Larry Miller says ...

[Nikolokolus]

Larry Miller on GM search: "At the end of the season we'll evaluate it and see if at that point, do we still need to go out and find somebody? Or is Chad [Buchanan] the guy who can be comfortable moving into that role? ... I don't want to go through this again. I don't want to go through the search again. I don't want to go through the media stuff again. I want us to find somebody that's going to be here & build some consistency with that role. [No hire] until at least the end of the season."

taken from an interview Ben Golliver had with dear leader

http://www.sulia.com/channel/portla...d-5fb6-4263-a023-a0eee01cd653/?source=twitter

 

[Ed O]

When I was a kid I used a similar logical assertion with my parents: Why should I clean my room? It's just going to get dirty again. I don't like cleaning my room.

I don't think that it's necessary to hire a GM right now... but saying that the search process itself is unpleasant seems like a copout.

Ed O.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Maybe we can just let Nate be our GM? He's done a wonderful job picking point guards with Taurean Green and now Nolan Smith.

 

[tester551]

With Chad's track record in evaluating talent (as lead scout with KP - and in the interm GM role), he really should not be Portland's GM. He seems like a great guy..... I am just not very impressed with the results.

 

[alex42083]

Crazy to think we still don't have a GM in place, and it's not even a priority with the organization. Weird.

 

[B-Roy]

This just screams laziness. When Chad was first made interim GM they were saying how this was a temporary gig and they wanted to find someone with experience.

A few terrible draft picks and trades later and now they're considering him as the permanent GM? BS

 

[oldmangrouch]

PA has taken his ball and gone home.

 

[Blazer4ever]

He's done a wonderful job picking point guards with Taurean Green and now Nolan Smith.

The best young PG we had we waived to sign Joel. I'm sorry to say there was not one poster that agreed with me about Armon when I said again and again we should play him, and all were very high on Nolan Smith's potential.

I think releasing Armon was a Terrible move and almost certain that he'll prove himself somewhere else making the organization seem foolish. I would get the consolation of saying "I told you so" but already felt the frustration of nobody listening.

 

[Natebishop3]

So the question is, have we already hit the iceberg or is it on the horizon?

 

[MARIS61]

Maybe we can just let Nate be our GM? He's done a wonderful job picking point guards with Taurean Green and now Nolan Smith.

He picked a guy named Roy before them.

 

[Blazinaway]

Crazy to think we still don't have a GM in place, and it's not even a priority with the organization. Weird.

that's why the work "CLUSTERFUK" keeps coming to mind all the time with this team

 

[Sinobas]

Our drafting has sucked, and I team seems to be underachieving under Nate. I think it's time for some new blood.

But they should hire a GM and give him some time for Christ's sake. They didn't even give Cho a chance. Yet they stick with McMoron forever..........

 

[Mediocre Man]

Buchanan is not the guy, unless they want a yes man who only babbles the company line......er wait....I guess Buchanan is the guy.

His talent evaluating has been horrible, and the deals they struck have absolutely not paid off.

 

[Blazinaway]

Buchanan is not the guy, unless they want a yes man who only babbles the company line......er wait....I guess Buchanan is the guy.

His talent evaluating has been horrible, and the deals they struck have absolutely not paid off.

yes, we only retain incompetent mgmt since we have incompetency from the top down

 

[STOMP]

The best young PG we had we waived to sign Joel. I'm sorry to say there was not one poster that agreed with me about Armon when I said again and again we should play him, and all were very high on Nolan Smith's potential.

everyone (besides you) is very high on Nolan Smith's potential??? Hyperbole much

This just screams laziness. When Chad was first made interim GM they were saying how this was a temporary gig and they wanted to find someone with experience.

A few terrible draft picks and trades later and now they're considering him as the permanent GM? BS

remind me of all the solid players that were passed over for those terrible picks. I thought trading Martell for picks and the cap space that was then used to sign Wesley with the MLE was bold and successful. Drafting Elliott looks good with hindsight too

STOMP

 

[Nikolokolus]

Wait, who's high on Nolan Smith? He's a 23 year old rookie, that should be closer to being a finished product than not ... I'm not saying Armon was/is better than him (almost certainly not) but I can't think of too many people outside of the braintrust that selected him that think he's got much "potential" left in him.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

This just screams laziness. When Chad was first made interim GM they were saying how this was a temporary gig and they wanted to find someone with experience.

A few terrible draft picks and trades later and now they're considering him as the permanent GM? BS

Maybe he's a good "yes" man for PA and Vulcan.

 

[B-Roy]

everyone (besides you) is very high on Nolan Smith's potential??? Hyperbole much



remind me of all the solid players that were passed over for those terrible picks. I thought trading Martell for picks and the cap space that was then used to sign Wesley with the MLE was bold and successful. Drafting Elliott looks good with hindsight too

STOMP

None of those moves happened while Chad was the GM.

But if you really want to go back on their recent draft failures I can gladly pull that up for you.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Who are the Blazers kidding, they have a GM right now in Buchanan. It's not like the Blazers are any less active or paralyzed because they don't have a "permanent" GM. Blazers (right moves or wrong moves) were wheeling and dealing after the season, before the season and during the season.

I get what Miller is doing here. Let Chad be the GM without calling him the official GM so if Blazers decide to get another GM this summer they don't go through the same media scrutiny with Cho and firing him after a year.

The organization is running as usual. It's tough for disgruntled fans because they got no real GM to point the finger at (althought there is always Nate and Allen). But really not having someone titled "GM" in the organization has been a non-issue for Blazer management.

 

[HailBlazers]

Miller said one of his "regrets" was Rich Cho's brief tenure in Portland, as he respects Cho but said the situation was untenable. He said that "rapport" between Allen and Cho was lacking and that the rapport between owner and GM is the most important relationship in the Blazers organization, even more important than the rapport between Allen and Miller, because of Allen's love for basketball and basketball operations.

We as a fan base "regret" not having a GM in the draft too. Could sure use Kennith Faried and Dre Miller right about now.

Whole interview here:

http://www.blazersedge.com/2012/3/1/2834601/one-on-one-interview-with-blazers-president-larry-miller

 

[B-Roy]

Who are the Blazers kidding, they have a GM right now in Buchanan. It's not like the Blazers are any less active or paralyzed because they don't have a "permanent" GM. Blazers (right moves or wrong moves) were wheeling and dealing after the season, before the season and during the season.

I get what Miller is doing here. Let Chad be the GM without calling him the official GM so if Blazers decide to get another GM this summer they don't go through the same media scrutiny with Cho and firing him after a year.

The organization is running as usual. It's tough for disgruntled fans because they got no real GM to point the finger at (althought there is always Nate and Allen). But really not having someone titled "GM" in the organization has been a non-issue for Blazer management.

We can ask for a better GM at least?

 

[STOMP]

None of those moves happened while Chad was the GM.

But if you really want to go back on their recent draft failures I can gladly pull that up for you.

Chad was their lead talent evaluator in both of the last two drafts. In neither one did they have an official GM... we can only speculate which voice(s) was the most influential.

Again, remind me of all the solid players they passed over for those terrible picks you were bitching about

STOMP

 

[The_Lillard_King]

We can ask for a better GM at least?

Yes I get the idea of blasting Chad for doing a terrible job and I suspect if Blazers don't improve by summer, they will internally fire Chad and get a new GM.

But personally I see where Blazer management is coming from. I don't think the Blazers even know which direction they are heading right now (roster overhaul or adding to the pieces) and the kind of GM you get depends on which direction you take. I think Allen keeps trying to add to this team (with Chad) until he feels it's hopeless and then brings in a Nash type GM to make the hard cuts and take the heat while the team dumps salary.

 

[magnifier661]

Yes I get the idea of blasting Chad for doing a terrible job and I suspect if Blazers don't improve by summer, they will internally fire Chad and get a new GM.

But personally I see where Blazer management is coming from. I don't think the Blazers even know which direction they are heading right now (roster overhaul or adding to the pieces) and the kind of GM you get depends on which direction you take. I think Allen keeps trying to add to this team (with Chad) until he feels it's hopeless and then brings in a Nash type GM to make the hard cuts and take the heat while the team dumps salary.

Can't we just fire Nate too?

 

[Blazer4ever]

everyone (besides you) is very high on Nolan Smith's potential??? Hyperbole much
STOMP

I don't care much about Nolan, I have nothing against him, what I have a problem with is that it seemed everyone is high on Nolan just because he's the new guy and everyone was excited about his potential while Armon fell completely out of favour for no appearent reasons (in my eyes, at least).
Armon since the beginning of the current season was considered unimportant and I still remember a lot of excitement about him last year when he actualy got to play. I guess I just missed the game/s where he screwed up and became washed up in just his 2nd year in the league. I think he deserved a chance at least as much as Smith who Is newer than Armon but not nessecarily better.
I wouldn't release Nolan for Joel but I DEFINITELY would not have released Armon and I've said several times since the beginning of the seasonn that he should at least play sometimes, not even every game, just get a chance. and now he's gone.

 

[B-Roy]

Chad was their lead talent evaluator in both of the last two drafts. In neither one did they have an official GM... we can only speculate which voice(s) was the most influential.

Again, remind me of all the solid players they passed over for those terrible picks you were bitching about

STOMP

2009 NBA Draft

22 - Victor Claver, 5 good point guards were taken before Claver. There's no question they could have moved up if they wanted to, but didn't. Claver may never play in the league. Buchanan is a college scout, but you're telling me he couldn't convince them to try and get one of the points instead of a euro stash?

31 - Jeff Pendergraph, was never a contributor, now bench warmer in Indiana.

33 - Dante Cunningham, not with the team anymore.

Who did they pass up? Taj Gibson once with Claver. DeJuan Blair THREE times with all three players. I was pissed during the draft then, still pissed now. Jonas Jerebko, Sam Young, Jodie Meeks and Chase Budinger would all have been better picks.

2010

16 - Luke Babbitt. Seriously? Are you going to try and defend this pick? Sure there's no stars picked after him, but there's plenty of good role players like Vasquez, Bledsoe, Bradley, Crawford, Fields. All good role players we could use instead of a human white flag.

22 - Elliot Williams. May pan out. Good pick? Maybe.

34 - Armon Johnson. They spent 2 million of PAs money to grab this guy. He got cut yesterday for a 32 year old center who can probably barely play anymore. Could have had Landry Fields.

2011

21 - Nolan Smith. Looks terrible. Passed on Faried, Norris Cole, Marshon Brooks, Chandler Parsons etc. Guys who are actual contributors.

Look at it how you want, but failing to get one decent role player in three drafts with the amount of resources and picks they had....just unforgivable. Teams like the Spurs are great at finding role players late in the draft. And while, I'm not saying they have to strike gold with every pick, they could at least shoot 1/7 no?

 

[Brock]

time to set fire to this whole franchise and burn it down to start over

 

[Ghost Pepper]

Larry Miller, Nate and the entire broadcasting crew of the Blazers are the BIGGEST KISS ASSSSSSS CLOWNS I've ever seen! Paul Allen has bought his YES MEN and they are producing very well for him!!!

I've said it before and it's just as true today, this team will never win a CHAMPIONSHIP till Paul Allen is kicked the hell out of PTOWN!

 

[Blaze01]

Chad was their lead talent evaluator in both of the last two drafts. In neither one did they have an official GM... we can only speculate which voice(s) was the most influential.

Again, remind me of all the solid players they passed over for those terrible picks you were bitching about

STOMP

Are you serious?

How about Kenneth Faried last night? Yeah, Nolan Smith sure looks like a better pick then him...uhuh...

Need more?

Marshon Brooks, Norris Cole come to mind immediately, both have looked good this year so far....Others who have had good moments or are coming on of late: Chandler Parsons, Reggie Jackson, Jordan Hamilton & JaJuan Johnson....

How about 2010? Missing on Eric Bledsoe was just flat out inexcusable IMO, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford, Landry Fields

2009 was even worse, we get Claver who may never come over and there were FIVE fricking PG taken right before POR (Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, Eric Maynor, Darren Collison & Jeff Teague) and for a team needing a PG to not deal up for one of those guys was just inexcusable...

Also passed on Omri Casspi, Roddy Beaubois, Taj Gibson and in the 2nd round, Dejuan Blair, Jonas Jerebko, Marcus Thornton & Chase Budinger come to mind....

That year we got Claver, Cunningham & Pendergraph...all gone from this team or not likely (Claver) coming....

2010 we traded UP for Babbitt, yeah that is right, we traded up for that stiff and PASSED on Bledsoe & Bradley which was inexcusable...

2011 we let DEN strong arm us to NOT take Faried, in order to get that piece of garbage Felton...well done Buchanan...and then we go for the 4yr guy in Nolan Smith over more athletic PG like Reggie Jackson and Norris Cole (b\u for MIA BTW) another dumb scouting decision, and even then on the board there were some higher rated guys like Jordan Hamilton & JaJuan Johnson still on the board.....ANY of these players would have been better than Nolan Smith..

Chad Buchanan is one of THE WORST scouts I have ever seen...Just look at his fucking record...it is pathetic...He maybe got one right in Elliot Williams...the rest? (Babbit, Armon Johnson, Claver, Cunningham, Pendergraph, Nolan Smith and Diebler) Pathetic....

 

[Blaze01]

I don't care much about Nolan, I have nothing against him, what I have a problem with is that it seemed everyone is high on Nolan just because he's the new guy and everyone was excited about his potential while Armon fell completely out of favour for no appearent reasons (in my eyes, at least).
Armon since the beginning of the current season was considered unimportant and I still remember a lot of excitement about him last year when he actualy got to play. I guess I just missed the game/s where he screwed up and became washed up in just his 2nd year in the league. I think he deserved a chance at least as much as Smith who Is newer than Armon but not nessecarily better.
I wouldn't release Nolan for Joel but I DEFINITELY would not have released Armon and I've said several times since the beginning of the seasonn that he should at least play sometimes, not even every game, just get a chance. and now he's gone.

Armon Johnson fell out of favor because he sucked and is not an NBA caliber talent...

POR should have never drafted him in the 1st place, let alone pay $3 million to trade up to get him....