Rich Cho out as GM!

[Mediocre Man]

@ChrisMannixSI: Blazers never, ever gave Rich Cho a real chance to run the team. Rival execs always believed Miller was running the show

Cluster-Fuck. The city of Portland deserves better. Miller is not a basketball guy, and while it appears someone other than Cho pulled off Wallace for nothing, Miller and Allen have no fucking clue on how to build an NBA champion. Cho might not have been the guy, but whoever they bring in needs to have a voice.

 

[Wheels]

Blazers 3rd most efficient run sports team in Portland?

 

[MickZagger]

Cluster-Fuck. The city of Portland deserves better. Miller is not a basketball guy, and while it appears someone other than Cho pulled off Wallace for nothing, Miller and Allen have no fucking clue on how to build an NBA champion. Cho might not have been the guy, but whoever they bring in needs to have a voice.

They need to bring in Zeke!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Memories...

 

[Blazinaway]

They need to bring in Zeke!

The original "zeke" just got in with GS, the other Zeke is a pile of manure

 

[andalusian]

Memories...

... or the real reason Cho was canned!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Jason Quick: "From a leaguewide perspective, Portland is a rudderless organization."

Been saying this for years, only to be mocked.

 

[Wheels]

RoyceWebb Royce Webb, ESPN NBA
by johnhollinger
Blazers owner Paul Allen is doing his part to keep Portland weird.

rt by Hollinger

 

[XXPrimusXX]

The Cho-sen one.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

If the choice is to have an eccentric billionaire owner or a rational but concerned about profits owner . . . I'll take the first choice every time.

 

[Wheels]

Been saying this for years, only to be mocked.

we knoooooooooow already.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Ironic that this came from a rudderless writer!

Mock all you want, but he is right.

 

[Nikolokolus]

You guys should read this blog, it's not about basketball, but it's good.

http://www.kunstler.com/blog/

 

[Tince]

Been saying this for years, only to be mocked.

Which is why you don't want us to be in the need to hire a new head coach. What quality coach would come to Portland?

 

[Mediocre Man]

we knoooooooooow already.

As long as you all know.

 

[XXPrimusXX]

Been saying this for years, only to be mocked.

You got it all wrong.

You're not being mocked for your position on the front office.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

... or the real reason Cho was canned!

Muhahahahaha!

The $2 million pair of 3 goggles!

 

[PapaG]

Paul Allen wrote in "Idea Man" - released April 19 - that Rich Cho was part of "a leadership team that can get us back to the Finals."

http://twitter.com/#!/blazersedge

"Part of a leadership team" = clearly not the leader. I see nothing about what Allen wrote that gives Cho credit for leadership.

 

[Wheels]

As long as you all know.

even if we didnt I'm sure you would remind us

 

[OddEnormous]

Clown town.

BINGO!!!!!

Time to change the sig back.

Muppets from top to bottom.

Bet people will be lining up for the job now too!!!!!

 

[PapaG]

Clown town.

See, I tried to tell you this last year!

 

[XXPrimusXX]

BINGO!!!!!

Time to change the sig back.

Muppets from top to bottom.

Bet people will be lining up for the job now too!!!!!

When I wrote that. I knew it was only a matter of time before you showed up.

 

[Minstrel]

So, between the time his book was written last year and the time it was released in April Paul Allen has changed his mind about Cho. Neither one of us has any clue as to why that is the case. Absent that, we're both talking out of our backsides, which is something that's not exactly unusual around here.

As Ed said, either they were justified firing him now, which means they hired someone incompetent last year, or else they were unjustified in firing him now, which means they fired someone competent.

So, which eventuality casts this front office in a good light? In some sense, it's irrelevant whether this was the right decision or not. If the team administration is clueless, the team is not going to be successful whether Cho is GM or not.

 

[OddEnormous]

If the choice is to have an eccentric billionaire owner or a rational but concerned about profits owner . . . I'll take the first choice every time.

Those aren't the only 2 choices.

 

[XXPrimusXX]

As Ed said, either they were justified firing him now, which means they hired someone incompetent last year, or else they were unjustified in firing him now, which means they fired someone competent.

So, which eventuality casts this front office in a good light? In some sense, it's irrelevant whether this was the right decision or not. If the team administration is clueless, the team is not going to be successful whether Cho is GM or not.

There is a third option.

Maybe he was harassing a female co-worker while in the office.

Rich Cho, sexual predator!

 

[PapaG]

Cluster-Fuck. The city of Portland deserves better. Miller is not a basketball guy, and while it appears someone other than Cho pulled off Wallace for nothing, Miller and Allen have no fucking clue on how to build an NBA champion. Cho might not have been the guy, but whoever they bring in needs to have a voice.

It was obvious that Miller was running the show from Day One of the Cho era. I'm not sure how many people here argued with me on that point, but there were a lot of them. Cho was in over his head from the time he was hired.

That was my opinion then, and trading away a young back-up PG as his first move was stupid. Following that up by saying that he thought the New Orleans pick would be higher showed his inexperience.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Terry Porter to be the next puppet GM of the Blazers.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Just saw the news. Don't even know what to think. The team I love is in complete disarray. Players that don't fit, coaches that don't fit, and apparently a front office and ownership that doesn't fit. I'm trying to see a silver lining. I mean, really... what were they thinking originally when they let Kevin Pritchard go? It's not his fault half the team got injured. Cho really was a do-nothing for the entire time he was here.

Can someone please take the Blazers by the shirt collar and drag them to where they want to go?

 

[Tince]

Terry Porter to be the next puppet GM of the Blazers.

Rick Adleman?

 

[XXPrimusXX]

It was obvious that Miller was running the show from Day One of the Cho era. I'm not sure how many people here argued with me on that point, but there were a lot of them. Cho was in over his head from the time he was hired.

That was my opinion then, and trading away a young back-up PG as his first move was stupid. Following that up by saying that he thought the New Orleans pick would be higher showed his inexperience.

You're mistaking Jerryd Bayless for a "young back-up PG".