But calling timeouts and stopping a team from completely falling apart and coaching them back in the game is part of it. Stotts failed last night. He doesn't fail all the time but last night me made some mistakes.
I didn’t track his timeouts so I have no idea what he had left. Maybe he could’ve called some or one more not sure. I think if it was a close game and he didn’t use them it’s worse. Last night was a total debacle and the players got what they deserved.
Well, if the point is that international coaches have success like Blatt.... it's more of is there a Z in the X and Y variants? Correlation/Causation type of deal. Just because he had the amazing record, that doesn't make him the best coach if there is a variable such as Lebron. Lebron can and has taken complete scrubs to the finals, regardless of how the conference looked (and that in itself is a variable).
Ettore Messina He is an ex international coach that has won 4 Euro championships and has a winning background. He is currently an assistant for the Spurs and yes he has European ties. I think he would be a good replacement if indeed Stotts did leave. Not that i think he is going anywhere. But the question was "Who would you replace him with?" I would think he would also bring along some chances at some good Euro talent beings the Blazers seem to have a hard time attracting American Talent. That was all. But Blatt got thrown into the conversation. Trying to compare Portland to the situation Cleveland was in doesn't really fit the scenario. But Blatt did not do a bad job and his replacement Tyronn Lue has done nothing better. But that is a totally different conversation.
Oh I agree--I'm just saying the coaches are adjusting to this change in timeouts too. I'm sure Pop isn't calling nearly as many early timeouts as he used to (I believe he's called a timeout fives seconds after tip off before haha).
If you think that was Blatt, I've got some beachfront Arizona property for you. Careful, it's going fast!
Exactly. You have to take the derivative of both Lebron and Blatt and then multiply that by sum of all the other player's on the teams ppg in order to make any get any sort of statistical understanding of their impact.
You were selling swamp land in Florida the other day? And if you want to make a sale you say "Hurry it's going fast" Not "Careful"
That would totally be Scott Thomason right there (going from cars to property)! If you don't come see me today, I can't save you any money.
