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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
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Adjusting to the Nets instead of making them adjust to us is such a stupid idea, and that was his postage justification for not having Nurk in the game.
 
If I was the owner I would lean over to Olshey and tell him either he goes or your going make your mind up.
 
What pisses me right the fuck off more than anything else is the fact that we wasted Dame's prime years with this idiot.

Fucking A.
 
tester551 said:
I couldn't believe he put Shabazz, CJ & Pat in all at the same time against their length. They go on a 8-0 run against us & Stotts calls time out. When they come back he STILL has the same lineup in!!!
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Thats fucking ridiculous. He doesn't know what hes doing. Its become very evident.
 
I'm for firing Stotts now, but I'm REALLY scratching my head over people complaining about the defense. We have the fifth ranked defense. I don't think that's because of Stotts, per se, as the Blazers have a lot of plus defenders running out there, especially with the improvement of Dame. But you gotta be fair and give credit where credit is due. The Blazers defense has been good, though inconsistent. It's the offense that's looked horrendous. If people are judging the defense by the fact that teams keep rattling off 10 - 0 runs, well, that's not the case. It's the fact that the Blazers are collectively shooting worse percentage wise across the board. Harkless is down. Cj is doing well from outside, by awful everywhere else. Lillard has been terrible everywhere other than the foul line. Nurk is starting to look better, but is being held out of fourth quarters for whatever reason. Whether that's because of Stotts is hard to pinpoint. But what ISN'T hard to see is that the Blazers have the second lost Assist percentage in the league, worse only than the suns. That number? 49.0 %. We are ranked as 14th by O Rtg. Only other team in top 15 offense remotely close to that is the Clippers at 50.5%. The Blazers aren't moving the ball, and they're not moving off the ball either. We're instead camping wings who can't shoot at the 3 point line. I think that is Stotts fault. Instead of using Players' strengths, he's trying to pigeonhole them into his offense to create space for the Blazers star players. Ironically, this is doing the opposite, as teams are perfectly content to let Turner/Harkless clank away. Instead they make our stars take hard shots. That's why our spacing actually improved with Vonleh - we no longer have four players drifting on the perimeter.

Sorry for the text wall.
 
julius said:
If you're Becky, would you want to leave San Antonio for this train wreck?

Sure, it's an opportunity to be a head coach, but don't you want to have a solid foundation for your first job?
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We HAVE a solid foundation for 50-53 wins. We have a Big 3.....and we make it work most of the time with the others.

The problem is coaching. The problem is Stotts and this coaching staff.
 
SynTax said:
I'm for firing Stotts now, but I'm REALLY scratching my head over people complaining about the defense. We have the fifth ranked defense. I don't think that's because of Stotts, per se, as the Blazers have a lot of plus defenders running out there, especially with the improvement of Dame. But you gotta be fair and give credit where credit is due. The Blazers defense has been good, though inconsistent. It's the offense that's looked horrendous. If people are judging the defense by the fact that teams keep rattling off 10 - 0 runs, well, that's not the case. It's the fact that the Blazers are collectively shooting worse percentage wise across the board. Harkless is down. Cj is doing well from outside, by awful everywhere else. Lillard has been terrible everywhere other than the foul line. Nurk is starting to look better, but is being held out of fourth quarters for whatever reason. Whether that's because of Stotts is hard to pinpoint. But what ISN'T hard to see is that the Blazers have the second lost Assist percentage in the league, worse only than the suns. That number? 49.0 %. We are ranked as 14th by O Rtg. Only other team in top 15 offense remotely close to that is the Clippers at 50.5%. The Blazers aren't moving the ball, and they're not moving off the ball either. We're instead camping wings who can't shoot at the 3 point line. I think that is Stotts fault. Instead of using Players' strengths, he's trying to pigeonhole them into his offense to create space for the Blazers star players. Ironically, this is doing the opposite, as teams are perfectly content to let Turner/Harkless clank away. Instead they make our stars take hard shots. That's why our spacing actually improved with Vonleh - we no longer have four players drifting on the perimeter.

Sorry for the text wall.
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Offensively, we seem to be able to overachieve......for three quarters. In the fourth quarter, we seem to stop playing more carefree and it stagnates all to hell. This isn't something new for this team. Defensively.....I'm judging the defense on the fact that most of the problem elements still exist after hundreds of games.

The whole philosophy of contesting threes and forcing really long twos....I don't see it. I see wide open threes due to lack of proper coverage. I think the last time it happened consistently was during 2014-15 before Wes went down. This year, we have been getting lucky on a lot of these open misses by good shooters, especially in tonight's game. There were at least three or four shots that were halfway down the net and somehow bounced out. If it's a personnel problem, why haven't we adjusted this same defense strategy to perhaps cover for our own shortcomings? While teams are perfectly content to let Turner/Harkless clank away, as you say, we seem to be perfectly content to let sharpshooters take their time and bomb away. Why can't we get our good shooters open more consistently than they are right now? Why do we count on getting bailed out by tough shots when there certainly must be a way to make it easier?

Damian and CJ continually switch to the opposing big men. If someone happens to come help, then you have a couple of problems. One, that help defender has now left his man wide open for a shot. Two, you're stuck with your big man trying to guard the perimeter player, who can put up the outside shot or easily drive in and score/get fouled, or dish off to that big guy who's got a PG defending him for an easy two.

The Blazers have a lot of plus defenders....when they're one-on-one. Damian's improvement this year is noticeable. However, as soon as we get picked at the elbow, on the baseline, on the sideline.....we have guys scrambling like chickens without heads most of the time trying to find their man. Guess what happens? Someone gets open and we pay for it. Then, on the plays where we do get beaten one-on-one, the help coverage is subpar. Layups galore tonight, for example. I am hearing boos at the games on these plays, so I know I'm not the only one seeing it and feeling disappointed with it.

Let's see....our defense on the fast break is shit. More often than not, we give up an and-one, rarely getting an actual stop and making the other team try to get set. So when do we have guys getting back on defense? All we have to do is jack a 30-footer and presto, no one's under the basket to grab a rebound. They're all already heading over the half-court line. I'd like to rename our fast break defense to fast break REACHfense, because we excel at that.

In-game adjustments are practically non-existent. "Oh, it didn't work this time or that time? We'll keep trying it until it does." That's what it feels like. Credit to the coaching staff for getting a lot out of the younger players, but to get everybody to the next level? I think I'm done expecting it to eventually happen.

It's ENOUGH already.
 
OFFER JERRY SLOAN $15M A YEAR.

Even with Dementia, he'd be better than this shit show we have right now.
 
Labinot41 said:
If olshey fires Stotts tomorow, who do you want as a New Coach? I would love to have Frank Vogel but he is a magic Coach right now unfortenatly :-(
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6 1/2 years ago in a McMillan replacement thread, Maxiep picked Vogel...

maxiep said:
Best young coach in the NBA? I like that guy who is the interim coach at Indy. They were completely overmatched against Chicago yet had sizable leads in every game. He got them to play over their heads, which is all you can ask a coach to do.
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Nikolokolus said:
Let's get real, it's also a personnel problem. But whatever, Stotts isn't irreplaceable, and it's a lot easier to fire a coach than it is to dump a bunch of guaranteed salaries.
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*looks at teams we lost to*

*looks at how we constantly blow leads*

*looks at how we lose games*

It’s a coaching problem, jack.

It’s tough, because at first I thought he helped us overachieve. Then people figured out the swirly offense and it’s been downhill from there. But now I truly believe he is holding our team back and have for a while at this point.

Rotations?
Adjustments?
Player development?
X and O?

Average at best.
 
At this point, I feel the OP question is rhetorical.
 
First, i feel realy bad to start this thread after a loss like yesterday. I preferer a blown out loss to a close game when our best player in the game dont play the 4qr.

Thats NO REASON for him to no put nurkic in the game. He was hot, was with 1 foul only in the game. This is our home court. We dont need to make adjusment, they need to make. Last C the nets playing all of them put 30 more points on them. They just cant guard C's

This is the easy part of the schedule. We should be at least 7-5 or 8-4. This loss it was all on him. He's been OUTCOACH by every single coach in the league! WTF, he dont put the kids to play, horrible rotations, TURNER handle the ball and turnerover in the 4qr, WTF!


Save the season neil and PLEASE fire stotts!
 
Every one of these games that the team pisses away due to stupidity is another nail in the career of Damian Lillard in Portland. I do not care how many tweets and Instagram posts he makes claiming he'll never leave. If he feels this franchise isn't serious about winning, he will leave. Guaran-fucking-teed. He isn't LaMarcus, who didn't care about winning as much as he wanted his fragile ego stroked by being the "#1 Guy". He wants to be a winner. If he feels his efforts are being squandered, he'll demand to go somewhere they are not. We the fans will get the "sorry, it's a business, nothing personal, you know I will always love ya" Facebook post, and that will be the end of it. It is as inevitable as the rain. The only thing that can stop it is making bold, serious moves TO WIN NOW.
 
Minstrel said:
Remember--any coach that loses to the Warriors in the playoffs, in the Steve Kerr era, gets fired within a year. Stotts and Billy Donovan should be afraid.
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Isn't that because coaches get fired all the time?
And the Warriors haven't met the Spurs in the playoffs? That seems wrong.
 
What was our record at this point last season - anyone bothered to check?
 
Rastapopoulos said:
What was our record at this point last season - anyone bothered to check?
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The Blazers were 7-5 after a loss at home to Chicago. The question is moot, though. The team does NOT pass the sniff test as a consistent winner. The collapses of the offense at critical times, and the inconsistent defensive effort, are a sign of bad coaching and the fact that the very makeup of the team is broken, and will continue to be as long as Damian and CJ play together. One on them has to go, and CJ's trade value has never been higher. Stotts has a very limited time to pull his head out of his ass and find a way to make this broken puzzle of a roster somehow fit together. The schedule is only going to get tougher, and Damian's career in Portland is ticking.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Neil is part of the problem
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Neil may be PART of the problem but Stotts IS the immediate problem. No intensity, no hustle, no fire. That’s all on the coach - yes the players have a part but the coach needs to hold them accountable including the 2 pseudo-stars on the Blazers who don’t make any of their teammates better.
 
chris_in_pdx said:
The Blazers were 7-5 after a loss at home to Chicago. The question is moot, though. The team does NOT pass the sniff test as a consistent winner. The collapses of the offense at critical times, and the inconsistent defensive effort, are a sign of bad coaching and the fact that the very makeup of the team is broken, and will continue to be as long as Damian and CJ play together. One on them has to go, and CJ's trade value has never been higher. Stotts has a very limited time to pull his head out of his ass and find a way to make this broken puzzle of a roster somehow fit together. The schedule is only going to get tougher, and Damian's career in Portland is ticking.
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I think we're about right for our talent level.
 
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