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I just don't understand the FO's strategy.
Give Stotts career 2x three point shooters and expect him to turn them into good shooters.
Literally the scheme against Portland has been the same for 3 years. Let Aminu shoot.
It's why some of us had such a hardon for Melo. He could play the 4, with Nurk behind him and just shoot the ball in P&R.

Basically why in the FO bringing in terrible shooters?
Yes Stotts could get away from shooting threes and attack the basket more. but give me a break. FO needs to get their shit together, that includes PA.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I would dispute some of these, and some of these are just contradictory (or redundant). You can't blame him for the offensive sets AT THE SAME TIME as saying "lets players do whatever they want".
And that think about "thought he could use LA like Dirk" - I'm'a call bullshit on that. Besides which - remember when we beat the Rockets on the road in the playoffs with LA scoring 40+ points? That seemed to work out OK.
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Please elaborate.

How is it contradictory to blame Terry's offense AND blame him for letting players do what they want? Those aren't mutually exclusive by any means.

Also, how are you calling bullshit on him thinking he could use LA like Dirk? If I cared enough I'd dig up the article - but this was his plan from Day 1.

Yeah, I remember LA scored 40 points in the first two games. Wow - we got TWO GOOD GAMES from LA. Fucking Whoop-Dee-Doo. It still took Dame with a dagger to actually win that series. And may I remind you that Dame broke the play that Terry called in order to throw that dagger. And what exactly did Terry have to do with LA playing out-of-his-freaking-mind in those two games? Did he do something special with his play-calls for LA to actually MAKE his shots for once? Or was LA simply playing the way he normally does, and he just got hot for a little while due to an inept defender being on him?
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Um - you realize that 14 teams DIDN'T MAKE THE PLAYOFFS, right? Including teams with players like Jokic, Porzingis, Marc Gasol, Andre Drummond, Blake Griffin, Dwight Howard and LONZO BALL!!!
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And 16 teams DID. (Pssst - 16 is bigger than 14.)
Also, I really don't get why you're emphasizing Lonzo Ball.
 
righteo so he's popular with 2 main players yet has zero tactical coaching strategy beyond isoball (which the 2 main players excel in) and can't call smart substitutions to save his life.

im not sure dame and cj liking him because he has built an offense around their skills is enough justification not to try to do things better. either that or dame or cj need to man up and say it how it really is and that the offense lives or dies on those 2 and they were basically shut down by a better team. which should ask the first question of, what was plan b? an answer of, me n cj are plan a-z isnt gonna fly. we're a 1(2) trick pony atm, once that's solved, we got nothing with any consistency.

game 1 was an anomaly with the supporting cast keeping us in it - that isnt gonna happen with any reliable regularity.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
This is like the capitalist myth that everybody could be rich if they tried hard enough.
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Political crap aside, sports are competitive by nature, why should fans, or the atheletes be "ok" with being in the middle. The idea well you didn't think they were in any good anyways, means absolutely nothing, apparently your idea for them is to just sit there and be happy there are worse teams out there. Cause apparently trying harder is against your philosophy in life.
 
BlayZa said:
righteo so he's popular with 2 main players yet has zero tactical coaching strategy beyond isoball (which the 2 main players excel in) and can't call smart substitutions to save his life.

im not sure dame and cj liking him because he has built an offense around their skills is enough justification not to try to do things better. either that or dame or cj need to man up and say it how it really is and that the offense lives or dies on those 2 and they were basically shut down by a better team. which should ask the first question of, what was plan b? an answer of, me n cj are plan a-z isnt gonna fly. we're a 1(2) trick pony atm, once that's solved, we got nothing with any consistency.

game 1 was an anomaly with the supporting cast keeping us in it - that isnt gonna happen with any reliable regularity.
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Steph and Klay really liked Mark Jackson... haha.
 
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Would the Jazz coach get more out of this roster? The Jazz seems to play more under control and the team seems to have a plan. Our team doesn't have a plan except ... CJ 1x1, Dame 1x1 and long 3 shots.
 
joeBlazers said:
Would the Jazz coach get more out of this roster? The Jazz seems to play more under control and the team seems to have a plan. Our team doesn't have a plan except ... CJ 1x1, Dame 1x1 and long 3 shots.
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I love watching the Jazz for this reason, Snyder’s turned into a good coach. Also I love how much you can tell opposing teams hate Ingles, you can tell they’re like who taught this 4th grade teacher how to play basketball.
 
joeBlazers said:
Would the Jazz coach get more out of this roster? The Jazz seems to play more under control and the team seems to have a plan. Our team doesn't have a plan except ... CJ 1x1, Dame 1x1 and long 3 shots.
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The Jazz are deliberate in trying to find the best shot possible. Our coach preaches that the first open look is the best one.
 
honkicracker said:
I just don't understand the FO's strategy.
Give Stotts career 2x three point shooters and expect him to turn them into good shooters.
Literally the scheme against Portland has been the same for 3 years. Let Aminu shoot.
It's why some of us had such a hardon for Melo. He could play the 4, with Nurk behind him and just shoot the ball in P&R.

Basically why in the FO bringing in terrible shooters?
Yes Stotts could get away from shooting threes and attack the basket more. but give me a break. FO needs to get their shit together, that includes PA.
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Aminu in the playoffs:13-30 (43%) from 3.
Carmelo in the playoffs: 6-28 (21%)
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Political crap aside, sports are competitive by nature, why should fans, or the atheletes be "ok" with being in the middle. The idea well you didn't think they were in any good anyways, means absolutely nothing, apparently your idea for them is to just sit there and be happy there are worse teams out there. Cause apparently trying harder is against your philosophy in life.
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Yeah, that follows perfectly logically from what I said.
 
joeBlazers said:
Would the Jazz coach get more out of this roster? The Jazz seems to play more under control and the team seems to have a plan. Our team doesn't have a plan except ... CJ 1x1, Dame 1x1 and long 3 shots.
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The only coach who obviously consistently gets more from less is Brad Stevens, and he still hasn't had great success in the playoffs.
 
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