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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

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UKRAINEFAN said:
I noticed a commentator wrote recently that on SanAntonio, only really good three point shooters take 3 point shots. Why isn't it a rule for Blazers that Turner and Nurk don't take long 2 point or 3 point shots?
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It was Barkley and the said it during halftime of the game they just played against OKC. Double overtime.
 
TBpup said:
Blazers are tearing it up against the East but are only 14-15 against the West. Since their first 3 rounds would be against the West, that doesn't strike me as particularly confidence inspiring. Stotts has been around a ~.500 coach most of his career and it's not really getting any better. Add in the 11-24 Playoff record over 11 seasons as a Head Coach and that averages out to 1 Playoff victory a year.

That is NOT good.
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Funny when i read this kind of stuff. Stotts for the Blazers has actually hovered around .600 not 500
His first year they missed the playoffs understandably. .402 with 33 wins
then he catapulted to 54 wins and has not had a losing season since although they did have a 41-41 season the year after LaMarcus left.
.659 .622 .537 .500 .598 and last year .591.
This year on pace for over .570
Saying Stotts has been a .500 coach would be correct if you added his first and second jobs in Atlanta and Milwaukie only. As far as the Blazers go he is .556 which is much better than the 500 offered.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/stottte99c.html
 
kjironman1 said:
Funny when i read this kind of stuff. Stotts for the Blazers has actually hovered around .600 not 500
His first year they missed the playoffs understandably. .402 with 33 wins
then he catapulted to 54 wins and has not had a losing season since although they did have a 41-41 season the year after LaMarcus left.
.659 .622 .537 .500 .598 and last year .591.
This year on pace for over .570
Saying Stotts has been a .500 coach would be correct if you added his first and second jobs in Atlanta and Milwaukie only. As far as the Blazers go he is .556 which is much better than the 500 offered.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/stottte99c.html
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TBpup said:
Stotts has been around a ~.500 coach most of his career
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Jade Falcon said:
Thanks to Dame. Not Stotts. If it wasn't for Dame, this team would routinely be picking in the top 5 or 7 at the Draft.
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That team also had Aldridge. Mathews, Batum and Rolo. Not just Dame.
Basketball is a team sport.
 
hoopsjock said:
Um you said "Saying Stotts has been a .500 coach would be correct if you added his first and second jobs in Atlanta and Milwaukie only." @TBpup did say his whole career.
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His stops in Milwaukee and Atlanta were with horrible teams as shown by the records at both clubs before he got there and after he got there. It's really not relevant to what he has done in Portland.
 
CupWizier said:
His stops in Milwaukee and Atlanta were with horrible teams as shown by the records at both clubs before he got there and after he got there. It's really not relevant to what he has done in Portland.
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Don't even waste your time here cup. HJ knows exactly what i was saying.
 
Well i think so anyway. Maybe Not???? Pretty plain to read.
 
CupWizier said:
His stops in Milwaukee and Atlanta were with horrible teams as shown by the records at both clubs before he got there and after he got there. It's really not relevant to what he has done in Portland.
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No shit?

kjironman1 said:
Well i think so anyway. Maybe Not???? Pretty plain to read.
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Pretty plain to read that he did say his whole career and then you went on about his career in Portland and then said "if" you added his career, which he did.
 
kjironman1 said:
That team also had Aldridge. Mathews, Batum and Rolo. Not just Dame.
Basketball is a team sport.
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I'd say it's an individual sport play by a team. There is no more team sport where one single player is more important except maybe a quarterback in football.
 
hoopsjock said:
No shit?


Pretty plain to read that he did say his whole career and then you went on about his career in Portland and then said "if" you added his career, which he did.
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lol. your responses crack me up. Maybe you would be better off letting things slide rather than making a snarky response.
 
CupWizier said:
lol. your responses crack me up. Maybe you would be better off letting things slide rather than making a snarky response.
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You don't think that I know what happened in his other coaching jobs? This has nothing to do with me or what I think of Stotts.
 
hoopsjock said:
You don't think that I know what happened in his other coaching jobs? This has nothing to do with me or what I think of Stotts.
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I don't keep track of every posters opinions in the forum. Probably another reason some of your responses aren't warranted and should just let it go.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Im so confused right now lol. Im gonna have to re-read this thread.
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I can't believe that two of my favorite people are in this intense feud. So very disappointing.
Come on you two, knock it off. I'll even buy the beer.
Iron Man, yours will be something from the Iron Horse Brewery.
Hoops Jock, yours will be something from the Hoops Brewery.
Mine will be either a Guiness stout or a Tsing Tao or a Kirin or a Birra Moretti. I'm on a medically fluids restriction so I can only have one or maybe two if I through caution to the wind.
 
I would think a better time to discuss firing the coach is not when the team has won four in a row, beating Houston, and coming within a whisker of beating Denver, the top team in the West. Surely you expect us to go on a losing streak sometime soon and maybe it would be more appropriate to call for such action at that time.
It just seems like bad timing.
 
Scalma said:
I swear winning blinds people.

Every time this team goes on a little winning streak, you have a group of fans crapping all over anyone that dared to be critical, as if issues still don’t exist. I’d give specific examples, but they’ve been discussed ad nauseam.

Save that energy for when this team actually evolves. Going on a winning streak isn’t evolution, especially not when it happens every season. Let’s see the team change the way they play. Let’s see in game adjustments. Let’s see Stotts hold CJ to the same standard he holds everyone else to. Let’s see them win a playoff game, nevermind advance. Then, maybe we can talk. Until then, same old, same old. Look at the forest, not the trees.
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There's a rain cloud that follows you everywhere you go.
 
calvin natt said:
I think a dangerous way to go is to try to replicate a different successful process even though that seems like the most natural instinct, i.e., Stevens is a great coach so let’s grab a young college coach....because it just depends 100% on the actual person. Many college guys have failed in the NBA. Many assistant coaches have failed. Every year in fact. I think you look at those options but in the end you have to do a ton of due diligence with other people who work with him (or her I guess). There’s a reason Pat Ewing never got a shot in the NBA- he didn’t work hard. There’s a reason PJ Carlesimo didn’t pan out - he coached NBA guys like they were in college and that don’t fly. But you research them and figure this stuff out. There are so many hires that make no sense because the background of these guys. And then of course it’s the dynamic between the roster and coach. They have to match. Don’t stick George Karl with a young Kings team. Dumb.
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Don't forget Cheeks, too soft on the players.
 
blue9 said:
Pops
Carlisle
Gentry
Stevens
Snyder
Kerr
D'Antoni
Rivers
Joerger
Budenholzer
Spo

I don't even know who's coaching DEN, PHI, TOR, MIL but they're probably better than Stotts. And I don't even particularly like half the names I listed, but they've all proven more that Stotts.
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Toronto has a great coach, used to work with Stotts and thinks highly of him.
D'Antoni has Harden, don't forget that little detail.
Gentry just might be the worst coach I've ever seen.
Kerr has so many weapons that it's not funny. Hard to fail with his roster.
Rivers is doing poorly this year now that he doesn't have Paul, Griffin and Jordan. He is not a great coach but an excellent complainer.
Carlisle ain't doing so hot.
I think your list is flawed.
 
kjironman1 said:
It was Barkley and the said it during halftime of the game they just played against OKC. Double overtime.
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Nurk is terrible at long range 2s and don't get me started on his 3s.
Turner is an excellent post up player and is deadly at his mid range jumper. He is very spotty at farther out shots.
Yeah, I think the remark was accurate.
 
CupWizier said:
Your splitting hairs as neither attempt very many 3 point shots.
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The point is that it is not effective or intelligent for either Nurk or Turner to take long 2 pointers or any 3 pointers. And it is the responsibility of the coach to make sure they don't. It seems to me that you are the one who is trying to distract here, rather than take a reasoned opposition view.
 
Lanny said:
Nurk is terrible at long range 2s and don't get me started on his 3s.
Turner is an excellent post up player and is deadly at his mid range jumper. He is very spotty at farther out shots.
Yeah, I think the remark was accurate.
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As if that could be debated after watching last night. Fuck. Nurk even missed the rim on some mid range shots!
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Not to mention that he also mentioned "long 2's" along with 3's; per bbref, 12.2% of Turner's shots are 3's, and 14.1% are long 2's, so 26.3% total. It's true that Derozan shoots far fewer 3's--only 5% of his shots, but 22.9% of his shots are long 2's. So all total, 27.9% of Derozan's shots are in that less desirable category, actually a higher rate than Turner.
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And not to mention that my biggest concern is long 2 pointers by Nurkic, and of course any three pointer he takes is foolish, even if there are very few. Many games are decided by a point or two.
 
kjironman1 said:
Funny when i read this kind of stuff. Stotts for the Blazers has actually hovered around .600 not 500
His first year they missed the playoffs understandably. .402 with 33 wins
then he catapulted to 54 wins and has not had a losing season since although they did have a 41-41 season the year after LaMarcus left.
.659 .622 .537 .500 .598 and last year .591.
This year on pace for over .570
Saying Stotts has been a .500 coach would be correct if you added his first and second jobs in Atlanta and Milwaukie only. As far as the Blazers go he is .556 which is much better than the 500 offered.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/stottte99c.html
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As the post said, "career".

Thank you @hoopsjock ... exactly right. I didn't cherry pick. I included his whole career and his entire abysmal Playoff record.
 
Lanny said:
Toronto has a great coach, used to work with Stotts and thinks highly of him.
D'Antoni has Harden, don't forget that little detail.
Gentry just might be the worst coach I've ever seen.
Kerr has so many weapons that it's not funny. Hard to fail with his roster.
Rivers is doing poorly this year now that he doesn't have Paul, Griffin and Jordan. He is not a great coach but an excellent complainer.
Carlisle ain't doing so hot.
I think your list is flawed.
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Gentry is the worst coach you’ve ever seen but almost every expert I heard from the playoff series last year said Stotts was completely out coached by him...
Rivers, I dislike him but I think its kind of impressive how well theyve stayed competitive while giving up their 3 stars. They competed for a playoff spot last year and will probably get in this year.
Dantoni doesnt do much for me.
Really all those guys have more success than Stotts.

Again this isnt a knock on Stotts but I dont think the original list is that far off.
 
I just wonder if someday we will lose enough so the "Portland are lucky to have Terry Stotts because it's not easy to win in Portland" narrative will change. Probably not but you never know.
 
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