Not one player seemed hesitant about losing Stotts all offseason. Not one. So either they’re all wrong, or Stotts just wasn’t very good at the main things a head coach should be good at. This team essentially had an assistant as head coach for nearly a decade. Shows how much of an impact a superstar level player can make.
Nurk will inherit a few shots from both Dame & CJ. He'll get probably 3-5 more shots per game. He's on a contract year so I expect him to take advantage of additional role, of course if he stays healthy. I love it when Nurk refers to iso ball as a negative. Going to be real interesting to if this team can move and share the ball more.
Interesting that Billups referred to Nurk's bad percentages on the block - and his belief that the issue is that he is rushing because he thinks that if the ball goes away from him he is not getting it back. As anyone that have been here in Nurk's first full year on the team and they tried to force feed him on the block and went away from it when it became clear that he is not able (or was not at the time), I do not think this is the issue, but maybe Nurk is better with time. We will see.
What no Elleby interview?? In all seriousness, guy should get cut anyway. I don’t see what his purpose is. I’d take any of the training camp invites over him.
agree. I know many in here think Morey is the ultimate GM, but I never have as I think he's very arrogant and comes across like he is smarter than everyone else. He's a stat guy thats carved out a niche as a GM. I dont blame Ben now for wanting out.
Because Stotts had such a long leesh with players not named Dame/CJ? Nurk definitely needs to return to the form he was in right before snapping his leg but I fully agree with Chauncey.
Watching Dame again, here is the quote. "We'll be competitive again. At the end of last season, I wanted to see our roster improve and us to have a better chance to win. And we had our conversations throughout the summer about what that looked like and how we could steps in that direction. I come into this season with faith that that's going to happen and that we're going to do that. Larry Nance is a good pickup for our team.... we got some guys with experience in Snell and McLemore. We got some good guys in camp like Chriss, Smith and Pat. We got some decent guys around that we can form into a really good team and be competitive." "The conversations that we've had, what we've sat down and talked about, it's genuine that we're trying to move in the right direction and give our team a chance to go get it done. That's what I feel. I have faith in the fact that we've had real conversations and that's what everyone's intentions are." Tell me I'm reading too much into this.
