Stotts New Coach

[VanillaGorilla]

Sorry PG...... But I'm very close with Canalas and he's not that kind of person. Can't see him acting like that ever.

Did you read the post you responded to? haha

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Did you read the post you responded to? haha

give him a break, its hard to read his blackberry while riding my lawnmower..

 

[jlprk]

The jackass who said that Canales said a bad thing, reversed it almost immediately, like about 2-3 posts later, admitting it was a bad joke.

But let's go kick his ass anyway.

 

[PapaG]

Sorry PG...... But I'm very close with Canalas and he's not that kind of person. Can't see him acting like that ever.

I think you read my post wrong, HCP. I said the opposite about him.

 

[MARIS61]

So you are saying to our GM, "don't be informed, don't give your coach input, and don't work as a team". Your coach is not allowed to use the GM as a resource.

No, I'm saying Paul Allen has always and will always pick his Coach's Assistant Coaches, regardless of whom the Coach actually would prefer. And it's a fool's folly born of arrogance and ignorance.

Tell your new coach "he is on his own in deciding who his assistants are and he will have to negotiate their salary as well. And although we are a team we do not act as a team."

Now you're just making shit up.

In the end I think it is Stotts' call who his assistants are. Neil said as much in the press conference. But wouldn't it be nice to have a GM who is informed?

It would.

It would also be nice to have an owner who hired coaches before the draft and gave them a chance to bring in the players they wanted. It would also be nice to have an owner who gave his coach complete freedom to choose his own assistants. Assistants are merely tools to accomplish the job at hand, but crappy or inapropriate tools will doom the successful completion of the job every time.

example:

ABM (Paul Allen) can hire the best musician (Coach) in the world to play at his wedding (coach his team). But if he then insists the musican, a pianist in this example, play a saxophone rather than a piano, the wedding will be a disaster and the new Mrs. ABM (the fans) will not have the beautiful wedding (Championship) to forever remember.

ABM may try to blame the pianist for the embarrassing fiasco (lottery again), but Mrs. ABM knows who ruined her wedding and it will be ABM who ends up sleeping on the couch.

Lucky for ABM he's waaaaaaaaaay smarter than Paul Allen, and I have no doubt his wedding will be the kind of memorable event the Blazers experienced back in 1977. I remember it fondly as if it was yesterday.

 

[jlprk]

A close friend of Canales says he's doing "a slow stew." He has many allies among players, coaches, and administration, and can make Stotts' short stay here difficult.

I made up a bad joke. He didn't say that. Canales is a good guy, just unqualified.

I'm the jackass, but to my credit, I realized that some would believe it, and quickly corrected it. To repeat--he didn't say that.

 

[PapaG]

I'm the jackass, but to my credit, I realized that some would believe it, and quickly corrected it. To repeat--he didn't say that.

Memo to board:

Never believe another thing jlprk posts.

 

[jlprk]

Memo to board:

Never believe another thing jlprk posts.

That is correct.

 

[Eastoff]

Memo to board:

Never believe another thing jlprk posts.

He is Mixim's other personality, after all.

 

[MickZagger]

Meh.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Stotts coaching abilities, much like this year's team, have easily exceeded all of my expectations.

Some of the comments, many of them were mine, are hilarious to read in hindsight.

 

[MickZagger]

Stotts coaching abilities, much like this year's team, have easily exceeded all of my expectations.

Some of the comments, many of them were mine, are hilarious to read in hindsight.

Oh wait, you actually have opinions on basketball?

 

[andalusian]

Oh wait, you actually have opinions on basketball?

Says the person with an avatar of Taylor Swift's uglier sister...

 

[ripcityboy]

Says the person with an avatar of Taylor Swift's uglier sister...

Now THAT'S funny!

 

[Sedatedfork]

I think he will be a good coach. (Mods can you please reposition and redate this post for right after OP, thanks).

 

[B-Roy]

Meh

Yay?

I don't really get it. But, I'm not going to scream bloody murder about this because I think he's a stopgap anyways.

Why keep just Kaleb when you can keep Kaleb and hire Stotts? Obvious choice, but still underwhelming.

Stotts has a great offensive mind, so for that alone, he will be light years better than Nate. Will he get as much out of the roster? Maybe? Point is, this was a decent hire. I would have preferred Blatt, but oh well

Looking at his teams in the past I don't see how he even comes close to the candidate of D'Antoni.

But I'm hoping for the best!

Wow at some of the initial reactions. I'm glad I didn't post in this thread, I would have been dead wrong.

 

[illmatic99]

He still doesn't have a contract for next season. I wonder if coaching free agency will ever reach the heights of player free agency.

In some instances, these coaching transactions are of massive importance.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

He still doesn't have a contract for next season. I wonder if coaching free agency will ever reach the heights of player free agency.

In some instances, these coaching transactions are of massive importance.

lol I would love for that to happen, seeing coaches given bottle service and strippers to get him to coach their team would be awesome.

 

[Draco]

He still doesn't have a contract for next season. I wonder if coaching free agency will ever reach the heights of player free agency.

In some instances, these coaching transactions are of massive importance.

The team has an option for him next season so he is under contract. They likely come up with a new longer contract this summer.

 

[Draco]

He still doesn't have a contract for next season. I wonder if coaching free agency will ever reach the heights of player free agency.

In some instances, these coaching transactions are of massive importance.

No because there's no rules or prohibitions on how teams can employ coaches. They could pay a coach $100 million a season or whatever. Players have the strict salary rules to maintain even competition. There isn't a concern of cornering the market on coaches.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Wow at some of the initial reactions. I'm glad I didn't post in this thread, I would have been dead wrong.

Was I though? This new era is a carbon copy of MDA's outside-in fast paced basketball.

The Warriors run MDA's system better than anyone.

Stotts isn't too far behind. He has certainly exceeded expectations.