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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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royo said:
Imagine we change system and start to move ball like crazy and we go 2016 GS mode. But hey, let's play ISO hero ball, so we look like contenders from time to time. You will never know:)
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Sounds exactly like Sacramento's logic when they hired Luke Walton.
 
What kind of logic exactly stands behind giving Stotts another season to play ISO?
 
riverman said:
well a 3 game winning streak helps. Stotts doesn't play though....he does shag rebounds
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Ok. When was the last time we had 3 game winning streak BC of good team play and good coaching and not BC of individual hero ball performances?
 
royo said:
Ok. When was the last time we had 3 game winning streak BC of good team play and good coaching and not BC of individual hero ball performances?
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every win is a collective....I'm a fan of Stotts and the roster...win and lose as a team. we're not a team of selfish players...Stotts gives his whole bench a shot at earning minutes every season...something Nate never did. I'm cheering for Stotts and Melo and CJ and the whole franchise...and I think we can win a title...guys love playing here..there's a reason...Stotts has had 14 game winning streaks
 
In the NBA a win is a win. By one or 20, home or road, vs. bad or good teams. Every night someone loses a game they “shouldn’t”. In high school or maybe college you can say things like “we have to beat this team they suck”. Every game is worth a win or loss. Of course you feel some games are more winnable than others. But never ever complain about a win regardless of how ugly it is
 
We got four players that can go for 40 any given night. And Stotts can't bring synergy that could take us to the finals, BC with ball movement we could make other teams cry.
It's like you don't want a car, cos your horse can take you to your grandma and you fine.
As for HCP I understand that you know the guy and you loyal. It's great, but your points are not valid in this case.
 
Tince said:
Can you imagine we somehow win a title in the next few years and we'll have people saying we didn't win in the right way and it's not sustainable?!?
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I can imagine we win a tittle with this players if someone can put scheme on them to work together.
As for now we can only imagine we win tittle "somehow" and it says it all.
 
AmirIcon said:
You're really playing fast and loose with the numbers but we agree that Harden would improve us.

But, so would a better coach. You can't tell me Steve Kerr wouldn't be an improvement.
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Sure I can.
 
The Blazers need to fire Terry "I make no adjustments and get outcoached come playoff time" Stotts before the playoffs starts that's for sure
 
Labinot41 said:
The Blazers need to fire Terry "I make no adjustments and get outcoached come playoff time" Stotts before the playoffs starts that's for sure
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I'm not disagreeing with you but you didn't put a period at the end of your post so I'll finish it for you in the unfortunate accuracy of our reality. ... not going to happen because Olshey is GM and neither guy is very keen on change.
 
Gary Trent's breakout late last year reminded me of Zach Randolph's first season, where he finally got minutes in the playoffs and proved to everyone he belonged. In Year 2, it was plain as day to everyone that Zbo was getting huge minutes.

Portland needed to enter this season with a plan to make Trent the featured third scorer on the team, averaging 35mpg. Maybe he doesn't start because the fit isn't right, but for damn sure he's getting all the minutes he can handle. He's young, talented, can shoot and play defense, and he's absolutely part of the future (or a fantastic trading piece if he's not).

Instead in the second game of the year he gets 5 minutes of playing time! That shit is insane!

I've seen nothing to indicate that Stotts has seen this light. On the contrary, he's wasting 25mpg every night on Carmello, a guy who provides basically the same offense and absolutely no defense and has no future in the NBA beyond the end of the bench.

On the plus side, in the last 3 games (all wins) Trent is averaging 29mpg. Not enough, but better. I like the trend, but I feel like Stotts is being dragged into reality rather than taking advantage of it.
 
Just try to imagine what minutes would Melo get if Pop would be coach here. I said this 5 years ago, Stotts rotations and game plan looks like he's on PlayStation tournament.
 
mook said:
Gary Trent's breakout late last year reminded me of Zach Randolph's first season, where he finally got minutes in the playoffs and proved to everyone he belonged. In Year 2, it was plain as day to everyone that Zbo was getting huge minutes.

Portland needed to enter this season with a plan to make Trent the featured third scorer on the team, averaging 35mpg. Maybe he doesn't start because the fit isn't right, but for damn sure he's getting all the minutes he can handle. He's young, talented, can shoot and play defense, and he's absolutely part of the future (or a fantastic trading piece if he's not).

Instead in the second game of the year he gets 5 minutes of playing time! That shit is insane!

I've seen nothing to indicate that Stotts has seen this light. On the contrary, he's wasting 25mpg every night on Carmello, a guy who provides basically the same offense and absolutely no defense and has no future in the NBA beyond the end of the bench.

On the plus side, in the last 3 games (all wins) Trent is averaging 29mpg. Not enough, but better. I like the trend, but I feel like Stotts is being dragged into reality rather than taking advantage of it.
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The fit is definitely right. Gary next to Dame or CJ makes far more sense when considering both sides of the court. Unfortunately for Gary, the team has opted to give Ant more minutes. Also with the tear that CJ is on and Dame being Dame, this team is again all about shootouts and not playing balanced basketball. It's like some D'Atoni shit but without the player or ball movement. Very little defense, almost all offense and hope we out shoot our opponent.

It's a recipe for a streaky regular season that definitely leads to the playoffs and then very little success in the playoffs. With that said, maybe we do get better at D as a team and then we would have a very high powered offense with a middle of the road D. That would mean some consistency and more wins in the regular season and a further playoff run. Here's to hoping. Go Blazers!
 
Tince said:
Can you imagine we somehow win a title in the next few years and we'll have people saying we didn't win in the right way and it's not sustainable?!?
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We arent getting there without playing the right way, which is the exact point.
 
royo said:
Ok. When was the last time we had 3 game winning streak BC of good team play and good coaching and not BC of individual hero ball performances?
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Like right now and when they were in the bubble? And when they were playing in the playoffs first round against OKC? And the multiple winning streaks they had that year before Nurk went down? And .... You get the idea right?
 
blazerkor said:
Gary next to Dame or CJ makes far more sense when considering both sides of the court. Unfortunately for Gary, the team has opted to give Ant more minutes.
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This is absolutely FALSE! It's so far out of the realm i can't even believe you typed it.
Simons is averaging 10.4 minutes a game.
Trent is averaging 24.3 minutes a game.
Even more so the team needs both of these guys to get better and excel at their position with what they do best. You do that by giving them minutes. They both need to play.
 
kjironman1 said:
Like right now and when they were in the bubble? And when they were playing in the playoffs first round against OKC? And the multiple winning streaks they had that year before Nurk went down? And .... You get the idea right?
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You talking about those games with Damian av 50 or OKC when Stotts didn't even know what Lillard is doing?
 
Labinot41 said:
Great, he outcoached one good nba coach in 8 years, can you name a few others ?
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Keep moving those goal posts.
It's always the same thing with the Stotts haters. Right now a win streak isn't good enough. Of course right now the record isn't good enough. Injuries are always just an excuse. Lack of talent can never be the issue.
I got them at 10-10 to start this season given the circumstances. I'm going to be happy with anything better. As the talent around the league/conference sits i have the Blazers as a 5-8 seeded team. That is if Stotts coaches a good season and makes the playoffs. That puts them with a tough first round opponent against another good coach. We'll see how that works out for him.
 
kjironman1 said:
This is absolutely FALSE! It's so far out of the realm i can't even believe you typed it.
Simons is averaging 10.4 minutes a game.
Trent is averaging 24.3 minutes a game.
Even more so the team needs both of these guys to get better and excel at their position with what they do best. You do that by giving them minutes. They both need to play.
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I'm not really sold that Simons needs to play. (Well, I guess he does because we have no other 3rd string PG. But it should be on emergency basis.)

Hood, Simons and Melo all need to be getting minutes around Trent.

Trent is being treated as just another guy coming off the bench, when in fact he should be clearly our 6th man, taking all the backup minutes at SF/SG possible, and ending games if he's out-playing Jones.
 
The problem to fire Olshey or Stotts who going to do it. How many above them even understand the game to make a decision to fire either one. If one of them is did get fire who will be the one to do the hiring because right I have no clue someone with basketball and management that going make type decision. What paul Allen sister should hire someone that's knowledge in basketball and management experience and put him in charge over Olshey.
 
James lamphear said:
The problem to fire Olshey or Stotts who going to do it. How many above them even understand the game to make a decision to fire either one. If one of them is did get fire who will be the one to do the hiring because right I have no clue someone with basketball and management that going make type decision. What paul Allen sister should hire someone that's knowledge in basketball and management experience and put him in charge over Olshey.
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How do you know what Jodi Allen knows about basketball? Paul was very close to her and had years to prepare for this time....he didn't get to where he did by leaving loose ends. We finally have a loyal staff and franchise stability....before Caleb Kanales we had an interim GM with Larry Miller doing two jobs and Chad standing in as GM......neither hired to be GM .....after Nate...we have had rock solid front office stability...any good business strives for that. What's not to like? All these folks are braving a pandemic to entertain us....I respect them and am grateful for basketball during our lockdown here. I think people just love to bitch about things they have no control over...people were ready to trade CJ and give his spot to Trent....ready to trade Kanter after two games.....this shit personally drives me nuts.
 
BonesJones said:
We arent getting there without playing the right way, which is the exact point.
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"The right way" is defined as what? By who? The "right way" for one person might be very different than the "right way" another person.

Teams have won titles playing many different styles. Very few have won without at least a certain, definable amount of talent though.
 
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