I posted this in the game thread, but this deserves it's own thread. For those that watched the game, Nassir was the primary defender on Siakam. He was doing a good job and then this happened: I'm raging beyond belief right now. Most of the losses this season I've brushed off. This is as mad as I've been since the Raymond fucking Felton days.
The coaching tonight was embarrassing in that fourth quarter. I’m so sick of this fucker not trusting young players and his robo rotations.
Yep, sounds like a typical Stotts game. I've been saying it for the past few years....he needs to go. Rip City ain't getting no chip with him at the helm. Put Olshey's useless ass on the block too.
As I said in the game post, I'm eager to see how the apologists defend Stotts after tonight's game. You can't even make this stuff up.
You know, and hear me out (see @SlyPokerDog ? I can learn and adapt)...maybe Stotts has been told to tank the season!?
I would suggest that other losses we've had were on the coach as well. Tonight might have been more blatant that even the Stotts supporters couldn't defend him. It's unusually quiet on here after the game.
the problem with this team is, it's pretty much a new roster, minus a couple guys. especially with the injuries. Stotts knew everyone's strengths the past few years, so he utilized them. this year, he doesnt know anyone's strengths, so he is tooling with the lineup. so much so, that it is screwing things up.
This may be a surprise, but I am going to stick up for Stotts a little bit. He sat Tolliver. I don't have a gamelog but my impression was that on the last few possessions that Little guarded Siakam, that Siakam scored quite easily. It appeared he had Little figured out. So I can see why Stotts would have wanted to try something new. Probably since Siakam was so hot and we don't really have anyone on the roster right now who is ideally suited for guarding him, he probably should have blitzed him to get the ball out of his hands. This is one of his longterm failures, not getting the ball out of the hands of really hot players.
"Hmmm Siakam scored twice on Little, let's bench him the rest of the way" "Hmm, now Siakam scored 9 straight time really easily, maybe Little was better after all ? No of course not, he's a rookie ! Get yourself together Terry !"
Calabro: "And the Moda Center is on their feet applauding Nassir's effort !" And he was never seen again for the rest of the game
I think they are packaging little in a trade and were putting him on display. More than likely have to include him or Ant in a significant trade.
