Like you did with @HCP? Don’t be a hypocrite. Start owning your own shit. You whine when @HCP hurts your tender feelings but then come on like a recalcitrant jack wad when it comes to insulting others. Opinions are like assholes....and this forum has a surplus of both those things. Get over it....and yourself. Basketball is just a fucking game. If you can’t keep that in perspective then life is just waiting to dump a pile of shit on top of your head....
Riverman gets along with everyone. If you can't get along with him then the problem is with you. In reading the exchange between you two I would say you're the one ranting.
@UncleCliffy'sDaddy is also ranting but he's normally pretty mellow. I heard rumors that he smokes the marijuanas. He'll stop ranting once he lights up again.
Yeahhh maaaannnn..........that Bones dude is harshing my mellow........gotta fire up just to sign onto the forum anymore.... Actually, maybe Bones should give it a try........
I know. And actually.........you have no idea how close to the truth you......and I.......are. But I’m thinking Denny might want to create a suicide hot line for the forum at the start of every season. Though it’s obviously too late for this season.....
@riverman I may not always agree with you about our Blazers, but I always enjoy our conversations. Hope to have many more to come, buddy!
Okay, then @UncleCliffy'sDaddy needs to really change his name to UncleSpliffysDaddy. We need that sponsorship money, too.
Maybe. It was a pretty impressive run at the time, though--every opposing coach the Warriors faced in the 2015 playoffs and then the coach of their 2016 first round opponent, fired within a year. Donovan and Stotts broke the curse, though. They hadn't yet faced the Spurs in the playoffs, during the Steve Kerr era, when I made that post (last year).
Not only that, I saw Ed O liked something. It's like we're getting the old mailing-list gang back together again!
I think Terry is basically a net zero coach - he does very little that adds to or detracts from how the team would perform without a coach. I'd also put a +4/-4 on him, in that from season to season his coaching will add or subtract as many as 4 games from a team's record.
Posters always whine about "This shit with HCP", yet never want to stop bringing that up. Guess what.. Guys like you are the reason that shit is still a thing. It's been done with for months.. Let it go for fucks sake. You're offended because I said Stotts defenders are getting ridiculous. Seriously? That's the least insulting "insult" I've ever heard of.
Its not just Stotts. The whole culture is good, but not elite. I always remember the remark LMA made about the difference between Portland and the Spurs when he arrived there; and he remarked that the Spurs differ because 'everything is all about winning from the ground all the way to the top, at all times'. In contrast, from the outside looking in, our culture seems to be good friends cutting each other too much slack & NO accountability. Think you'll see CJ benched for ball-hogging on the court? Think Dame would be benched for giving up on PnR defense, refusing to run, or jacking threes? What should happen in the working environment if you make the same mistakes day after day, month after month let alone year after year like this team has? Or refuse to adapt your working methods? Just no professional accountability. As much as this team is touted as having a great culture - It may be nice to work within, is family friendly and marketable - but it's average at best with regard to producing results on the court.
I'm ranting? So Riverman could single me out and attack me for bullshit (which he's done in the past), but when I say Stotts defenders are getting ridiculous based on false things he's said and how he's claiming that Dwight Jaynes is the reason people want Stotts gone, all of a sudden I'm trying to "find an adversary" and start shit? And now I'm the bad guy? And then I have UCD up in here ranting about that, and I defend myself, and I'm the one who's ranting? C'mon man.
This is why coaching in the nba is so hard. The line between discipline and guys saying F you is slim. You cross the line and guys will check out and things will get worse, not better. You don’t demand discipline and you have guys doing their own thing. I think these guys respect Stotts but don’t fear him. Not sure anyone fears Brad Stevens either but they have a ton of respect for him and he doesn’t make many mistakes
