Originally Posted by
JONFARR
Originally Posted by
Travis Outlaw
Originally Posted by
CP1708
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What a terrible article by Wojo... dude has always had it out for KP for some reason.
Consider me a kool aid drinker if you will...but what has Pritchard REALLY done wrong?
- He made Turkoglu the biggest offer he could. Hedo's wife took a better offer from elsewhere. How is this Pritchard's fault?
- He didn't go after Odom. Well...Odom said repeatedly he didn't want to be here. He wants warm weather. How is that Pritchard's fault?
- He didn't offer Ariza? Big fuccing deal.
- He offered Paul Millsap a bunch of money? Great. Millsap is a stud and has a lot of value. Which brings us to...
- He couldn't get Tayshaun Prince or Kirk Hinrich in a trade? Well...summer has just barely begun. And the Millsap signing may shake Utah's tree hard enough to make them deal with Chicago so we can get our point guard. Either way, we get value. I really don't see how this can be a mistake.
From another forum...
"I like how he's viewing the possibility of getting the best free agent on the market this year (not the possibility that Utah will match) as another "disaster."
That's when an article crosses from merely "critical look" to "attempted hit piece."
Also, he gives Pritchard no credit for assembling this roster in the first place. He writes it all off as "a gift for convincing Allen to spend money."
Yes, very even-handed.
qft. You will just have to understand thqt
there are haters out there like this author (who knowlingly dislikes pritchard) and CP and such. I love seeing the hate because it shows Portland is actually becoming relevant again, after that huge Blake eye the last few years were. I don't see how KP can be faulted completely for this summer... I don't mind being called a "loser" for not overpaying for hedo. If for some reason the jazz don't match that offer, which I highly expect them to do, then we are getting a better playerthan hedo. Paul will be a great addition to the team and will free up pryz for a trade, there are a few teams in need of a center, I would like to see some deal that brings battier to Portland Ina package that involves pryz. Say that happens a long with Paul, and nobody will be saying this summer was a faliure. Oh, btw, the summer just started... Way too early for "winner and loser" claims...
And then there are blind @#$ homers who do nothing but flip flop according to what their team does and look foolish for it every single God Damn time.
If Hedo stayed you'd be here talkin about steal of the year, best SF in the game, championship, championship etc etc etc.
No you over here tellin folk that Milsap is the better player, but the second that the Jazz match this offer you gon spin around and say you glad theydidn't just pay 32 million dollars
for a bench player.
People like you will back Pritchard for every second he's a Blazer employee, then the minute he gets fired you'll all say it's time to go, hehasn't done enough. It's ridiculous.
Simply point out questionable moves from jump and move on, it's not that hard. Yeah yeah, everyone tries to cover for him, but he was involved in the CP3draft, he was their big evaluator, they traded down. Is it all on Prit? No. Is it partly? Yes.
He made your franchise look stupid as all hell with the DMiles email/contract fiasco.
He turned down playes that would have big time helped your team for Sergio and ended up getting nothing in return for him. Coulda had RJeff, maybe VC, oreven Devin Harris, but no, he overvalues his players, something that many in the league beleive, but not Blazer fans. Notice how the second Bayless's namecame up, the deal with Chicago and Utah died. And who predicted that?
Pritch made his moves by buying up draft picks and making 57 trades and everyone thought everything he did was great, but really, he hasn't done anythingother then improve them from the scrap heap that Whisitt, Nash and Patterson left them on. He deserves credit for that, but not as some damn messiah like youpeople hype him up to be.
He wasted the Raef contract at the trade deadline, why? He wanted to rape other GM's to make himself look smart. He wanted RJeff AND Sessions!!!!! Whatthe hell? Why would a GM do that? The Bucks said, you can have Jeff, he's yours, and he woulda been a good fit at the 3 for the Blazers, but Pritch wastoo chicken to do it, and look what happened, RJeff has now landed on the Spurs, a competitor of yours and a team far better, so again, you will wait and watchas a player you COULD HAVE HAD succeeds on a rival that is better then you.
Good job Pritch.
I won't even bring up the Oden/Durant angle, it speaks for itself.
Then he offers 50 mill for a 30 year old guy that still wouldn't put them over the hump and luckily, Hedo walked. Again, don't try and strike that asa Pritchard was smart move, he was lucky as all hell Hedo left. Hedo would be dead weight in 3-4 years and they would have zero titles to show for his tenureand then the whole thing woulda been blown up.
Now he's upsetting your two stars in LA and Roy. REEEEEEEAAALLLLL smart move here eh? Messiah Pritch strikes again. How ya'll gonna spin this? Isee you guys been payin Mike to stick up for him already and try and defuse the stupidity of why those deals aren't done already. But Mike don't livearound here, he doesn't see what we do. Otherwise he woulda never taken ya'll's money from you.
So go ahead and keep tellin me and everyone else how you matter again, and the Blazers are close, blah blah, etc etc, and I'll keep pointing the one lonelydusty banner you hang and how no more are coming. Keep throwing first round rallies, then exiting the playoffs 2 weeks later, keep calling me a hater when Ipoint out things that have happened, or predicting things that will happen again. It's cool. Problem is, I'm always right about them, and you alwayscome up short. If that's hate, then whatever.
Bottom line is, Pritchard is better then Whitsitt, no doubt, but he's far far far from doing a real good job. And the second he's no longer a Blazer,you'll turn right around and agree with me how much he sucked, watch.
Oh, and I pray that Utah matches Milsap so I can see what the next panic move will be and how you'll all defend it.
. In 316 regular season contests in the NBA, he has averaged 6.9 ppg, 2.1 apg and 1.6 rpg in 16.2 mpg. A .365 career shooter from behind the arc, he also owns career shooting averages of .395 from the field and .849 from the line. He has played in 33 playoff games, and posted postseason averages of 6.5 ppg, 1.6 apg, 1.5 rpg, 14.8 mpg, .374 from the field, .368 from behind the arc and .711 from the line.
