Poll: Biggest fear of the new ownership group (9 Viewers)

[SharpesTriumph]

I'm still super glad that Dundon is an owner and that Jody sold. Bert Kolde was horrific.

These types of moves mimic what Dundon did with the Hurricanes. He ruffled a lot of feathers and cut many costs that really upset some hardcore fans. Seems he wants every dollar to support winning or its eliminated. That focus makes sense to me. Right now the Hurricanes are 2-0 and very close to the highest odds to win the title. Blazers haven't had that in a quarter century.

Yeah a bunch of Blazer fans will bitch and moan about tshirts or a practice player not traveling. I'm sure there will be many more of these. I'll just enjoy and laugh at all the complaining.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I'm not a Quick fan, but at least he did some research and got some explanations about all this. Unlike everyone else who jumped on the chance to get clicks and fans who jumped to conclusions and believed all the false reports (coach salary).

Blazers owner Tom Dundon doesn’t care that others say he’s cheap

When it comes to everything outside the locker room, the Blazers will be cheap. And they won't follow the widely accepted norms of the NBA.

www.nytimes.com

As a result, Dundon’s attempt at a covert search for coaching and general manager candidates has been exposed on a nearly daily basis. His contact with St. Louis University coach Josh Schertz at the Final Four, and later with Iowa coach Ben McCollum, have leaked.

League sources — granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the coaching search — also say former NBA coach Michael Malone was contacted before he took the University of North Carolina job, as well as former Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who is no longer a candidate. And before he took control of the Blazers, Dundon spoke to former Toronto executive Masai Ujiri.

“Of all the things reported on Tom, the one thing that is not true is the coaching thing, that he is trying to get someone for $1 million to 1.5 million,” a team source said. “It’s just not true. He’s talked to everybody, and of course, some coaches he talks to would be less expensive than others. The goal is to find the best person.”

“Tiago is going to be the leading candidate,” a team source said. “People ask: Why don’t we just give Tiago the job? That would be the easy thing to do. But ownership wouldn’t be doing the team or the fan base justice if other people weren’t interviewed. Let’s have a process.”

If Dundon has made one thing clear in his first month as owner, it’s this: He cares more about winning than he does people’s opinion. He vows he will spend on the roster — a source said he is already committed to dipping into the salary tax next season to land a star player — and has been matter of fact about his disdain for frills, his popularity be damned.

“He is unapologetic,” the team source said. “All he cares about is what is good for the team and what makes the team win. Which means he is going to be OK making tough decisions.”
So if that means taking a public-relations hit for requiring the support staff to check out of the hotel to escape paying late-check out fees? A source said the team ran the numbers and estimated it will save $1 million in the next year. That’s $1 million that could go to bettering the players’ experience.

As for the fans? When they arrive at the Moda Center for Friday’s Game 3 against San Antonio, there will not be the customary free T-shirt waiting on the seats. When team president Dewayne Hankins announced the no-shirt decision, fans were up in arms, chalking it up to another cheapskate move by the new owner.
On the contrary, Dundon was thinking about the players and how he could create a competitive advantage.
“Tom’s point of view was how do we get even more home-court advantage?” a team source said. “So he wanted to experiment a little bit with something that could create noise, and where 19,000 are waving something when the Spurs are shooting free throws. That’s better than a T-shirt.”

“His heart is in the right place,” the team source said. “He is going to build this thing into a winner, I know it. And I know three years from now, or five years from now, people are going to love it.

SIGN ME UP! an owner who 10000% cares about winning.

 

[Samuel]

I'm still super glad that Dundon is an owner and that Jody sold. Bert Kolde was horrific.

These types of moves mimic what Dundon did with the Hurricanes. He ruffled a lot of feathers and cut many costs that really upset some hardcore fans. Seems he wants every dollar to support winning or its eliminated. That focus makes sense to me. Right now the Hurricanes are 2-0 and very close to the highest odds to win the title. Blazers haven't had that in a quarter century.

Yeah a bunch of Blazer fans will bitch and moan about tshirts or a practice player not traveling. I'm sure there will be many more of these. I'll just enjoy and laugh at all the complaining.

I expected major reorg/shuffle this summer. doing it late in the season is the surprising part. but it's a useful message for him to send, I guess.

 

[SwissBlazer]

In The Athletic written by Quick:

“Of all the things reported on Tom, the one thing that is not true is the coaching thing, that he is trying to get someone for $1 million to 1.5 million,” a team source said. “It’s just not true. He’s talked to everybody, and of course, some coaches he talks to would be less expensive than others. The goal is to find the best person.”