How long of a leash should Chauncey have?

I’m just going to say it….the dude up there ^bxd or whatever is really stressing me out by not simply typing “AND” and just going with “N”. It’s hurting my brain.

 

Get off my lawn!

 

I Hope they didn’t see you take the eggs. Crows are highly intelligent, and if they saw you then I regret to inform you that they are likely planning their revenge. So don’t get too comfortable because eventually I do believe it will be….MURDER

 

I have stated from the beginning to give him 3 years. I still think he needs a little more than that at this point beings really he only has one true year under him at this point.
Not sure you should be eating crow just yet?

 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/pl...ows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends

 

You can cheer all you want but if he's giving our young guys enough touches and time to develop, we aren't winning shit. The reason we won the last three and might win again on Sunday is because these guys buy into what Chauncey is teaching them and we have vets backing that up (along with an epic meltdown from Toronto from three which is totally out of character for that team). We're still not good enough that we should be favored in any of the next 17 games after Memphis on Sunday and we might not be favored in that one.

I don't know what roster you think you're looking at but this isn't a playoff or play-in roster, this is a rebuilding roster and it will be further gutted by the trade deadline. Look to the future and expect Chauncey to do the same. He should be judged on where Shaedon and Scoot are at the end of the season compared to the beginning and he should be judged on if the roster as a whole (especially Ayton) is still playing hard and if they've started to play smarter as well. That won't equal a winning record and it probably won't equal more than winning every fourth game.

 

Yeah, I've got to admit, there certainly should be NBA coaches on a hotter seat than Chauncey who should be fired first.

 

I see a change in Billups this season. Much more intense and demanding of his players. I think lillard leaving helped free him up to be himself. He couldn't really go after guys for poor defense when he knew the leader of the team played poor defense and he was not really comfortable criticizing him. Also, he knew they were tanking the last two seasons, but this year he really wants to win games. Overall, for me, this is a welcome development. But I'm a little worried he might be overdoing it at times now. Last night it seems he was criticizing Ayton as Ayton walked off the court after a great comeback victory. Bad timing and I also suspect that Ayton is one player who reacts a lot better to positive feedback.
I should say I think he will find a good balance; he is still learning.

 

There are a lot of ways to define a winning season. Sounds like you're not too stoked about the progress but you can doubt all you want. I'm going to cheer. Your reason for us winning 3 in a row in my view IS a reason to cheer. Buying into what coach is preaching. Can't ask for much more. We're not winning a championship this season but we just may be a playoff team if we keep playing defense. When you say you don't know what I'm looking at, well, that's obvious. I'm looking at how we're winning with defense. I've had Chauncey on the hot seat for a long time now. I've no longer a reason to feel that way. Choices. I've had enough tanking at this point

 

I think I said it before, maybe even in this thread, Chauncey was coaching to a system, Terry was coaching to roster. When you try to win short term (as the Dame teams were), Terry's process is the right one. Chauncy's system did not work on a Dame led team, especially with the roster construction that Joe inherited. This is the first year we can really judge Chauncey, he has a young team with a roster built to his system. If this does not work(*) - he is the problem.

(*) does not work in this case does not necessarily mean winning on a rebuilding team, but competitiveness and growth from the young ones. Chauncey knows that and you can see it.

Side note, we have seen last year at the start that the Blazers had reasonable defense at the start of the year, Dame went down at the start of the year and only played 5 games of the first 10, the Blazers defense was decent there. He came back, the Blazers started losing some of their defensive players like Winslow and Nurkic and the defense went down. This year, the Blazers only obvious minus on defense player, Ant, has only played 1 game, they upgraded defensively the center, forward and backup PG positions, it's not a surprise they look a lot better defensively, Chauncey has players that can work in his system.

Biggest issue with Chauncey, still, is half court offense. It is just not very good, imho.

 

It’s refreshing to see some people see some positive in what is going to be a long season regardless.

The ones with the negative views on Billups will remain quiet when he is doing some good things (like now) and shout louder when we are losing again.

I have also seen Billups seem to call out some bad plays from Sharpe and Scoot during games when he pulls them aside. Seems like he isn’t afraid to get on some players and that’s huge for young guys to not get them to develop bad habits.

 

If he wins the mid-season tournament then his name should go in the rafters!

 

Luke Kennard +30
thought I'd leave that here, let it simmer

 

Gonna be tough to stay positive with Chauncey.

 

I think Chauncey is a good guy, a solid mentor for the young guys in terms of becoming 'a man' in this professional vocation, and I think his intentions seem good.....but I'm not convinced at how effective he is at teaching those things, especially on the court, to where they are something that look like what a contending team would do.

Of course, that is tougher when you have such youth, but there are some things that happen during a came that you wouldn't expect out of 2nd string college players....and it continues to happen.

I think he is getting the team to play hard as I see much more effort. That is a great start. But now can he get them to do the things that make up winning types of plays on a consistent basis?

 

No offense whatsoever but this is a classic example of everything said before but is meaningless.

 

I’ll never understand that stat. Is it because of him or in spite of him?

 

absolutely unequivocally both

 

Bump