That’s ludicrous. Coaching is a fraternity and nobody is going to talk “out their ass” about another coach. Similarly players, for the most part, don’t delve into providing criticism of any coach unless they’re angling for a trade. It’s a slippery slope for both coaches and players to comment on the competency of a peer or another team’s coach.
What I have heard, especially in the last five or six national broadcasts, is that the Blazers offense is very limited and iso-heavy. Phrases like “it’s very simple” and “they run the same play every time down the court” are commonplace now during nationally televised Blazers games. It’s only the local homer broadcasters that refrain from this critique.
Other than Lillard and McCollum, who out there is calling Stotts an offensive genius? Rick Carlisle (?) while he absolutely destroys Stotts’ game plan?