This. I never thought in my life that they would rather blame NURK for the failures of a coach, rather than Stotts himself. I never thought I would see that. I feel like one of those classical old farmers that takes his hat off of his head, looks at the crop he's grown, and says "well I'll be goddamn..."
It's better than Clinton defenders popping up into threads about sports just to make snide comments about Trump....
So be it....I like Stotts....and I think his job is safe....his record is not the record of a failed coach to me....we're a dozen games into the season...I think it's scapegoat time around here with Meyers out...he tried something that didn't work
......he's barely above a .500 record in his tenure here. That's not the record of a failed coach to you? It is to me. It's not like he just got here or something.
Meyers in or meyers out these last two games, Stotts is to blame. It IS Stotts, I just feel a fool for ever believing he could actually be a coach to get us anywhere beyond the 2nd round.
nope....229 and 193 as of last night....and that's counting the first season he coached when we only won 33....since then we've improved...we're in year 2 of a rebuild and now at 500....only a dozen games in...I think folks are wanting him to fail, I'm not one of them
I DON'T want him to fail. But it is the SAME SHIT year after year after year. A "rebuild" should NOT take this long to stop making the same basic, stupid fucking mistakes and errors that they've done the past two years. But whatever. It's your disappointment to have. I came to my senses last season. It's time to part ways with him.
See Cleveland or OKC....get back to me on that one...fact is every team is playing for second place and shuffling the deck...we have more stability and youth but this wasn't going to be our year anyway....and the season is early...I'm enjoying the team..ups and the downs...they're playing better defense overall than I've seen in a long time
The thing is, this isn't just a this-season problem. So you're CLE and OKC examples don't mean much. This year wasn't going to be "ours", but we should be improving upon weaknesses as well as having our church manage the game well. All the problems I stated in the OP everyone else is finally realizing, because they're still present.
I didn't make them mediocre with superstars......but belittling folks opinions is what doesn't mean much...we've lost 4 games by a combined 9pts and kept a lot of teams under 100pts....I think we're stumbling out of the gate but the fact is, we've been paying more attention to defense than we have since Wes and Nico were here
you have to credit our defense has improved from the last couple seasons....defense has been our biggest weakness....now we're trying to integrate the pick and roll with Nurk....it's up and down but the upside is great
Winning close games is a skill, and coaching is monumental in close games. Stotts has repeatedly shown to struggle in the stretch run of close games, and this year is no different. So losing 4 games by a combined 9 points should not be a testament for Stotts, it's a testament against. His offense bogs down and gets extremely stagnant in crunch time during close games. It was the case when I started this thread and it is now.
