What're the percentages when being hit by two guys though, because they're were multiple occasions where they did. I'm not really making an excuse for them, they should work for good shots and when the jumpers aren't going in they need to have more action in the paint (though if it was that easy teams would just run lay up drills).
They were constantly driving into two guys. I'm not advising that... I'm advising an offensive system with sets that can free guys up for quality shots inside. I see many NBA teams do it much better than us.
Lay up drills run on your backside are devastating when it's your back.
Franco, where have I said they should keep driving 1 on 2?
Got problem with the truth.
Well, unfortunately, Stott's seems to like his action's 25 feet away from the basket, for the most part, I get what you're saying, but also while they're frustrating at times, the offensive "system" is mostly fine in the regular season. I actually think Stotts is a pretty good regular season coach. It's the playoffs I get concerned about if he's a "championship" level coach.
The system is fine during the regular season because of how talented our backcourt is, not because of Stotts. When teams gameplan hard for it in the postseason, it's much harder for us to consistently score. Then again, our backcourt is still so ridiculously talented that they can make a WCF anyway.
Regular season they do get plenty of good looks though, and I think Stotts is good at keeping guys engaged. Like even in the third some of the bricks they were throwing up were wide open. For the record no one wins in the NBA without elite talent. Pops hasn't done jack without David Robinson and Tim Duncan. In the NBA it's way more the talent you have then the coaching you have and it's like that for everyone. Coaching does make a difference but it usually comes down to who's just got the better players and often time it's really just who has the better stars.
The difference between Pop and Stotts one holds his players accountable and doesn't matter who the player is and the other don't pretty simple.
People act like there aren't 82 games in a season, and that if you lose against a good team on a back to back on the road by 3 points, the coach must be terrible, the owner doesn't care, and all of our players suck.
Best way to look at game threads is knowing some ass clown on another teams site is posting all of the ridiculous bitching. Probably called something like "the other side"
To be fair he didn't say that or at least that is not what i think he meant. They were able to disrupt shots by fouling a little more than maybe they should have is what i understood him to mean? The Blazers would not be scared of aldridge and Poeltl but the calls were definitely not happening when Dame and CJ were driving.
Maybe, but it doesnt really relate to my overall point.
True.
I was hoping they'd be fun this season....can't hang with it.....still like to enjoy the games..miss the humor we used to have in game threads....seems people are fishing for scapegoats 3 games in already
Poeltl played 12 minutes. That's not it.
The double standard is the problem, not the criticism. When someone is critical of a player or coach and you respond with something along the lines of "calm down" or "it's a long season" or "give them some time" and then a few minutes later you are criticizing a player you can't see the irony there?
