He should have stayed on as coach until we found somebody to take over for him. I'd be completely happy to bring him back with that understanding. Help us find the next great coach.
How does that work? "You are conditionally fired. Find us an excellent replacement, then clean out your desk and Security will escort you out so you don't steal any pencils. Meet those conditions, and you earn the privilege of being fired."
No. He should have kept his job. Never been fired until we had somebody better, or he was ready to retire. Once we had somebody better we should have promoted him to management.
.582 is better than .515 4 trips to the conference finals vs 1. 2 trips to the finals vs 0. Kings made the playoffs 1 times in the 18 years since Rick was fired.
You are the board's biggest advocate for burning the roster down to its embers after a 5-year scorched-earth campaign, then raising it from the dead like Lazarus. Try for a championship; stop being content with years of mediocrity. But now you say that we shouldn't have made such a sudden coaching change. 9 years of Stotts mediocrity was too short of a time to wait. You are inconsistent between impatient revolution and patient evolution.
We shouldn't have replaced him with somebody worse. When we replaced him we should have promoted him. And I think he was an asset. He wasn't holding us back. Once again, Stotts and Dame worked miracles here. We had shit for talent.
Bingo. I said back then that it was unlikely we'd be able to identify and acquire someone better. I didn't buy into the theory of change for the sake of change or even worse "anyone would be better."
The mistake wasn't getting rid of 9 years of Stotts mediocrity. The mistake was hiring a guy with 1 year of coaching experience at any level, who had been an exceptionally slow learner as a player. Olshey's talent evaluation was more of the same ol' Olshey.
I want a coach that is actually GOOD. Stotts was average. All we've had since Rick Adelman was bad to average coaching.
The mistake was getting worse. And getting rid of a guy who could have been a great ambassador for the Trail Blazers in Stotts. Having Stotts in line for management could have allowed us to prevent ever having to take a risk on a young coach who wouldn't pan out. We could have had our cake and eaten too. If we'd done it right.
the mistake was allowing Olshey to make the decision. He should have been fired in 2016....or 2017....or 2018...etc. Owners should have fired his ass before Stotts was fired and then allowed the new GM to decide who the coach was going to be I believe that Jody and the Vulcans knew they were going to fire Olshey several months before they did
Sure, I agree with that. But you can’t say that the talent level that Terry had to work with was anywhere close to what Ramsay had, at least when he racked up most of those playoff wins.
