Notice Chauncey Billups new Portland Trail Blazers head coach

Here’s what you do.
You tell Dame tough shit, put your big boy pants on, and we will trade you in a couple years for a bunch of garbage picks and scrubs.

Unless we get a great return. Otherwise you pull a Popovich and tell him look, we aren’t going to get anything remotely as valuable as you are, so get ready to lose the next 4 years of your career sitting out, or let’s figure this out.

 

nah...he'll retire a Blazer at 43 to beat Vince Carter's record and Dame, Lebron and Melo will buy the Blazers then with the profits from Space Jam 7

 

I kind of disagree with that, it's basketball. Basketball is the same sport whether you're a man or a woman.

What I don't get, is when people just bring up her resume and her glowing recommendations as a reason why she should get the job. In my field, the resume and recommendations is exactly how you get the interview, but how you perform in the interview is usually much more important. I've been on both sides of the interview process and I've seen people with less experience come in and do better work than people with 4-5 years of additional experience. I've also see extremely experienced hires bomb after getting the job and get fired within months. It's somewhat of a crapshoot, but usually the interview is the most predicative tool.

I was pretty excited when I heard Becky was going to on the list of interviewee candidates, until I started looking into more of her history. She's interviewed for many positions and hasn't been able to get past the first round in any of them. That is a red flag. You would think she would at least make final rounds somewhere given how many places she's gotten a look. Now I don't deny that gender dynamics is at least a consideration if you're going to hire her. I mean, it kind of has to be. But that's also why you need to make sure that if you hire her, that she is the most exceptional and capable candidate for the job. Like it or not, being the first woman to become the head coach of an all-male league does set a precedent, and if she bombs it will set a negative precedent in the future for all other female candidates vying for a head coaching position.

Like I said, I think a female head coach is inevitable at some point, (and I'm all for it!) but I don't believe Hammon will the first.

 

We should assume Chauncey outperformed D'Antoni and Hammon in the Seattle sit down interviews...like the NBA championship....several great teams are not going to win it but those three were contenders

 

It's like I'm listening to the "LA won't leave us!" crowd all over again.

 

There are vast differences tho within leagues. Euroleague and how players are coached there for example is different than in the NBA. Players are there to serve the head coach. It’s not a players driven league like in the NBA and you’ll see coaches be super successful there that would never survive over here. Actually, I don’t remember the last euroleague guy that came over and was that successful.

I don’t know as much about the WNBA, but it may as well be college when compared to the NBA. Different speed, different pressures. It’d be like comparing minor league baseball to the majors. Same sport, sure, but very different.

 

If he wants to leave (which most wouldn't want to happen) then he needs to work it out or finish his contract. Obviously we would like him to re-sign here but if the man wants to relocate then Im sure he will work with Portland to orchestrate a trade.
These are young men that came into the league at very young ages, and if they want to move on, I understand. If they want to stay, its speaks well of not just the city, but management, coaching and fandom these days can cut both ways.
What were you doing at thirty and were you convinced you'd be doing the same thing in the same forever if you had other great opportunities as options?

 

Sure, but playing and coaching are two completely different skillsets. There have been plenty of guys who have come through Portland that had shit BBIQs. I mean... Travis Outlaw.... really nice guy... dumb as a box of rocks. Played in the league for 11 years. Doesn't mean I'd want him coaching anyone. Teaching and leadership are a skillset all their own. Being a really good player doesn't mean you possess either of them. Does Billups have them? He seems to have the leadership quality and some of the videos would lead me to believe that he knows his stuff, but will he be good at adjustments? Will he be good at rotations? Will he be able to reign in a player that is being selfish? I have no idea. I can only hope. Maybe Becky would have been good at those things too. I don't know. But being a really good player doesn't mean squat to me. Just like not all good employees make good managers. People skills are a key component that not everyone possesses.

 

I'm not saying it's 1:1, but to say it's completely irrelevant is not being realstic imo.

 

Mike D

 

I do know that BonesJones stated on Blazers Uprise not too long ago that he heard rumors from a Spurs source about some of these same types of concerns about Hammon. Odd that he would have such information prior to this dramafest. Odd in the sense that people are speculating it doesn't have merit, whereas if it was a prior rumor then it would lend more credence to it being true.

 

Bones was repeating what he saw here from @calvin natt

 

hmmm

 

And the same thing was echoed by the Bleacher Report today.

"Hammon impressed Portland officials and was generally liked among Blazers staffers, sources said. But when Portland reached out for intel from San Antonio figures, the background on Hammon was not nearly as complimentary pertaining to various aspects of day-to-day coaching responsibilities. That sentiment has been echoed by sources around the league. Blazers personnel then cast doubt that Hammon was the candidate to steer the ship through such delicate waters with Lillard."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...ed-nba-head-coaching-hires-in-portland-dallas

 

I mean LeBron pretty much runs the Lakers but I felt I was forgetting someone.

My brain has a default where I never think about the Lakers unless I see something about them lol.

 

Agree, resume gets interview, not offer. Agree, great players can be lousy coaches. Very possible Blazers thought Billups best fit. And it's water under the bridge. My point was that Hammon has qualifications beyond being an assistant.

Also possible some men don't want a female coach. Polls have consistently shown people will vote for a female Senator who would not vote for a female Governor or President. The idea of women in charge ruffles feathers.

But I am old enough to remember hearing white guys wouldn't want to play under a Black manager/ head coach. That is now considered stupid. Thing is, it always was.

I wish Billups success. I hope Hammon has a stellar NBA coaching career.

 

Keep whatever you two do in your personal time to yourself

 

I poorly-worded my post and you make an excellent point.

Keep the humility and overcome the shame and embarrassment.

 

Blazer Reddit is a much younger and more immature version of Twitter. Half of them seemingly don’t know the difference between a civil suit and a criminal conviction.

Lurking that sub is a fascinating read of double standards and ignorance. Someone posted that stuff about Hammon long before she was a candidate for the Blazers job. I can’t remember where it was, but I saw it.