Neil Olshey Appreciation Thread

[MickZagger]

Neil Olshey:

 

[santeesioux]

Re: Neil Olshey:

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Re: Neil Olshey:

We already have a few Neil Olshey appreciation threads at this point.

 

[Natebishop3]

Re: Neil Olshey:

We already have a few Neil Olshey appreciation threads at this point.

Can you have too many?

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Re: Neil Olshey:

Can you have too many?

Asking the wrong guy. I am the king of Merges remember?

 

[illmatic99]

Re: Neil Olshey:

Stotts too. That guy just is on top of everything right now.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Re: Neil Olshey:

We already have a few Neil Olshey appreciation threads at this point.

Happy?

 

[MickZagger]

WTF is wrong with you people?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

WTF is wrong with you people?

Merging threads saves trees and prevents global warming.

 

[BrianFromWA]

and acts like a Power Bump.

 

[Natebishop3]

WTF is wrong with you people?

Sly is power hungry. He's clearly on a power trip.

 

[BBert]

I appreciate Neil Olshey.

 

[Strenuus]

And here we are again. Neil does those shrewd moves better than most.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

As a Blazer fan, I really, really like the Olshey-Stotts-Lillard combo.

 

[B-Roy]

I don't think any of his deals are game changing, but they are calculated.

We are losing capspace this offseason by eating Varejao's contract, but presumably Neil realizes no top teir free agent is signing here anyhow.

 

[Strenuus]

I don't think any of his deals are game changing, but they are calculated.

We are losing capspace this offseason by eating Varejao's contract, but presumably Neil realizes no top teir free agent is signing here anyhow.

Aren't we only losing like 2 mil? 18 mil in capspace or 20... it's not going to change anything. Unless I read that wrong, since we are sparsing out Varejo's contract.

 

[HolyBackboard]

I do worry about over-paying Henderson or Leonard this summer, or even losing them for nothing.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

And here we are again. Neil does those shrewd moves better than most.

I loved that he made two moves: one to get better later in Dame's career arc (paying for Cleveland's 2018 pick) and one to get better now (Brian Roberts taking Tim Frazier's roster spot). Neither look like home runs, but both are good singles to get men on base, in a long game around Dame's career arc that will take eight years to play out.

 

[Strenuus]

I loved that he made two moves: one to get better later in Dame's career arc (paying for Cleveland's 2018 pick) and one to get better now (Brian Roberts taking Tim Frazier's roster spot). Neither look like home runs, but both are good singles to get men on base, in a long game around Dame's career arc that will take eight years to play out.

You speak my language with this baseball analogy. Keep talking, my pants are getting tighter.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Also, none of these moves confused me. Like, there are some moves where you're like "WTF are you trying to do?". But these moves show the clear, focused, SIMPLE game Neil is playing: get assets to make the team better when Dame is 29. Get assets to free up our draft pick in 2017 by making the playoffs in 2016. That 2017 pick gives us flexibility in the summer to get better through trade. Hell, we may see that 2017 pick (this summer if we make the playoffs) traded for another 2018-2020 first round pick and a light asset. Stock up on picks in OUR window from teams who don't value them properly yet.

 

[Strenuus]

Also, none of these moves confused me. Like, there are some moves where you're like "WTF are you trying to do?". But these moves show the clear, focused, SIMPLE game Neil is playing: get assets to make the team better when Dame is 29. Get assets to free up our draft pick in 2017 by making the playoffs in 2016.

Baseball analogy please.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Baseball analogy please.

We're using the rest of the league as our farm league by collecting picks for our championship window from teams who don't understand that every pick is valuable equally, no matter how far in the future...?

 

[B-Roy]

Aren't we only losing like 2 mil? 18 mil in capspace or 20... it's not going to change anything. Unless I read that wrong, since we are sparsing out Varejo's contract.

If we straight up waive him we eat his ~9 million hit. If we stretch waive him we eat 9/5 each year for 5 years (I believe). Not sure which way they are going but either way we lose some space.

 

[Strenuus]

If we straight up waive him we eat his ~9 million hit. If we stretch waive him we eat 9/5 each year for 5 years (I believe). Not sure which way they are going but either way we lose some space.

But not enough to be concerned.

 

[Chris Craig]

In Neil we trust...others pay first/ second round picks and cash considerations.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

these moves show the clear, focused, SIMPLE game Neil is playing: get assets to make the team better when Dame is 29. Get assets to free up our draft pick in 2017 by making the playoffs in 2016. That 2017 pick gives us flexibility in the summer to get better through trade. Hell, we may see that 2017 pick (this summer if we make the playoffs) traded for another 2018-2020 first round pick and a light asset. Stock up on picks in OUR window from teams who don't value them properly yet.

Of course, it kind of equals out, because we lost a first in the Afflalo debacle.

 

[Strenuus]

Of course, it kind of equals out, because we lost a first in the Afflalo debacle.

still loved that trade. Didnt work out because of Wes going down, but loved it.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

still loved that trade. Didnt work out because of Wes going down, but loved it.

Totally agree; Affalo in his intended role would have been great for that team.

 

[Strenuus]

Totally agree; Affalo in his intended role would have been great for that team.

Yes. It's too bad people bash the trade... the way it went down was beautiful... you can't control all that other stuff.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Totally agree; Affalo in his intended role would have been great for that team.

The intended role being "good basketball player"?