Chauncey rumblings

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Mediocre Man said:
Some feel he has lost team
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This roster is so mismanaged how could he keep the team? Ayton is known to check out. That's all Jerami has done at least at some point during every season since going to Detroit. Now Ant looks like he's not engaged.

This is what happens when you keep vets who are nowhere close to good enough to win games on their own, during a youth rebuild.
 
illmatic99 said:
The only reason to fire Chauncey halfway into a lameduck season is he's detrimental to the kids growing and contributing to them developing bad habits. And I don't really see any susbtantial issues like that happening.
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Just get rid of these vets that have checked out on him and I think we'll see a bunch of young guys working their asses off in losses. Then we can figure out who should coach these guys and whoever else we pick up before the draft, so the new head coach can have a say in who he wants... assuming we don't get lucky and win capture the Flagg.
 
blazerkor said:
Just get rid of these vets that have checked out on him and I think we'll see a bunch of young guys working their asses off in losses. Then we can figure out who should coach these guys and whoever else we pick up before the draft, so the new head coach can have a say in who he wants... assuming we don't get lucky and win capture the Flagg.
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The lead assistant came in cold and won two back to back games with an actual game plan....I'd start there
 
years of tanking to Blazer fans is like counting games in a losing streak...when you get to four in a row the pitchforks and torches come out and the coach gets to walk the plank.
 
riverman said:
The lead assistant came in cold and won two back to back games with an actual game plan....I'd start there
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Chauncey's life will be just fine whether he succeeds as a coach or not.

The lead assistant, I don't know him, but I'm thinking it's the exact opposite.

Kind of like the difference between effort required by Deandre Ayton and Toumani Camara to get a big payday. Ayton already got his.
 
riverman said:
I think Joe will not fire Chauncey but Chauncey might move into the front office and move out of coaching.
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Billups knows even less about office work than he does about coaching. He talks slowly because he thinks slowly.
 
illmatic99 said:
The only reason to fire Chauncey halfway into a lameduck season is he's detrimental to the kids growing and contributing to them developing bad habits. And I don't really see any susbtantial issues like that happening.
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I've posted before that the advantage of hiring now is to beat the competition. Other teams will grab the best candidates days after the season ends.

I hate it when someone posts, don't hire a retread. That means, trust in luck while yet another rookie coach fails to teach himself how to coach, call it a new 5-year tank, and pretend the tank started then instead of the previous tank.

If we hire now in midseason, we can get great experience:
Mike Brown (.599 in 758 games, age 54)
Adrian Griffin (.698 in 43 games, age 50)
Nate McMillan (.554 in 893 non-Blazer games, plus .497 in 535 Blazer games, age 60)

We know from 1st-hand experience that McMillan makes order out of disorder. He would structure us, a league laughing-stock, into .500 or near-.500. After 5 years he'd retire (see age). Then as a playoff contender, we might garner enough league-wide respect to attract an elite coach, to take us to the next level.
 
jlprk said:
I've posted before that the advantage of hiring now is to beat the competition. Other teams will grab the best candidates days after the season ends.

I hate it when someone posts, don't hire a retread. That means, trust in luck while yet another rookie coach fails to teach himself how to coach, call it a new 5-year tank, and pretend the tank started then instead of the previous tank.

If we hire now in midseason, we can get great experience:
Mike Brown (.599 in 758 games, age 54)
Adrian Griffin (.698 in 43 games, age 50)
Nate McMillan (.554 in 893 non-Blazer games, plus .497 in 535 Blazer games, age 60)

We know from 1st-hand experience that McMillan makes order out of disorder. He would structure us, a league laughing-stock, into .500 or near-.500. After 5 years he'd retire (see age). Then as a playoff contender, we might garner enough league-wide respect to attract an elite coach, to take us to the next level.
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NO on Nate. No fucking way.

The rest, I'm good with.
 
Phatguysrule said:
NO on Nate. No fucking way. The rest, I'm good with.
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Yeah, but the point is, hire now while the pickings are good. The scramble lasts a couple of weeks, starting the last game of the regular season. The best candidates go to the best teams, so we will again get some rookie coach. Make a big offer to one of the 3 I listed, and he's ours right now.
 
jlprk said:
Yeah, but the point is, hire now while the pickings are good. The scramble lasts a couple of weeks, starting the last game of the regular season. The best candidates go to the best teams, so we will again get some rookie coach. Make a big offer to one of the 3 I listed, and he's ours right now.
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Agreed. Get a plan in place and execute as soon as you have the best advantage. Seasons don't mean anything to us right now, except opportunities to develop our young guns and how high we get to draft.
 
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It seems teams these days want want the name recognition of a noteable ex-player. But the best coaches weren't elite level players. The Blazers need to stop dinking around with rookie ex-player coaches and hire someone with a proven track record of at least being average.
 
Conspiracy Theory: what if Chauncy is really a good coach, but has been deliberately sabotaging the team to get good picks all these years. And next year, we're going to see the REAL Brilliant Coach Chauncy...
 
beast blazer said:
Conspiracy Theory: what if Chauncy is really a good coach, but has been deliberately sabotaging the team to get good picks all these years. And next year, we're going to see the REAL Brilliant Coach Chauncy...
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That would be great, but can only happen minus Ant/Grant/Ayton IMO.
 
I don't want a retread. Wish we had got the guy who is now coaching SA before Pops had his stroke.
 
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