Notice Having Fun with Karl-Anthony Towns Trade Rumors

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
Chris Craig said:
I'd rather gave a coach who is willing to get on his players ehen they don't bring their all, and not be afraid to yell at the refs when thry make some of the worst calls in the game of basketball.

Instead we have this

View attachment 20739

And this

View attachment 20740
Click to expand...

It's a player's league. Stop saying this.

Did Pop "get on" TT or did he capitulate and acquiesce?

Even Pops capitulated to TT's whiny bitch shit...
 
Chris Craig said:
I'd rather gave a coach who is willing to get on his players ehen they don't bring their all, and not be afraid to yell at the refs when thry make some of the worst calls in the game of basketball.

Instead we have this

View attachment 20739

And this

View attachment 20740
Click to expand...
You gotta be careful about getting on a ref's bad side. Yelling at the refs is an art. If you yell too much you're gonna get the team in trouble. Guys like Pop and Doc are experts on how to express harsh feelings to the refs without getting 'T'd up.
 
KAT is great offensively, but sucks ass defensively. Thibs is supposed to be a defensive mastermind, but in his 1st year in MIN they ranked 27th of 30 in defense. That same year (2016-17) POR ranked 24th in defense and everyone around here wanted Stotts fired.

So, they brought in perennial DPOY/1st team all defense candidate Jimmy Butler, and guess where they finished in team DEFrtg this year - 27th (they were dead last in the league, and it wasn't close, when Butler was out). If Thibs, the supposed defensive mastermind, cant get KAT to play a lick of defense, what makes anyone think Stotts can?

With Nurk, POR moved up from 24th to 8th in team DEFrtg. That's a HUGE improvement. Be careful what you wish for. I'm not interested in POR becoming the new MIN minus Butler?

BNM
 
Chris Craig said:
I'd rather gave a coach who is willing to get on his players ehen they don't bring their all, and not be afraid to yell at the refs when thry make some of the worst calls in the game of basketball.

Instead we have this

View attachment 20739

And this

View attachment 20740
Click to expand...

I disagree, it was reported all season long that Stotts was getting on players for lack of effort.
Specifically Nurk/Moe.
Nurk & Moe even saw their asses riding the pine.
People were all over Stotts for benching Nurk. But if you take the emotion out of it and really look at it.
If a coach has said over and over again to a player what you expect of him.
Only for the player to continually make the same mistakes, what is left for a coach to do other than bench said player?
Should he yell and scream at the player in an attempt to embarrass him?

My only criticism here is it's been shown over Stotts' tenure in Portland that there are times players tune him out.
But at the end of the day, it's on the players to listen to their 'coach'. And on the GM for bringing in said players.

There are many things I can criticize Stotts for, but this is not one of them.
I have no interest in watching the coach act like a child on the sideline.

Edit - you look at the Batum days.
At least Portland now has a coach who is willing to bench a player when he is lackadaisical with his performance. Batum certainly was never benched for tossing up soft shit or floating by the previous coach.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
This sounds overly critical, but he needs to learn to finish consistently at the rim, he got better as the season went along but to many weak plays around the basket.
Click to expand...
What do you expect his FG% to be? What would be a good FG% in your eyes?
 
honkicracker said:
At least Portland now has a coach who is willing to bench a player when he is lackadaisical with his performance. Batum certainly was never benched for tossing up soft shit or floating by the previous coach.
Click to expand...
Nor was he benched under the current one.
 
honkicracker said:
I disagree, it was reported all season long that Stotts was getting on players for lack of effort.
Specifically Nurk/Moe.
Nurk & Moe even saw their asses riding the pine.
People were all over Stotts for benching Nurk. But if you take the emotion out of it and really look at it.
If a coach has said over and over again to a player what you expect of him.
Only for the player to continually make the same mistakes, what is left for a coach to do other than bench said player?
Should he yell and scream at the player in an attempt to embarrass him?

My only criticism here is it's been shown over Stotts' tenure in Portland that there are times players tune him out.
But at the end of the day, it's on the players to listen to their 'coach'. And on the GM for bringing in said players.

There are many things I can criticize Stotts for, but this is not one of them.
I have no interest in watching the coach act like a child on the sideline.

Edit - you look at the Batum days.
At least Portland now has a coach who is willing to bench a player when he is lackadaisical with his performance. Batum certainly was never benched for tossing up soft shit or floating by the previous coach.
Click to expand...
I don't remember it that way at all. The issue many (and myself included) had was Stotts was not treating all the players equally.

He'd bench Nurk for poor effort, but wouldn't do anything about Dame/CJ poor effort.
 
BonesJones said:
Nor was he benched under the current one.
Click to expand...

Who would he have been benched for?
Barton? Who at the time would make the exact same dumb ball stopping plays Swanigan did this year.
Robinson, Crabbe, Claver, Gee, Wright?
Lets keep in mind Wright was the forum whipping boy, much like Nards is.
Claver couldn't hit a shot to save his life.
Gee lol.
Crabbe lol.
Moe? Another forum whipping boy.
CJ had yet to break out, or really show he'd be more than just a spot up shooter.

When your sub who is very much less talented than you, yet plays better than you simply by making the right basketball play.
Any coach worth his value will bench you.
People on this forum used to be angry when Sarge would pull a hot player.
This year they got upset because 'Nurk should be playing over Davis regardless which one is playing better'.
 
tester551 said:
I don't remember it that way at all. The issue many (and myself included) had was Stotts was not treating all the players equally.

He'd bench Nurk for poor effort, but wouldn't do anything about Dame/CJ poor effort.
Click to expand...

I swore I put this poster on ignore...
Whatever.

Who is he supposed to put in?
Napier? Forum whipping boy.
Baseball player? Another whipping boy.
Turner? lol
Layman? lol.....
The D-league player wilcox?
WB4 came on late in the season, but come on. If you really expect Lillard or CJ to be pulled for WB4. Gimme a break.


Pulling Lillard or CJ for these players is much like some of the trade suggestions so far.
Doing something just to do something.
 
honkicracker said:
Who would he have been benched for?
Barton? Who at the time would make the exact same dumb ball stopping plays Swanigan did this year.
Robinson, Crabbe, Claver, Gee, Wright?
Lets keep in mind Wright was the forum whipping boy, much like Nards is.
Claver couldn't hit a shot to save his life.
Gee lol.
Crabbe lol.
Moe? Another forum whipping boy.
CJ had yet to break out, or really show he'd be more than just a spot up shooter.

When your sub who is very much less talented than you, yet plays better than you simply by making the right basketball play.
Any coach worth his value will bench you.
People on this forum used to be angry when Sarge would pull a hot player.
This year they got upset because 'Nurk should be playing over Davis regardless which one is playing better'.
Click to expand...
If you're trying to make a statement to a player by benching him, it doesn't really matter who you put in.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)

Featured content

Back
Top