Stotts said it himself: He ran more plays and the sets he ran were more movement based instead of depending solely on pick n roll. There was a lot of possessions with really good movement, and some where they attacked a mismatch in the post. He had "poor defenders" executing simple defensive concepts. Even when we had to scramble, we did a much better job of it. The whole point is that he's not incapable due to injuries, that this roster isnt incapable of having good defensive games, and that altering the offensive gameplan towards movement is for the better.
Our bottom of the bench has one thing going...these guys practice together often..they have some chemistry.....when you take one of them and put them with the starters the chemistry isn't the same...they will defer to Dame and CJ all the time....together...they know their spots with the second or third unit
This is a great use of data and I'm not surprised the numbers were similar. Had Philly made their open 3's, we shot 25% from behind the line, and we lost; we'd be talking about the same "issues" some people have with the offense. We hit our 3's, Philly did not, and we were fantastic on offensive rebounds. It was fun!
Thing is, Philly missed a lot of threes because we contested them much better than usual. We also did a better job of running them off of the 3pt line. Pretty simple. Nothing about this is results-based, it's process based. Stop trying to apply hypothetical results to what people "would" say.
You could be right... What are the numbers on % of contested attempts given up last night compared to our average?
Dame is playing tomorrow let's see if we see the same movement. Not knocking Dame but it seems he going to play one way and will Stotts hold him if there know movement accountable.
In studio analyst maybe. He's not the smoothest of talkers. Lamar is already ahead in that department.
NBA's hustle stats had 85.2% (23/27) as contested vs 64.2% on the season. Watched the attempts back too and Elleby definitely stood out. His closes were great. On the other hand, the tracking data had the Sixers 1/11 on 3's classified as wide open (4-6 feet from closest defender).
I like the data. 20% increase is significant! I'm a little confused how 85% of the 3's are contested but you're also saying 11 out of the 27 3's were considered "wide open".
From what I've heard, the tracking data for the closest defender stuff is taken from the mid point of the defenders body at the release of the shot. So if it's a long closeout situation a wide open 3 is still considered contested.
Wow? Stats.... How about was there a defender? Yes there was a defender. Did he make the shot. He didn't make the shot. Could he have made the shot? Yes he could have made the shot. The shot didn't fall. We're back to who made their shots and who didn't.
According to Basketball Reference, there have been a total of 336 head coaches in NBA history. 53 of 336 (15.8%) have had at least 10 seasons as a head coach (Stotts: 13 seasons, 9 with POR). Of those 53, Stotts ranks 38th in career regular season win % at 51.2% Stotts ranks 49th in career playoff win % at 34.4%. Only coaches below him are Mike Fratello (32.3%), Nate McMillan (32.1%), Kevin Loughery (22.2%) and Don Chaney (18.2%). 21 0f 336 (6.3%) have had a coaching tenure for 9 consecutive seasons with one team. (Stotts 9 with POR). Of those 21, Stotts ranks 20th in regular season win % at 51.2%. Only Bill Fitch has a lower career regular season win % at 46.0%. However, Fitch has a career playoff win % at 50.5% and a NBA championship. Stotts ranks 21st in playoff win % at 34.4%. Ranked 20th is Doug Moe at 39.8%, a full 5.4 percentage points higher than Stotts. 15 of the 21 (71.4%) head coaches with a coaching tenure of 9 consecutive seasons with one team have NBA championships. The coaches that don't have a NBA championship, Jerry Sloan: 60.3% career regular season win %, 48.5% career playoff win %, 2 NBA Finals appearances Don Nelson: 55.7% career regular season win %, 45.2% career playoff win %, 4 career Conference Finals game wins. Flip Saunders: 52.5 % career regular season win %, 48.0% career playoff win %, 8 career Conference Finals game wins John MacLeod: 51.8% career regular season win %, 46.5% career playoff win %, 1 NBA Finals appearance Doug Moe: 54.3 % career regular season win %, 39.8% career playoff win %, 4 career Conference Finals game wins. Only 1 coach of 336 in NBA history that has at least 10 seasons as a head coach with a tenure of 9 consecutive seasons with one team and has ZERO Conference Finals games wins: Terry Stotts. CONCLUSION: There is no justification for Stotts' 9 season tenure in Portland. Historically, he is a bottom tier coach. Only 6.3% of coaches in NBA history have been afforded a 9 consecutive season tenure with one team. Of those, 71% have an NBA championship, 81% have at least an NBA Finals appearance and 95% have at least 4 career Conference Finals game wins. Terry Stotts has none of those. It's time to move on.
Almost a decade wasted. The Mark Helfrich of the NBA, although not even quite that successful as at least Helfich took Kelly's roster to success. Nice guy, good coordinator, extremely unproductive at the levels one wants to get to.
Omg please someone rebuttle all these facts. This is as plain as day he's a mediocre coach. Also proves that longevity with a team doesn't mean success.
