Does Stotts make it through the rest of the season?

Excellent post. Completely agree.

 

You agree that he should be coach for another 10 years?

 

Yeah, if we're considering Nate McMillan as a replacement, I'll take Terry Stotts for another 10 years.

If we think we have the next great coach to replace Stotts with I'm ok with making that move. I'm not ok with ditching Stotts to hire a retread with a similar resume as Stotts.

 

You guys have really bought into being mediocre for Dame's entire career, eh? You're completely fine with getting bounced in the first round year after year? 10 more years of Stotts would completely kill my interest in the team.

 

If 20 years of Cheeks, Nate, and Stotts haven't killed your interest, I hate to break it to you, but you're not going anywhere!

 

What can I say... I'm an optimist. I keep thinking that the next mediocre guy will be different.

With that said, I remember saying NINE YEARS AGO that I thought Stotts was fine for a while, but that he wouldn't get us to the next tier. That statement is as true today as it was nine years ago.

 

I saw that tweet and I'm still skeptical about the numbers

16th in defense for 24 games, more than 1/3 of the season. Yet, the Blazers are still 29th in the league. There have been 33 games since the all-star break when Portland had a defensive rating of 116.4. Yet, while they ranked 16th in the league in rating for 75% of the games since the break, they have only shifted their defense 0.5 points better...???

Blazers were only 13-11 over those 24 games as well so they underachieved in wins based upon net differential

 

What makes you think we'd get a better coach?

 

You could randomly throw a dart at a board of coaches in the NBA and find a better coach than Terry Stotts.

 

Like Cheeks? Nate McMillan? Sorry, if we're not getting an almost certain upgrade it's not worth it to me. Change for the sake of change doesn't usually work out well.

 

Mo Cheeks and Nate McMillan would do basically the exact same thing that Stotts is doing.

 

It didnt seem correct to me but I haven't research it. I thought maybe he did so?

 

Isn't that what you're trying to avoid?

 

Stotts is like the guy a girl is juuuuust about to break up with because she knows he's not right for her, but then does something and saves the relationship. Over and over. She's probably too good looking for him and has tons of other options, she knows it, he knows it, but right when she is about to drop the hammer, he buys her flowers.

 

Exactly. I'm not sure why people keep saying "we could go back to the Cheeks or McMillan eras."

To me, those are the same. Mediocre teams that never went anywhere. So why the hell would you want to keep a dude that we clearly can go get whenever we want because we seem to be so good at finding them.

 

One of my best friends from high school started dating a dude in college that she admitted to me she didn't love. She kept wanting to break up with him, but never did. At one point they were long distance dating and she cheated on him. Still, they ended up getting married because they had been together so long that it just ended up happening. To me, that's sad as fuck.

 

Great. And I like Stotts better than both. We have better chemistry and culture with Stotts.

I'd rather keep what we've got if we're just getting another Mo or Nate.

 

I've said if we're getting a near guaranteed better coach I'd be open to it. Otherwise I'd prefer to stick with what we have.

So make the case that this next guy/gal is the next big time coach. Swing for the fences or don't swing.

 

You don't know who the next big time coach will be. Nobody knew Greg Popovich or Phil Jackson would be the multiple championship winners that they ended up being. Sometimes you have to roll the dice to find the next big time coach. But we won't do that because we keep hiring shitty retread coaches that weren't successful before and haven't been successful with our team either.

PJ
Dunleavy
Cheeks
McMillan
Stotts

It's a storybook of mediocrity.

 

I’d guess, yes.