Other than Denver, just about every other team also made significant changes or have had just as bad of injuries this season. I love that people can't be critical because they should just give up when people get hurt.
Denver tried to trap dame you skipped that one, oh wait it's just because they weren't experienced enough to beat the Blazers bad team / coaching.
Yes, but these games where Dame and CJ score 30 each, Melo scores over 20, and Whiteside has 20 and 20 and 6 or whatever, and we beat a lottery team by a handful of points, decided in the last minute of the game, are mind blowing. I literally don't know what to think, other than the fact that we can't stop teams from scoring, period.
Oh, I don't think they should be in the top 4 right now. However, I think that they should be closer to that. Even if they were 18-14 instead of 14-18 they'd still only be in 7th place. The difference there is they'd only be 1.5 games behind the Jazz and 4 games behind the Nuggets for 2nd place. Instead we're now 5.5 games behind the Jazz and 8 games behind the Nuggets. So any chance of moving out of the 7th or 8th seed when we start to get guys back or make good trades is slipping away.
Yes, of course. And I'm not on here ripping Stotts often at all (anymore), but even the positive iteration of Propagandist can't help but be perplexed by the utter lack of imagination on BOTH the offensive and defensive end.
That Philly game is interesting... There was definitely some “bad coaching” on the last play, but the Blazers didnt have Whiteside either... Neither team could stop the other. If you’re gonna say they were without Embiid it seems fair to mention the Blazers didnt have their center either.
I wasn't purposely omitting anyone, I just assumed everyone remembered the circumstances. Also in that game Skal was playing well (same with the GS game) and Stotts took him out with 4:45 left and inserted Tolliver. We were up 8 at the time. Tolliver played 27 minutes in that game to 22 minutes for Skal. Tolliver was 2-6 with 2 rebounds.
No one could get a stop, thats the Blazers season in a nutshell so far. Skal wasnt exactly stopping them either.
I actually don't really have a problem with Olshey right now. He made two really good moves last year getting Hood and Kanter and I actually liked the trades this summer. That might change if the trade deadline passes with Whiteside and Bazemore still on the team though.
Yes, I thought Kerr was better. I wanted the Blazers to hire him. I don't see a Kerr out there right now, so I wouldnt be for firing Stotts. I like our culture and he has generally gotten teams for this city to overachieve.
Im kind of all over the place with this team right now... I dont think Stotts is a championship coach, and they could probably get more from this roster. However Im also not sure what that really means, as I frankly think the roster post injuries kind of sucks especially on defense.
At that point Kerr’s experience was running Phoenix into the ground as a GM.
I'm pretty sure you feel the same way but there hasn't been many games this year where I felt like the team "left if all on the floor." It was obvious when a guy like Little got inserted into the lineup just how much the rest of the team was lacking energy. I'm not saying they're dogging it or being lazy it's just when there are injuries there needs to be more of a battle and more urgency if they don't want to lose games the way the have.
Yeah... Part of why I keep bringing up changing the line ups is that Skal / Simons / Little as much as they still need to grow up, their energy is just different (even Trent Jr.). Whitesides just slow (Physically) so its hard to tell, but there are definitely a lot of games where the starters all stand around and watch either player bad defense, and stand around and play iso ball. - I think that might be harsh lol. Its hard to judge effort but that “extra” energy doesnt seem to be there.
If they started Skal, Little and or Simons the FIRST time one of them sucked this place would be pissed. The last few weeks of Simons playing like garbage people were like “he’s bad get him out”. Literally impossible to make fans happy
My suggestion was never to start all three. Just try starting like one or two of them. Like Little I think might be a better option to start then Melo or Baze, because he's just going to play defense, won't help spacing but he's not gonna need the ball in his hands. Of course, fans are only super happy when their winning, I understand that.
I've actually defended all 3 playing this year even when they suck. Some of the best basketball they've played this year was with Little starting. So please don't lump groups of people together.
The Blazers 2nd and 3rd things absolutely.
