Report: Trailblazers extend Neil Olshey thru 2021

[clyde21]

An extension? Seriously? Those contracts he handed out should have gotten him fired.

Not sure what he was thinking there, but he did redeem himself quite a bit with the Crabbe trade. Saved Portland over 40mil in luxury taxes, and the team now is "only" 6.5mil over the threshold.

[OptionZero]

How is that a positive? He gave Crabbe $17M a year, and traded him away for ZERO talent in return, and the team is eating $3M in DEAD MONEY for like 7 more years. The net result was no Crabbe, more cap burden

Thats sort of a theme of his tenure - rising costs, but not corresponding rising production. It's actually going backwards - more expensive, fewer wins

Had he simply simply NOT MATCHED ON CRABBE, he wouldn't have crabbe, but he wouldn't have that dead money either. Its ridiculous to stand up for Olshey on that move - it was a disaster that got smaller, but could have been entirely avoided.

[RightToCensor]

He shouldn't have matched Crabbe in the first place. He just wasted his organization's money to have him for one season.