The people supporting Stotts rarely argue any specific basketball reason. Just a bunch of hot air, and tired takes.
In those two series, he went up against a terrible coach in McHale and needed miracles from Aldridge and Dame to barely win that series, and then he went up against a Clipper team that lost Paul and Griffin. Ots not like weve clearly been the better coached team in either series at all, like Memphos was when they beat is, or the Pelicans last year.
You’re not responding to my full post. Two series without HCA.
I get tired of you thinking, if they hired you, you’d be the the best coach in the league.
I get tired of this non-argument from you because you can't actually discuss basketball reasons beyond a context-devoid "They won two series without HCA!!" claim.
Except when they do you just say it was luck or those reasons simply don't count. That's fine. i'm good with that. I had this long winded response written up and just erased it.
Also, I don't think I'd be a better coach than Stotts. It's the same thing when you criticize players. Doesn't mean I think I could do better, but it's fair because they're professionals in the NBA, so they're held to a high standard. If they don't meet that standard, that has nothing to do with what I could do.
So lazy. "Hmmm... What can I say to discredit him since I can't discuss basketball? Oh, I know. You say it's LUCK or that stuff doesn't count! Yeah! I don't have a quote but I say you do so take that! Also... You don't like Stotts, that's why!"
Seriously i wrote like four paragraphs and just deleted it. Honestly i understand your frustration. Stotts ain't perfect. You don't like him as a coach. I can accept that. He ain't going anywhere this year. Part of the writeup i deleted was about his contract till 2020. But i doubt he will make it past a new owner anyways.
I don't like his coaching schemes and philosophies for this team where it stands.. I like him as a person, and there's aspects of his coaching that makes me think he'd be good as a coach for a rebuilding team. He can build a culture and give young, unheralded players a sense of confidence they need to become legitimate NBA players. For a contender though? He's a poor coach, especially in the playoffs. Did you not watch the Pelicans series and think Stotts was doing a very bad job?
Good point
So because they're off-pace by ONE game out of 40, that means that maybe it was a bad decision? Even though there was a big adjustment period to swapping out their best player for Kawhi? Even though they've dealt with more key players missing games than they did last year?
We’ll see if Nurse is better in playoffs. Of course, he doesn’t have to play LeBron though. Cs weren’t playing without their two best players. Horford and Tatum are better than Hayward.
So what? That's gonna be your excuse when they do better huh? "They didn't play LeBron, so it's not coaching". That Cavs team was still weak and even the Pacers, who didn't have HCA, took the Cavs to 7 games, just like the Celtics did without Kyrie. The Raptors got swept, just like we did.
So Nurkic being in foul trouble is all it takes for Stotts to resort to continuously setting ball screens with Nurkic on Dame 30 feet away from the basket even though the Pelicans were simply trapping it with two elite defenders? He didn't have anything else? Even a simple side pick n roll would've been more effective than that, but he didn't do that. He didn't do anything. He had no options? He could've use Dame off the ball running around screens. He could've used side pick n roll which is harder to trap. He could've had the team try to run whenever possible so the defense wasn't set. Do you want more things he could've done instead of run a goddam ball screen at Dame 30ft away from the rim?
He did try to use Dame off ball but CJ got Stuffed. CJ also tried his hero shit. Then any pass to Aminu was a turnover or a clanker. Turner was well... Turner
KJ you're wrong about this. Aminu had 6 turnovers the whole series (1.5 per game) and shot 43.3% on 3's with 7.5 attempts per game (THAT IS FUCKING EXCELLENT) and 51.9% overall.
Aminu did have a good series but again that isn't the point now is it. They were begging him to shoot them and were not even guarding him. Why? because that is how you beat the Blazers.
You corrected him on Aminu right when I corrected him on CJ. How perfect lmao.
No, he really didn't. In the rare instance he was off the ball, it was because the Blazers weren't in a set and it dissolved into C.J. trying to bail the team out of nothing.
So they beat the Blazers because they let Aminu have opportunities that he made good use of? Yikes.
Go ahead and try to make excuses for Aminu. That's fine also. The dude is the weakest link in the offense. Without question.
I'm sorry KJ but that makes no sense.
