Stotts has no upside. He's shown that he can't improve on his many struggles as a coach, and that will always hold this team back. The players have upside, but the situation doesn't have upside until we get rid of Stotts.
When Nurk came last year and did such fantastic things, it wasn't because of Stotts system. It was in spite of it. Now that Stotts has had time to stuff Nurk into his system, he has stagnated Nurk. Nurk doesn't move as much to come up and give screens and pic and roll it. Now nurk is taking jumpers, his under the basket game has weakned. Hes flopping and complaining. Hes basically become lamarcus Aldridge, thats what stotts is turning him into. A good coach should build a system around his players, Stotts stuffs players into his. A good coach looks at the different things each player brings and builds a system to bolster that. Stotts has no creativity. He forces players away from their strengths. He is a nice guy. But he is not a good coach. When all the fire stotts stuff started popping up last season I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. I tried to be on his side. But, I see what a cancer he is. Its time to go.
this starts and ends with protecting the ball and making shots....Stotts didn't have control of either of those elements....he has put the team in position to win close games so I disagree with your wanting to show last night's game as a normal Stotts game...it wasn't..he know that too....I think he's a great coach
I don't get this at all...but apparently I'm in the minority about Stotts....I blame Dwight Jaynes for this meltdown over him
what I've seen to me is not all on Stotts...said that....defense is better...offense is struggling...I think for bad execution reasons....as to the endgame...turnovers, turnovers, turnovers and a clang fest of bricks lost the game
I have a feeling well spent whole season saying: defense is improved, but offense is struggling Im not that optimistic offense will come around... and Im not buying that shit about statistics
... I said, did I? You mentioned you and someone else, that isn't me. Do you see why I asked the question?
Well Stotts offense been the same the last 3 years. He is jump shooting type of coach. Its not hard to guard by other teams. When we are on for that night we look great, but this year we been on the 1st 2 games. Since then we are hot or cold on our shooting that why you see spurts throughout the game. You go to the bread butter when our shots not going is the pick and roll with Dame and Nurk. But when they are not in it can be CJ or Napier with Davis. But we settle with the jump shot even if it not going in. Last year when we got Nurk him and Dame pick n roll teams to death or Nurk in the low posts and players cutting to the basket and he was delivering. Nurk setting the high screen for Dame and CJ and they was coming off that and delivering. We been successful in 1st Qt this year majority of the game why because we playing off Nurk like when we got him at the end of the year. The rest of the game we go back to a jump shooting team and been unsuccessful doing it. Now who fault is that it little on the players and a lot on the coach. Why I said the coach because he has to demand to the players that they play like how they started the game. If they get off course you call time out and put them back on course.
I have to agree with that. It's somewhat similar to what happened with Meyers. Remember the first year when he was a 50/40/90 guy but shot limited '3's? The longer he has been in Stotts' system, the farther he has gone from the basket until he is almost exclusively a 3-pt shooter....almost opposite from his first season.
Stotts system is take jump shots and 3s and get back on D. What happens is everyone ends up standing around waiting for the ball and the offense stagnates. It becomes very easy and predictable for opponents to defend us. There is no contigency. If we are missing those 3 pointers, missing those jumpers our offense goes to shit and we lose. There has to be a balanced attack when it comes to a succesful offense. There has to be an equilibrium, taking shots both in the paint, a moderate amount of jumpers, and some well placed 3 pointers.
Honest question not being snarky but you think the Blazer talent, in the West, since Stotts took over should yield an above .500 winning %?
I'll say this: it could be a LOT better than what it is right now if we didn't keep making the same stupid fucking errors game after game. Eventually, you have to look at the coaching staff for that. I KNOW most of the players on our team are better than they are playing at right now, because I've seen it.
