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Rastapopoulos said:
Funny how Spoelstra did exactly the same thing with Jones last season and Miami made it to the finals...
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spoelstra had Butler/Herro/Robinson/Crowder/Iguodala on the wing ahead of Jones.

stotts had Powell/Roco/Melo/Simons ahead of him.

If he wanted to, stotts could have gotten Jones minutes here, especially considering the defensive sieve(s) he had in front of jones.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Funny how Spoelstra did exactly the same thing with Jones last season and Miami made it to the finals...
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A little apples and oranges there. I'm not saying DJJ necessarily should have been playing this year, but Spo did have Butler, Crowder, AND Iguodala to turn to. All three were better defenders as well as far better offensive options.
 
e_blazer said:
I think that the lack of having Collins available for the Denver series was critical. Kanter was totally unplayable against the Nuggets; so much so that Terry was forced to go with a small ball lineup including Rondae. With Collins, when Nurk sat he would have been able to play Zach at the 5 with Melo at PF and RoCo at the 3. That would have been huge. Probably would have swung the series to Portland. It still likely wouldn't have been enough to get past the 2nd round, but the Blazers would have at least been competitive against the Suns.
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Yeah, that's my point, it wouldn't have altered the course of the season. It may have been even worse in the long run, if getting past a broken Denver team would have led them to falsely evaluate this team as being close to a championship. We did that once already in 18/19, I don't want to go through that AGAIN.
 
Something else I found interesting was Neil bringing up a 3 for 1 trade OR 1 for 3 trade.

Only one person on this roster qualifies for a 1 for 3, and it’s not Dame...
 
Scalma said:
Olshey did admit they needed better defenders though? Isn’t that taking some responsibility?
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So we need better defenders, but losing against Denver and being 29th defensively was not a result of roster construction.

Which is it?
 
B-Roy said:
So we need better defenders, but losing against Denver and being 29th defensively was not a result of roster construction.

Which is it?
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Being 29th is a product of piss poor coaching. Becoming top 10-15 requires roster upgrades; that’s how I viewed it.
 
B-Roy said:
So we need better defenders, but losing against Denver and being 29th defensively was not a result of roster construction.

Which is it?
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Have you ever listened to Neil Olshey? You have to listen to him pat himself on the back 70% of the time and give you nuggets of the truth sprinkled in 30% of the time. He didn't and never does want to take any blame but he did say we have to get better guys on defense. He said roster construction wasn't a problem then talked at length about getting another superstar next to Dame. The guy is constantly double talking but today he seemed to me to be ready to change more than just Terry Stotts but I guess we'll see.
 
Comment's on Nurk feeling not being able to go at Jokic were interesting.
This team is being run by Jody, Bert & Neil. The Blazers are just one profit center satellite, and as long as they can be in the playoffs, and TV ratings and sites like this are doing good, they will be ok with overall performance. Becoming a team in contention within a small market that doesn't attract FA will be bonus. Once Olshey's contract is up another Junior executive will be hired or promoted. Under current ownership, imo, status quo will be ok and you just cant blame Neil alone for that.
 
illmatic99 said:
where did Olshey say this? you heard the PC live? was this your takeaway as well?

and that anyone coming in to take over as coach was going to have to vastly improve things “without a ton of roster changes
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He didn't say that, but he did say the person coming in would inherit a top offensive team, and they were going to have to improve the defense end. And he said this in the context of having 80% of the starting lineup returning absolutely.



From 15:00 onwards. At 16:57 he saids "They're going to have to prove they have the ability to do that, in much the same ways the coaching hires last summer were able to do it, without a lot of personnel changes."

Of course he also says they are always trying to improve the roster, which sure, everyone is. I believe that. That's saying a whole lot of nothing though.
 
Graduate32 said:
A little apples and oranges there. I'm not saying DJJ necessarily should have been playing this year, but Spo did have Butler, Crowder, AND Iguodala to turn to. All three were better defenders as well as far better offensive options.
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So why did Spoelstra play DJJ in the regular season, then? He consciously made the decision that, while it was fine to play him in the regular season, he shouldn't be on the floor in the playoffs. And we knew this when Olshey signed him. And, what a surprise, same thing happens.
 
B-Roy said:
He didn't say that, but he did say the person coming in would inherit a top offensive team, and they were going to have to improve the defense end. And he said this in the context of having 80% of the starting lineup returning absolutely.
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THIS CAN ONLY MEAN THAT OUR FIFTH STARTER IS GOING TO BE ANTHONY DAVIS!!!!
 
Rastapopoulos said:
So why did Spoelstra play DJJ in the regular season, then? He consciously made the decision that, while it was fine to play him in the regular season, he shouldn't be on the floor in the playoffs. And we knew this when Olshey signed him. And, what a surprise, same thing happens.
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He played him until they traded for two wings that were better. Not really a surprise there.
 
B-Roy said:
So we need better defenders, but losing against Denver and being 29th defensively was not a result of roster construction.

Which is it?
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should have been able to beat a battered nuggets team, even with the defense. Did Stotts throw a double at Jokic once the whole series? Or how about not putting an undersized Powell on the 6’10 Porter?
 
Rastapopoulos said:
So why did Spoelstra play DJJ in the regular season, then? He consciously made the decision that, while it was fine to play him in the regular season, he shouldn't be on the floor in the playoffs. And we knew this when Olshey signed him. And, what a surprise, same thing happens.
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You do realize that Crowder and Iguodala were only in Miami for like 20 games at the end of the season when DJJ's minutes got cut, yes?
 
Offer Spolstra a short and long term proposal Coach & GM.
 
B-Roy said:
He played him until they traded for two wings that were better. Not really a surprise there.
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That's not the reason: he played Duncan Robinson instead of Jones, because (like Stotts) he knew you need shooters in the playoffs.

Are you guys seriously implying that the reason we lost to Denver is that Stotts didn't play DJJ more? Did you not see that streak when Stotts took DJJ out of the lineup and we switched from a losing streak into our best stretch of the season?
 
Rastapopoulos said:
That's not the reason: he played Duncan Robinson instead of Jones, because (like Stotts) he knew you need shooters in the playoffs.

Are you guys seriously implying that the reason we lost to Denver is that Stotts didn't play DJJ more? Did you not see that streak when Stotts took DJJ out of the lineup and we switched from a losing streak into our best stretch of the season?
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Never said that. Just explaining why Jones was taken out of the rotation. Jones minutes didn't get cut because of Robinson, it was cut because of Crowder and Iguodala, who both played defense and were better shooters.

If you want to argue they never make the finals without that Crowder/Iggy trade sure be my guest.
 
  • Massively overpaying (for too many years as well) in 2016 - Olshey
  • Butchering the 2017 Draft - Olshey
  • Having the 26-29th ranked defense and 15 of 16 in the Playoffs - Stotts (regardless of the roster construction)

They both need to go and CJ needs to be moved for an asset that better fits with Dame and Powell can move back to SG.

So 1 of 3 things are gone. Doubt Olshey gets moved. 'Maybe' CJ gets moved. It just doesn't seem like enough will be done.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
That's not the reason: he played Duncan Robinson instead of Jones, because (like Stotts) he knew you need shooters in the playoffs.

Are you guys seriously implying that the reason we lost to Denver is that Stotts didn't play DJJ more? Did you not see that streak when Stotts took DJJ out of the lineup and we switched from a losing streak into our best stretch of the season?
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Absolutely not arguing that not playing DJJ is the reason we lost to Denver. All I'm saying is that the Miami-Portland comparison is not like-for-like.
 
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