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I love Dame but his comment is pure unadulterated bullshit. The games against the Nets and Kings should not have been close so you can throw his late game execution theory out the window. They were listless in both games and Dame, as the captain, has to own it and take accountability for the lack of effort. Stotts is just a clueless fucking idiot. I gave up on him years ago.
 
Sinobas said:
I don't blame Stotts for the end of game failures. Dame and CJ simply have missed or turned the ball over too many times on game deciding possessions. Dame's "clutch" statistics are actually worse than his regular statistics, meaning he's anti-clutch.

Maybe the team just sucks and there's nothing Stotts can do about it, that's possible.

Blazers haven't earned the right to say what record they "should have". They've played .500 during the easiest part of their schedule. They finish below .500 without a doubt if they play like this the whole year.
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Totally agree.

Blazers are not that good and their record reflects that on the easiest stretch of the season.

It’s just time for a new direction. I hope we play Collins more. I’m happy Swanigan is starting that’ll be good for his development.
 
blue9 said:
Lillard has played for one coach for his entire professional career. A coach who, from Day 1, has let him run the team and basically do whatever he wants with very little accountability. Sorry if I don't take him as an authority on a subject he has so little experience with.

I seem to recall Roy had a very similar opinion of Nate. At least until Nate dared to give 'Dre a little bit of a role with the team...
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Thank you

Lillard just needs to worry about being better
 
BonesJones said:
What a dumb comment by Dame. So anyone who thinks the Stotts is at least partially out fault for the crunch time stagnation of the offense doesn't know a damn thing? Insulting a big part of the fanbase by saying that.

His words have been empty as fuck lately. "We can't keep playing down to teams", then everyone else plays down.. But Dame has something to say about the fans?

For fucks sake.
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Daaaaamn lol
 
BonesJones said:
What a dumb comment by Dame. So anyone who thinks the Stotts is at least partially out fault for the crunch time stagnation of the offense doesn't know a damn thing? Insulting a big part of the fanbase by saying that.

His words have been empty as fuck lately. "We can't keep playing down to teams", then everyone else plays down.. But Dame has something to say about the fans?

For fucks sake.
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I thought it was dumb too. How stupid does he think we are? Us mere mortals don't understand what it takes to win a close game? Umm....making a shot rather than bricking it or turning it over?
 
Strenuus said:
If the fans take it personally, that's on the fans, not Dame. Dame has every right to say it, to back up his coach. I applaud it and am glad he did it.

I still think it's a lot of stotts fault, though. Partially on late game execution (not calling a timeout at the end of the game with the last shot.. he's done that twice just this year), a lot on just not being an adjustable coach.
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THIS. Entirely this. As much as I hate Tater Totts (not the food - I LOVE the food!), I would hate it even more if Dame said anything negative in the press. Dame is saying exactly what he's suppose to be saying. I don't agree with it, and I'm not even sure that Dame believes it. But he's playing the game the way it's suppose to be played.
 
Yes, what a dumb comment by Lillard.

He gets blasted on social media, people bitch to him about Stotts on social media, why does he even bother responding to fans?

He should just delete his twitter account like LaMucus Aldridge does when he has a bad game.

Instead he says the loss is on him instead of blaming someone else?!?

Yes, very dumb.

LOLZ.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yes, what a dumb comment by Lillard.

He gets blasted on social media, people bitch to him about Stotts on social media, why does he even bother responding to fans?

He should just delete his twitter account like LaMucus Aldridge does when he has a bad game.

Instead he says the loss is on him instead of blaming someone else?!?

Yes, very dumb.

LOLZ.
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Use your admin magic and let me like this about 100 times.
 
Sounds like he reads the forum. Which one of you is Dame?
 
rotary111 said:
Sounds like he reads the forum. Which one of you is Dame?
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SlyPokerDog said:
Yes, what a dumb comment by Lillard.

He gets blasted on social media, people bitch to him about Stotts on social media, why does he even bother responding to fans?

He should just delete his twitter account like LaMucus Aldridge does when he has a bad game.

Instead he says the loss is on him instead of blaming someone else?!?

Yes, very dumb.

LOLZ.
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Don't ever address the reason given. Okay.
 
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Dame has the right to say whatever he wants... but that doesn't necessarily make him correct. It it's also not just about close games. When you are last in assists and feast break points, that is a philosophy. When everything is designed for basically two players, that is also philosophy.

I can admire the loyalty and also think it is somewhat blind in the process.
 
TBpup said:
Dame has the right to say whatever he wants... but that doesn't necessarily make him correct. It it's also not just about close games. When you are last in assists and feast break points, that is a philosophy. When everything is designed for basically two players, that is also philosophy.
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Come on. Dame has been intent on setting up his teammates at the starts of games, perhaps to a fault. Stotts has used several lineups this year that have Dame and CJ on the bench. One notably was a mess in the previous Kings game. Stotts has two guys who can consistently put the ball in the basket. That’s not on him.
 
Pretty sure this is what the golden state players said about their retard coach Mark Jackson.
 
e_blazer said:
Come on. Dame has been intent on setting up his teammates at the starts of games, perhaps to a fault. Stotts has used several lineups this year that have Dame and CJ on the bench. One notably was a mess in the previous Kings game. Stotts has two guys who can consistently put the ball in the basket. That’s not on him.
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You lack imagination in designing systems, whether basketball or governments. Look around the league. Plenty of coaches get more points than we do from big men no more talented than ours.
 
e_blazer said:
Come on. Dame has been intent on setting up his teammates at the starts of games, perhaps to a fault. Stotts has used several lineups this year that have Dame and CJ on the bench. One notably was a mess in the previous Kings game. Stotts has two guys who can consistently put the ball in the basket. That’s not on him.
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I am so not only talking about just last game, last week, putt this season.
 
TBpup said:
I am so not only talking about just last game, last week, putt this season.
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Neither was I talking about just one game. Dame consistently plays distributor more than scorer at the starts of games. And, no matter what the coach does, outside of Dame and CJ, everyone else on the roster is streaky at best as far as scoring goes. The Blazers run plays for Nurkic, but iso-Nurk is a chancy proposition.
 
IN doesn't mean you can't question and try and improve. Last in assists and fast break points when you have a roster of young legs and struggle to create good shots only seems reasonable.
 
TBpup said:
I can admire the loyalty and also think it is somewhat blind in the process.
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I really don't...Dame and CJ naturally want to overdribble and take difficult shots early in the shot clock....neither is a great passer or extremely fast...I think Dame is purely holding himself accountable and Stotts just addressed the fast break and assist issue...he's working with what we have here...sure the Greek Freak can finish a fast break in 3 giant strides....we don't have that guy or a Durant type....that's what we need to address...a tall ball handling scorer..we have 3 players trying to be that that can't score
 
You don't need a ton of highly skilled players to be able to fast break. I seem to recall that both DEN and PHX have ranked high in fast break points in recent years...and they haven't exactly been loaded with talent. It also goes to show that fast break points don't necessarily lead to wins! Although being dead last - or even bottom third - probably isn't a good thing either, unless maybe you're the Spurs.
 
Our offense by Terry's standards has been trash, but our defense is out of this world so far. Here are rankings of our ORTG and DRTG over Terry's tenure:
2012: 16, 25
2013: 3, 16
2014: 9, 9
2015: 6, 19
2016: 11, 24
2017: 16, 2

And we are protecting the rim better than anyone else in the league by a large margin. This isn't getting as much pub as our slow, clunky O.
 
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