This roster is so mismanaged how could he keep the team? Ayton is known to check out. That's all Jerami has done at least at some point during every season since going to Detroit. Now Ant looks like he's not engaged. This is what happens when you keep vets who are nowhere close to good enough to win games on their own, during a youth rebuild.
Some feel he never really had them. But if you ask Danny Marang, everyone loves him. Come to think of it, Danny might be the modern day Mike Barrett "he's added 15 lbs of muscle" bs machine.
he's lost the fans as well...anemic record and not much of a playbook. Maybe too much of a player and teammate type guy than a leader. Mo Cheeks had that problem.
The only reason to fire Chauncey halfway into a lameduck season is he's detrimental to the kids growing and contributing to them developing bad habits. And I don't really see any susbtantial issues like that happening.
Just get rid of these vets that have checked out on him and I think we'll see a bunch of young guys working their asses off in losses. Then we can figure out who should coach these guys and whoever else we pick up before the draft, so the new head coach can have a say in who he wants... assuming we don't get lucky and win capture the Flagg.
I think Joe will not fire Chauncey but Chauncey might move into the front office and move out of coaching.
The lead assistant came in cold and won two back to back games with an actual game plan....I'd start there
went to my first game of the year tonight and noticed that. Hearty round of boos when he was introduced.
years of tanking to Blazer fans is like counting games in a losing streak...when you get to four in a row the pitchforks and torches come out and the coach gets to walk the plank.
Chauncey's life will be just fine whether he succeeds as a coach or not. The lead assistant, I don't know him, but I'm thinking it's the exact opposite. Kind of like the difference between effort required by Deandre Ayton and Toumani Camara to get a big payday. Ayton already got his.
Billups knows even less about office work than he does about coaching. He talks slowly because he thinks slowly.
I've posted before that the advantage of hiring now is to beat the competition. Other teams will grab the best candidates days after the season ends. I hate it when someone posts, don't hire a retread. That means, trust in luck while yet another rookie coach fails to teach himself how to coach, call it a new 5-year tank, and pretend the tank started then instead of the previous tank. If we hire now in midseason, we can get great experience: Mike Brown (.599 in 758 games, age 54) Adrian Griffin (.698 in 43 games, age 50) Nate McMillan (.554 in 893 non-Blazer games, plus .497 in 535 Blazer games, age 60) We know from 1st-hand experience that McMillan makes order out of disorder. He would structure us, a league laughing-stock, into .500 or near-.500. After 5 years he'd retire (see age). Then as a playoff contender, we might garner enough league-wide respect to attract an elite coach, to take us to the next level.
