I'm late to the party, but fuck it the day bbq got me drunk. Okay I have been a Stotts fan for the duration. But the other night was the first of three strikes, and after three strikes... your out. He didn't get a strike, until I heard his post game comment that he played small ball to try to counter their small ball. If we were getting slaughtered, I would accept that, but we were in the game and Nurk was our best player that night. MY biggest issue with all of this is we are a good team, why the fuck are you adjusting to them???????????? We have the best 2 to 3 players on the court and you adjust to them and dont give it to one of our big three that is the man that night and force them to adjust or us? This is bullshit right here. Force them to adjust to us. Don't adjust to them... Turner as our power forward? I left in the middle of the fourth, because I could see Stotts was gonna go with it for the duration and it wouldn't work.... Now we have a pissed off big man(albeit a drama queen) and a pussy coach that just wants to adjust to others schemes? Our record is what we are....
Live and die by the three. Barkley is right. What team has won by threes? And be real. Threes as the first option or main offensive scheme? When threes have been relevant on a championship team it has always been icing on the cake and something else was the foundation. This picknroll is some of the best i've seen in years...from any team!! Build the offense around Nurk's PnR and then the plethora of options we have will come to fruition and we will dominate!!!!
The ever-declining effort and listlessness we've seen since around the heartbreaker vs. the Clippers feels like a coaching issue, but the overall decline in 3 point accuracy as a team, and the regression of certain players like Damian, and Harkless from 3, and not having Crabbe are really starting to show up in the offense. Bottom line: this is a weirdly mismatched set of players, combined with some below average performances, paired with a coach who doesn't seem capable of getting much out of them -- maybe as much of an Olshey problem as it is a Stotts problem? I dunno, almost feels like the chicken or the egg.
Yeah its it either threes or dame and cj going into a cramped paint with four opponents camped out and instead of passing it out, trying to take some wild lay up, usually losing the ball in the process or completely missing. We have to work on taking high percentage shots. The offense has to keeping moving till we get open clean shots. A flowing offense in constant motion equals high percentage shots. The higher the number of assists the better the offense.
Unfortunately I cannot see us making the playoffs this year. We are weak, not talented enough. Stotts is to blame too, but I don't think just a better coach is enough. We need better players than Turner, Mo, Aminu etc.
This thread keeps mentioning the Dwight Jaynes chatter, so I found it. http://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/author/dwight-jaynes
Yep, I have repeatedly said this is a poorly constructed roster especially for the coach we have and style we play
Dwight wrote about all of that but it's not like it hadn't already been brought up here numerous times. Jaynes was spot on...as have been the people bringing this up not only this year but last season as well. It doesn't make them haters. It makes them observers.
Like I said in the game thread (I think?), Terry Stotts is the Mike Riley of the NBA. Predictable. Makes stupid mistakes. Doesn't instill a good defensive ploy. Produces an easily readable offense and defense. And like how Mike Riley had won just enough to keep the idiots at OSU happy, Terry does just enough to keep people happy with him here. They need an upgrade at three positions. 1. SF 2. PF 3. Coach. That isn't listed in order of importance either.
Portland averages 4.6 points per game off the break. Golden State gets 27.2. So, the best team in the league seems to think getting points on fast breaks is a good idea, but we don't? If we have too many turnovers on fast breaks, then maybe we need to practice them more?
for the meltdown here...yeah...he primed the pump...and I can't stand the guy...I'm still cheering for the team and enjoying the season....I think the Blazers will be fine...sure we had a stinker against the nets....shit happens...Stotts pulled Nurk......Popovich pulls his starters for entire games all the time....it's how you get a good bench...the way I see it, Stotts trusted the bench and they didn't play well. Trust the process and move on...get the next one. TURNOVERS LOST THE GAME
I'm still not a fan of Stotts and if a better replacement can be found, I'm all for it. But the more I read and the more I think about it, I'm good with him benching Nurkic. I myself observed that Nurkic was getting sloppy on the offensive end in the second half. Didn't seem to be making good decisions on when to shoot and when not to, and wasn't in good position to make some of the shots he was trying. Then I read that Vanterpool (a guy I respect) was yelling at him a couple times, apparently concerning lack of hustle on defense. This lack of effort was confirmed by posters on another forum. I'm one of those who say that a shortcoming of Stotts is that he doesn't hold players accountable; well, this time he did, and the guys who were still out there should have been able to carry on and win that game. Stotts tried to help Nurkic save face, by saying he was out because he wanted to match Nets small ball. I still question whether Davis was the best choice to be out there and the lack of any plan as to what to do if Russel got ISO'd on Davis again, but I'm OK with sitting a guy down if you don't think he is giving defensive effort and is making bad decisions on offense.
The game is only on Monday, Wtf... long long time. Im very afraid because I lost all confidence I have in Stotts
They need to practice and address some problems that caused losses like the last one...it's good they got a couple days to study film and work on stuff
they had plenty of time to prepare before Friday's awful loss at home, lets hope we see a better result this time
The problem wasnt the bench in that game we 2 players in double figures and believe we got 30 points off the bench. Our problem is the coaching decision at the end of the games I can over look at if this was the first time to have the wrong personal on the floor during crunch time but this was back to back games he did the same stupid mistake. You must have your best player in at crunch time simple facts and if you lose than lose. But not having one of your best player in there at crunch that don't make sense. You bench Nurk the last 3 plus minutes I believe against Memphis and then the last 11 minutes against the Nets. I am not saying fire Stotts but he has to be smarter though in crunch time. Believe me the players has some faults too for not excuting in crunch time.
