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I still think Bobby Webster would be the ideal candidate though.
 
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Would James Jones make sense? He was doing good things in the valley of the sun before deciding to move on from all things sarver.
 
illmatic99 said:
Olshey et al largely been competent at finding value in the later portions of the draft.

24 - Simons
25- Little
31- Crabbe
37- Trent Jr.
40- Barton
41- Connaughton
47- Layman

the only real miss in this range was Swanigan, and maybe Elleby. If you just use these late picks getting second contracts as a metric, it's a near 100% hit rate. the Collins pick in the lottery was a disaster (and i'll maintain that as Olshey's biggest mistake in a decade), but our draft record has been great by most NBA teams' standards during Neil's tenure.
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Some nice role players or bench contributors. But he hasn't put real impact starter talent around Dame. That is the decade long swing and a miss.
 
RipCityWarrior said:
Would James Jones make sense? He was doing good things in the valley of the sun before deciding to move on from all things sarver.
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he's still there in Phoenix and they just won 18 straight games. why would he leave?
 
Missing on the one lottery pick is damning - all those second round finds have gotten us nothing.
 
TBpup said:
Some nice role players or bench contributors. But he hasn't put real impact starter talent around Dame. That is the decade long swing and a miss.
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my post was in reference to scouting by Cronin (and olshey, etc). Scouting was never the problem. It was the lack of risks taken from a trading perspective, and sticking to HIS GUYS for too long.

but the team has made it clear he wasn't fired for the on-court performance. it was for his conduct behind the scenes. Make it seem like they were mostly fine with what he put together on the court. That worries me.
 
illmatic99 said:
but the team has made it clear he wasn't fired for the on-court performance. it was for his conduct behind the scenes. Make it seem like they were mostly fine with what he put together on the court. That worries me.
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Lawyers wrote that.
 
I think Barry is the betting favorite with Prince a little behind. I trust Fischer more than any media guy not named Woj when it comes to the Blazers, maybe even more so now that Olshey is gone. Haynes sources are the players, doubt they know much if anything about candidates. This isn’t something Dame will be consulted about (nor should he) imo.
 
I would not mind if they get a young GM and bring in Ainge in the Jerry West ( advisor ) role since Ainge left the GM job cause of health reasons or something if I recall but Ainge as the GM I am not for cause he might be old school thinking and his time has prolly past.
 
I've been an Olshey apologist, but last night was the final draw for me. It's not just the investigation, and the lack of making a deal. The fact that the Blazers have 5 end of the bench guys who CAN'T Play, at all is mindboggling. I wish we could part ways and bring up some G League shooters, and players, who at least have skills. I like the addition of Nance , and Zeller gives effort, but c'mon man. None of these guys can score. It's freaking embarrassing. People are staying away in droves. Last night's effort was pathetic. RoCo and Powell were the only ones who came to play. CJ looks like he's trying to suck, so teams won't trade for him. Nurk was classic Nurk. Tease us with a few good games, then look like a circus clown. Put some some guys around Dame who have heart & soul. So thanks Jody . Please allow Cronin to get this thing started.
 
Buffalo Custard said:
I thought I read somewhere he was paid a lot less than Olshey as well.
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Jones was a first-time GM who only became full-time GM in 2019. Olshey was one of the longest tenured active heads of bball ops in the league until this morning. this is not really surprising.
 
BlazerBeav said:
Missing on the one lottery pick is damning - all those second round finds have gotten us nothing.
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If it was just one....

Missed on Meyers
Missed on Zach...and traded 2 picks to do it.
Hit on CJ....but it wasn't the right player to put with Dame.
 
I like to imagine Terry Stotts, Brian Wheeler and the Mike's getting drunk together and sharing war stories tonight.....all going..."Fuck Yeah!"
 
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