So, as it turns out, Lillard wants to be leave Portland on a $50M/year sign-and-trade. Confirmed.
JDC hit on the key issue, IMO--drop coverage can theoretically be executed by the personnel the Blazers have on hand to try and force long or...
Absolutely. I enjoy your basketball takes, even when I don't necessarily agree with them.
I don't disagree that it's possible, but it usually takes a star on a rookie deal/multiple core supporting players on rookie deals/just remarkable...
Personally, I don't think it's about "being too honest." You can be honest behind closed doors. When you go to the press with it, you're trying to...
When you blast the players, you're doing what Olshey did--passing the buck. "I'm doing a great job, everyone around me is the problem." And before...
Contradiction to those of us living in the real world. Allen/Vulcan probably think that that's a reasonable ask, like it's not a trade off. It...
Interestingly, regarding ESPN+, if you're in Australia, it's free (no idea why). So if you have a VPN and can set it to Australia, you can do that to...
Firing Stotts was fine. Whether Billups is the answer, probably not, but I guess we'll see. We get to be his training job, since he's never been a...
I'm pretty sure they'd have answered the same regardless of opponent.
I'm not defending Stotts--I thought he was a mediocre coach and I was fine with his firing. I'm saying you can't keep pretending further failures...
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I'm sure this is meant as an insult, unfortunately I have no idea what it means. So your point is that changing coaches is pointless because Stotts...
That doesn't mean laziness. Consistency is a big part of talent. Analogizing back to offense, we've often seen players who can look like Kobe Bryant...
Yes, yes, I know. The Big Bad Stotts. It'll always be his fault...even when it's the other guy, it's really Stotts. Plus the players are selfish,...
I think conflating "defensive mistakes" with "lack of effort" and/or "not buying in" is a mistake. The idea that "defense is nothing but effort" only...
Does that include Lillard, if he's not bought into playing defense the way Billups wants?
Yeah, as I alluded to in my original post, it's not like I've made up my mind of Billups...this could go multiple ways. This just seems like a red...
Ainge is famous and won a title. Considering the vast majority of fans have no way of knowing who's a good "GM prospect" and who isn't, that pretty...
Yes, people who are prone to throwing their co-workers under the bus usually say they're just "straight talkers." People usually see all the problems...
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