Game Thread 2022-23 Game #76 - BLAZERS VS KINGS - MARCH 29, 2023 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

I'm happy for the Kings. They broke the playoff-less streak and have a pretty solid roster. (I'd kill to pair Sabonis with Lillard.)

But.....I have no belief that Mike Brown can coach them to success in the playoffs. If they do match up 1st rd against GS they'll probably get beat.

 

No.

But there hasn’t been any revelations. We’re rolling out the equivalent to a G league squad right now.

 

Cronin has lost every trade he has made so far. He was not promoted as some symbol of virtuous elevation in roles because he was deserving. He was promoted because Jody can't be bothered to interview or pay professional executives with experience. They didn't even conduct a GM search. She also did the same with the President position when McGowan resigned and they promoted a guy who has 0 experience in this kinda role.

She's cheap.

But let's all ignore that while continuing to trash the guy who has been long gone.

 

my frustrations have nothing to do with this game. it's the underlying culture we are building.

 

I know. I’ve long bashed that. I wanted Ainge pretty bad. At the time he was attainable. At least with Ainge you know he has the balls to roll the dice.

The last thing I wanted was a protege of the guy that got them in this mess.

I’m not sure there was anyone around these parts that hated the trade deadline deals last year more than me. After that deadline I made it known on here that I think the best route to take is to trade Lillard. I still stand by that.

 

I have my thoughts on Ainge. Will not get into that now.

But people will come here and proudly announce that Cronin is simply undoing the mistakes of his predecessor and that's why we have to tank in consecutive seasons while the best player in franchise history has his best season yet.

Don't let these people lie to you.

 

I know I was just talking to the ppl who constantly bitch that she doesn’t care and shit

 

Bro I’m hella happy.. I love this tank. I want that French kid

 

All she cares about is money.

 

She still gets money by not going

 

a good one you may add

 

If it’s only 13 more they don’t set a new record.

 

How was Billups better than Stotts?

 

Better focus on defense.

 

Guys played a

Being basketball/NBA/ Blazer fans, they may not understand that there are actually people that would not go to Trail Blazer games even if they were free. Not everyone is interested in watching them, even when they are winning.

 

But we were told "anybody would be better than Stott's."

 

Please explain

 

I don't think there were many people in here that thought that "anybody would be better than Stotts". It's not like I wanted some fucking YouTuber to be the coach so we could get more fans and way less wins.

There were just a ton of us that knew it was time to move on from Stotts. I still am not positive that Chauncey is worse than Stotts given that the roster construction since he's been here has been an absolute clusterfuck. It wasn't so much that I thought that Terry was a bad coach, it's just that he had proven that in this situation he wasn't able to win big. I don't know if it was fair for us to expect him to win any bigger than he did given the rosters he had but as a fan of the team I was just ready to move on.

I have a hard time imagining that any coach will ever go more seasons than Stotts did without a win in a conference championship game. No coach in the history of the league had made it that long without such a win and I don't think we're going to get more tolerant of mediocre performance as a society. I'm actually still pretty pissed that he made it as long as he did. It's a pretty bad sign when your team settles for the longest head coach tenure without a conference finals win in the history of the league.