This team has zero chance of doing anything in the playoffs. We will get run off the floor. So my preference would be to just shut it down and tank the rest of the year. Get Dame healthy. This summer I want a new coach. I want CJ traded. I want Melo off the team. I want Nurk gone. The only players I want to actually keep Dame Powell DJJ RoCo Little Burn the rest to the ground.
Has anyone thought that maybe Stotts knows his days are numbered and is just going down his way? There’s definitely enough arrogance in him to do something like that, I mean just listen to his responses when he gets even remotely close to called out. Leaving the starters out there last night when the game was over is something one would do to try and make the score look closer than it really was. Pretty much padding his resume. Idk, maybe I’m off. Just trying to understand why there haven’t been any significant adjustments.
@TBpup - What interview are you referring to here? Is it this one: https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...concept-defensive-improvement-was-goal-season
This is the most damning evidence against Terry's defensive schemes, beyond the obvious of just watching his teams. I just hope Powell has the balls to actually influence some change instead of just being a bystander.
if player influence was going to generate anything, I'd think the influence of RoCo and Jones would have had an impact 3 months ago
I don't think either of those two are outspoken enough to really do anything beyond just listening to the coaching staff. If we had Draymond however....
Worrying about CJ’s ego is exactly right. If we wanted to win and had a coach that could coach, we’d be starting: Dame Powell DJJ RoCo Nurkic and subs: #1 = CJ to spell either Dame or Powell #2 = Little comes in for DJJ #3 = Kanter for Nurkic and that’s my 8-man rotation then comes Carmelo and Ant - that’s my current 10-man rotation. CJ has to take one for the team and be our 6th man
That is 100% when you put Giles in. They were getting whatever they wanted with Kanter in the game. Now, I also would've been fine with bringing in Kanter and running something different defensively (ice, hedging, trapping, etc) since it was obvious that we had no chance at getting stops with Kanter in and running drop scheme, but if Stotts feels that uncomfortable with having Kanter running something other than drop (which I don't get, since drop was so ineffective last night), then sub in the mobile big who can run those schemes and give us a chance at some defensive stops. We have enough offense in the game to be able to score, we just need to be able to play a lick of defense. Bring Giles in and pressure and try to contain the pick n roll at the point of attack. If you can do that, it neutralizes Gobert a bit instead of putting Kanter in and having him deal with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert running full speed at them in a 2 v 1 situation. I predicted how bad that'd be at halftime and Stotts still ran it without a single adjustment in the 2nd half. It was frustrating. Sure Nurkic's foul trouble didn't help, but it's he lack of adaptability and proper adjustments that drive me crazy. Problem is, those issues are exposed even more in the playoffs, which is more of a game of chess with the regular season being a game of checkers. But in regards to Giles, he hasn't been able to get enough burn in my opinion. I feel like they haven't tapped into his skillset at all. One of the reasons I liked the pickup is because he's a very good passing big and it could provide some consistency with Nurkic at the 5, but we haven't utilized that at all. Instead, when he plays he'll catch the ball at the elbow and everyone will wait for him to go 1-on-1 or for him to hand the ball to him. Then he'll go 1-on-1 (which isn't his game), and it won't go too well, then people think he's trash. On the other end, I think he's solid in any scheme other than drop scheme, yet Stotts insists on running drop with him in. Then when he struggles to defend effectively in it, people blame Giles and think he's the problem. I just think the way we do things is a terrible fit for him and if we had a better style of play and weren't so stuck on defending one specific way, he'd look much, much better.
I like your 8 man rotation but 9th should be Ant and Melo off the team. Ant has an upside Melo doesn’t. You can play Ant when there’s a semi blow out either way or injury and he’d get enough minutes to develop him.
According to Golden State Warriors twitter, Steve Kerr might be available as soon as this week. Not sure if it's valid, but the fans seems very confident he's gone. Would have to put him on our list as a replacement, right?
To fire him. The guy won multiple titles for them. He led a team that broke the win record. His team fell off when he lost Durant and Klay. Curry missed a large portion of last season. Stotts has the ridiculously long leash that Kerr should have.
I get what you're saying, but their fan base seems very confident in their assessment of him. They can't be wrong. The fans know!
Most of their fanbase didn't exist 10 years ago. How long have you been watching? How long have most of the people on this board? I have been watching for 30ish years and I'm one of the younger ones!
