Did I ever demand stats in a coaching discussion? Thats an honest question, I dont remember haha. Some stats are subjective, especially if you're trying to use them to evaluate coaches. If I ask for stats then that's different, the situation I'm talking about is when I'm questioning our defense in this years playoffs and I'll hear about what we were ranked 2 or 3 years ago.
Agreed. Part of it is I hold him to a higher standard than most but that goes toward the organizational mindset that I created a thread about.
My whole thing is if someone verbally disagrees with a basketball criticsm of mine in regards to Stotts, I want them to address my point. So often I get people acting like none of my criticisms are legit, media insulting me for them, but then they dont even address my actual criticism, they just respond with broad talking points that arent even relevant.
Nobody had time to script the responses to the scripted questions.
As much as we may love him as a player and respect his knowledge of the game, it also seems okay to question when perhaps he is too close to something....like his coach.
To be fair, he did think Meyers was a great pick, thinks CJ is a legit Robin to his Batman, and doesn't believe in fast break easy baskets.
If the biggest case for retaining Stotts is because he was a successful assistant almost a decade ago.
I agree that there are more creative ways that Stotts could address the trap but there are a lot of times that CJ gets the ball, actually it's more than 1/3 of the time that he gets it on the wing, not at half court, with either wide open teammates he could get the ball to or him being wide open himself and CJ chooses to dribble the ball instead of taking the 4 on 3 advantage. I also think if Nurk made faster decisions and sometimes he does, getting him the ball up top (even 30 feet out) should result in easy baskets too; either him driving down the open lane and scoring at the hoop or if he has a guy on him finding the open teammate. We see CJ do the right thing every once in a while so we know it could happen but he turns down a lot of opportunities in which Dame has gotten him the ball in an advantageous situation off of the trap.
I don't love Stotts, he could do a lot of things better but this is just bullshit if you ask me. Comparing the playoffs to the regular season is pure craziness. Look at what "good coaches" records are in the playoffs. There are very few with a record over .500. Winning a third of your games in the playoffs isn't bad. It's not the regular season. I also think Stotts needs to adjust better in the playoffs and there have been one or maybe two playoff series where I was really pissed at him, definitely the NOLA sweep but other than that his teams got beat by the better teams. That run last season was a good run, I don't really care how it ended, just that it ended at the conference finals (I do wish it ended with a championship but that team didn't have a chance). I also think pointing out what a coaches record is in series that he lost is pointless. The way you are quantifying this it's like you better either miss the playoffs, sweep opponents, lose in 7 games or win championships without going to game sevens otherwise you're fucked. If a coach got to the finals every year for three years going to game seven in every series except getting swept out of the finals all three years and then the next year won the championship going seven games in every series including the finals... that would be a pretty fucking awesome run and that coaches winning percentage in the playoffs would be .505. That translates to a 41-41 record for an 82 game season... pretty underwhelming until you realize that coach just won four straight conference championships and one NBA championship. Another example is a coach that goes to the playoffs seven straight seasons but loses in the first round in seven games all seven post-seasons. Was that coach more successful than Stotts who has also gone to the playoffs for seven straight seasons and has won 4 series, making it to the conference finals once? The answer is obviously no that other coach wasn't more successful than Stotts but that coach has a win percentage in the playoffs of .429 compared to Stotts' playoff win percentage of .357 in the same time span. Do you see how your statistics are kind of shitty? Don't get me wrong, I would have fired Olshey and Stotts a while ago but that doesn't mean that the numbers you are using paint an accurate picture.
