Notice Chauncey Billups new Portland Trail Blazers head coach

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Mr. Robot, Jun 25, 2021.

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are you happy that chauncey billups got the job

  1. yes

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  2. no

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  3. yes, but he was not my first choice

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  4. meh, im indifferent

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  1. calvin natt

    calvin natt Confeve

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    As a member of the press I would assume they know that while they can ask any question they want, they also have many days ahead to work with these people. You want to have a good working relationship. I would expect the harsher questions to come from outside media - people who don’t have to deal with these guys on a daily basis. I worked in the media dept for a team. They (team) don’t like you and they will make your life hard.
     
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  2. riverman

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    I'd be a terrible beat reporter....I'm not that interested in backtracking after a game is in the bag.
     
  3. riverman

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    Brooke said it was much better in Portland than when she worked for the Pacers...more friendly and less detached but I feel like the Raptors crew everyone is smiling and leaves with a smile which I like being around...I'm not a fan of high strung confrontational media sessions
     
  4. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    When is the press conference? I’m guessing 11am pst?
     
  5. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    3 am when everyone is asleep.
     
  6. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Sorry, but a reporter who asks "Hey Derrick Jones, why do you yell when you dunk?"... "Hey Robert, is it Stotts' fault?"... isn't great. (*cough* Fentress *cough*)
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Our media asked the softest of questions up until this season. This season was different.
     
  8. riverman

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    you forgot the Felton era when Nate was fired, Oden and Roy left and Luke Babbitt chalupas were the thrill of the game...Quick was an insufferable asshole all season this year and it wasn't cute or entertaining or informative...just snark for snark's sake
     
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    I'm looking forward to Dwight throwing some real hard hitting questions Olshey's way tomorrow.

    Better yet, hope he provides the same critical commentary that he brought in the press conferences last season. Why do I suspect it won't happen though?
     
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    I just wish sports, in general, would get rid of the stupid in-game questions with the head coach. Especially in the NBA when the game is going on. Let them focus on the game. The questions are always idiotic.
     
  11. blazerkor

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    They don't ask them the questions while the game is going on. They ask them between quarters and then air them during the game action.
     
  12. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    I mean, you're right. I'm not focusing on a decade ago
     
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    On the opposite end of the spectrum, I caught some of Courtside on the AM radio while in the car tonight and the sunshine pumping was a little over the top for my tastes.

    Quick and Canzano willlikelyc be throwing fastballs with Vaseline on the ball while the Blazer broadcast employees will be setting things up on a tee ITV one of those red rubber playground balls.

    Hoping it will play out that way. At some point I also want Olshey to passive-aggressively mock Canzano as both their faces turn beet red and Canzano does that high-pitched squeal of his when he gets flustered.
     
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    I recall Quick at one point including the tale of Martell Webster farting loudly when he did those Inside the Locker Room articles.

    Good times
     
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    There really hasn’t been much controversy in the last decade.

    The early 2000s before Roy and Aldridge were a fucking Clown Show and it was so entertaining. The team sucked, but at least the players were complete shitheads and the front office was completely incompetent. Never a dull moment and the team was literally giving away Black level corporate game tickets if you made the effort to visit a local car dealership or some business like that to pick one up. Maybe it was the adidas store. I can’t remember but it was like the Bad News Bears of the NBA. It was glorious.
     
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    "Hammon impressed Portland officials and was generally liked among Blazers staffers, sources said. But when Portland reached out for intel from San Antonio figures, the background on Hammon was not nearly as complimentary pertaining to various aspects of day-to-day coaching responsibilities. That sentiment has been echoed by sources around the league."

    Oh, lol, Calvin:)

    So, that's that. If she really good, it would be logic for her and Spurs not to part ways. Glad Neil hasn't pull the trigger just bc she's a woman. If she good, she be fine.
     
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    oh yeah duh…. Well then. Why do we even need Billups???
     
  20. Kano John

    Kano John Start 'em young!

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    I'm not sure she's even in the top 10. Obviously Steve Ballmer in #1
     

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