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How good do you think Terry Stotts is a s a coach?

  • Top 5

    Votes: 9 5.8%

  • Top 10

    Votes: 44 28.6%

  • Top 20

    Votes: 35 22.7%

  • Needs to go!

    Votes: 51 33.1%

  • He's the very best!

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Lets hope he continues to improve.

    Votes: 13 8.4%
  • Total voters
    154
Natebishop3 said:
Not that I think Billups will be bad, but how do we know he's head coach material?
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Tough to 'know' anything. But he was under Coach Brown (tremendous coach) and has huge respect around the league to where people were talking about him as a GM candidate with no experience at all . He has at least had some coaching experience.
 
TBpup said:
Tough to 'know' anything. But he was under Coach Brown (tremendous coach) and has huge respect around the league to where people were talking about him as a GM candidate with no experience at all . He has at least had some coaching experience.
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True, but Magic was an awful head coach and he played under Riley :dunno:
 
Natebishop3 said:
True, but Magic was an awful head coach and he played under Riley :dunno:
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Completely different types of players. The grinders tend to be much better at being a head coach. Doc Rivers comes to mind.
The super talented like Magic? Then Clyde Drexler's turn at his alma mater comes to mind. :biglaugh:
 
Strenuus said:
reaching.

REACHING.
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Sucking AND reaching? Well, I'm sure Gunnery Sergeant Hartman would be very proud :devilwink:

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TBpup said:
Tough to 'know' anything. But he was under Coach Brown (tremendous coach) and has huge respect around the league to where people were talking about him as a GM candidate with no experience at all . He has at least had some coaching experience.
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To add on to that, I've been very impressed with him when I've listened to him talk about/analyze a game or player.

There are those who are complete blow-hards who just talk to hear themselves talk (Steven A, Bill Walton, Charles Barkley, etc)
Then there's those who on occasion can say something that is insightful, but there isn't much value in what they say (Shaq, Olshey, etc)
Then there's those who can effectively communicate their basketball knowledge to others (Kenny Anderson, Jeff Van Gundy, etc).

Based on the interviews and analysis I've seen - I'd put Billups as a step or two ahead of that.

Natebishop3 said:
True, but Magic was an awful head coach and he played under Riley :dunno:
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I'd say Magic is the same group as Shaq & Olshey.
Not a great comparison for Billups IMO.
 
The battle of Stotts vs Dame. Dame tried his damndest to win but Stotts did just enough to eek out the win for the opposing team.
 
Mr. Robot said:
if we replace terry stotts with another head coach who likes iso heavy offense, im gonna lose it

for the love of god, hire someone who runs proper offense, who uses players to their strengths etc
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These types of comments are so great because when the next coach doesn't get us past the WCF, our offensive rating doesn't make a drastic uptick from our rating with Dame, CJ, Norm, Roco, Nurk, we'll be able to attribute it to these two undefinable things not happening.
 
EGame said:
So am I understanding you right, youre ok with keeping Stotts around and continuing with first round exits instead of at least attempting a change whether it ends up being good or bad?
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My post was a 3 word question: "define good coach".

Never said a positive or negative word about Stotts.

How would you define a good coach?
 
Scalma said:
one that doesn’t have his worst defenders on the court on a defensive possession to decide the game.
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What did you think Melo did poorly in that last possession that cost us the game?
 
Tince said:
My post was a 3 word question: "define good coach".

Never said a positive or negative word about Stotts.

How would you define a good coach?
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So am I understanding you right? You stole the Lindbergh baby and shot JFK?
 
Natebishop3 said:
So am I understanding you right? You stole the Lindbergh baby and shot JFK?
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Hahahaha... well done! I'd like this post twice if they'd let me!

And I thought @EGame was the best at reading into posts, but you actually exposed what I was really saying!
 
Tince said:
My post was a 3 word question: "define good coach".

Never said a positive or negative word about Stotts.

How would you define a good coach?
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There are a lot of ways to define a good coach. One who can get their team to play like an actual team and create a lot of ball movement to find wide open shooters, you know have an offensive playbook. One who can change the landscape of a team whom was previously bad but with solid fundamentals can turn the team around, think Knicks. One who can identify that in a late game situation up by 1 and clearly are going to get fouled, you should do everything you can to get the ball in your superstars hands. One who has even an inclination of what a defensive scheme is. There are a lot of things, Stotts literally has nothing. He has Dame and CJ and without Dame heroics most of the time, this guy would be a perennial loser. Superstars tend to make coaches who are shit look better than they are. Lebron did it for years in Cleveland.
 
EGame said:
There are a lot of ways to define a good coach. One who can get their team to play like an actual team and create a lot of ball movement to find wide open shooters, you know have an offensive playbook. One who can change the landscape of a team whom was previously bad but with solid fundamentals can turn the team around, think Knicks. One who can identify that in a late game situation up by 1 and clearly are going to get fouled, you should do everything you can to get the ball in your superstars hands. One who has even an inclination of what a defensive scheme is. There are a lot of things, Stotts literally has nothing. He has Dame and CJ and without Dame heroics most of the time, this guy would be a perennial loser. Superstars tend to make coaches who are shit look better than they are. Lebron did it for years in Cleveland.
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No offense, but there are so many issues with this post I don't know if I should address the non-definable things or the massive assumptions that are not backed up with any facts (not opinions).

Like you, I do hope we are able to find a coach that can take a roster with one all-star under 6'6" to the NBA Finals. That coach would be the first in the NBA to pull off such an accomplishment in 30 years. I do not think Stotts is good enough to do something no coach has done decades.
 
Tince said:
My post was a 3 word question: "define good coach".

Never said a positive or negative word about Stotts.

How would you define a good coach?
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I think the first thing that defines a good coach is actually something that they don't do. They don't cost their team games.

I think a good coach motivates their players both with encouragement and accountability.

A good coach tells their players what they're doing wrong and what they need to do to correct it.

A good coach makes in game adjustments both to what players are doing individually and what the team is doing as a whole on both ends.

A good coach also doesn't deflect blame. In that way and others a good coach leads by example.

Finally I think a good coach knows their Xs and Os. So they're able to draw up plays and schemes in a way their players can understand and execute both in practices and especially in games.
 
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