Yay, KJ know's how to use Google! Way to completely miss my point. If that was the Blazers and you were saying to replace the Coach of the Year and were asked who you'd want to replace them with and you said Nick Nurse no one would take you seriously.
But Torey, some couple in Boston is having troubles too that means you have to stay with your current GF.
yeah..because everyone knows couples and dating is an adult comparison to a sports league and those couples compete for titles and positioning......I'd say this page has failed the BBIQ test....funny contract extensions weren't mentioned in the dumping the GF analogy...9 years of loyalty isn't your typical speed dating night out....and I've been with the same woman for 32 years....loyalty and respect make for a successful pairing. So does keeping a healthy household and a sense of humor....this thread has derailed
is it loyalty to mediocrity or just to status-quo? I guess in Portland's case those might be the same thing
We're making the playoffs.....enjoy the ride and my loyalty has been to anything but mediocrity.....water down your own expectations. It's a fun season if you will just let it be that . I just think a lot of this perpetual gloom about the team is habitual and not justified. Enjoy the thread....you know what's bullshit....that discontent and grumbling is the status quo for some ..y'all have fun with that
If me being disgruntled would increase the chances of the Blazers having deep runs in the playoffs, I would be all about it. Since it's not, I'm trying to enjoy the ride, even in the Telfair/Khryapa years.
I do enjoy the ride but I will not water down my expectations. That's some bullshit. Why should we have the longest tenured head coach in the history of the league without a conference finals win? Why should we have to have lower expectations than any other team? What you're saying is ludicrous. I have always and continue to love watching the Blazers play basketball but in my opinion part of being a fan of a team is wanting them to do the best they possibly can. I don't think keeping a GM and coach around for longer than any other organization would is doing the best the Blazers possibly can. I can love the team and want them to be better at the same time. You might think that it's some kind of weird binary situation where you either love the team and accept exactly what they are or you don't love the team and don't accept what they are. That's just not how I see it and it's definitely not how most sports fans see it.
If you think we've had top 2 rosters in the West, then this certainly would be a fair gripe. In my opinion, a coach with 3 HOF players, who wins 11 playoff games a year would be worth firing. While a coach who fails to get out of the 1st round with a crap roster, should keep his job until given a better roster. Obviously Stotts is somewhere in the middle of this, but success relative to roster talent is critial in my eyes.
Signing Becky could be really interesting. Blazers would make headlines all over the world as, you know, Trailblazers. Since we not aiming in Championship anyway and we just want to enjoy the ride, this would add some entertainment. Everybody would be interested how is Becky doing. I'm not sure how young, big athlete would react to woman as a coach, but again, it would be interesting. It would be interesting to see Lillard in this situation, cos being loyal to Stotts is somehow easy. It would put real pressure on Hammon to make good run and she would have to try hard to use Pops arsenal she learn in Spurs. Lillard is going to put this numbers and gonna take team out of shhh no matter who's on the bench. And if it was Olshey, who doing it, imagine how high he fly as GM if it pans out.
Let’s just give Stotts a lifetime contract until we get him the absolute “perfect” roster because having the greatest player in franchise history just hasn’t been enough. He needs more time because 9 seasons just isn’t enough sample size to evaluate what he can do. I mean let’s wait until about year 15 so a fair assessment can be made. We would be lucky to find a replacement coach that can produce the 28th ranked defense two seasons in a row. There aren’t many coaches out there with an impressive 0.344 career playoff win%. Who’s going to able to replicate this kind of production?
With a tenure this long and our best players that only he has coached and are defensive liabilities, how do we know with a certainty that we don't have a top 2 roster? This is why there is churn with coaches in the league. We don't know if Stotts is doing the best with this roster but I will go back to what I think should happen. Olshey should be fired for his lack of success, admitted inflexibility in moving too many players and the missteps he's made overpaying guys while bidding against himself. Then the new GM can decide what to do with Stotts. If the new GM wants to make some moves and see what Stotts can do with the new roster, so be it and if the new GM wants to go with a new coach of his choosing that would be fine too.
What's wrong with people not wanting to water it down and aiming for the top? Not everyone is the same and content at the same level of success. get rid of the gf analogy. I agree bad analogy. Lets keep it in business. Show me one company that looks at the previous years profit and loss aNd says, cool. Im okay with that forever every year. Not one. Every successful company is looking to out the competition and maximize profits. Why would the fans of the Blazers expect no less of their business they are emotionally invested in? at my company, we set goals and standards every quarter. NEVER have we set a watered down, mediocre goal to strive for. If we hit the goal, we celebrate. But we do not celebrate if we do not hit the goal. Even though the goal is an extremely difficult one to hit. We will still disperse bonuses, but its with the talk of needing to do better. Not being content with what we did do. Sometimes that discussion involves staff repositioning or changing of some staff members all together.
No i didn't miss anything you said but you sure seemed to miss what i said. Nick Nurse was gifted his roster. Where is he now? And no that wasn't Google (Sure i fact check. You should also). Everyone here knew Nick Nurse and we had multiple conversations about Nate Bjorkgren. I mean how can you forget a name like that? You are not the only one paying attention. All you have to do is read Darkwebs first post on the game threads to know who is coaching. If you actually listened to the Blazers pregames you would get most of this info. ***My point in response was two of those hires were from within the organization and the Blazers have a guy that might fit that bill in Nate Tibbetts. I'll bet if you go on a bunch of other fan boards for other teams only a few know the name Nate Tibbetts. I also brought up the "replace the COY "pages ago when i brought up how George Karl was replaced. This was in response to Brian Shaw. They went for almost two years before finding Mike Malone. Then what happened? The Nuggets still are trying to find the right coach because it obviously isn't Malone. Go back and read the thread. Over 100 pages now.
But it's over 100 pages so it must be valid! My wife and i do compete over the remote. I wonder if i should start shopping around to find one that doesn't watch TV? Better yet! One that only watches whatever i like to watch.
