Stotts and Mgmt: This is really starting to bug me

Nice efort tonight and yet the almost inevitable loss to Miami. Yes Jeffries had a nice game but in reality what does that do for our Future? Meyers does not get a minute, nor does Claver, nor does Barton. But guys who will very likely not be here play a lot - Jeffries and Sasha. Just What the FUK is goin on? What does this do for us? This pisses me off, thx for lettin me vent.

 

The bench had an amazing stat line tonight.

Jeffries +24
Babbit +16
Pavlovic +11
Price +8

Yet, those 4 players combined for a whopping 10 points of offense total.

 

and will ANY of those 4 be here next year?

 

I believe Barton is hurt?

 

okay if true, but no Meyers or Claver?

 

I brought this up during the game thread and was going to start a similar thread. Well stated.

What is the objective here? I mean, if you're going to bench Hickson, at least put in Leonard or Freeland instead of giving Jeffries minutes.

 

yep, we ain't winnin nothing this year, we should be given guys who will likely be here some decent quality minutes to gain experience and see what they got

 

per Stotts: "we needed toughness and experience", so I played Jeffries-Sasha-Price, just fukkin A great, we lose anyway and other guys who WILL BE HERE get NO experience when they really need it

 

Coaches will NEVER develop young guys at the cost of possible wins. I don't blame Stotts, this is a management decision.

 

I figured that might be the case, that's why this thread was addresses to BOTH

 

It could be about matchups, and maybe Stotts is thinking it's a long year, and maybe saving those guys for tomorrow too, who knows.....

 

The coaches job is always to play to win especially when you are a team on the edge of the playoffs and not a total bottom feeder. If they played it any other way then as we all know, they lose their job. Stotts did pretty good tonight, sadly, Miami turned it up, the refs fail at their jobs again and Batum no showed again.

 

I care more about developing Lillard than any of the rest, and I think playing in tight ball games with experienced players is going to be better for his overall development than playing alongside young guys in a blowout. Rather him develop ala Rose than Wall, basically. Learn good habits over bad.

 

LMA and Wes played 37 minutes tonight, Lillard and Batum 39, in perhaps the least winnable game of the year.

Have fun tomorrow night, Stotts. I'll also point out that this year's Asst/FG made stat is exactly the same as Nate's last full year as coach. So much for the
exciting brand of basketball' that we were all hoping to see.

11 assists on 39 FG made tonight.

Yes, I am pissed right now, but not at the players. Sometimes young players need to get blown out in order to learn as a group. Stotts seems very average to me at this point. How hard is it to ISO Lillard 39 mpg?

 

Lillard is developing just fine with real NBA players.

Jeffries, Price, and Pavovic are journeymen who are either past their prime, or aren't going to have an NBA prime.

 

least winnable game of the year? We beat them earlier and played them back and forth all night.

 

And Lillard has been in blowouts. Not sure how that generally helps players, would rather see them in crunch time situations than in garbage time.

 

I'm outraged. Jeffries was +24 but only played 20 minutes! What was Stotts thinking?

 

Perhaps its driven by financial reasons, such as season ticket sales for next season.

 

Yet lost by 13.