Game Thread GAME# 53: HEAT @ BLAZERS - APRIL 11, 2021 - SUNDAY, 7:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

I would love to see Stotts face New York or Philly media with this type of performance against anyone that is a decent Playoff team.

 

Stotts post game - “defense wasn’t the issue tonight”
Nurkic post game - “we’re clearly not on the same page defensively”

 

are these real?

 

remember when teams waited till the playoffs to completely sell out their defense to blitz and stop dame? when they would trap, double, and triple him to exhaustion?

well, they aren't waiting till the playoffs anymore. The formula is obvious: "sell out your defense to shut down Dame because the rest of the team won't beat you". It works like magic. When was the last time, other than the 76ers, when the Blazers beat a good team when Dame didn't produce at a high level? 7 years after Memphis employed the strategy to great success and Portland still doesn't have a fucking answer. It's not going to be solved by 3 points shooting or a backup PG or shuffling in different role players, year after year. Portland needs another elite talent that can consistently punish defenses in 4-on-3 situations

and while so many in this thread were hammering Dame for not being able to beat two or three players shadowing him, CJ had a shit game too.

the Stolshey ship has run aground.

 

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT IM TIRED OF IT

 

When you lose a playoff series like the one we got swept by the Pelicans. You look back on the things what happened wrong and try to improve it the next season. Stotts up to now don’t have an answer of Dame being double team from the half court... none. The Front Office always rewards him for making the playoffs every year. That’s the goal of this franchise, just making the playoffs.

 

I think he's just frustrated and rightfully so.

 

the first problem is acknowledging that there is one.

 

Terry Stotts is Baghdad Bob.

 

Terry has been getting pissy when Jason asks the tough questions.

 

Actually, tonight that might be true. Miami's scored quite a bit off of turnovers. The offense was by far the bigger issue.

 

It’s pure BS. Half these motherfuckers masturbate to their posters of Terry Stotts that they have plastered all over their walls. No joke.

 

I thought Aaron Goodwin was Dame’s agent?

 

I think Jones is his marketing agent/manager

 

nate jones worked with that goodwin agency. was instrumental in getting dame his adidas stuff going, among other duties. also was in working for dame at his music label

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonesonthenba/

 

Good. Well let’s hope The Vulcans and Jody are reading his tweets. Maybe we’ll finally see the hatchet come down on one or both of Stotts or Olshey.

 

Bring back David Vanterpool time!!

 

last time he was here he was in charge of the defense, and they finished top 10. Dame loves him and he would always know how to get the best outta him. I’m for it, even if I don’t know any of his philosophies.

 

I want something fresh. I don't want any Stotts acolytes.

 

I trust him. His coaching was developed in Europe, I’m not worried about the Stotts stench.