Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #23 - BLAZERS VS JAZZ - DEC 6, 2024 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM - CHARGE - BLAZERVISION

Yeah, he just floats through so much of so many games, not much "fire" and his 3 pt shooting this year has been bad - 28%. I am at a crossroads with him, he has a lot of talent but will he maximize it or most of it? On one side he's only 21 and has missed a lot of games thus far in his short career, the negative is the effort level and wanting it. At this time I would like to see a coaching change and getting rid of Ant/Ayton/Grant if possible to give the young guys a better shot and sort of clean the slate and start over, doubting that will happen.

 

LOL, in a way it was TOO "impressive", don't mind losing in this tank season but too many games like this will not be a good thing - time for a major overhaul regarding coach and vet players

 

Yeah I'm not sure what his future will be ultimately. He has moments where he looks like an All-NBA player. Maybe without Ant/Ayton he'd play much better, its hard to know. He has dominated multiple games even back to his rookie season while having the opposition trying to stop him. Just super impressive. But yeah he also has poor percentages and tons of games where he contributes nothing. His defense might have actually got worse the last 3 years.

I want to keep him and see what he looks like the rest of this year and next season. But I'm certainly super nervous about giving him a big contract if he gets offered that. I'm also going to draft or acquire a player at his position without hesitation as he hasn't shown he's a long term starter.

 

He's seemed to shine more when the older vets aren't playing...

 

We're league-leaders at something, at least

 

If 6 years is near 10 then I guess you could be right? Paul Allen died in October of 2018 and she took control of the team with Neil Olshey as GM and Terry Stotts as coach. Now understand that year they won 53 games and made the WCF's. The team has gone nowhere since.
Remember at the time is was all due to the coach #FireStotts!
Then it was all Olshey!
Now It's all Billups!
Assuming Joe will get the blame next right?

When do we assume the franchise needs new ownership? It has been said Ownership/GM/Coaches don't win games. Talent wins games. Owners need to spend money to get talent. Yes getting lucky in the draft is always a good thing but if you get really lucky you will need to pay that player or players and pay to keep quality players around them.
I don't personally think Jody is a terrible owner but she certainly does not have a great track record at this point.

 

Chauncey Billups on why Deandre Ayton only played the first two minutes of the second half: “I didn’t like his spirit in the game.”

 

Plus side, Sharpe is suppressing his value for the contract extension. While disappointed, I hardly think the league's worst offense is helping Shaedon. Some of it is his fault, some is Chauncey's. Much of the time he's parked in the corner like a Stotts did DJJ. I want to see the correct lineup before I judge. He may not be a #1, but rather a #2.

 

if people believe that Sharpe & Scoot are underachieving their talents, is there a better reason to fire Billups ASAP

 

The danger is letting an assistant takeover and overachieving and feeling obligated to hire long-term. I'm not a fan of Chauncey, but nothing changes by firing him. Only more spending, which we know ownership is very allergic to.

The results will be better when you move off of Ayton and Grant. And probably Ant.

 

Tanking season being good or not, losses like this are unacceptable and they damage the fan base for game goers. Nobody wants to pay to go to a game like this.

Chauncey should have been gone a long time ago, and if it weren’t acceptable to be losing for “development” then he would be. But at this point you’ve really got to wonder how acceptable it is to keep him despite the acceptability to lose this year.

A while ago I said give him time. Then I said ‘it’s okay cause we aren’t going to win anyways’. But now I think it’s time for him to go.

 

Holy heck that was some ugly shit.

I will eat my crow salad, followed by some crow appetizers with a fat crow entree, followed up with a nice slice of crow pie!!! All washed down with a salty crow shake!

 

Wait a sec…….

 

there are 60 games and nearly 6 months of the season left. If Chauncey is bad for the development of Sharpe and Scoot, that's a lot of critical development time to waste

 

Jody has shown she's willing to pay players. I'm not so worried about that. We need to draft highly in the draft as often and as long as possible and once we can no longer do that we should start filling in around that team via trades to put ourselves over the top.

If we get to that point the team will be worth max value and Jody will probably be more likely to sell.

 

So you and your friend who liked this post are trying to WIN these games then? You either want to WIN these games or not. I promise you the day before the draft lottery everybody on here who has been complaining all game thread will be very happy we got the L.

 

Who?

 

We’re you one of the #AnybodyIsBetter crew on here though?

 

Fans aren’t going ANYWHERE. They win, they’ll show up.