I don't like the sentence, " Stotts was holding us back", but, as usual, there wasn't another options for "super excited about all the possibilities".
It does for me. I have no feeling at all. Interested to see how it goes, that's about it. I guess the closest I could say is, my feeling is that we're not winning a title with this roster.
Just felt it was another slight on Terry. He was a good coach. Some make him out to be some total loser. I don't appreciate that take, and thought it was an unnecessary inclusion in the poll.
I'll be pleasantly surprised if Billups is better than Stotts his first year or two. I will not be at all surprised if he doesn't end up being better at all.
We're still playing basketball? I completely forgot since a fucking month passed between preseason games.
i think the teams get to pick their schedule and opponents to an extent in preseason. I bet this was by choice. Play one game-- figure out what to improve and have practice for a whole week to work on it. I like it.
I think the Blazers will be somewhere between 6-10 in the seedings (I think very few games will separate those seeds), the Blazers will reach the first round and either get swept or "gentleman's swept" and Fez will be bumping the Fire Olshey thread nonstop.
Without a major move (which I don't trust Olshey to make) we will be a play-in team and lose in the first round. We may have gotten a little better but not better than the teams we were worse than last season and if everyone is relatively healthy that will put us in the play-ins. There is also the chance that a young team like the Grizzlies or Pelicans make a huge leap forward and are on our level or ahead of us. Unlike Chauncey I don't think our extreme lack of size 1-3 can be covered up during the regular season. We had a run but now we will be scouted and teams with more balanced rosters will look to take advantage of that obvious weakness. We really need to move CJ for a forward, Ben Simmons is the most available right now and given the right role would be the perfect fit here. Something needs to be done but Olshey has been consistent playing it safe so I fear nothing will get done. These are just my feeling, we'll have to see how it actually plays out. I'm open minded and hopeful that I'm wrong and that this roster will compete for HCA and a chance to win in the playoffs but even my wildest dreams don't have us as a contender, with Dame and CJ as our two best players.
