I kind of like the roster. My objections are Ant and Ayton other than that we have good depth although so far only one true potential superstar. Some elite defenders at wings and at center. I like the construction just may have gotten to be to good for shot at top 3 pick which sucks.
Is Darvin Ham somebody Blazers should be looking at right now? “I’m not a mudslinger and I’m not going to wait until I’m 51 to become one,” Ham said. “You feel like you did enough to sustain in one spot. I felt like I did that. I get it. The franchise I’m working for, the expectations can be unrealistic at certain points in time. To be 33-49 when I was hired, with an unbalanced roster, turn that around, make it to the Western Conference finals. The very next year we were a plus-10 in wins, going from 33-49 to 43-39. And guys got paid on my watch. It went from a lot of unknown scenarios to I think we have a little bit of a core. And then we got hit with the injury bug like crazy last [season]. We might have been Top 5 in games lost to injury. “It’s being reported like I’m just throwing some lineups up against the wall to see what sticks. No man, we were really navigating a lot from guys being hurt to having the oldest player in the league [James] to navigating A.D.’s injury history. It was a lot." https://andscape.com/features/milwa...n-ham-in-a-great-space-in-return-to-coaching/
Blazers won't hire a coach until the summer to save $ I guess I'd be fine considering Ham, really just needs to be whatever coach is best for developing players and keeping the team playing hard I'd expect we probably eventually look for a different coach to win once we have some talent on the roster in 2029 or whenever. The young Utah and Nets coaches have been good at both so maybe if you find the right one that could work out for both phases.
Is he a retread? Wasn’t that his first HC gig? I agree though about coaches who have bumped around the league. I like some of the fresh faces (Nets? Thunder, even Utah).
He was a fresh face when Lakers hired him and he only coached one year, right? Still pretty fresh. I know that @Mediocre Man always liked him.
Hindsight is always easiest on that. Billups was a fresh face. Nash was a fresh face. Darvin Ham was a fresh face. It's always easy to pull out the success and say I want that. Well yes, everyone does.
Here we go again. A few posters will repeat over and over that we must not hire a "retread," that is, experience. We must hire a rookie like Billups and waste years as he learns his job.
Maybe LeBron being 40 years old and can't defend a chair is a part of it. I mean its super impressive he can still be as effective as he can at his age - but he's not a top player in this league over 82 games for many years now. Probably doesn't help either they traded some of the best talent on their title team for Westbrook. So much ESPN/Laker fan noise and expectations that they expect a contending team even with mediocre talent.
Damn we only had 14 of them last year? I think we can crush that this season - already have 10. Impressive too because we've been super healthy this season. Although with our vets maybe being healthy makes it more likely we lose by 20+
That's the problem with not aggressively rebuilding from day1 - you actually make the tanking much much longer.
