Game Thread 2022-23 Game #56 - BLAZERS VS THUNDER- FEBRUARY 10, 2023 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

Very few are willing to admit they were wrong on their stance about Stotts.

 

dammit!

 

Better at losing and...?

 

Yeah, I just want to see Dame do his thing and see what a bunch of these young guys have to offer. Unlike you I think the jury is in on the Dame/Ant pairing, it does not look functional to me at all. The good news is that Ant has the second largest salary on the team so if Joe is going to go all in to get Dame a second superstar he's going to need Ant not just for his talent and potential but just to match salaries.

 

Why? He was a mediocre coach.

Chauncey is a bad coach.

I wanted a good coach. We knew it was a risk to change things up, and it was a mistake to let Neil pick the successor.... he should have been following Terry out the door.

 

LOL...what a troll....babbling about how lucky OKC fans are to have a talent like SGA after you spend month after month after month and hundreds of posts in a Blazer forum trashing the talent of Dame

 

I don't know if Chauncey is better than Stotts. Chauncey hasn't had a chance to prove what he is. I like what he says but he hasn't had the personnel to implement his philosophies. He definitely isn't the most flexible of coaches at this point. Stotts wasn't a terrible coach, he was a net neutral that had near a decade to prove that he could do big things with this team and he couldn't. It was time to move on long before we did.

I hope Joe can put together a roster that fits what Chauncey is trying to do, so we can see just how well it can work.

 

So in December, losing didn’t matter and now, in February, losing doesn’t matter. I’m extremely patient, in my life and in my career, and that has paid dividends. But I’ve been waiting on the Blazers since 1989. When did you become a fan? I do believe our success hinges on the off-season too. In the DRAFT, which is the only way for us to get talent on our team with or without Dame.

 

Yes, you'd have to realize you were wrong first. It's taking a lot longer than it should!

 

Drew is pretty stupid on defense..Helping on players that don't need it, leaving his man wide open under the hoop.

 

Never. In fact, I get more nervous when they have leads bc you know they will give it up and give it up quickly. The 17 point lead they had vs the Bulls vaporized in an instant.

 

Maybe nobody cares or noticed, but Sharpe was doing a great job staying attached to his man (such as when SGA dribbles to the hoop with his head down) without fouling.
He's been trying to do that a lot but gets called when the dribble-driver leans into Sharpe's body.
I didn't see that happening tonight. Maybe he's getting a better feel on how to position his body. It was just one game but good to see. I think he could become a very good defender.

 

Specifically, in what way is Chauncey a better coach than Stotts? What is your knowledge of Stotts as a coach? What is your knowledge of Chauncey as a coach? Sounds like you could care less about Chauncey. You just wanted something different. How is Chauncey different? What did Stotts do wrong?

 

You defined him as medicore, which is an opinion.

My stance was the odds of us identifying and obtaining a significantly better coach was unlikely. That seemed fairly obvious. Whether we define Stotts as good/mediorce doesn't really matter. Change for the sake of change isn't my type of strategy, especially given Dame's stage in their career.