It's becoming increasing unlikely we fire him - if we finish the season strong, it's hard to argue that he outperformed expectations.
Billups has lost enough games as a head coach on behalf of Portland. Get into the lottery, get lucky, trade Ant, Grant, Ayton and Thybulle. Bring in Adelman from Minnesota or Hurley from UCONN or …
If the Blazers were to get a new coach they'd likely have to give him a multi year deal. I expect the Blazers would prefer to just pay Billups 1 year. Also would save the cost of doing a coaching search.