Hopefully some of y'all can quit dogging Terry MF Stotts now

He isnt going to be fired even if they lose the next two by 100 points.

 

He won't. Dame loves him and Neil won't make any drastic changes.

 

So Dame's prime will continue to waste away.

 

We are 100% wasting Dame's prime. It's a done deal.

 

And because the Blazers are in the freakin WCF when absolutely nobody thought they could get there, especially after Nurk went down. Firing Stotts after a run like this because the Blazers don’t beat the Warriors would be bush league. Good luck attracting a major coach after that.

 

Nick Nurse says 'hello'. Toronto fired the coach of the year.

 

Jody Allen has no sentimental tie with Stotts like Paul did. Could that play into this?

 

Please let that be the case.

 

And this is EXACTLY the mindset that is holding this team back. Being happy with getting this far, while Dame is almost 29 years old, or being happy with getting the third seed, or whatever moral victory we're happy about is EXACTLY the reason why this team hasn't made any significant strides in the past five years.

 

Say what? There are 4 teams left playing and the Blazers are one of them.

 

And that wouldn't be the case if it were up to Stotts. Remember, he tried to lose the final game which would have made them the #4 seed and facing GS in the 2nd round where the Playoff run would have ended. The WCF run is as much thanks to Anfernee Simons as it is to Stotts.

 

I think that is more of a possibility then people realize. It seemed like she caught the fever after game 7 against Denver. If she did she could realize that this team is very close to winning a championship and maybe what is needed is a new voice to lead them there.

With the national embarrassment of Game 1 and now this game Stotts is making it easy for her to fire him. Even more so if we get swept on our home court.

Don't be surprised if it happens.

 

And most of the people around here agreed with that strategy, and we’re mad at Stotts for letting the scrubs win, because most didn’t think that the Blazers could beat the mighty Thunder to get out of the first round.

 

he actually bricked his last 6 shots...all in the last 7 minutes of the game. In that 7 minutes, Portland took 12 shots and CJ took half of them, missing every time. Worse is that Curry and Hood were open 3 of those times and CJ chose to shoot instead of pass...and Curry was hot

 

This is so crazy to me.

We literally gave up in game 1, a winnable game, putting a million times more pressure on game 2 in which we choked away at the end. So instead of being up 2-0 or at worse 1-1 we are down 2-0 and have to beat the champs 4 out of 5 games to win the series.

Or is it all just sunshine and rainbows since we got this far?

 

Aw. Shit. I just realized what thread I was in. Now I feel like a damn hypocrite after what I said the other day.

Sorry @RonBrewer.

 

The only people who were okay with that strategy were people who only cared about getting some sort of moral victory by winning a 1st round matchup. Several of the people criticizing Stotts were pissed we tried to tank that game because it meant a tougher path to a deep playoff run.

I was mad we didn't go for the higher seed.

 

Who cares if at the end of the day we're still out?

In the words of Ricky Bobby, "if you're not first, you're last."

You don't get a prize for making the WCF.

 

Same.