Afternoon Roundup

Neil Olshey has one and only one test to show he’s a legit GM: Can he get rid of Baron Davis? If he can, not much else matters and the Clippers will be better. If he can’t, also not much else matters, except then the Clippers will remain terrible. No team can win with Baron Davis at point guard. He’s too lousy of a shooter, too louser of a defender and too toxic to the team chemistry.

Judging from the article about Neil Olshey, his only actual basketball experience is as a high school coach. Is that right? Doesn’t seem like that’s going to get too much respect around the league. It’s not going to be like when Jerry West would call some other GM and the GM would jump to take the call because it was Jerry West. No, this is someone who never played in the league and only coached in high school. Is this really true? Is this who Sterling picked to lead his “win now” mandate? Oh, sure. I

t doesn’t matter that he worked under Dunleavy for a couple of years. That was Dunleavy’s vision, experience, knowledge and judgement that was behind everything Olshey would have done. Olshey would have just done the busy work. Dunleavy was highly respected not only because he was a player but becaue he was a very successful coach in Portand. Other GMs took Olshey’s calls because Dunleavy was behind the calls and the other GMs knew it. So it seems dim moving forward.

But if he can get rid of Davis, then he’s good in my book, regardless.