Neil Olshey Hate Coming Soon

[Blazers Roy]

Nurk's game last night seemed to take people's minds off the N.O. hate and trade deadline meltdowns. Haha.

No it didn't.
There's no point in complaining anymore though, it is what it is.

I give Neil a C+ on his trade deadline performance.

 

[riverman]

I give Olshey an A for the trade he made.....we haven't even glimpsed what he has planned with 3 first round picks..this is his biggest talent...I watched Nurkic and Plumlee play last night....we robbed Denver.

 

[Blazers Roy]

I give Olshey an A for the trade he made.....we haven't even glimpsed what he has planned with 3 first round picks..this is his biggest talent...I watched Nurkic and Plumlee play last night....we robbed Denver.

I give him an "A" for that trade too.
It's his overall performance and defeated mindset that made me angry.

 

[riverman]

Olshey said it was on him that last summer's roster makeup didn't work...it's not his performance as much as poor performance by guys who got paid and were expected to show improvement but didn't. I hold the players accountable for that. Now he's trying to repair the roster and off to a good start

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I give Olshey an A for the trade he made.....we haven't even glimpsed what he has planned with 3 first round picks..this is his biggest talent...I watched Nurkic and Plumlee play last night....we robbed Denver.

Olshey said it was on him that last summer's roster makeup didn't work...it's not his performance as much as poor performance by guys who got paid and were expected to show improvement but didn't. I hold the players accountable for that. Now he's trying to repair the roster and off to a good start

+1

 

[Pinwheel1]

Man, here it is a day later and I am still swamped with happiness. I am overwhelmed trying to process all of Olshey's achievements yesterday. What a bumblebee of an energy bunny. This calls for 5 more threads to celebrate his greatness. I'm leaving to buy cake candles, one for every trade he made yesterday. Then I'll bake a cake, one layer for every giant step forward from yesterday. You guys stay busy celebrating in this thread.

So why was it important to make lots of moves yesterday. What goal did you want to see occur with 27 games left that can't occur after the season is over?

 

[Blazers Roy]

Olshey said it was on him that last summer's roster makeup didn't work...it's not his performance as much as poor performance by guys who got paid and were expected to show improvement but didn't. I hold the players accountable for that. Now he's trying to repair the roster and off to a good start

I'm sure he knew Meyers-Turner-Ezeli does not equal 33mil$ a year.
So far he hasn't shown one sign of acknowledging his mistakes and he still wants to hold on to Crabbe like he's an all-star.

 

[riverman]

If we had made last minute trades at the deadline...Shabazz Napier probably wouldn't have seen the court last night....as it is...he gained a lot of value in one game

 

[riverman]

I'm sure he knew Meyers-Turner-Ezeli does not equal 33mil$ a year.
So far he hasn't shown one sign of acknowledging his mistakes and he still wants to hold on to Crabbe like he's an all-star.

He admitted it just yesterday...read his interview about the draft day or listen to it...he totally said "it's on me" we didn't improve as expected and needed rim protection and scoring in the paint...if Ezeli hadn't had a setback...we'd have a better record...it was a risk that just didn't pan out..fortunately we didn't spend a fortune finding out in Ezeli's case

 

[noknobs]

All do respect to you boo boo er Bo Bo!! I wouldn't bet on that.

As fans we have to live with it. But his roster is not ok right now. No matter how much hot air comes out of his mouth. It doesn't make ok where his team and roster is at the moment. How many times have we said, "we'll just wait til the summer" or ""we'll wait for the deadline" for him to make his splash. The man is absent. He is no longer even good at keeping the comraderie together for the team.

He's just bad. And doesn't need anymore of his own excuses or yours or mine to story tell what is going on. Someone else needs an opportunity to get this roster where he can't take it.

90% of your posts are criticizing Olshey. You clearly have some sort of personal agenda. What did he do, kill your dog or sleep with your wife?

 

[Blazers Roy]

He admitted it just yesterday...read his interview about the draft day or listen to it...he totally said "it's on me" we didn't improve as expected and needed rim protection and scoring in the paint...if Ezeli hadn't had a setback...we'd have a better record...it was a risk that just didn't pan out..fortunately we didn't spend a fortune finding out in Ezeli's case

Everyone around the league and their mother knew that Ezeli was done.

Turner and Meyers deals were so awful, what did he expect? that they will improve the team to the point of dragging it from being a 3rd tier team onto the level of the Clippers?

I just don't see the rational in his decisions, i can understand the Crabbe part ,but that's about it.

I really believe that he could have cut at least 2 of Meyers-Turner-Crabbe-Ezeli if he really wanted to, but not even a distant rumor on them being semi-available.

 

[riverman]

Everyone around the league and their mother knew that Ezeli was done.

Turner and Meyers deals were so awful, what did he expect? that they will improve the team to the point of dragging it from being a 3rd tier team onto the level of the Clippers?

I just don't see the rational in his decisions, i can understand the Crabbe part ,but that's about it.

I really believe that he could have cut at least 2 of Meyers-Turner-Crabbe-Ezeli if he really wanted to, but not even a distant rumor on them being semi-available.

actually it's not true...Ezeli had a setback that hurt his value to us and as a trading piece, he was a low cost risk making basically Chris Kaman money and Turner in my view is going to be a keeper..better than Batum in the long run. Meyers...yeah...he's disappointed everyone.

 

[Mediocre Man]

actually it's not true...Ezeli had a setback that hurt his value to us and as a trading piece, he was a low cost risk making basically Chris Kaman money and Turner in my view is going to be a keeper..better than Batum in the long run. Meyers...yeah...he's disappointed everyone.

Not me

 

[Blazers Roy]

actually it's not true...Ezeli had a setback that hurt his value to us and as a trading piece, he was a low cost risk making basically Chris Kaman money and Turner in my view is going to be a keeper..better than Batum in the long run. Meyers...yeah...he's disappointed everyone.

I disagree with everything you just said so i guess we reached a dead end

 

[Minstrel]

Olshey said it was on him that last summer's roster makeup didn't work...it's not his performance as much as poor performance by guys who got paid and were expected to show improvement but didn't. I hold the players accountable for that. Now he's trying to repair the roster and off to a good start

No GM signs players thinking they're going to be bad--saying "they didn't play to his expectations" is obvious. The point is, he's paid to have the right expectations--i.e. evaluate players properly. He failed, that's on him, not the players.

 

[Blazers Roy]

So why was it important to make lots of moves yesterday. What goal did you want to see occur with 27 games left that can't occur after the season is over?

Listen to the snake:

 

[Blazinaway]

No GM signs players thinking they're going to be bad--saying "they didn't play to his expectations" is obvious. The point is, he's paid to have the right expectations--i.e. evaluate players properly. He failed, that's on him, not the players.

yep, he gets credit for a good Nurk trade and gets correctly hammered for most of last summers overpay signings

 

[Blazinaway]

Listen to the snake:
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take a look at what went down, only transaction that we could have had interest in was the Nerlens trade, The summers signings hamstrung us so we really could not do that deal, yeah as I have said that's on Olshey and/or PA. Nerlens will likely get paid close to 20 mil since Nets are out there and can toss up another max deal. Given what I have seen so far from Nurk I think he was as good a get as Nerlens and has one more yr on a cheap deal and we got a 2017 1st. And frankly Nerlens and Nurk are not going to work together IMO, so having both was not a good idea and add to that we need to give Nurk all the minutes he needs to grow with this team and not be in another situation like he was with Jokic.

 

[jlprk]

So why was it important to make lots of moves yesterday. What goal did you want to see occur with 27 games left that can't occur after the season is over?

You are right. The goal should have been achieved after the 2015-16 season was over. Trying to fix this financial hell shouldn't have waited till yesterday.

 

[riverman]

You are right. The goal should have been achieved after the 2015-16 season was over. Trying to fix this financial hell shouldn't have waited till yesterday.

The goal should have been achieved when Allen Crabbe was with the Idaho Stampede.....he never fooled us....Olshey should have watched those games and moved the Stampede to Eugene...he should have watched Meyers dance to Michael Jackson or coddle his dog...he should have kept Snoop Dogg's entourage away from Dame's recording sessions.....he should have told CJ to avoid the allstar game at all costs because it would possibly make him lose confidence in his 3 pt shooting

 

[Pinwheel1]

You are right. The goal should have been achieved after the 2015-16 season was over. Trying to fix this financial hell shouldn't have waited till yesterday.

Any suggestions on what the goals should have been?

 

[jlprk]

Any suggestions on what the goals should have been?

If your question is, who could Olshey have signed instead of Crabbe and Leonard...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/dleague/years/2017.html#all_leaders

 

[riverman]

If your question is, who could Olshey have signed instead of Crabbe and Leonard...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/dleague/years/2017.html#all_leaders

that made me dizzy

 

[Pinwheel1]

Any suggestions?

If your question is, who could Olshey have signed instead of Crabbe and Leonard...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/dleague/years/2017.html#all_leaders

That's what I thought.

 

[MickZagger]

Olshey needs to save face this offseason because he knows his job is on the line. I'm a big Olshey supporter, but you can't saddle a team with luxury tax for a mediocre product and expect to keep your job.

Neil's biggest downfall as a GM is that he falls in love with his "guys". Lillard and CJ are his guys. Is that a duo that can become an elite team? Or is it better to split up the atrociously bad defensive duo? Its a decision that Neil's job depends on, IMO.

 

[jlprk]

So why was it important to make lots of moves yesterday. What goal did you want to see occur with 27 games left that can't occur after the season is over?

If he couldn't sign the right people last July (you homers said, the summer's not over, he created this luxury tax problem because he plans to trade some of this great talent for even better players who make a lot less) or by the preseason (you homers said, he's not done dealing) or by the time the season got underway (you homers said, it's been his plan all along to wait till the February trade deadline) or by the trade deadline yesterday (now you say, no problem, he's waiting till some unknown point in the future), then what makes you think he can solve his problems this summer (when you'll say, he never planned to solve the problems he created, April Fools)?

 

[Pinwheel1]

If he couldn't sign the right people last July (you homers said, the summer's not over, he created this luxury tax problem because he plans to trade some of this great talent for even better players who make a lot less) or by the preseason (you homers said, he's not done dealing) or by the time the season got underway (you homers said, it's been his plan all along to wait till the February trade deadline) or by the trade deadline yesterday (now you say, no problem, he's waiting till some unknown point in the future), then what makes you think he can solve his problems this summer (when you'll say, he never planned to solve the problems he created, April Fools)?

And your plan was to...... not match, lose the players for nothing, and sign D league players instead. Not a horrible plan, but I don't see how we would be any better off. Unless you think we are could have been players in free agency with all the extra cap space, which history has shown....... we never are. So either way we are in about the same situation. And either way, as we all know, you would be bitching about it.

 

[jlprk]

There's a 2000-pound weight hanging over us. It will force him to give away players by paying teams with our draft picks (you asked what the problem is, which I didn't get to because I figured you were joking, but there it is). The weight will drop on us, and we know when. He keeps getting chances to drop it slowly, but he can't move it. So it will drop suddenly unless he finally does something with his one remaining chance this summer. The more times he has failed (I listed them in the last post), the higher the probability that he will not have the talent to succeed with his last chance. This ascending probability of failure is why it is usually best to not wait till the last minute to do things.

 

[HailBlazers]

There's a 2000-pound weight hanging over us. It will force him to give away players by paying teams with our draft picks (you asked what the problem is, which I didn't get to because I figured you were joking, but there it is). The weight will drop on us, and we know when. He keeps getting chances to drop it slowly, but he can't move it. So it will drop suddenly unless he finally does something with his one remaining chance this summer. The more times he has failed (I listed them in the last post), the higher the probability that he will not have the talent to succeed with his last chance. This ascending probability of failure is why it is usually best to not wait till the last minute to do things.

Yea, kinda like how he gave up a draft pick for Nurk? Oh wait

 

[Pinwheel1]

There's a 2000-pound weight hanging over us. It will force him to give away players by paying teams with our draft picks (you asked what the problem is, which I didn't get to because I figured you were joking, but there it is). The weight will drop on us, and we know when. He keeps getting chances to drop it slowly, but he can't move it. So it will drop suddenly unless he finally does something with his one remaining chance this summer. The more times he has failed (I listed them in the last post), the higher the probability that he will not have the talent to succeed with his last chance. This ascending probability of failure is why it is usually best to not wait till the last minute to do things.

Looking forward to next June/July when we introduce our new draft picks.....