Game Thread 2022-23 Game #12 BLAZERS @ PELICANS - NOVEMBER 10, 2022 - THURSDAY - 5:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

And more importantly: If Olshey was here and we sat Dame & Nurk, we would've played the NOP with Bazemore, Whiteside, Melo, Gaberial, and Hezonja. I think the outcome would've been different!

 

Watch carefully during the games. Billups is constantly coaching players where to be on defense and during their half court sets. I see him pull players aside after a stop in action too.

Stotts would let the same things happen over and over and stand there like a deer in the headlights. He relied on hero ball to win.

Kind of make sense he hasn’t been picked up by any other team.

 

I wonder if he would’ve run a zone. Or if we would of got pick and popped to death.

 

I've gotta say, the way the Blazers are playing is making Chauncey look like COY and Cronin look like a genius.

 

I've watched plenty of games. I've logged thousands of hours of games across the league. I've seen Phil Jackson coach great defenses without ever yelling or standing up. I've watched Luke Walton attempt to coach his ass of by telling guys where to be. The majority of coaching happens behind the scenes.

Talent/roster continues to be the most important thing. We were awful at defense last year under Billups and he was coaching equally as hard.

 

Both should be near the top for awards if the season ended today, no doubt!

 

NOP would've done whatever they wanted against those one-dimensional players. Tonight was a great win!

 

We knew they'd get to see bad cj though. When his shot is not falling he's a big liability

 

form a Pelicans forum:

 

yeah, but two of our wins are against the lowly Suns….

 

Hahaha some Pelican fans already want to trade CJ.

 

Don’t I just ate.

 

I watched the 4th quarter again. That was a thing of beauty. Grant was ridiculous.

 

You seem to think that schematically there’s nothing different between the two. All that matters is the players. I beg to differ. Stotts didn’t care about defense or he would’ve mixed it up instead of running the same pick and roll defense and having guys have career nights on us over and over

Remember that year where going into the season the media (maybe Quick) reported that Stotts was going to run a new scheme defensively? Only problem was he couldn’t coach it so he went back to the old same ol’ about 5 games in.

I don’t really remember Stotts even running any kind of zone. One of the main philosophies of a zone is to hide players who have defensive deficiencies.

 

Well CJ always benefitted from playing with robert covington.
roco was so bad, that it practically forced CJ to shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot, which he would have done, anyway, but when norm powell was to be his scoring mate, it, too, forced CJ to shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot.
Dunno what his reasons were tonight, but that sure was a powerful trio when they were in Portland.
Can't believe they all got traded.
Portland's GM must have gotten fleeced.

 

I think people on these boards have underestimated the Jerami Grant effect.

 

I think they have underestimated the Eubanks effect.

 

Happy for Little, tonight.

 

Covington two years prior to joining us was all defensive 1st team. Then, Stotts got to coaching him and taught him bad habits

 

In the DameCJ era Stotts never had defenders, or if he did they were useless on offense creating problems on that side of the ball. When he had a good balanced roster with Aldridge the defense was really very good.

Plenty to be happy about with the current team. Stotts wasn't the main thing holding back this franchise, although I do think Chauncey has a chance to be a better coach. Still think Stotts might be better than plenty of coaches with rings. Plus he was a great guy. Same as CJ, I'll be happy to root for them even though we've moved on.