Your poll was apparently written by Paul Allen, as it doesn't include his name as a choice. Clearly, PA and his refusal to hire a Real GM and give him power to make decisions has hampered the team's success ever since PA bought the team decades ago. Nerdly micromanagement by a distracted and disinterested tight-fisted billionaire has made a sad joke of a once miraculous organization. Please PA, just sell!
Please keep me out of your wet dreams. I am happily married for over 35 years. It's also called cupwizier.
Stotts' signature is to have some players play faster than they are capable of. Often this makes the defense make mistakes because they're not used to the pace. But often, the pace causes the same increase in Blazer mistakes. Like missing shots, as you said. P.S. After Stotts' first year here, other teams copied him (at lest when they play us), and the "mistake differential" diminished. The gimmick isn't so obviously effective now. (Now someone will show pace statistics. I don't care; I'm using the eyeball method.)
His system didn’t garner those. They were given to us because the other team decided to play 4-2 by triple teaming our backcourt, which is the result of having an elite backcourt. The offense didn’t earn that. What he should’ve done, recognizing we are a poor shooting team, is utilized off ball movement, screens and ball movement to get better looks, such as dunks as layups, like The Pelicans were getting.
I don't know, I only got to watch four games that counted before the Blazers were eliminated! It appears that other teams don't try 100% during the regular season, and then try harder in the playoffs, where we try 100% during the regular season and then get steamrolled in the playoffs.
I think that's a false narrative to think others don't try in the regular season and we do. No evidence to support that.
Maybe how we don't get any better in the playoffs and our opponents do? Or was New Orleans always going to sweep us?
First sweep was from the Warriors who pretty much swept there way to the championship. We could have played them in the WCF and the same outcome would have been likely. The Pelican series as I see it was a perfect storm where they were hot and we were slumping at the wrong time. They beat us, that's a fact. I don't know if it would happen again the same way. You want to take one series and claim that it will always happen the same way. Neither of us can claim we know what would happen. Remember when we lost years ago to the lakers with Shaq and then traded Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis? We lost an MVP candidate because of that. In hindsight it turned out to be a very bad deal, but it was understandable at the time. The message from that is sometimes making big changes doesn't always work out for the best. Since Stotts has been here we have been in the playoffs all but one year and 2 out of those 5 years we made it to the second round so we don't always get swept in the playoffs as we had a great series against Houston as well as the Clippers as we were on our way to winning the 4th game and tying the series before the injuries hit the Clippers and could have still won the series.
You don’t want to take one playoff series and claim that it will happen the same way, but you are ok taking one 13 game win streak and claiming it will happen the same way, meaning this is a close to 49 win team... when in reality they were 36-37 including playoffs outside of that one win streak... this Dame/CJ team is a .500 ball club, you need to accept the reality
Literally the most frustrating team to watch before that streak. You never knew what you were going to get. That's why I say "Olshey gets mad at us for looking at 4 games that were more indicative of 69 games, than the 13 games that were indicative of the 13 games." It's really not that hard when people look at it objectively. I love this team and will always support it, but come on - there's so much wrong with it. Coach, GM, Players, schemes.
Really? Please find that post where I said that 13 game winning streak would happen again. It appears you are making a false claim as to what I have said. Let's stick to the truth. I find it confusing how one can just totally dismiss a fact that we won 13 games in a row. That would be not accepting reality. Also, can you tell me what our record was before the winning streak? If you want to remove our winning streak can we also take away any losing streaks as well? Can't just have it one way.
My suggestion to you is to look at the record before the streak and project it out to 82 games. What do you come up with?
It's so hard to pin point one thing as being the biggest problem. It could be a combination of problems. We don't pass enough, which is on Dame and CJ, but is that because of Terry? Or are Dame and CJ just ball hogs? Is there not enough talent on our roster and that's why our assist numbers suck? Is that on Neil? Does changing one thing potentially solve some of the bigger issues?
And just like any winning and losing streak they come to an end. I see people on here wanting Paul Allen to sell the team, fire Olshey, fire Stotts, trade Lillard, trade McCollum, don't resign Nurkic or Davis . Do you agree with all that? Would you be okay with a possibility of multiple years in the lottery?
