This is absolutely FALSE! It's so far out of the realm i can't even believe you typed it. Simons is averaging 10.4 minutes a game. Trent is averaging 24.3 minutes a game. Even more so the team needs both of these guys to get better and excel at their position with what they do best. You do that by giving them minutes. They both need to play.
You talking about those games with Damian av 50 or OKC when Stotts didn't even know what Lillard is doing?
Keep moving those goal posts. It's always the same thing with the Stotts haters. Right now a win streak isn't good enough. Of course right now the record isn't good enough. Injuries are always just an excuse. Lack of talent can never be the issue. I got them at 10-10 to start this season given the circumstances. I'm going to be happy with anything better. As the talent around the league/conference sits i have the Blazers as a 5-8 seeded team. That is if Stotts coaches a good season and makes the playoffs. That puts them with a tough first round opponent against another good coach. We'll see how that works out for him.
I'm not really sold that Simons needs to play. (Well, I guess he does because we have no other 3rd string PG. But it should be on emergency basis.) Hood, Simons and Melo all need to be getting minutes around Trent. Trent is being treated as just another guy coming off the bench, when in fact he should be clearly our 6th man, taking all the backup minutes at SF/SG possible, and ending games if he's out-playing Jones.
The problem to fire Olshey or Stotts who going to do it. How many above them even understand the game to make a decision to fire either one. If one of them is did get fire who will be the one to do the hiring because right I have no clue someone with basketball and management that going make type decision. What paul Allen sister should hire someone that's knowledge in basketball and management experience and put him in charge over Olshey.
How do you know what Jodi Allen knows about basketball? Paul was very close to her and had years to prepare for this time....he didn't get to where he did by leaving loose ends. We finally have a loyal staff and franchise stability....before Caleb Kanales we had an interim GM with Larry Miller doing two jobs and Chad standing in as GM......neither hired to be GM .....after Nate...we have had rock solid front office stability...any good business strives for that. What's not to like? All these folks are braving a pandemic to entertain us....I respect them and am grateful for basketball during our lockdown here. I think people just love to bitch about things they have no control over...people were ready to trade CJ and give his spot to Trent....ready to trade Kanter after two games.....this shit personally drives me nuts.
"The right way" is defined as what? By who? The "right way" for one person might be very different than the "right way" another person. Teams have won titles playing many different styles. Very few have won without at least a certain, definable amount of talent though.
Agreed. Hood looks awful on both ends. Simons still looks like a massive project. Melo's legacy must be protected!
I am fine with Simons not playing every game, even though he has looked much better this year. But injuries will occur so it would be nice to get him some minutes before the "emergency" occurs. I agree that Trent needs to get his minutes, but he kind of is. He had 30 minutes in the last game even though he was not having a particularly good game. So I am not sure if it is true that he is being treated as just another guy off the bench. He has averaged 27.6 minutes in the last 5 games.
a point of reference: that 3 game winning streak came against teams with a combined 10-21 record. One team is in last place in the east and another is in last place in the west. the next 8 games are by far, the easiest part of their schedule. The Blazers need to win 7 or 8 of those games to build a cushion. At the 18 game mark of the season, the Blazers will not have played a single game outside of their time zone; and will have played 12 of 18 games at home. They need to get in sync and build some momentum because the schedule gets a lot more difficult at the end of January
The problem with Trent isn't so much the minutes. It's the complete lack of getting him the ball in a successful situation. I have been seeing him handling the ball way too much. Why aren't we running him off screens and trying to find him open looks in a catch and shoot situation where he thrives?
what's funny is that that tactic of running shooters around screens to create shooting space is still fairly remedial offense. But that seems to be too complex for the Portland offense a lot of the time which basically appears to be run the weave on the edge and see what dribbling lane opens up
The funny thing is that without Dame I think Stotts is fired four or five years ago. Dame has been carrying him on his back since LMA left.
In fairness, I have not seen the 'weave' play in the last 2 games (I catch ~90% of the game as I skip the commercials and free throw shooting & I'm too lazy to go back when I skip ahead too far). I think Stotts has FINALLY killed that play. I also saw a new play during the last Kings game where the guard basically gets two screens - leaving a wide open lane to drive. They ran it ~10 times against the Kings. I don't remember seeing that play against the Raptors...
I've seen 8 years of Stotts coaching, lack of Adjustments, ISO heavy offense, only one defensive scheme, that i couldn't care less about a winning streak against 3 bad teams.
Well you don't neither if she know anything about the game. Yes she probably a good business woman due she very rich also. But right now she leaving up to olshey running basketball operation with his knowledge period. Yes one of those person thinks CJ should be traded due to him been one deminisonal type of player and yes he has been better this year in some areas but he will always have trouble defending taller due to his height. Do I hate CJ no but I think in my opinion to do get over the hump we have to be more team oriented on offense where everyone in involved not just two players that's shoot 60 percent of the time plus also be able to play the other end. Now Kanter he has his pros and cons but for being backup center he doing decent job there. That's my opinion some people thinks we can win championship with Dame and CJ that's 60 percent our offense my opinion we can't. Golden state try that for years with 2 guards doing that they didn't turn the organization around until one of the guard got traded and they changed the coach and I see the same with us. But that's my opinion.
