Should Stotts be fired if the Blazers lose the series?

Without Dame, we are PHX bad over 82 games.

 

and GS without Curry looks somewhat vulnerable even with 3 other all stars

Spurs without Kawhi were a 7th seed

OKC without Westbrook likely doesn;t make the playoffs

Cavs without James is an average team at best

in other words, most teams without their star player is a skeleton of what they would be.

 

Lol. False.

 

Idk man... look at their roster. Take Dame off our team and replace him with CJ? CJ will score more but everyone else will likely decline.

 

They had a .500ish record without Dame the past couple years.

 

You can't really judge just how important a player is by a small amount of missed games. I personally never want to find out. But I will say this, Dame is BY FAR, the most talented player on this team. Ain't close.

 

Small sample. Over 82 games, I think we'd be very bad.

 

We wouldn't win 35 games without Dame.

 

You're the king of making proclamations based off small sample sizes.

 

Yeah, I'm getting sick of all this greenery and wild rivers teaming with fish. I'm also getting pretty tired of this damned clean air and looking at that ugly Mt. Hood every day. Is there anything worse than going first to Crown Point on a clear day and looking up the Columbia River gorge followed by a trip to Multnomah Falls?

No, give me acres and acres of brown ground and gray concrete and cars honking and salt corroded cars and either overpriced homes or overpriced trailer houses. Yep, that's the life for me.

 

I call Bull Shit.

 

Yes. Immediately.

However, I'm seeing a guy who's already been fired, but he's just going through the motions.

 

A talented coach can lose and an untalented coach can win, because it comes down to the players and the coaches don't control the entire game. They do have a big impact however, and Stotts has shown his deficiencies for years in Portland despite his "success" and Popovich losing means nothing since he's shown to be a great coach. People that want to fire him base it off of years, and get frustrated when the see the sames thing happening again in a singular game. That doesn't mean it's because of a singular game.

 

Your logic was very good but your conclusion about Stotts seems flawed to me.

 

Let's remember that Terry is barely......barely.....above .500 in his time with Portland. 6 years, and he's barely above a winning record.

That's not a long-term coach that I want on this team. Paul and Neil have some serious decisions to make this off-season.

 

It's not flawed.

 

You can't say that as a pronouncement, you can only say it is your opinion.

 

Yeah, but how much of that is because teams plan on Dame being there and their defensive schemes are changed because of it?

I think without Dame we are in that 21-28 win club.

 

Yikes, you're a harsh judge. Do you hang people for stealing a loaf of bread?