Semi serious question: Is this just Quick cherry picking? According to this: https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/a...upQuantity=2&TeamID=1610612757&sort=MIN&dir=1 Melo/Kanter combo is a net positive when on the floor. Of course, I'd like to see how that compares vs. +.500 teams, but I never can quite get the stats I really want...
Stotts is a stubborn one; can't admit when he's wrong. Cuz with defense this shitty, he is partly to blame, no question. Hubris, man, it's a killer. It doesn't take a genius to see that there are simple ways to ensure Enes and Melo aren't on the floor together for every game. Giles and Nas????Sure there may be games where it's fine to have the gruesome twosome on the floor, but when your ass is on the line Terry, you got to change. Who knows, Dame could request a fucking trade. It's clear from his playing that something ain't right with him.
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In Portland, He’s had a 54 win team and a 51 win team and a 53 win team. Never below 40 except for first year. You’re not painting a very accurate picture. He’s also put together a team that consistently competed. Never truly contended but that doesn’t mean mediocre. Kings are mediocre. Pacers are mediocre.
he's also had a 41 win team, a 39 win team (35 in a 74 game season...so you're wrong about the 40 win floor), and a 33 win team. Add those 6 seasons together and it's a 45 win average, only 4 wins over .500 what I said was accurate and factual. You may believe I left out important context, but nothing I said was false LOL...you make things too easy sometimes.....first of all, the Kings aren't mediocre....they are just bad; bad as a team, and bad as an example but now, let's talk about those mediocre Pacers (your label). This is Olshey's 9th season. In the 8 seasons before this one, Portland won 364 games (with last season normalized to 82 games). That's an average of 45.5 wins/year. In the same period of time, Indiana won 377 games for an average of 47.1 wins/year. Indiana won 13 more games over 8 seasons than Portland if you then include this season, the count is 394 wins for Portland and 400 wins for Indiana. Further, in that same period of time, Indiana won 5 games in the conference finals; Portland won 0 so, I do agree with you....Indiana has been mediocre, just like Portland. They have just had slightly better mediocrity
And that level of success over that span is better than all but about 10-15 other teams. He had a resume before he came to Portland as well. A good one. What GM can we go get who's had more success more often than Olshey? Who else can we be confident would get Portland more than 2 WCF in 5 years?
OK. Care to list the other GMs we can go get who've gotten 2 teams to the 2nd round, as well as one to the conference championships twice in 5 years?
Indiana has been a good team, IMO. They've also had a far easier schedule than Portland with the east having far fewer good teams.
Look at Dallas too, Ever since they won it all 9 years ago they haven't made it out of the first round in five try's and never made the playoffs in 4 including last year. And they've had talented teams just not enough. That one championship has bought their coach a lot of love in fact I heard on the radio they refer to their coach as one of the best in the league? The league over the years the league has recycled coaches and the ones that win a championship punch a ticket for longevity. I mean Walton was undefeated in the playoffs with GS and Brown won the whole thing too but Kerr cant take a talented team now to the playoffs. Im for changes in Portland but it doesn't guarantee anything other that change. Roll the dice Cincinnati.
I came away from the article with a similar thought, but in a slightly different direction. Start Melo at the 4 and move RoCo over to the 3. We'd have great inside presence to cover for Melo defensively, and we'd be loaded offensively with them and the 3-guard lineup. When Kanter comes in for Nurk, RoCo slides over to the 4 until he's ready for a breather. He and Jones are so similar, they can surely mesh roles.
in other words, nearly half the league, making him slightly better than average it wasn't that good. He was hired as GM of the Clippers in March 2010 (10 months after they had drafted Blake Griffin). His first order of business was the 2010 draft where he promptly selected Aminu...just before Paul George and Gordon Hayward were drafted (sounds familiar). His team won 32 games the next season after that season, he was essentially gifted Chris Paul when the NBA disallowed the CP3 to Lakers trade. The next season, his team won the equivalent of 50 games in a lockout shortened season, won a 4/5 matchup 1st round series in 7 games, followed by getting swept in the 2nd round (sounds familiar) to summarize, he fucked up a draft pick, was gifted an all-star, had a 72-76 regular season record, and a 4-7 playoff record that included a sweep. That resume was actually a really good predictor of what would happen in Portland well, start with the "10-15" GM's you said were better no, you don't get away with that narrative. Olshey is in his 11th season as a GM. In 10 seasons, his teams made it to the conference finals once...10 seasons not 5. And they didn't win a single game. His teams have a .358 winning mark in the playoffs. His teams have been swept 4 times and 4 other times they've folded 1-4. If you're not keeping track, that's a 4-32 record in the playoffs against contenders or bad matchups. his teams plateau at 'pretender-on-a-fancy-treadmill'...that's been the ceiling, and right now, the 11th season is not looking much different than the first 10