- Benching DJJ - Not starting Nas, instead starting a player likely not a long-term piece (btw I do like RHJ but that decision was looney tunes) - Allowing the offense to go an entire game with RoCo shooting ONE shot - Watching the team give up 44 points to the Hornets (Sans DG, Hay, LaMelo) All I want is a Lottery pick and a new coach
There is no reason to keep him at this point of the season. There are 16 games left in the season and even optimistically, they will be lucky to win 8 of them. Realistically, they're going to go 5-11 to 6-10. That means they would probably barely make the play-in game, and if they win that, lose their draft pick AND get swept in the 1st round. It's crystal clear that Stotts has lost the team, and the game has passed him by.
Stotts has to be a dead man walking, and he knows it. And the team is playing like it. Just get it over with and see if any of his assistants are worth a fuck. Then make a decision in the summer. We’re kidding ourselves if we think this team is going anywhere if they manage to get into the playoffs.
16 games left is not that few for whoever is replacing him to start anew and actually salvage the season. Especially someone like DV who is already familiar with the roster i want nothing to do with tibbets after these past two seasons. he was the primary defensive coach.
This motherfuvker Stotts literally said “I think we’re headed in the right direction” tonight. END IT ALREADY PLEASE
What is sad is that it seems every year we have some change in players to make us better but we seemingly get worse. The only constant is Stotts. There comes a point when you have to ask why you keep doing the same things and expecting different results. Maybe the problem isn’t the ingredients, the problem is the chef. Yeah. Done. Well done. Under-done. Rancid. Toss it out and try a different chef.
There are four constants: Olshey, Stotts, Dame, and CJ. One is in charge of the other 3 being in the organization.
Olshey is providing the change of ingredients, Dame & CJ are ingredients. Perhaps the mix of ingredients is not what we’d wish but there is one person charged with making those ingredients work-the coach. From my perspective the change needs to start there.
Using your analogy, Dame and CJ are the main ingredients and Stotts is the chef tasked with making them taste good. It appears many want us to be ranked top 1 or 2 (Michelin 3-star restaurants) without using all the top cuts of meats the other 3* restaurants use, we only get one choice cut. Not saying it's impossible to be the best, but not a strategy one should expect world class results from. History says you need a couple choice cuts or the very best cut in the world to end up on top. Someone isn't providing those ingredients.
I posed this question to someone else, but I'm curious on your thoughts as to why you think she'd be the best fit? I know very little about Hammon's philosophy and the way she'd manage a roster.
