Iggy and Barbosa Bogut that year second team all D Klay 5 time all star Curry pretty good That roster was loaded Whats he done last coupe years ?
on a below average team right now too. Both those guys were top 2-5 pics? How many top 1-5 picks do we have? The old guy...lol
That could definitely be random, but I'll chalk it up to Golden State honing in on things later into games and picking it apart, as well as picking up their defensive intensity and getting out on the break. You dont think that being a little better defensively wouldve altered a couple one possession games?
To answer your last question, yes I fully agree with you. I'm confused as to why we were able to start so well for 2-3 quarters in a row for 3 straight games and then struggle to finish.
...I might have to create a program that will make a post on this thread every 15 minutes until Terry is fired -- that way this thread will stay at the top until then -- @SlyPokerDog wants too much money in fees to make it a "sticky" thread!!
5 minutes left in the 4th quarter, in a tightly contested game ... so what does the coach of the 3rd worst defensive rating team of all-time do? He subs out our best defender in Robert Covington in place of CJ McCollum who was ice cold all game long (6-19). His strategy to win this game was to really finish with a lineup of Dame/CJ/Norm/Melo/Nurk ... you can not make this shit up. We also got a heavy dose of Melo/Kanter in the second-half as well ... Terry knows you can go small if Melo has it rolling and play DJ, Nas, Harry, or RHJ, right?
Nobody thought the Warriors had an awesome lineup going into Kerr's first year. I remember the projections here--I was among the highest on their roster and I only had them as a 4/5 seed (and I remember being questioned for having them so high). Nobody thought Draymond Green was anything, and he hadn't been prior to then, and while Curry was a rising star, he wasn't remotely a superstar. Klay Thompson was merely a good player. Iguodala was a veteran on the downside of his prime. Harrison Barnes was a disappointment. Shaun Livingston was a decent role-player. People love to go with revisionist history that Kerr walked into a superstar factory that was manufacturing Finals appearances, but that wasn't remotely the situation until after he began coaching them and imposed his system.
I’m going to be completely honest. I have give up on this season and I’m actively hoping we lose so Stotts is fired and we trade CJ. I’m in it for the long game at this point. I’m not at all interested in watching us get smoked in the first round again. I’m hoping we miss the playoffs and get a lottery pick. Fire Terry. Fire Neil. Trade CJ. We need something drastic to finally cause the shakeup this team needs. Some of you might think I’m a bad fan (I probably have you on ignore at this point anyway) but so be it. I want some changes dammit.
I think the "Worst team I've seen in my lifetime" thread was a good indicator you gave up 2 games into the season. PS - I don't think you're a bad fan.
Mark Jackson’s last year they were 51-31. Klay was 23 averaging 18, David Lee 18-9, and Steph 24. They had a great defensive center in Bogut, younger Igoudala, and Barnes. They were good. Mark Jackson was a bad coach, but when they replaced him it was still somewhat controversial because 51-31 coaches don’t get fired often. Kerr did a good job not screwing anything up. He’s basically a poor mans Phil Jackson.
I think the Jackson/Kerr example gets misapplied to the Portland situation far too often. Klay, Green, and Barnes were still on their rookie contracts with plenty of natural upside bound to occur. To think Dame's supporting cast of CJ, Nurk, and RoCo have a lot of upside growth in front of them would be overly optimistic.
I said this to someone in the game thread that said "let's go Celtics". I understand where you're coming from. I want Olshey, Stotts and CJ gone and have for quite some time now but I still root for the Blazers every night. I was hoping that last legitimate shot from Dame went in to give us the lead. I can't help myself. However, your way of looking at things is very logical. We need Stotts gone and major roster turnover in order to get a contender around Dame and Olshey hasn't shown that he's willing to give that to us. I just hope that @KSF-ERIC isn't Jody Allen and Chris McGowan's shared account on here because if that's the case, even if we miss the playoffs we're not making any moves because Olshey, Stotts and CJ walk on water and the only reason we're losing is because fucking Zach is out. Yeah, if Dame is on board, let's burn it all down around him and rebuild... if he's not, let's burn it to the ground.
Just proves that blaming the defense on him is fair. He doesn’t give a FUCK about getting stops. That is clear from his rotations.
I didn't love the lineup either, but pointing out a stretch where we outscored our opponent by 7 points in 5 minutes probably isn't one of the stronger points you could make. Little, Jones, and RoCo were a combined -23 tonight... none of them in the positive. I still would have liked to have seen RoCo in over Melo as well though.
I agree completely but hoping for either to have physical harm come to them is an absolute must not. I don't want them on the Blazers but I hope that they are both very successful and happy now and going forward.
