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^^Agree with #1, disagree with #2. At the very least (from some of the rumors going around) it was a case of siding with Penn and his agent against his owner, and at the worst something more sinister and/or damaging that no one can speak of, but causes PA and the Blazers to basically quash any "re-hire" rumors immediately.

Why risk it when there are plenty of "decent" candidates out there, a few up-and-comers, a few retreads, and some "off-the-wall" hires like Lon Babby? If you really think KP's a genius, hire him in a John Hammond-type role and let him advise your staff. I don't know that anyone's making KP the face of their front office.
 
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Ed O said:
I think that Roy's extension might be THE reason that KP got fired.
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I agree that that was one reason (see below about taking a hard line and inability to negotiate without holding a position of superiority from Paul Allen's money), but I always list more reasons:

Pritchard does not have any business talent (financial management of the team, and negotiating deals by taking a hard line). He is bad at trading (he can only demand total surrender from other GMs, has no ability to truly negotiate and give up something, and succeeded at trades only by using the Paul Allen advantages of paying $3M and taking worse contracts than he gave).

He has two talents: marketing and salesmanship (wording things to sound like a leader with charisma) at which he is excellent, and scouting (evaluating talent in the draft), at which he is ordinary but not terrible as above.

He should work for a team or the League in marketing (he will excel) or in scouting (he will be ordinary but not bad).
 
jlprk said:
I agree that that was one reason (see below about taking a hard line and inability to negotiate without holding a position of superiority from Paul Allen's money), but I always list more reasons:

Pritchard does not have any business talent (financial management of the team, and negotiating deals by taking a hard line). He is bad at trading (he can only demand total surrender from other GMs, has no ability to truly negotiate and give up something, and succeeded at trades only by using the Paul Allen advantages of paying $3M and taking worse contracts than he gave).

He has two talents: marketing and salesmanship (wording things to sound like a leader with charisma) at which he is excellent, and scouting (evaluating talent in the draft), at which he is ordinary but not terrible as above.

He should work for a team or the League in marketing (he will excel) or in scouting (he will be ordinary but not bad).
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KP would be a great team president as long as he had little to do with roster moves, and nothing to do with the financial side as you have said. He is a great face of a franchise, but that is because he is a slick bullshit artist.
 
Paul Allen is looking like a douche as well


If he has had any conversations with Paul Allen since being fired:

“You know I have not had that sit down or one-to-one with Paul after that day so no. A lot of people ask me why Rich Cho was fired. I get that question quite a bit. The honest answer is I’m not sure why I was fired so how can I answer why he was fired? So no, not really.”


http://sportsradiointerviews.com/20...lblazers-nba-draft-greg-oden-vs-kevin-durant/
 
3RA1N1AC said:
do you know? if so, please share
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It has been said many times that I don't, so in an effort for forum harmony, you should just add IMO after my posts. Someone else was going to try "in bed" after my posts as well. Either will make the forum a happier place
 
oh i thought you meant that you knew, my bad

i bet it was the moth sandwiches
 
Everyone knows the reason he was fired: Allen discovered the facts I listed in my last post--that Pritchard didn't have the talent to be a GM. A smaller reason was that he pissed off management, going around to other teams saying arrogant things about McMillan and Allen, just like the articles said.
 
KP was fired because he was banging Blazer Dancers. Everybody knows that. Duh.
 
"Director of Player Personnel."...in other words, the position he was in when he was in for the Blazers in 2004-05 before becoming the coach and then moving on to assistant GM before the 2006 draft.

If you really think KP's a genius, hire him in a John Hammond-type role and let him advise your staff. I don't know that anyone's making KP the face of their front office.
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He’s very demanding. Every single day, in the seven and a half years I was there, I’m not sure there were many days that we didn’t communicate at least by e-mail or by phone, but he’s very interested and I welcomed that. We had developed a great relationship the first four or five years I was there ...

...then PA hired Larry Miller who traded away my team for diddly-squat.
 
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