Is Chauncey a good coach?

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  1. blazerkor

    blazerkor Well-Known Member

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    There are a lot of people with a lot of bad, knee jerk and thoughtless takes in this forum but you continue to have worse takes than all of them.
     
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    blazerkor Well-Known Member

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    14 games in with Dame playing about as bad as he can... I don't think that's a period of time where we can make an accurate assessment. The fact that you even asked the question to start this thread, this soon, is a knee jerk reaction.
     
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  3. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Yes of course it's too soon to judge fairly. But I'm not getting the future hall-of-famer coach vibe, I'm just sayin' (Unlike, say, Mike D'Antoni.)

    But that said, given how absolutely diabolical pre-season was, we have improved immeasurably! Just not relative to the Stotts Blazers.
     
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    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Remember that the buck for coach choice stops at Olshey...
     
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    He was never going to be the savior he was made out to be.

    That was silly.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Nope.
     
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    Id say he has about had it with Nurk.
    Roco isn't playing well but at least he is trying and working hard on the court.
     
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    You are aware that Nurk has been our best player, right? I mean, do people even look at advanced stats?
     
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    No he hasn't.
     
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    He's not being serious, just being a troll.
     
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    Dame's pretty well done by then. Time to rebuild.
     
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    yeah, the team should've traded away Simons and Little right away. they were both failures.
     
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    Entirely my point. Sorry, should have had green font.
     
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    Coaching was never the main issue. Billups is inexperienced with no set identity to lean on and is trying to throw everything against the wall to see what sticks. He's in an unenviable position trying to make this roster look like a contender.

    I consistently said that I didnt' think a new coach would make a significant change better/worse. Right now, it's looking like maybe I wasn't giving Stotts enough credit.
     
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    I hope the rest of the league thinks Nurk is that good. I suspect come the trade deadline, we'll find out they don't.
     
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    It's tough to know if he is a good coach when this roster is so poorly constructed and main players don't give a crap.
     
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    Fuck. We lost riverman. NOOOOOOOO.
     
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    Oh, and you can't judge Chauncey yet. The roster sucks. But we're about to fire olshey so there's hope on both fronts.
     
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    usage rate:

    Damian Lillard 28.2
    CJ McCollum 26.9
    Anfernee Simons 22.1
    Norman Powell 22.0
    Jusuf Nurkić 19.6

    this is a team completely dominated by 6'3 & under guards. Those 4 short guards, average 61 of Portland's 90 FGA's. And the three guards not named Lillard do not combine to average as many assists as Lillard. Portland is an unbalanced roster.

    Portland is stuck in purgatory until that terrible balance is fixed. This isn't really Chancey's fault
     
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