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highkin works outta Portland. He’s pretty reliable for blazers stuff.
 
RR7 said:
I agree. With 2 younger guys, and the likelihood they move Kemba, with a "soft rebuild", there's less expectation for a new hire right off the bat. In Portland, we were already a perennial playoff team, underachieving, but still consistently there. We have a star at the peak of his prime, so there is expectation to win now, not ease in to your role.
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yeah, the pressure in Portland will be enormous because of that star. The new coach will know he could be signing up for a situation where the star demands a trade next summer if the team doesn't do better

and the GM just fired a coach while saying the problems the coach was fired for weren't roster problems. That kind of puts the new coach in the position of having to do quite a bit better than a 48 win team and a 1st round exit

and any coaching candidate will not know if Powell will be a Blazer next season. But he'll know that Powell signing elsewhere would leave a big hole in the roster

simply more uncertainty and pressure in the Portland job

on the other hand, the new coach will have Dame to rely on
 
There are enough teams interested in CJ, he needs to be moved. We won't get anyone back with the same offensive talent, but with what they do provide along with the improved balance of the starting line-up should produce a better overall result.
 
So pretty much every major media member is suggesting that it’s gonna be the same guy. Anything but Billups would be a surprise at this point.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
I'm not try to annoy anyone, but some of you act like you don't know how the world works. Administrators (and basically anyone over 40) do whatever they want. They PRETEND to be interested in process and consensus, but they only do that to make others feel better - I've seen it over and over again... city council, presidents of universities, high school principals, hospital administrators... and Neil Olshey has more confidence in himself than any of them!

It is VERY likely that he chose who he wanted for coach WEEKS AGO. If you're being interviewed, it Does Not mean you have an equal chance. The purpose of the interviews is to...
  • Make fans feel heard.
  • Cover his ass.
  • Discover any Red Flags.
When he says that he's going to ask interviewees hard and specific questions about how the defense will be improved, he's basically lying. Yes, he will ask the questions, but the answers won't be a factor in the decision (unless they reveal a red flag).

I wouldn't mind Billups, Hammon, or MDA. But, it's coming to a point where I'd be very surprised if it wasn't Billups.
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Not in private industry. You're right for state colleges, as my then-wife and I discovered as employees at WWU. (By the way, I drove through your employer EOU on a couple of trips. It looks like the WCC we have here.)
 
Every nfl reporter was saying Mac Jones was a lock to the Niners at number 3 in the draft for like a month leading up to it.
 
I hope we get Chauncey Billups. Former All Defensive championship point guard. Known for his floor leadership and tactical Iq. Plus Dame wants him. I don’t want a recycled coach whose been fired at every stop. Try something new and bold.
 
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RR7 said:
I agree. With 2 younger guys, and the likelihood they move Kemba, with a "soft rebuild", there's less expectation for a new hire right off the bat. In Portland, we were already a perennial playoff team, underachieving, but still consistently there. We have a star at the peak of his prime, so there is expectation to win now, not ease in to your role.
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I think the pressure will be greater in Boston. With 3 all-stars in Tatum, Brown, and Walker, who are all getting paid all-star money, the expectation is that Boston should compete in the East. The pressure in Boston is much higher than it is in Portland, who is more of a dark horse candidate and only has one all-star. Portland is less of a pressure cooker.
 
Jax_Tiger said:
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I think the pressure will be greater in Boston. With 3 all-stars in Tatum, Brown, and Walker, who are all getting paid all-star money, the expectation is that Boston should compete in the East. The pressure in Boston is much higher than it is in Portland, who is more of a dark horse candidate and only has one all-star. Portland is less of a pressure cooker.
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Using the word pressure cooker and Boston gives me the willies
 
AldoTrapani said:
I hope we get Chauncey Billups. Former All Defensive championship point guard. Known for his floor leadership and tactical Iq. Plus Dame wants him. I don’t want a recycled coach whose been fired at every stop. Try something new and bold.
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You know a player had all those trait was Magic Johnson and we all see how that turn out as a head coach a complete failure. Just because they was that type player doesn't mean it's translate as a head coach.
 
James lamphear said:
You know a player had all those trait was Magic Johnson and we all see how that turn out as a head coach a complete failure. Just because they was that type player doesn't mean it's translate as a head coach.
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We will see just how good a coach Nash is with just one All Star.
If Rivers loses to the Hawks, should he be fired? I mean he has two All Stars even if Embiid is playing hurt they should beat the Hawks.
If Clips lose should they fire their coach?

The Mariners haven't been to the playoffs in 20 years! and 15 teams were in last year.
I could imagine the Blazers not making the playoffs in 20 or even 10 years.
 
Hoopguru said:
We will see just how good a coach Nash is with just one All Star.
If Rivers loses to the Hawks, should he be fired? I mean he has two All Stars even if Embiid is playing hurt they should beat the Hawks.
If Clips lose should they fire their coach?
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I'm not sure what you're going for with that.

you're talking about 2 coaches in their first year with the team. Also, two coaches who both have won championships. Rivers has already improved on what the 76ers did last season, and Lue might do that too
 
wizenheimer said:
I'm not sure what you're going for with that.

you're talking about 2 coaches in their first year with the team. Also, two coaches who both have won championships. Rivers has already improved on what the 76ers did last season, and Lue might do that too
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Rivers has a pretty bad rep in getting bounced after Celts with Super team. Ballmer's patience my wear thin if he gets bounced again this year with the money he's spending.
Morey is an aggressive GM and one that like offense too if he gets beat by Atlanta, anything is possible.
 
Didn't see this on here yet - I think the next head coach for the Blazers will be Billups. I just wonder if he'll bring Leonard with him.

A 'true, true PG': How Paul George is learning to create for others play
Jun 14, 2021
Ramona Shelburne - ESPN Senior Writer

LONG BEFORE THE NBA bubble or Playoff P, before the side of the backboard shot or "All the Smoke" thrown at former coach Doc Rivers, the conversations that would reshape Paul George and the LA Clippers this season were taking place in Chauncey Billups' man cave in Denver.

Billups was still in his first year as the team broadcaster. Tyronn Lue was Rivers' lead assistant. And like so many Americans during the early days of the pandemic, they'd picked a group of friends to pod up with until a better understanding of when the season -- and society overall -- could resume.

Billups' wife, Piper, was OK with the idea on one condition:

"I told them, 'If y'all are going to come, I'm not putting that pressure on my wife. We're hiring a chef,'" Billups said to the group, which included Lue's cousin J. Carter and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones. With the restaurant industry struggling, they hired the furloughed chef from Ocean Prime.

Basketball was the main dish on the menu, however.

"We dove into it for four or five hours a day," Lue said. There were regular Zoom calls with Rivers and the rest of the Clippers' staff. But the working group at Billups' house became its own think tank. The space gave the individuals an opportunity to look at the team -- and their own careers -- with fresh eyes.

"All that time spent talking and studying, doing all the stuff with Ty," Billups said. "That's actually what really made my decision to coach."

The Clippers were among the favorites to win the NBA title, but there was something about the offense that wasn't feeling right. Kawhi Leonard and George were great individually, but the two superstars weren't making each other or the rest of the team better.

There was only so much that could be changed before the season restarted in July, though. When Lue took over as head coach in October, he asked Billups to be his lead assistant and to take charge of the Clippers' point guards.

However, the Clippers didn't have any traditional point guards on the roster -- and there wasn't much help coming on the free-agent or trade market, either. So Lue and Billups went back to a concept they'd been talking about for months: working with George and Leonard to take on more of the playmaking duties.

"I just think with your two primary scorers, they have to be able to make guys better," Lue said. "Those two guys can get their shot off on anybody at any time. Now, we talk about attacking the rim to make your teammates better."

Billups has taken the lead role with George, Leonard and Reggie Jackson, watching film and talking with them throughout the game on how to see the game through the eyes of a point guard.

IT'S A DIFFERENT role for each of them. Leonard has played alongside playmakers such as Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet. George has played with point guards such as George Hill, Russell Westbrook and Raymond Felton.

But for the Clippers' offense to become greater than the sum of its parts, it's a role each has learned to embrace.

"It's definitely growth for me," Leonard said. "Especially coming from last year, [with us] really not having that true, true PG."

Leonard and George can often be seen during games talking with Billups, a candidate for several head-coaching openings, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Off the court, Billups does even more individual mentoring and film study with George on the finer points of running an offense.

"I just want to teach him how to see the game," Billups said. "What to look for on certain plays -- not just worrying about the guy in front of you, if you can beat him. 'Where's the guy going to help from? What shooters do you have? Where are they on the floor?'

"There's a mindset that comes with that. Because sometimes you just want to be a killer out there and take advantage of every matchup. Well, as a point guard, you can't quite do that. You got to kind of play chess."

Billups said the key to his relationship with George is consistently watching film and talking things through. Not just after good games or bad games -- after every game, like an immersive language experience.

That's what it takes to learn to think and see the game through a point guard's eyes. And it has borne dividends on the court throughout the regular season and playoffs, as the Clippers tried to shift away from the isolation-heavy offense they often devolved into last season.

According to Second Spectrum, the Clippers shot 55% off George's passes during the regular season -- best among the 68 players in the league who recorded 400 assist opportunities. George's effect on winning in this role is even more pronounced. Over the past two regular seasons, the Clippers shot just 49.3% off George's passes in losses. That jumps to 57.4% in wins, however.

"When he gets going, the whole team, we start riding his wave. We start riding his energy," Jackson said after Saturday's 132-106 Game 3 win in the Western Conference semifinals, which the Utah Jazz lead 2-1. "His energy is electric and contagious. Once he gets going, we all feed off it, and it makes the game easier for us."

Turnovers are still an issue. George is averaging 3.3 a game this season, up from 2.6 over his career. But it's better than last season, when the team would often stand around waiting for Leonard or George to make something happen. They are still the team's two leading scorers, but they're doing it with a playmaking mentality now, rather than a play-finishing mentality.

At Knight High School in Palmdale, California, coach Tom Hegre once asked every player on the team at halftime if they wanted George to shoot more. Each player in the room raised his hand, letting George know not only that they were OK with him shooting more, they needed him to.

"He's such a good person and such an unselfish player that you have to force him to be that dude," Billups said. "Because, just naturally, he just wants to be a team guy."

In the Clippers' first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks, Billups and George held long film sessions on how he would create opportunities for others by attacking the rim -- even with 7-foot-4 center Boban Marjanovic camped out in the middle of Dallas' zone defensive scheme.

Go right at him, Billups would say: north-south, not east-west. Challenge Marjanovic to defend the rim without fouling. It'll either get layups or force the defense to collapse -- opening up outside shots and off-ball cuts for teammates.

"We watched it, and we watched it, and then, boom, before you know it, he was getting layup, after layup, after layup," Billups said. "He was just like, 'Damn, I can't believe I'm still getting layups.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, until they change up, we're not changing. Just keep getting downhill, just keep getting to the basket.'"

The message is the same in this series against Utah -- only it's three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert manning the middle, instead of Marjanovich.

During the Clippers' losses in Games 1 and 2, Gobert was a dominant presence; Utah was plus-19 in his 69 minutes and minus-10 the other 27 minutes. With George in attack mode early on Saturday, the script was flipped: The Jazz were minus-16 in Gobert's 30 minutes.

"It's just putting pressure, whether I'm shooting the ball, scoring or making plays," George said. "It's just all about putting the pressure on the defense and just staying with an attack mentality all game."

Billups was already rewatching Game 3 as George was breaking down the win for the media. Billups will usually watch the game two or three times before showing George the clips he wants to go over.

But at this point, they've been speaking the same language for so long that it's become second nature.

"Chauncey's been a big influence on my game," George said. "He's been a great person to talk to and have as a resource -- on decision-making and tempo, pace, a lot of stuff from a point guard mindset and a point guard point of view."
 
how quickly the narrative changes. Just days ago, they were on the verge of getting bounced by Utah.

A week ago, they were in danger of losing in the first round in a Game 7 to a heavily under-matched Dallas team.

Also, Ramona Shelbourne has been such a bad reporter. I lost complete faith in her ability to judge/report on basketball after she mentioned that Lebron should win MVP last year because of how he performed in the wake of Kobe's death.
 
Norman Dale said:
Didn't see this on here yet - I think the next head coach for the Blazers will be Billups. I just wonder if he'll bring Leonard with him.

A 'true, true PG': How Paul George is learning to create for others play
Jun 14, 2021
Ramona Shelburne - ESPN Senior Writer

LONG BEFORE THE NBA bubble or Playoff P, before the side of the backboard shot or "All the Smoke" thrown at former coach Doc Rivers, the conversations that would reshape Paul George and the LA Clippers this season were taking place in Chauncey Billups' man cave in Denver.

Billups was still in his first year as the team broadcaster. Tyronn Lue was Rivers' lead assistant. And like so many Americans during the early days of the pandemic, they'd picked a group of friends to pod up with until a better understanding of when the season -- and society overall -- could resume.

Billups' wife, Piper, was OK with the idea on one condition:

"I told them, 'If y'all are going to come, I'm not putting that pressure on my wife. We're hiring a chef,'" Billups said to the group, which included Lue's cousin J. Carter and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones. With the restaurant industry struggling, they hired the furloughed chef from Ocean Prime.

Basketball was the main dish on the menu, however.

"We dove into it for four or five hours a day," Lue said. There were regular Zoom calls with Rivers and the rest of the Clippers' staff. But the working group at Billups' house became its own think tank. The space gave the individuals an opportunity to look at the team -- and their own careers -- with fresh eyes.

"All that time spent talking and studying, doing all the stuff with Ty," Billups said. "That's actually what really made my decision to coach."

The Clippers were among the favorites to win the NBA title, but there was something about the offense that wasn't feeling right. Kawhi Leonard and George were great individually, but the two superstars weren't making each other or the rest of the team better.

There was only so much that could be changed before the season restarted in July, though. When Lue took over as head coach in October, he asked Billups to be his lead assistant and to take charge of the Clippers' point guards.

However, the Clippers didn't have any traditional point guards on the roster -- and there wasn't much help coming on the free-agent or trade market, either. So Lue and Billups went back to a concept they'd been talking about for months: working with George and Leonard to take on more of the playmaking duties.

"I just think with your two primary scorers, they have to be able to make guys better," Lue said. "Those two guys can get their shot off on anybody at any time. Now, we talk about attacking the rim to make your teammates better."

Billups has taken the lead role with George, Leonard and Reggie Jackson, watching film and talking with them throughout the game on how to see the game through the eyes of a point guard.

IT'S A DIFFERENT role for each of them. Leonard has played alongside playmakers such as Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet. George has played with point guards such as George Hill, Russell Westbrook and Raymond Felton.

But for the Clippers' offense to become greater than the sum of its parts, it's a role each has learned to embrace.

"It's definitely growth for me," Leonard said. "Especially coming from last year, [with us] really not having that true, true PG."

Leonard and George can often be seen during games talking with Billups, a candidate for several head-coaching openings, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Off the court, Billups does even more individual mentoring and film study with George on the finer points of running an offense.

"I just want to teach him how to see the game," Billups said. "What to look for on certain plays -- not just worrying about the guy in front of you, if you can beat him. 'Where's the guy going to help from? What shooters do you have? Where are they on the floor?'

"There's a mindset that comes with that. Because sometimes you just want to be a killer out there and take advantage of every matchup. Well, as a point guard, you can't quite do that. You got to kind of play chess."

Billups said the key to his relationship with George is consistently watching film and talking things through. Not just after good games or bad games -- after every game, like an immersive language experience.

That's what it takes to learn to think and see the game through a point guard's eyes. And it has borne dividends on the court throughout the regular season and playoffs, as the Clippers tried to shift away from the isolation-heavy offense they often devolved into last season.

According to Second Spectrum, the Clippers shot 55% off George's passes during the regular season -- best among the 68 players in the league who recorded 400 assist opportunities. George's effect on winning in this role is even more pronounced. Over the past two regular seasons, the Clippers shot just 49.3% off George's passes in losses. That jumps to 57.4% in wins, however.

"When he gets going, the whole team, we start riding his wave. We start riding his energy," Jackson said after Saturday's 132-106 Game 3 win in the Western Conference semifinals, which the Utah Jazz lead 2-1. "His energy is electric and contagious. Once he gets going, we all feed off it, and it makes the game easier for us."

Turnovers are still an issue. George is averaging 3.3 a game this season, up from 2.6 over his career. But it's better than last season, when the team would often stand around waiting for Leonard or George to make something happen. They are still the team's two leading scorers, but they're doing it with a playmaking mentality now, rather than a play-finishing mentality.

At Knight High School in Palmdale, California, coach Tom Hegre once asked every player on the team at halftime if they wanted George to shoot more. Each player in the room raised his hand, letting George know not only that they were OK with him shooting more, they needed him to.

"He's such a good person and such an unselfish player that you have to force him to be that dude," Billups said. "Because, just naturally, he just wants to be a team guy."

In the Clippers' first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks, Billups and George held long film sessions on how he would create opportunities for others by attacking the rim -- even with 7-foot-4 center Boban Marjanovic camped out in the middle of Dallas' zone defensive scheme.

Go right at him, Billups would say: north-south, not east-west. Challenge Marjanovic to defend the rim without fouling. It'll either get layups or force the defense to collapse -- opening up outside shots and off-ball cuts for teammates.

"We watched it, and we watched it, and then, boom, before you know it, he was getting layup, after layup, after layup," Billups said. "He was just like, 'Damn, I can't believe I'm still getting layups.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, until they change up, we're not changing. Just keep getting downhill, just keep getting to the basket.'"

The message is the same in this series against Utah -- only it's three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert manning the middle, instead of Marjanovich.

During the Clippers' losses in Games 1 and 2, Gobert was a dominant presence; Utah was plus-19 in his 69 minutes and minus-10 the other 27 minutes. With George in attack mode early on Saturday, the script was flipped: The Jazz were minus-16 in Gobert's 30 minutes.

"It's just putting pressure, whether I'm shooting the ball, scoring or making plays," George said. "It's just all about putting the pressure on the defense and just staying with an attack mentality all game."

Billups was already rewatching Game 3 as George was breaking down the win for the media. Billups will usually watch the game two or three times before showing George the clips he wants to go over.

But at this point, they've been speaking the same language for so long that it's become second nature.

"Chauncey's been a big influence on my game," George said. "He's been a great person to talk to and have as a resource -- on decision-making and tempo, pace, a lot of stuff from a point guard mindset and a point guard point of view."
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1000% Billups is the best candidate for the current Blazers roster/deficiencies. /
 
Experience is overrated, so tired of seeing that as a talking point about potential first time head coaches. The way they command a locker room and their general offensive/defensive philosophies are way more important imo. Surround them with experienced assistants and they’ll be fine.
 
Spo already signed an extension in 2019 till 2024 but some unknown reason is being discussed as a coach for Portland. It’s not happening. Just hurry up sign Chauncey Billups before Boston does
 
I suggested a while back they could offering him a dual role. Not all is well in Heat land.
 
Spoelstra would line up with quicks reporting awhile ago that ownership wants the blazers version of Carroll and is willing to pay top dollar to do so (then again Billups won’t be cheap)
 
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