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I watched on Brooklyn TV and they didn't say anything.
 
Jade Falcon said:
According to a reporter, Stotts left him out when the Nets went small because "he liked the athleticism that Davis has".
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Davis was the one consistently getting torched on defense by smaller guys, so what's the point? Nurk was having a great game. A good coach puts him in and makes the other team adjust. I mean the very notion that all a team has to do is go small in order to keep one of our best players on the bench is just amazing to me.
 
A whole new thread for this question......really?
 
HCP said:
A whole new thread for this question......really?
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Well he didnt play but 1 minute of the 4th Quarter and left the locker room pissed..

That news will eventually get its own thread if this isn’t one already
 
He left pissed? Didn’t see that tweet?
 
Nurk probably could have had a 30+ point game. A new career high.

I'd be pretty pissed about that too. Especially with the progress he's made.
 
1486334724394-StottsPost05FEB17_-1205764-5.576x324.jpg As you can see on my face, I have no answer for losing to the Brooklyn Nets. Perhaps Davis is suitable for small lineups because I Guessed he was athletic.
 
Missed the game last night, but just looked at the box score. Nurk had the best game 10-20, but only played 25 minutes. Oly had 1 foul, so I wondered what was up.

This team is at the end of it's rope guys. We need to fire Stotts, we NEED to break up CJ and Dame.

No more Fucking Mo Harkless either.
 
It is more than just that Stotts sat the most efficient starter last night. It's that because of his brilliant defensive philosophy, Ed Davis ended up 20+' from the basket over and over again. Did Stotts then adjust that? Did he have them fight through the screen? Did he hedge against a guy that isn't a great passer? Did he do ANYTHING AT ALL to help give his player/team a better chance to succeed?

On top of that, it is a passive, reactive way of coaching. Instead of making them have to deal with Nurkic (who only had 1 foul and 0 turnovers), he basically surrenders and takes our most effective player on this night out so that....(now think about this) we can match up with one of the worst teams in the NBA.

There are many things that I've disagreed with over the last few years with Stotts and from day 1, put him in the Mark Helfrich category of being a nice guy who is a good assistant but not a head coach. Last night was almost like he was trying to see how poorly or ineptly he could coach and still keep his job.
 
The one thing Davis is not great one on one defender especially on smaller guys out on out side the paint. If you was going small like that you play Vonleh not Davis. But then you don't leave your big man on the bench that was having a good scoring night when you was having problem with scoring. The last 2 games he has done the same thing.
 
Just when I think Stotts can't surprise me anymore with his idiotic moves, he pulls this shit... I'm glad I wasn't able to watch more than the last few minutes of last night's game, or I might have had an aneurysm. I'm not one to usually put too much weight on what Dwight Jaynes says, but on that show following the game he was just beside himself.
 
This why maybe Stotts didn't last to long from his last head coaching job.
 
I'm not a big Stotts fan. Something from that podcast: "people not moving and ball not moving". And the defensive problems TBpup talks about. And the seeming reluctance to bring in a real big man coach. And what seems to be a lack of accountability for players. As for the decision not to play Nurkic though, I don't know. Stotts wouldn't say it, but the last few possessions by Nurkic, he was not executing well or making good decisions and running ISO's for him seemed to be making our offense stagnant. But, considering our defensive strategy of switching, it seems Davis was not the right guy in there. Wouldn't Vonleh have been a better choice? Then I tried to think what if Harkless was our biggest guy, but who would be the other four? Lillard, McCollum, Turner and who? With Aminu out, what other medium sized guy do we have who can play defense?
 
I don't care who did or didn't play. If you don't play with effort you don't play in the game.
No Portland player showed effort last night.
Players and Coaches rightfully deserve some heat.

Oh sorry they played with effort for the first 6 minutes of the 4th quarter.
You know when the Nets were throwing up airballs, having turnovers... You know things bad teams do when you play defense against them.
 
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