fan of the Blazers long before Vulcan started fucking everything up just as things are starting to go well ... again.

kthnx

Hit a little to close too home, didn't I.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

What a meltdown. Everything OK? Do you work for Vulcan? If so, I think you work for a horseshit organization. I was a fan of the Blazers long before Vulcan started fucking everything up just as things are starting to go well ... again.

kthnx

lol PapaG

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Stache 2 ZBO = RINGS

 

[Nikolokolus]

If I owned the Blazers I would try to sell them as quickly as possible, because I am a cheap Scottish bastard at heart and it would cause me great anguish and pain to lose tens of millions of dollars every year.

 

[jlprk]

Try a regular owner for a couple of years, like the last 4 Sonics owners, and you'll appreciate a spender like Paul Allen. Rip City will be Poverty City if Paul dies and Sis sells.

 

[hasoos]

I have no problem with what is going on these days with Paul Allen and the crew. I think he has always been a great owner, and he is a great philanthropist as well.