Stotts just gave one of the worst answers I’ve ever heard in a postgame.

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We've all criticized the fuck out of him in every game we lost in the first 2 series..yet here we are. So I'm not gonna say shit after losing 1 game to the world champs in a 7 game series
Game 5 against OKC Dame goes off for 50 and we were still down 15 with 7 minutes left.

Game 3 against Denver it took Harkless being unable to play to get a fresh Hood in the game, not his own decision.

Game 6 it took CJ, Dame, and Hood all having a big game to win.

Game 7 it took CJ going crazy.
 
Game 5 against OKC Dame goes off for 50 and we were still down 15 with 7 minutes left.

Game 3 against Denver it took Harkless being unable to play to get a fresh Hood in the game, not his own decision.

Game 6 it took CJ, Dame, and Hood all having a big game to win.

Game 7 it took CJ going crazy.
Do you think we should be winning without any of our players playing well?
 
LMAO, the question before this one Dwight Jaynes asks him about his pick and roll defense and Stotts literally rolls his eyes before answering.

You can't make this up. Stotts is completely wilting under the bright lights.

Sure, I will fully admit I'm in meltdown mode but I'm just matching the same meltdown of an epic failure our coach had tonight.
 
Do you think we should be winning without any of our players playing well?
No, obviously you need players to step up. Stotts doesn't really change our offense much when things get tough though. It requires players like Dame and CJ to basically create something out of nothing in order to overcome it. Sometimes that works but it doesn't mean that's the easiest or best route.

There are numerous examples of this:

Continuing to run pick and roll against the Pelicans last year.

Throwing out the same starting lineup that everyone can see is just not the right mix right now.

Not being willing to throw multiple pick and roll defenses at teams. If you always react the same way to a pick and roll it gives the opposing team a huge advantage because they know what is going to happen when they run it. No joke, our defensive strategy tonight is probably the worst I've seen by an NBA team in my entire life of almost 40 years. I wish I was overreacting but even the announcers talked about it for a large portion of the game.
 
I've been asking to have multiple pick and roll schemes during each game for the entire 7 years of Stotts.

I just don't get running the same coverage every time when Curry is 9-15 on threes. If we blitzed sometimes, fell back sometimes, trapped sometimes, and hedge and recovered sometimes then Curry would have to take an extra second coming off the pick to think about what was coming at him. Instead all he had to do to get a wide open three was call for a pick and boom the guard got screened and the big was 10 feet away.

In the Denver and OKC series we got away with it because those teams missed a crap ton of open threes in those series. You can't get away with doing that against the Warriors. Everyone knows that except for apparently Stotts.
 
IDK. I think these are legitimate criticisms. Sag 10 feet off Steph Curry? Really?

It took until the WCF for a team to finally target Kanter's PNR defense. If Stotts had kanter crowd the three point line Steph would blow by Kanter for 100% layups. Good coaches don't put their players in position to fail. We need Kanter on the floor and if he's going to be on the floor we have to live with Steph shooting 40% threes or whatever. You have to pick your poison against great teams/players in the Warriors/Steph. They attack your weaknesses. Kanter is our weakness on defense and it's finally being shown.
 
It took until the WCF for a team to finally target Kanter's PNR defense. If Stotts had kanter crowd the three point line Steph would blow by Kanter for 100% layups. Good coaches don't put their players in position to fail. We need Kanter on the floor and if he's going to be on the floor we have to live with Steph shooting 40% threes or whatever. You have to pick your poison against great teams/players in the Warriors/Steph. They attack your weaknesses. Kanter is our weakness on defense and it's finally being shown.
I think Kanter should have either Zach or Meyers on the court with him at all times. Zach should do his best to defend and block shots without getting in foul trouble. Meyers should hammer the shit out of anyone who drives into the lane. Cleanly, of course.
 
It took until the WCF for a team to finally target Kanter's PNR defense. If Stotts had kanter crowd the three point line Steph would blow by Kanter for 100% layups. Good coaches don't put their players in position to fail. We need Kanter on the floor and if he's going to be on the floor we have to live with Steph shooting 40% threes or whatever. You have to pick your poison against great teams/players in the Warriors/Steph. They attack your weaknesses. Kanter is our weakness on defense and it's finally being shown.
I'm sorry but this post is just a bullshit excuse to me. Jokic is a terrible defender but he was able to trap Dame last series and make it tough on him. Kanter didn't even attempt to hedge, blitz, or trap (obviously by design) Curry so how do you know it wouldn't work? Besides if we double Curry and guys like Bogut, Looney, Green, and Iggy end up beating us then I would be much more at ease with the fact that we at least would've TRIED to do something.
 
...luckily, it sounds like the Players understand what to do! :dunno:

"That was very poor execution defensively on our part," said Portland point guard Damian Lillard, who scored 19 points but was only 4-of-12 from the floor and committed seven turnovers. "Just having our bigs back that far; understanding the team we are playing against, they are not going to shoot midrange jumpers and try to attack the rim. If they see the opportunity to shoot a 3, they are going to tell you. They shoot it at a high clip. We've got to bring our guys up and run them off the line, and tonight, they were setting solid screens and coming off shooting practice shots.

"That's the last thing we need if we want to have any chance to beat this team."

Center Enes Kanter confirmed that the Blazers' game plan against Curry was for the on-ball defender to fight through screens while the big man dropped back in coverage.

"In the fourth quarter, we kind of changed it," Kanter said. "But I think it's going to change in the second game."

Figuring out better ways to contain Curry will be one of Portland's primary focuses during the day off before Game 2.

"Anything but what we did tonight," Blazers guard CJ McCollum said.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26752118/testy-stotts-blazers-left-seeking-curry-solution
 
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...luckily, it sounds like the Players understand what to do!

Everyone but the coach.

Sometimes I wonder, if Stotts was coaching another team and trying to defend Dame, knowing what he knows about Dame, would he use this same defensive scheme or would he trap? My thought is the former, and that scares me about him as a coach.

You can’t call yourself a championship contending team and only know how to play one defensive scheme. That just doesn’t work. Maybe in the regular season, but if you can’t adapt in the playoffs against different teams and different matchups, you deserve to be fired.
 
I've been asking to have multiple pick and roll schemes during each game for the entire 7 years of Stotts.

I just don't get running the same coverage every time when Curry is 9-15 on threes. If we blitzed sometimes, fell back sometimes, trapped sometimes, and hedge and recovered sometimes then Curry would have to take an extra second coming off the pick to think about what was coming at him. Instead all he had to do to get a wide open three was call for a pick and boom the guard got screened and the big was 10 feet away.

In the Denver and OKC series we got away with it because those teams missed a crap ton of open threes in those series. You can't get away with doing that against the Warriors. Everyone knows that except for apparently Stotts.
This blows my mind
 
We've all criticized the fuck out of him in every game we lost in the first 2 series..yet here we are. So I'm not gonna say shit after losing 1 game to the world champs in a 7 game series
If there was ever a loss to criticize him, its this one. You gotta criticize him when he obviously messes up.
 
If we couldn't adjust without Durant, then it proves how much better they are and how one dimensional Stotts can be. They actually play better as the Guards are taking the lions share of play making opportunities. We sucked and they look like Champions.
 
If we couldn't adjust without Durant, then it proves how much better they are and how one dimensional Stotts can be. They actually play better as the Guards are taking the lions share of play making opportunities. We sucked and they look like Champions.
They are still better team. With Nurkic we maybe had a shot, but like this, it's going to be really hard to take them down.
 
They are still better team. With Nurkic we maybe had a shot, but like this, it's going to be really hard to take them down.
Even with Nurk it is still the same defense scheme so you probably going have the same result on that end. But offensive might have been different due to he set better screens to free up Dame and CJ.
 
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