I wondered about Chauncey a bit last year, pre-season and then halfway through game one. The last three Ive seen him really building something.
Rofl. We can still blame him when we lose, right? I had questions about whether he was a good fit for Head Coach here last season as well, but decided to give the benefit of the doubt. Thinking like “well he is an NBA champion, and this isn’t necessarily entirely his fault”, and “it’s his first season as a head coach, he deserves time”. But there was also the part of me that was like “not sure we have a lot of time to play ‘let’s hope he’s a good coach’”. Could be a great coach. I want to see him win many more games as head coach here in Portland.
Since he's getting bashed elsewhere, I think this would be a safe space to say something positive about coach...
Yusuf Nurkic was player of the week last week remember? And he killed last night. The first play of the game was designed for Nurk. He does a better job with Nurk than Stotts ever did. Nurk hated Stotts.
The change that I saw from Chauncey is that our offense did not bog down into one-on-one play without moving the ball.
we always have a game like this from time to time, but track record shows that we will return to the iso bball, maybe as soon as tonight
I think you have this situation very wrong. Chauncey probably should go against his principles at this point and coach to the roster he has but the dude thinks that by sticking it out and not reverting to what this team used to do, that when the guys that don't fit are gone, he'll not have to start from the foundation and reteach shit. The guy said without saying that the roster is going to change before the deadline. After what I saw from him and Dame tonight I'll now be shocked if we don't see a couple of moves that are multi player trades. That's exciting because I like Chauncey's philosophies of switching and meeting the P&R at the level, sometimes with blitzes and his offensive philosophy of similar play to what we've seen in the past with Dame, just with more movement off the ball. He just doesn't have the players that are made for that stuff. I'm excited to see what he can do with players that are.
