Game Thread 2023-24 Game #7 - BLAZERS VS GRIZZLIES - NOVEMBER 5, 2023 - SUNDAY - 6:00 PM PST - ROOT

[THE HCP]

My man….. Phil Jackson isn’t leading this team the past 3 years to anymore wins than Billups did.

 

[BIG Q]

Jackson only coaches teams that have two or more hall of famers.

 

[riverman]

My man….. Phil Jackson isn’t leading this team the past 3 years to anymore wins than Billups did.

He would not have tanked and Lillard would have never sat out, CJ Elleby would have never sniffed the court either. Different culture. Chauncey has a mountain to climb as a head coach so you're dangling a false equivalency here my friend.

 

[andalusian]

My man….. Phil Jackson isn’t leading this team the past 3 years to anymore wins than Billups did.

That makes no sense. You are making a claim about how shitty the roster of this team is, and it is. But there is more to basketball success than just roster construction.

I absolutely believe a better coach would have been able to extract more from that team. Hack, Billups would have if he did not have the carte blanche to coach to a system instead of a roster.

The Blazers have not been devoid of talent completely, they had sub-par talent, but the results were compounded by a system that did not play to the strength of that sub-par roster.

So,

It is a combination of roster, system, chemistry and more.

What is obvious with CB's teams is that:

1. He coaches defense to a system. The Blazers have for the first time, roster that can compete using that system - so one should expect this year's team to be better defensively. They have been in the very short sample we have, the proof, as they say, is in the pudding - so let's see how it goes as the years goes on.

2. His offensive system is not very creative, especially in the half-court. I am certain there are better systems to implement, offensively, even with the talent the Blazers have/had.

 

[THE HCP]

Coaching wouldn’t have mattered in the won total over the past 3 seasons.

 

[riverman]

Coaching wouldn’t have mattered in the won total over the past 3 seasons.

I hope you're not a gambling man because you'd lose a fortune on that bet. Every head coach in the league knows all the vets and their tendencies or they're just not prepared. Chauncey is still talking about getting to know players when he should know everything about these guys. He's no longer a rookie and he's blown a lot of games being a rookie. Sorry to burst your bubble but good coaches have winning records consistently. Chauncey hasn't had one ....ever. He is still talking about how he's unfamiliar with Ayton...I don't want to hear that from a coach. I hope Chauncey turns into a winning coach that's for sure but he hasn't earned that tag yet.