Fire Stotts Eventually (3 Viewers)

[Hoopguru]

As someone who has worked with some horrible coworkers that somehow stay employed, I find your way of thinking flawed

Not flawed dude. You may disagree with the comment but my thinking is just fine.
So you think Jody and Bert both think Terry and Neil are horrible workers? I believe they measure someones performance more that just championships, sure making playoffs is one criteria and winning it all is bonus.
As long as the team performs well enough, and fans are buying tickets and tuning in, and its the only major one, of the big three and ownership is part of a huge corporate conglomerate that can be enough for many owner ship group.
It the prerogative of the owner and his executive team to set what criteria keeps a coaches & GM job.

 

[OneSport3]

So if Stotts apologists are so sick and tired of hearing the same arguments from the #FireStotts crowd, why do you keep clicking and posting in a thread titled Fire Stotts Now??? No one is forcing you to click on this thread. There are thousands of threads in this forum. I don't go around clicking on every thread. I only click on the threads that interest me. Maybe create a Keep Stotts Now thread and congregate in there.

 

[Hoopguru]

If by "grand salami" you mean a game past the second round, you're obviously right because nine fucking years without a conference finals game won... that's a lot of leeway the organization has given Olshey and Stotts. Either the ownership is indifferent or they're indifferent.

Its the ownership and the executive team that decides what is acceptable performance. They can let things slide if numbers are decent or they can fire people for whatever reason?
Im not endorsing Stotts and Neil staying or leaving Im evaluating our ownership on what they define as success enough to keep a job. It all starts at the top.

 

[Hoopguru]

If by "grand salami" you mean a game past the second round, you're obviously right because nine fucking years without a conference finals game won... that's a lot of leeway the organization has given Olshey and Stotts. Either the ownership is indifferent or they're indifferent.

Why don't you write a letter to Jody and Bert expressing your dissatisfaction with the ones running their team?
Consumers have pull if communicated properly and not just on fanatic fan forums.

 

[THE HCP]

When Terry trots out four of our worst defenders at the same time, I'm going to say he needs to be fired. Mostly out of complete exasperation with his horrible rotations.

But we won by 23.

 

[Hoopguru]

I think both the Mariners and Blazers organizations are average at best as neither have been that successful as far advancing far in the playoffs.

 

[THE HCP]

So if Stotts apologists are so sick and tired

So this is what it’s come to...... If you support the coach of the team you’ve supported your whole life, you now are branded as an “apologist”? Interesting.

 

[Natebishop3]

But we won by 23.

But we hadn't won at that point and things weren't looking super encouraging. I'll never understand you guys who go back into the game threads and retroactively respond to posts that are made in the heat of the moment. They're two completely different types of posts. One is made while the game is going on and is real-time, and the other kind of post is able to look at it knowing whether we won or lost, without the emotions of a live game.

And before you say it, we know that you can't post during the game.

What you're doing is essentially traveling back in time and telling people from the 1400s that they're morons for not knowing the earth was round, despite them not having space travel or satellites or any of the technology that we have today. Do you think people would be as emotional and angry if they knew we would win by 20 while we're tied up with Detroit in the first half?

 

[Hoopguru]

When my kids were constantly complaining about work place, friends, whatever, I said if you feel that strongly about something at least try and do something about it. Meetings, letters, whatever means possible, if you are not successful, decide is it worth it or not?

 

[OneSport3]

So this is what it’s come to...... If you support the coach of the team you’ve supported your whole life, you now are branded as an “apologist”? Interesting.

Like I said, if you don't like the term why are you posting in the Fire Stotts Now thread?

 

[Natebishop3]

When my kids were constantly complaining about work place, friends, whatever, I said if you feel that strongly about something at least try and do something about it. Meetings, letters, whatever means possible, if you are not successful, decide is it worth it or not?

We are doing something. We're bitching on a forum. Beyond that, what else can we realistically do to get rid of Stotts and Olshey? Pool our couch money and buy the Blazers?

 

[calvin natt]

So if Stotts apologists are so sick and tired of hearing the same arguments from the #FireStotts crowd, why do you keep clicking and posting in a thread titled Fire Stotts Now??? No one is forcing you to click on this thread. There are thousands of threads in this forum. I don't go around clicking on every thread. I only click on the threads that interest me. Maybe create a Keep Stotts Now thread and congregate in there.

Then who will you all bitch to? Just a bunch of angry people yelling at each other about the same thing each day? That doesn't sound fun.

 

[THE HCP]

But we hadn't won at that point and things weren't looking super encouraging. I'll never understand you guys who go back into the game threads and retroactively respond to posts that are made in the heat of the moment. They're two completely different types of posts. One is made while the game is going on and is real-time, and the other kind of post is able to look at it knowing whether we won or lost, without the emotions of a live game.

And before you say it, we know that you can't post during the game.

What you're doing is essentially traveling back in time and telling people from the 1400s that they're morons for not knowing the earth was round, despite them not having space travel or satellites or any of the technology that we have today. Do you think people would be as emotional and angry if they knew we would win by 20 while we're tied up with Detroit in the first half?

You really get into this don’t you?
Bro that thread last night...... if you just read it, you would have thought we almost lost that game by 50! Even when we were up 20 with a minute left! At no point did anybody say, “My bad” “I was wrong” anything like that.
No different than when we are up 20 on a team early and these clowns have us heading to the Finals, only to win by 2! They don’t say anything either.

I’m allowed to call clowns out on here who post without thinking, just like they are allowed to post those opinions. Thats how this place works son.
Now shouldn’t you and your roommate the @AldoTrapani guy be working on fresh new hot takes about how horrible we are on every level possible for tomorrow nights game thread? Because surely we will lose to the team with the same record as us who plays in the east and has had no injuries to key players.
Get to work kid.....

 

[THE HCP]

Like I said, if you don't like the term why are you posting in the Fire Stotts Now thread?

No you didn’t stay anything about the term, I did. And as far as being in this thread, I enjoy reading people opinions on Stotts regardless if I disagree or not.

 

[OneSport3]

No you didn’t stay anything about the term, I did. And as far as being in this thread, I enjoy reading people opinions on Stotts regardless if I disagree or not.

That's fair. It's the people that say I'm sick and tired of hearing it but then click on the thread and complain about what they're reading. It makes zero sense to me. There's no clickbait in the title of the thread. You know what you're getting.

 

[Hoopguru]

We are doing something. We're bitching on a forum. Beyond that, what else can we realistically do to get rid of Stotts and Olshey? Pool our couch money and buy the Blazers?

Thats true bitching can be effective. I managed people for 40 plus years and the one's that complained the most were the one that were preoccupied with slacking off and not meeting productivity expectations. They could either improve performance, work somewhere else or get their ass fired.

 

[Natebishop3]

You really get into this don’t you?
Bro that thread last night...... if you just read it, you would have thought we almost that game by 50! Even when we were up 20 with a minute left! At no point did anybody say, “My bad” “I was wrong” anything like that.
No different than when we are up 20 on a team early and these clowns have us heading to the Finals, only to win by 2! They don’t say anything either.

I’m allowed to call clowns out on here who post without thinking, just like they are allowed to post those opinions. Thats how this place works son.
Now shouldn’t you and your roommate the @AldoTrapani guy be working on fresh new hot takes about how horrible we are on every level possible for tomorrow nights game thread? Because surely we will lose to the team with the same record as us who plays in the east and has had no injuries to key players.
Get to work kid.....

I don't know why you guys care so much about what other people post about the team. Who cares if there are people who are angry at the team? Why does it bother you so much? Get over it. Or ignore them. Instead you get on and personally attack those people, which to me is much worse than someone who is venting about the team. You're actually attacking people who are on this forum. Is Stotts on this forum? Is Dame? Is any of the players or staff? I highly doubt it. So why don't you be the bigger man and quit getting so personally invested in how people talk about the team?

 

[THE HCP]

I don't know why you guys care so much about what other people post about the team. Who cares if there are people who are angry at the team? Why does it bother you so much? Get over it. Or ignore them. Instead you get on and personally attack those people, which to me is much worse than someone who is venting about the team. You're actually attacking people who are on this forum. Is Stotts on this forum? Is Dame? Is any of the players or staff? I highly doubt it. So why don't you be the bigger man and quit getting so personally invested in how people talk about the team?

Are you telling me that I am “actually attacking” people on this forum for their views on the Trail Blazers? REALLY? Let’s get @SlyPokerDog involved then.

 

[THE HCP]

I don't know why you guys care so much about what other people post about the team. Who cares if there are people who are angry at the team? Why does it bother you so much? Get over it. Or ignore them. Instead you get on and personally attack those people, which to me is much worse than someone who is venting about the team. You're actually attacking people who are on this forum. Is Stotts on this forum? Is Dame? Is any of the players or staff? I highly doubt it. So why don't you be the bigger man and quit getting so personally invested in how people talk about the team?

Why do you care so much that we are the worst defensive team in the league? Why does it bother you so much?

 

[Labinot41]

Why do you care so much that we are the worst defensive team in the league? Why does it bother you so much?

Wtf, are you a true Fan dude?

 

[THE HCP]

Wtf, are you a true Fan dude?

Your going to have to explain the term “true Fan” for me bro.

 

[blazerkor]

Why don't you write a letter to Jody and Bert expressing your dissatisfaction with the ones running their team?
Consumers have pull if communicated properly and not just on fanatic fan forums.

I've already done that and if we don't get a win in the conference finals and I don't think we will, I'm going to make a plea to everyone in here to write one, have their Blazers fans friends that don't look at this forum write one and see if we can get some movement instead of stagnation... hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully you're wrong too because I hope our ownership wants more than first appearances and ticket sales.

 

[THE HCP]

I've already done that and if we don't get a win in the conference finals and I don't think we will, I'm going to make a plea to everyone in here to write one, have their Blazers fans friends that don't look at this forum write one and see if we can get some movement instead of stagnation... hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully you're wrong too because I hope our ownership wants more than first appearances and ticket sales.

You expect this team to make the conference finals? Better get to writing that letter FAMS!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Can't we all just bitch about me?

 

[Natebishop3]

Are you telling me that I am “actually attacking” people on this forum for their views on the Trail Blazers? REALLY? Let’s get @SlyPokerDog involved then.

Yes. You are. Or were you being completely respectful when you told me to "get to work kid."

 

[blazerkor]

You expect this team to make the conference finals? Better get to writing that letter FAMS!

It's not my expectation for the team that has been put together. It's my expectation that in nine seasons that Olshey would have put together a team that would have won a game in the conference finals. For the record, Stotts is part of that team. So I feel the onus falls on Olshey and hopefully (if the almost inevitable happens) Olshey will finally be held accountable.

 

[Labinot41]

Your going to have to explain the term “true Fan” for me bro.

A true Fan for example cares about the defense of his favourite team, because Defense is absolutely crucial in the Playoffs. And when the defense is that bad, while Olshey and Stotts said before the season the Blazers will try something new and it has not happened to this day, and we're stil a horrendous defensive team, we as fans have a right to be pissed. Our defense is going to get killed by elite teams in the Playoffs the way we defend. But you are okay with that unfortunately

 

[THE HCP]

Yes. You are. Or were you being completely respectful when you told me to "get to work kid."

Wow..... @SlyPokerDog I’ll need a judgement on this.
“Verbally attacking” somebody on here is I’m quite sure against the rules. Report me if you must.

 

[Natebishop3]

Why do you care so much that we are the worst defensive team in the league? Why does it bother you so much?

It's a Blazer forum. That's what we do here. We post about the team.

 

[THE HCP]

A true Fan for example cares about the defense of his favourite team, because Defense is absolutely crucial in the Playoffs. And when the defense is that bad, while Olshey and Stotts said before the season the Blazers will try something new and it has not happened to this day, and we're stil a horrendous defensive team, we as fans have a right to be pissed. Our defense is going to get killed by elite teams in the Playoffs the way we defend. But you are okay with that unfortunately

Defense is VERY important to me. So I guess I’m a “trueFan” even though I’d never heard of that term until today. But you will have to go back and find where I have ever posted that I’m “okay with that”.