The jackass who said that Canales said a bad thing, reversed it almost immediately, like about 2-3 posts later, admitting it was a bad joke. But let's go kick his ass anyway.
No, I'm saying Paul Allen has always and will always pick his Coach's Assistant Coaches, regardless of whom the Coach actually would prefer. And it's a fool's folly born of arrogance and ignorance. Now you're just making shit up. It would. It would also be nice to have an owner who hired coaches before the draft and gave them a chance to bring in the players they wanted. It would also be nice to have an owner who gave his coach complete freedom to choose his own assistants. Assistants are merely tools to accomplish the job at hand, but crappy or inapropriate tools will doom the successful completion of the job every time. example: ABM (Paul Allen) can hire the best musician (Coach) in the world to play at his wedding (coach his team). But if he then insists the musican, a pianist in this example, play a saxophone rather than a piano, the wedding will be a disaster and the new Mrs. ABM (the fans) will not have the beautiful wedding (Championship) to forever remember. ABM may try to blame the pianist for the embarrassing fiasco (lottery again), but Mrs. ABM knows who ruined her wedding and it will be ABM who ends up sleeping on the couch. Lucky for ABM he's waaaaaaaaaay smarter than Paul Allen, and I have no doubt his wedding will be the kind of memorable event the Blazers experienced back in 1977. I remember it fondly as if it was yesterday.
I'm the jackass, but to my credit, I realized that some would believe it, and quickly corrected it. To repeat--he didn't say that.
Stotts coaching abilities, much like this year's team, have easily exceeded all of my expectations. Some of the comments, many of them were mine, are hilarious to read in hindsight.
I think he will be a good coach. (Mods can you please reposition and redate this post for right after OP, thanks).
Wow at some of the initial reactions. I'm glad I didn't post in this thread, I would have been dead wrong.
He still doesn't have a contract for next season. I wonder if coaching free agency will ever reach the heights of player free agency. In some instances, these coaching transactions are of massive importance.
lol I would love for that to happen, seeing coaches given bottle service and strippers to get him to coach their team would be awesome.
The team has an option for him next season so he is under contract. They likely come up with a new longer contract this summer.
No because there's no rules or prohibitions on how teams can employ coaches. They could pay a coach $100 million a season or whatever. Players have the strict salary rules to maintain even competition. There isn't a concern of cornering the market on coaches.
