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I was a year too early on the fire Stotts bandwagon.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Best coaching option:

Me+twitter+this forum.

I'll sit on the bench and read the team your tweets.
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I can just see it now....

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HCP said:
LINK?
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What do you mean "Link"? I need to provide you with a link that Stotts is a mediocre coach who lets his team get away with too much and doesn't make proper adjustments or call timeouts?

Get over yourself.
 
Mediocre Man said:
While I don't think it happens, firing Stotts would be a sensitive subject. Players absolutely adore him. They love playing for him.
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Of course they do - he gives them all the freedom in the world with zero accountability.
 
trailblazer18 said:
I'm not ready for Stotts to go. The grass is always greener on the other side. Stotts has done a lot of good things for this team, maybe he isn't the guy to get us to the top, but he has done a dang good job for us in his time here. I want to see what he can do with a full season of Nurk. We all know the roster is flawed, so why are we expecting unattainable things from Stotts with this roster?
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I have no doubt that, with a full and healthy season of Nurk, Stotts will have us back to being a 50-win team. He's an above average regular season coach. But his schemes - both offensive and defensive - absolutely suck and won't cut it in the Playoffs. He has shown limited ability to adjust from game to game, and practically zero ability to adjust mid-game. He doesn't hold players accountable, preferring to go in the opposite direction of encouraging players to do things the defense WANTS them to do.
 
blue9 said:
I have no doubt that, with a full and healthy season of Nurk, Stotts will have us back to being a 50-win team. He's an above average regular season coach. But his schemes - both offensive and defensive - absolutely suck and won't cut it in the Playoffs. He has shown limited ability to adjust from game to game, and practically zero ability to adjust mid-game. He doesn't hold players accountable, preferring to go in the opposite direction of encouraging players to do things the defense WANTS them to do.
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Exactly this. Stotts is a good coach for a lottery team. Develops players at a decent rate, empowers players, is a good coach to help a young player tap into their potential. For a playoff team? HELL NO. That's why I want him gone. I want to contend. Stotts isn't a contending coach.
 
Stotts isn't a good coach. I've been saying it through our most successful seasons with him. He's been frustrating with his in game decision making, with his rotations and substitutions and his inability to making adjustments or think outside the box.
There are some things I like about him - the relative freedom he gives the players to create their own offense is a big part of why we're one of the highest scoring teams in the league - and I'm not saying he's the worst coach, Cheeks or McMillan (to answer Zagger's post) weren't better coaches. But even though we can do worse I think we can do better and even much better, and trust Neil with making the right decision.
I think there are coaches available that can take us further than Stotts can and think it's time for a change
 
Blazer4ever said:
Stotts isn't a good coach. I've been saying it through our most successful seasons with him. He's been frustrating with his in game decision making, with his rotations and substitutions and his inability to making adjustments or think outside the box.
There are some things I like about him - the relative freedom he gives the players to create their own offense is a big part of why we're one of the highest scoring teams in the league - and I'm not saying he's the worst coach, Cheeks or McMillan (to answer Zagger's post) weren't better coaches. But even though we can do worse I think we can do better and even much better, and trust Neil with making the right decision.
I think there are coaches available that can take us further than Stotts can and think it's time for a change
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who are they? would they find us a more attractive alternative to current employ or other openings?
 
lawai'a said:
who are they? would they find us a more attractive alternative to current employ or other openings?
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I've said previously in this thread that I like both David Blatt and Mark Jackson. But there are plenty of options and many great coaches available
 
Wasn't Mark Jackson literally preaching in the streets of San Francisco a few years ago while interjecting butt hurt stuff about the Warriors?
 
santeesioux said:
Wasn't Mark Jackson literally preaching in the streets of San Francisco a few years ago while interjecting butt hurt stuff about the Warriors?
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Don't forget when he was extorted by a stripper! (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...torted-stripper-extramarital-affair-with.html)

You guys can bitch about Stotts all you want but as long as Dame is here there are two options for head coach: (1) Terry Stotts (2) David Vanterpool. Vanterpool is the ONLY person Lillard would be okay with taking over for Stotts...and I think we are another couple failed playoffs runs from reaching that point. The bad thing is Vanterpool will be a head coach elsewhere by then.

EDIT: Let's also remember that Blazers4ever is the poster who has admitted to not even watching games anymore IIRC. #learnthegamethenpost
 
So one of the cultural flaws we have had in Portland (playing off that bald turd fucks craphole of an opinion), has been fixing the constant turnover of coaches and front office. There's not a damn thing wrong with the culture here, it's the youngest team in the NBA and 2 years in a row at midpoint looked like the Lottery was going to be their best friend, instead 2 years in a row the team clawed back into the playoffs.

That's not a product of bad coaching...
 
Schilly said:
So one of the cultural flaws we have had in Portland (playing off that bald turd fucks craphole of an opinion), has been fixing the constant turnover of coaches and front office. There's not a damn thing wrong with the culture here, it's the youngest team in the NBA and 2 years in a row at midpoint looked like the Lottery was going to be their best friend, instead 2 years in a row the team clawed back into the playoffs.

That's not a product of bad coaching...
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Maybe not....but this season in particular, was due to one player coming in from a trade that had to be made. Without Nurkic, they were right back where they had been all season.
 
BBert said:
IMO, Stotts is the best Blazers coach since Rick Adelman. Let that sink in. How hard is it to get a truly good, head and shoulders above the crowd, NBA head coach? Really fucking hard, apparently. Stotts isn't perfect. He really needs a good defensive assistant and a good big man coach on his staff. But unless it's a clear upgrade, I wouldn't change head coaches on the basis of this season. Fix the roster, give Stotts another shot at the playoffs, then decide.
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Blazer Freak said:
And those suggestions right there are why you opinion has absolutely zero credibility.
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Whatever, I know more basketball than anyone here.
You think Steve Kerr is why the Warriors are winning. Jackson was there through their rebuilding and was fired after a subpar season but left a team that was already primed for greatness.
If you think Stotts is a good coach, you're entitled to have an opinion, even if it has nothing with understanding basketball.
He puts lineups and makes decisions on par with the opinions of people in this forum. I stopped watching the Blazers this year and you guys' credible opinions and basketball knowledge led us to an embarassing season.
So I have zero credibility? A team with two of the best offensive talents in the league, with supporting players that couldn't have been more poorly used, half the season you're rooting for us to lose then we make the playoffs and can't even put up a fight, and you like Stotts because he's like you, very white and knows nothing about basketball
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Yes, because Blatt was so successful with LeBron, and Jackson was so successful with Curry, Klay, and Dray. I feel like even suggesting those two is a troll.
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Blatt in his first year in the league had to deal with that fucking Prima-Donna LeBronze. I think it was Messina that when he was an assistant with the Lakers said that Kobe comes to practice in a private plane and then you need to ask him to move his feet on defense...
Blatt would be great with this team, we don't have the same fragile egos he had to deal with in Cleveland and he knows more basketball and reached more success then still-hasn't-reached-.500-in-his-career Stotts would ever get.
But you're ok with this mediocrity, you yourselves don't believe the Blazers could ever win anything so you want Stotts because he's likeable. And I'll give him credit, he coaches a high scoring offense, but he's not a winner, his decision making makes me cringe and I'm really a nobody.
Leonard has underacheieved, almost every player we have has underacheieved, the coach is not accountable for it? I'm not gonna decide for you but I'm saying my opinion and my personal opinion is I want Stotts gone, I don't think we're getting anywhere with him and it's a waste of some very good players. Jackson, Blatt, they're options I personally like but I would be OK with Woophie fucking Goldberg replacing Stotts. If you want to pay my plane ticket I would coach them for free and we wouldn't look as pathetic
 
PHXBlazer1 said:
Scott Skiles
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No.

No.

No.

Please no.

To Skiles.

He's not a winner and the players will absolutely hate him and tune him out in short order.

He's a college coach, ideally. The players don't have to stick with him for more than 4 years.

He stresses defense, which is good, but his offense is unimaginative and doesn't involve all 5 players.

You will not want to watch the guy on TV doing the regular press conferences.

Just say no.
 
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