Should Chauncey be on the hot seat?

[Rastapopoulos]

Or could nobody do much better with this roster?

 

[MickZagger]

Or could nobody do much better with this roster?

Nobody would win with this roster.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

It’s the roster.

The young guys aren’t ready - this team has zero bench.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Or could nobody do much better with this roster?

Show me 2 Blazer wins this season attributable to Billups outcoaching the other team.

 

[Freshtown]

Bad coaches get less out of their roster than they should.

Average coaches get average production from their roster.

Good coaches get more from their roster than they should.

Chauncey is not a good coach. He is either average or bad, too soon to tell until the talent improves.

Not on the hot seat now but if the roster improves and these issues persist, yeah, he’s gone.

(FWIW Stotts was also average).

 

[Tince]

Not even 1.5 seasons in and people are wondering if he should be fired.

As some of us were saying 2 years ago, the assumption that a coaching change was likely to result in significant improvement was simply wishful thinking.

Stotts wasn't the problem. Billups isn't the problem.

 

[Strenuus]

No.

Waste of a thread.

/Thread.

 

[Natebishop3]

Not even 1.5 seasons in and people are wondering if he should be fired.

As some of us were saying 2 years ago, the assumption that a coaching change was likely to result in significant improvement was simply wishful thinking.

Stotts wasn't the problem. Billups isn't the problem.

Maybe because hiring a rookie head coach was a bad idea for a team that needed to win now?

 

[MickZagger]

This ref crew is a circus show

 

[Hoopguru]

Bring in George Karl....he has that Seattle tie

 

[illmatic99]

Bring in George Karl....he has that Seattle tie

gross.

you must also know how he feels about dame

 

[julius]

It helps when you get more than 3 points from your bench. Maybe get the man a decent bench player first?

 

[wizenheimer]

it's valid to question Billups, but also really early. Yeah, the roster has issues

but Chauncey's defense is way too inconsistent and the offense is disorganized. I'd say a lot of the turnover issues are due to trying to fit square pegs into round holes and that disorganization

 

[Tince]

Maybe because hiring a rookie head coach was a bad idea for a team that needed to win now?

Going from an established coach to an inexperienced one seemed to be what many wanted (fresh blood, no retreads), but it didn't make a ton of sense to me.

At the time, we had a GM who was going to be starting from a limited pool of canidates: His few friends/his agents guys. We had/have an unstable ownership situation. We had a flawed roster.

Given all those factors, that was why I was on record that a change was unlikely to result in significant improvement.

 

[Chris Craig]

Fire his ass

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Can you send coaches to the G League?

 

[Chris Craig]

Can you send coaches to the G League?

I wish

 

[BigGameDamian]

I’d fire his ass and get Quin Snyder.

 

[TBpup]

It’s the roster.

The young guys aren’t ready - this team has zero bench.

Bench is too young
Not enough defense
Not enough length
Not enough size

.....a lot to overcome.

 

[Tince]

No.

Waste of a thread.

/Thread.

No need to worry.

 

[Natebishop3]

Bench is too young
Not enough defense
Not enough length
Not enough size

.....a lot to overcome.

But Cronin is the savior of Portland!?!

 

[Hoopguru]

gross.

you must also know how he feels about dame

Lol

 

[wizenheimer]

But Cronin is the savior of Portland!?!

has anybody said or even implied that?

 

[Natebishop3]

has anybody said or even implied that?

 

[riverman]

Yes, Chauncey should be nervous about his job but he's not getting fired now..if they improve the roster at the deadline and we still can't close games...then off season I'd say he might get walking papers. They'll give him some rope for now though

 

[TBpup]

But Cronin is the savior of Portland!?!

Who said that? He's had 1 season to change the direction of the team. Too early to tell either way whether he is good or not.

 

[blazerfan11]

The starting unit is healthy. Why is Josh Hart standing in the corner?
He's no threat there. Simons would be a huge threat. So would Dame.
Hart would be good/great bringing the ball up the court and attacking if there is a hole in the defense and getting rid of it quickly if that isn't there. The defense would have to help off of Grant/Lillard/Simons/Nurk.
Instead, we see Simons dribbling the clock down while waiting for Lillard to get to his spot.

However, Any other coach would probably be doing the same things as Billups so what's the point of changing coaches.

 

[blazerfan11]

Let's see what the team looks like with a healthy bench.

 

[Chris Craig]

Let's see what the team looks like with a healthy bench.

If we even get to. By then some starters will probably be hurt.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Good coaches get more from their roster than they should.
(FWIW Stotts was also average).

Stotts got a team with Aminu and Harkless as starters, and Enes Kanter starting in the playoffs, to the WCF! By your own definition that makes him a fucking awesome coach. (All 3 of them are out of the league now.)