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illmatic99 said:
jesuit high school. then duke.

meh
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I thought Danny Ainge went to Hillsboro high school.
crandc said:
Oh bullshit. When the person in charge berates and insults employees, they either leave or are so miserable it affects their performance. Ever had to be screamed at for hours that you are stupid, worthless, incompetent? I had a boss who called a colleague on Thanksgiving while he was at his daughter's having dinner to berate him. He quit on the spot.
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One thing nice about Tektronix, if a manager had a bone to pick with an employee he did it in private behind a closed door else higher ups would let him go.
 
I think no matter what the complaint dept at human resources for the Blazers had to look into that Bert and Jody are loyal to Neil and probably don't want to scrap something they're working on right now ...could be trades, etc. It'll end with Neil being known as an asshole with earplugs but that'll just make the Blazers look more like the Knicks with Dolan. Olshey will probably be really snarky after all this if he keeps his job...he'd have been fired and paid off already if this was not the case...my 2 cents
 
riverman said:
I think no matter what the complaint dept at human resources for the Blazers had to look into that Bert and Jody are loyal to Neil and probably don't want to scrap something they're working on right now ...could be trades, etc. It'll end with Neil being known as an asshole with earplugs but that'll just make the Blazers look more like the Knicks with Dolan. Olshey will probably be really snarky after all this if he keeps his job...he'd have been fired and paid off already if this was not the case...my 2 cents
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agree 100%. They've have exactly the guy they want in that job. It may change, but he was Pauls guy over probably some prominent others.
The fact that's its been this long leads me to believe they didn't find much and that they could be as you say, working on something.
 
So what happens if the investigation doesn't find anything? Can he not get fired? Worst case scenario.
 
FlashWad said:
So what happens if the investigation doesn't find anything? Can he not get fired? Worst case scenario.
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Human resources departments dictate that if you have coworkers or people involved in your workplace complain that first strike you probably must see a counselor once a week and report to the boss with progress...anger management stuff. If that doesn't work they go to phase 2 which is suspended for a period ...3rd phase is firing or keeping on staff feeling satisfied the terms have been met...they can fire him right now which tells me he's had a slap on the wrist and won't be fired. I'll bet he's going to anger management and they're dealing in house with this problem and never intended to fire him to begin with. I went through this as shop stewart of my union with OSEA....as president of the union chapter I had to hear grievances between coworkers and attend the whole deal.....was glad to step down from that position later
 
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Nothing going to happen with him. Just another off-season he’s going to screw up and then sugar coat it to the media
 
Tince said:
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This surprises me not at all (although really, what kind of comment could she make that wouldn't potentially end up backfiring?)
 
julius said:
This surprises me not at all (although really, what kind of comment could she make that wouldn't potentially end up backfiring?)
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I agree 100%. Did Quick think she was going stop and say "You know, I'm glad you blindsided me and asked, let me tell you exactly where we are in our investigation and why we may or may not fire our GM...."
 
I’m glad she was in the building to witness this pathetic showing. Hopefully the axe falls soon.
 
julius said:
This surprises me not at all (although really, what kind of comment could she make that wouldn't potentially end up backfiring?)
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I think "right now" is important. I think that means that the team does plan on addressing the investigation at some point soon. Obviously she could have either said next to nothing like she did or said that the matter had been closed. I hold a glimmer of hope that the snake oil salesman is still fired before the trade deadline.
 
Tince said:
I agree 100%. Did Quick think she was going stop and say "You know, I'm glad you blindsided me and asked, let me tell you exactly where we are in our investigation and why we may or may not fire our GM...."
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I'd imagine that Quick has been trying to get follow up info or a progress report from the team for a week or two and this was his way of telling Jody and then tweeting to the fans that he's not just going to let this go away. I'm sure he didn't intend for this fly by question to illicit any immediate earth shattering news.
 
blazerkor said:
I think "right now" is important. I think that means that the team does plan on addressing the investigation at some point soon. Obviously she could have either said next to nothing like she did or said that the matter had been closed. I hold a glimmer of hope that the snake oil salesman is still fired before the trade deadline.
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honestly, probably the best hope the team has is firing him and sitting damian down for a big chunk of the season and trading Roco, CJ and going from there.

Norm and CJ can't be on the same team, and I'm not even sure Dame and CJ can either. But who is going to deal with the blazers, esp with Olshey as the GM?
 
julius said:
honestly, probably the best hope the team has is firing him and sitting damian down for a big chunk of the season and trading Roco, CJ and going from there.

Norm and CJ can't be on the same team, and I'm not even sure Dame and CJ can either. But who is going to deal with the blazers, esp with Olshey as the GM?
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Anyone would deal with us. I think it's more a matter of Neil realistically dealing with them. If he thinks that he's going to get some grand return by moving CJ without major draft assets then he'll never get a deal done. If he thinks he's not taking at least a little bit of a loss on RoCo then he won't get a deal done. These players have value to teams but probably not value that Olshey will accept.

Honestly I think we're fucked if Neil is staying around. He is paralyzed by his pride, lacks the ability to accurately evaluate talent and can't grasp putting cohesive talent together. He sucks at this. He has no real basketball background and it is painfully obvious at this point.
 
blazerkor said:
Anyone would deal with us. I think it's more a matter of Neil realistically dealing with them. If he thinks that he's going to get some grand return by moving CJ without major draft assets then he'll never get a deal done. If he thinks he's not taking at least a little bit of a loss on RoCo then he won't get a deal done. These players have value to teams but probably not value that Olshey will accept.

Honestly I think we're fucked if Neil is staying around. He is paralyzed by his pride, lacks the ability to accurately evaluate talent and can't grasp putting cohesive talent together. He sucks at this. He has no real basketball background and it is painfully obvious at this point.
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Thats kind of what I meant. Why would a team deal with Portland knowing N.O., has steadfast refused to trade precious CJ, and probably is on a Morey level of expectations for CJ.

I still don't get why they re-signed Powell, if this is the role they had in mind for him.
 
julius said:
Thats kind of what I meant. Why would a team deal with Portland knowing N.O., has steadfast refused to trade precious CJ, and probably is on a Morey level of expectations for CJ.

I still don't get why they re-signed Powell, if this is the role they had in mind for him.
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I thought re-signing Powell meant for sure that CJ was gone but it hasn't happened. Just watch us basically stand pat at the trade deadline and then come into next season having matched an offer Ant receives for like 13M per season. 105M tied up in four guys listed at under 6'4". That would be so Olshey.
 
blazerkor said:
I thought re-signing Powell meant for sure that CJ was gone but it hasn't happened. Just watch us basically stand pat at the trade deadline and then come into next season having matched an offer Ant receives for like 13M per season. 105M tied up in four guys listed at under 6'4". That would be so Olshey.
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Im not opposed to re-signing Simons, BUT if they're re-signing him and keeping CJ, Damian and Norman?

It'll be up there in the pantheon of "stupid as fuck" decisions the Blazers franchise makes.
 
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