The man behind Clippers’ rise

Olshey put together a great team ! I don’t think VDN is his guy, so I can’t fault that hire. I’m hoping the Clippers start driving to the hoop and not settle for so many jumpers! Go Clippers!!!

What a shamless shill!!!

Here’s the truth. Neil Olshey has no idea what he’s doing. He’s the most clueless GM in the NBA. He’s never coached or played in the NBA. I don’t think he’s ever even coached or played in college. He went to college at Le Moyne, and although I’ve never heard of it, I’d be surprised if it had much of a basketball team, if any, and even more surprised if he played on it.

As far as I know, his only coaching experience is as an *assistant* basketball coach at Artesia *high school*, where he coached Jason Kapona. Apparently he’s claiming credit for Kapono’s later success, but that’s ridiculous. Kapono was Kapono, no matter who the assistant coach was at his high school.

His only real NBA experience is that he basically was Dunleavy’s secretary when Dunleavy was the GM.

Other than that, he’s a soap opera actor, and I doubt her was even any good at that, or else he wouldn’t have drifted over to the Clippers.

Regardless of his almost empty basketball background, the proof of what kind of GM he is, is in the pudding. And the pudding he made is a disaster, typical of the kind of pudding made by somebody with no relevant experience or expertise.

He made far and away the worst GM move of the past season when he signed super-dud DeAndre Jordan to a 4 year $42 million contract that will have terrible long term repurcussions because it will eat up so much of the available cap space. Jordan turns out to be not only the worst starting center in Western conference playoffs but probably the worst starting player in the Western conference playoffs.

He also made probably the second worst GM move of the past season when he way overpaid for Chris Paul and needlessly included the Minnesota pick in the deal. He gets no credit for going after Paul. That was a no brainer. Every team in the NBA wanted him. He gets no credit for talking Paul into coming to the Clippers, because that was all about playing with Blake Griffin in the major media market of LA. The only credt he gets is negative credit for giving away too much to New Orleans.

He also way overpaid for Caron Butler, who as usual is injured.

Last year he brought in Ryan Gomes who still has another year to go at $4,000,000 and is so bad that he hasn’t been in a game for weeks.

The reason he brings in so many duds (Gomes, Butler, Cook) is that he is clueless. The reason he overpaid so badly for the one good player he did bring it is because he’s double clueless. The reason he way over paid for the biggest dud on the team (Jordan) is that he’s triple clueless.

The Clippers are doing well mainly because they lucked into getting the top lottery pick, and Olshey gets no credit for using that pick to take Griffin. Then because of Griffin and the LA market, Paul came here. That all there is to it.

The soap opera actor’s only contributions to this Clipper team have been negative. He made what should have been an even better team worse.

If the Grizzlies are overconfident and the Clippers’ jump shooters get hot enough to make up for the inevitable dud play of DeAndre DeGiant DeSaster, the Clippers might pull this off.

It’s hard to imagine either Paul or Griffin having super games tonight, because of their injuries, but crazier things have happened. Those injuries could lull Memphis into a false sense of confidence.

My guess is that Memphis didn’t fully understand how truly terrible DeAndre Jordan is until Wednesday night, and that was when they then focused like a laser on going inside early and destroying the defensive delusion. I’m also guessing that now that they do fully understand how bad he is, they’ll likely do the same thing again. But if they are too overconfident about it, it could backfire. Gasol and Zach both were in peak form Wednesday night, and both of them have a history of cooling off the game after their hot shooting performances. Cold perfromances by Gasol and Zach and a hot streak by the jump shooters along with a super game from Griffin or Paul . . .

Winning tonight is possible, even despite the starting center that the soap opera actor weighted down the team with.

Randy Foye is killing us !