Game Thread GAME# 41: HORNETS @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 13, 2020 - MONDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

[CupWizier]

Look i get it. You and a lot of people don't think Stotts is a good coach. But to actually call him a Smug Piece of Shit?
Nice internet Cajones.

It's why this forum has become a toilet bowl that needs to be flushed.

 

[Dougnsalem]

It's why this forum has become a toilet bowl that needs to be flushed.

It has been getting flushed. The turd got stuck up in the bowl, and all the water has been going down the drain....

 

[illmatic99]

It's why this forum has become a toilet bowl that needs to be flushed.

Yet you keep coming back. After numerous grandiose proclamations of leaving, and getting suspended.

 

[illmatic99]

For those that don't believe that he does nothing sometimes he just admitted that at halftime of an NBA game he didn't say anything other than keep playing that way.

No anticipation of what the other team will do to get back into the game and how to adjust to that?

No wonder the Hornets erased a huge deficit in mere minutes. Unreal.

This is a playoff coach?

You know how people love to claim that players started mailing in seasons after getting big contracts? Why shouldn't we expect coaches to do the same? Dude is absolute trash this year, especially after Hood also went down. No motivation/preparation. He has always taken forever to make changes, but this trait manifests even more when we're short handed and he keeps trying to play the same way.

 

[BlazerBeav]

I'm just not sure what he can do for the most part. There were multiple times when I looked out at the court last night and shuddered at the lineup. I desperately wanted Bazemore out of the game at times, then would look at the bench and decide that there simply wasn't anything better over there. I'm as frustrated as the rest of you, but there's no game plan to make this roster work well.

 

[illmatic99]

I'm just not sure what he can do for the most part. There were multiple times when I looked out at the court last night and shuddered at the lineup. I desperately wanted Bazemore out of the game at times, then would look at the bench and decide that there simply wasn't anything better over there. I'm as frustrated as the rest of you, but there's no game plan to make this roster work well.

I absolutely hate that he can hide behind injuries as an excuse for his poor performance as coach.

 

[hoopsjock]

This is a playoff coach?

You know how people love to claim that players started mailing in seasons after getting big contracts? Why shouldn't we expect coaches to do the same? Dude is absolute trash this year, especially after Hood also went down. No motivation/preparation. He has always taken forever to make changes, but this trait manifests even more when we're short handed and he keeps trying to play the same way.

Everyone (except our coaching staff apparently) knew that the Hornets would come out bombing 3's in the 2nd half. The fact that our defense was out of position almost every possession of the 3rd quarter is inexcusable.

Stotts has clearly adopted the approach of the fans who don't think coaching needs to be done when there are injuries.

 

[DDolla]

Amazing, if not for that Dame 3 at the buzzer in the 3rd, the Blazers lose this game again lol

 

[CupWizier]

Yet you keep coming back. After numerous grandiose proclamations of leaving, and getting suspended.

What I decide to do has nothing to do with this forum turning into a shitter. I also post less than when I first came to the forum but it does occasionally gives me laughs with what some of the posters say. Besides, someone has to come in here and keep trying to flush the floating turds.

 

[CupWizier]

Amazing, if not for that Dame 3 at the buzzer in the 3rd, the Blazers lose this game again lol

what's even more amazing is you coming to that conclusion. We won by 3. Do the math.

 

[hoopsjock]

I'm just not sure what he can do for the most part. There were multiple times when I looked out at the court last night and shuddered at the lineup. I desperately wanted Bazemore out of the game at times, then would look at the bench and decide that there simply wasn't anything better over there. I'm as frustrated as the rest of you, but there's no game plan to make this roster work well.

I thought the lineup magnified the coaching blunders not excused it. If you don't have a guy over 6'8" on the court against a team that shoots so many threes, just switch all picks and live with them shooting twos or contested 3's. When your defensive personnel sucks at least try trapping or hedging picks so maybe you force an occasional turnover. It took until late in the 4th for Tolliver to hedge picks and it looked to me like he was freelancing not doing it as part of the gameplan.

 

[illmatic99]

I thought the lineup magnified the coaching blunders not excused it. If you don't have a guy over 6'8" on the court against a team that shoots so many threes, just switch all picks and live with them shooting twos or contested 3's. When your defensive personnel sucks at least try trapping or hedging picks so maybe you force an occasional turnover. It took until late in the 4th for Tolliver to hedge picks and it looked to me like he was freelancing not doing it as part of the gameplan.

We actually freaking played zone on some possessions there in the early part of the third quarter. ugh. Remember a few years back when it was like ET and Plums or someone who had to beg Terry to try a trapping defense that involved the big hedging more? Why did it have to take the players to come up with that strategy and not the coach?

Hassan would have gotten destroyed even more in that coverage, but still. I just can't stand Terry these days. I know it makes no sense to fire him now, but holy hell, that third quarter drove me insane.

And that timeout at the 4min mark in the fourth when we had momentum and like an 8 pt lead that he took ONLY because he would lose one at the 3min mark. It's not some genius move to do that. Sometimes coaches actually have to read the game and make decisions on the fly, not predetermined ones just because he's always done it. CHA immediately came out of that with a 10-2 run while we ran some shit ATO plays as usual.

 

[JDC]

A lot of talk about how we struggled to defend Charlotte's heavy dose of Spain pnr (where a backscreen is set for the roller) in the 3rd quarter.

Extremely tough to guard with our current personnel and with a dynamic pull up guy like Graham.

Here's my favorite why to defend it which relies on the big dropping and avoiding getting screened while the other two defenders involved switch.

*2nd video



Biggest problem with it is probably the pocket that is still left for a potential pull-up 3. Relies on the guard fighting over top and even then, with a dropping big, the backscreen is often set low in the paint, causing the switch to happen late which you can see in the video above.

Finally, here's a great article on spain pnr....the different ways teams got into it and defended it--both with only the 3 players directly involved or with a tag off the weakside shooter--during the 2018 fiba qualifiers.



Link to full article:

http://team.fastmodelsports.com/2018/08/20/evolution-spain-pnr-basketball/