Damian is also a pretty atrocious defender. It's tough to have your best player be so bad on D, becuase it rings a little hollow when he tries to call others out for their deficiencies at that end.
I don't think Stotts is irreplaceable, so I'm not dead-set against firing him, but the problems with this roster go to the bone. Olshey is the one who really is responsible for this shit-show.
I agree, firing Stotts won't accomplish anything. And let's not forget the positive things he's brought. Olshey got way too excited about the "cinderella season" wanked off to this roster which wasn't even close to being ready.
You're... you're... you're seeing another forum? But I thought you said... you... I'm so hurt right now.
I wish that he had arranged to go out to dinner with Popovich and asked him for advice. I think Popovich would have tried to help him.
Hah, yeah right. Pop would have ordered an expensive bottle of wine and stuck Terry with the check. BNM
@BonesJones what coach would you like to see replace him? I wanted Lionel Hollins, before we got Stotts, but maybe a current assistant or a college coach? Ala Brad Stevens?
1-9 in the last 10 games. Ouch. Looks like 10 in a row is likely. Ow ow ow ow ow. Not good. Edit 0-10 it is.
Ducks players reportedly loved Helfrich....even though they had the worst defense in all of college football. Being liked is not a coaches job....winning is.
They weren't consecutive and hadn't it been for sheer luck and a fadeaway 3 at the buzzer it'd be none.
Unless the Blazers go on a tear during the easy stretch at the end of the season, Olshey is going to have to fire Stott's at some point -- to shift blame and save face. I'm guessing after the end of the season. Unless as I said, they finish the season strong. Then it's maybe 50/50?
Remember--any coach that loses to the Warriors in the playoffs, in the Steve Kerr era, gets fired within a year. Stotts and Billy Donovan should be afraid.
How did Stotts suddenly become the problem? All I've heard for the last 5 years is what a good job he has done of molding this young team and getting the most out of them.
GSW championship in 2015 was paved by luck and injuries doesnt' invalidate what they did. Hell even if Dame misses that shot, which isn't a fadeway he pulls straight up and shoots it, if your going to get me on the fuck up of consecutive i'm not going to let you slide on that that, we still have one more game even if it is in Houston and those two trips to the second round were two more trips to the second round then we had in the previous 12 years.
