Hating Karma just bring you more hate....I'll pass and keep it as entertainment fueled smack talk! The hate all flowed through me in the Raymond Felton years...that was long ago now
with Stotts quitting, reporters in Milwaukee are scrambling to Coach Lillard. "what do we do? ahhhhh... help us Dame."
Stotts: “okay everyone gather round. Here is our plays for this season.” Griffin: “Terry on every page it just says “Dame time.” Stotts: “yeah… how do you think I was able to stay in Portland for 9 years? I don’t even draw anything up. I just give the ball to Dame.” Griffin: “what about on defense?” Stotts: “what is defense?”
Wish Dame the best, but he's far from the first elite athlete to be a big delusional about father time.
I'd put the 0.9 season and WCF run in the discussion. I was in grade school for Clyde's finals so couldn't appreciate them. 1999 and 2000 were the best two years for me, but I'd say those two years of Dame were next. 0.9 was so amazing after 15 or whatever years of not winning a playoff series. Plus the thought of endless possibilities in the future with a player delivering that in his second NBA season. Yeah some of y'all that are older than a half century might not rank Dames years in your top 4, but the majority of Blazer fans weren't alive for that.
The problem is that last season he felt better than he did the previous three, so who are we to tell him when his body is going to start to decline? With that, how do we know that when he slows down a little it will have a huge effect on how good he is?
CP3 is a shell of himself at 38 and was better at his peak than Lillard. There hasn't been any PG in NBA history that was still elite at 38. Could Lillard be the first? That sounds delusional.
No more delusional than thinking we could build around him by trading the assets we had for a superstar…
Losing Stotts was a big loss. Sometimes I wonder if Stotts was bad or personnel was just limited. I'm serious when I say that if Milwaukee underwhelms, Stotts will be seriously considered to replace Griffin. Milwaukee is as win-now as any other team. They have no luxury to be patient on a rookie coach to get it together. 9 years of chemistry with your 2nd best player is tough to beat
This had nothing to do with Smart. Just more of Giannis being their definitive #1 and Dame trying not to do too much. He's gonna take a while to strike a good balance.
