Yep. Been saying this for a couple years now. How many times you going to let Mike Muscala shoot open 3’s before you adjust?? Sometimes I’m in awe.
Yeah, he lost to a Blazers team who many say has a horrible coach, poor defensive players, a predictable offense, and was missing 2 out of their 3 best players. Time to throw the man a parade!
One thing is clear - whatever they paid Jim Boylen for his defensive consulting was WAY TOO DAMN MUCH.
I believe I read a quote from him along the lines of, "I can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit."
You know the thing about the horse and the water, right? And I'm not sure if the horse in this case is our coaches or our players.
it's the kind of quote that makes me question WTF terry watches out there sometimes. We gave up wide open shot after wide open shot the entire fourth quarter. And in the third quarter, we gave 0 resistance to straight line drives at the rim. There are multiple plays this game when guys had their back turned to the guy they were guarding WHEN THEY HAD THE BALL. Just inexcusable altogether, and not JUST in the first half.
What makes you think that he would succeed in the modern NBA while being out of coaching for so long?
no, what they should have done is hired him full time and put him in charge of the defense. He’s a proven coach that’s always had good defenses wherever he’s been. A two week seminar or whatever it was they did with him wasn’t enough and a joke in itself. Pretty sure he didn’t even get a chance to actually work with any of the players.
Glad you're more upset about reading about the performance of the coach than the actual performance of the coach. Shilling.
Its boring. Its constant. It has gotten old. Fire the man, put us out of our misery. Not only will the Blazers then win a championship, we won't have to read about Terry Stotts anymore.
I'll bet that if Boylen was told he was going to get to coach defense for a team starting Melo and Kanter and without Roco, DJJ banged up, Hood out and, of course no Nurk, CJ or Collins, he'd just be super thrilled at the prospect.
come on, man. our defense has been pitiful all year, even before the injuries. it speaks volumes to me when the preseason press conferences where half our team claimed they aspired to be in the middle of the league in defense, and top 5 in offense. The expectations themselves are so low.
The expectations were low because the personnel is poor, when it comes to defense. With Hood struggling, the only players you could expect to be good defenders in a modern defense are Covington and Trent. DJJ and Giles were projects you might hope could be good defenders in significant minutes. Nurkic is a fish out of water in a modern, switching defense but at least is a good defender near the rim. This is not the personnel, especially when matched with an undersized and overall poor defensive backcourt and fairly high-minute reserves who are awful at defense (Melo and Kanter), that anyone should have expected to be molded into a strong defensive unit. Aspiring for average was setting expectations correctly for a ceiling--there was a good chance that even average was aiming too high. I don't think Stotts is a great coach, but scapegoating him for a bad defense when he's been given bad defensive personnel isn't particularly reasonable. I really don't care if he's fired or not, but I'm going to place the blame for the defense where it belongs: on the roster construction.
