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

Very well done. Of course, the pro-Stotts crowd won't agree with any of it - but it is a fair and comprehensive framing of the issues.

 

1. That had nothing to do with losing the lead in the 3rd quarter. That's on Terry and Terry alone.

2. Zach should have been brought in for the last 5 mins. Meyers has been useless on Defense his entire career.

 

Um no. I don't have to look anything up.

I watched the game. During that run in the 3rd quarter I was PLEADING with him to call a timeout. He didn't call one until they were within one point.

 

I brought this up because the pro-Stotts group talk about him doing more with less. For his first 4 years or so, I was actually on this side of the argument. I came to realize I was giving Stotts too much credit and sometimes being too tough on Olshey. Not that I think Olshey is a great GM - but not everything is his fault.

 

1. The Warriors have been doing that exact type of run to teams over and over again. The Splash Brothers are damned good and when they get it going they can eliminate a lead in virtually no time. Comeback pushes after halftime are commonplace. As Blazers fans we're well aware of this from the infamous Game 7 4th quarter meltdown. GSWs do comebacks better than anyone else.

2. Maybe, but Meyers was actually playing well in the 4th. Stotts' MO is to ride with the guys who are having success. Zach hadn't had any all game.

 

8:54
69 - 58

Curry 18' Jump Shot (27 PTS) (Looney 2 AST)
Trail Blazers Timeout: Regular (Reg.3 Short 0)
8:53


7:11
69 - 66

Green 2' Layup (10 PTS) (Iguodala 3 AST)
Trail Blazers Timeout: Regular (Reg.4 Short 0)
7:11

That's two.

 

Oh gee look, yet another post by Cup that had to be edited! For those that didn't see it, I'm no longer a decent person because I criticized the coaching.

 

There are 2 sides of the ball and we lost because of Defense. Myers had ZERO impact on D.

 

Thanks for calling out his BS! I don't know what my opinion on a basketball team has to do with who I am as a person but for some reason most of his posts are about specific posters and have little to do with the actual thread or topic.

 

Fair enough. I was probably too pissed and thinking about how he kept running pick and roll, playing right into their Defense.

In that situation You bring the big to high post and run the offense there. But no...

 

Ouch, looks like facts show he is wrong. Good job.

 

what impact at all did Collins have last night? 5 fouls and no rebounds isn't having much of an impact on defense and you said you watched the game. The first game Collins was instrumental. Last night he was a non factor and more negative impact than anything.

 

Anyone want to take over my lease? I'm trying to move out of his head. Also please provide the link where I made such a claim of the bold printed line.

 

You obviously do need to look it up because you are absolutely wrong on every level.
At 8:53 of the third quarter Portland Full Timeout! Score 69-58. Lead down to 11 points!
At 7:11 of the third quarter 1 minute and 42 seconds later Stotts again calls a Full Timout! Portland Full time out plain as day.
Score 69-66. Lead down to 3 points.
Collins in for Kanter
Hood in for Aminu
The two guys that can't eat or drink were killing them. From that point on they were pretty much back and forth even.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/201905160GSW.html

 

I actually thought we didn't have our best defenders in the game in the last 5 minutes.
Chief Mo Collins Turner should have been in the game. Games are won and lost in the 4th qtr many times and D usually is what wins championships.

 

who do we blame for exceeding expectations? Do you actually think our roster is better than GS with Nurkic out and Kanter severely hobbled? We already dispatched two teams that were contenders ahead of us to make it to the WCF.

 

Don't you know it.

 

Ahh yes, the longtime Cup go to saying when he turns thread discussions away from the topic at hand and makes them about him and then claims that he's living in other people's head!

This shit is seriously pathetic.

 

The same imoact he always has. No easy buckets at the rim for opponents.

 

Why is Hood being so underutilized? I would say Stotts could use the injury excuse but it was like this before his knee injury too.

If we have Dame, CJ, and Hood in the game with two bigs that means that Steph has to guard one of those 3 guys. He can't stay in front of Dame or CJ and Hood can post him up all day.

It really can be that simple sometimes. Put lineups out there that create mismatches elsewhere when they are selling out to defend Dame. I'm not an NBA coach though so I guess this is a dumb post.