Rumor Trail Blazers players getting frustrated with Chauncey Billups coaching style?

Popovich or Phil Jackson are two of the greatest coaches in the history of basketball, and guess what, they were both assholes, and we need a asshole who is hard on the players because they are soft pussys

 

Their players loved them. At least their best player.

 

LOL...c'mon man

Jackson and Popovich combined to win over 2500 regular season games, 400 playoff games, and 16 NBA championships

Billups has won 11 games. Do you really think either of those coaches called their players out thru the media before they won 10 NBA games?

 

Billups has blasted his team for effort..rightfully so
That’s something you should get blasted for

 

To be fair, neither of them had this type of non-efforting roster that early on.

 

Sure that's true, my main problem with the team is we saw how good they can be when they play hard and motivation, but only a few games, they should do that a lot more, even McCollum was not that bad on defense in some games. Billups is absolutely right but the players have let him down to often

 

Maybe Stotts still plays a role here, he let the players do whatever they want, and his DNA is maybe still in the team

 

https://theundefeated.com/features/...ups-and-damian-lillard-forging-a-partnership/

Said Lillard: “I’m in [Billups’] office regularly. We’re like, ‘How do we do this? What do you want to see?’ I’m asking him, ‘What can I do to help myself? What do you see that can do better?’ We are having these conversations face to face, but you have people on the outside that want so bad for there to be drama.” Billups said his meetings with Lillard have led to more plays for Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, thus opening up the offense for the guards. The head coach said through his talks in those meetings, he has also changed up the plays to make the offense “more comfortable” for Lillard and CJ McCollum.

 

i know it's easy to put a negative slant on everything right now, justifiably. But having a star and coach in sync is something to build upon. There's a lot more quotes in that article than the one i posted, fwiw.

 

Who knows if Chauncey is a good coach.

Dame isn't close to what he was last season due to his injury.
CJ has been out.
The roster knows this version of itself is played.
Zeller predictably has already been hurt (twice)
RoCo seems checked out a large majority of the time.

In passed years, a healthy Dame could overcome the rest of those. Now that he is a little hampered, you see the difference. Just one or two more made shots from Dame would have change a LOT of games.

 

and yet, there are several posters here shitting on him in every game thread because he isn't carrying the team this season

 

Calling Gregg Popovic an "asshole" proves you know little about him.
Now, I've never met Phil Jackson, but a nicer famous person than Coach Pop is hard to find.
Believe me.

 

I was actually going to go the other way and say how impressive it was in the past that in spite of all the injuries we always had, we were still able to win games and make the playoffs.

 

Maybe some are, but it seems like much of the criticism has been when he shooting brick city style and continues to gun away while a teammate(s) are having much better shooting nights, but get significantly less shots.

In his last 6 games, Dame is 38-114...a woeful 33% from the field. Meanwhile, many teammates were having much better shooting games, but not getting nearly as many shots.

That is what is frustrating.....and has been with MeJ for years.

 

This is true.
Dame has always taken a large number of very difficult shots. Many times its a result of poor shot selection when there is a pass available for a teammate to take a higher percentage shot.
This gets old quick...

 

I get that

what I'm saying is that in some minds here a couple dozen bad games this season cancels 9 seasons of what Dame has done for the team