Somewhere, at this very moment, Terry Stotts must be having a good laugh on the Blazers. He’s probably shaking his head over being replaced by a guy who can’t coach his way out of a paper bag and can’t even beat a team 11 games under .500 on his own court.
I was kinda thinking this, too, given that Billups is getting so much heat after Stotts was let go. Maybe it's not the coaching.
Stotts had his flaws as a coach, but a lot of the Blazer problems were because of the GM, not the coach
Stotts is a mediocre coach who rode the coattails of a HOF point guard. Billups is just a bad coach. They're both laughing to the bank. We're the ones who suffer.
With all due respect, but who gives a shit about Stotts? He wasn’t the problem, but he wasn’t the solution either. There’s a reason he’s sitting on his couch watching this game and out of the league.
I kinda understand this point. However, does this mean if he does get another job, you are going to then say he was/is a good coach? If you apply the criteria one way, you have to apply it equally with the other way.
Nailed it. And I will say, this was one of Olshey's most logical moves in his decade in Portland. He ran out of ways to spin his poorly constructed roster (and losing an all-star for nothing), so putting the blame on the coach was his last chance to buy some more time.
What are you even questioning? I have NEVER EVER said Stotts was a good coach. I have always maintained that he was a mediocre coach.
Agreed, no coach had ever had that long of a run with a team without getting them to the finals. So it was time for Terry to go but the results weren't his fault. He really was just a non factor as a coach. I don't know what Chauncey is yet but things aren't going too well.
The NBA is full of coaching retreads. IF he does get another job, it doesn’t then mean he is a good coach by any means.
But you understand why that logically undercuts your point that him not being in the NBA is evidence that he's not good, right? I think that's what Tince was pointing out.
No, it doesn’t. The fact that there are terrible retreads all over the league justifies my logic. If all coaches that are currently in the league were good coaches, then that would undercut my logic. But that’s definitely not the case.
Terry is getting millions to stay home with his wife and dogs...he doesn't need to work another day in his life and he's in his 60s....I think Terry has been laughing since he got bought out by Olshey actually. He'd sure as hell be better than Scott Brooks on the coaching staff.
I was seeing if the logic you were using was something you actually believed or if you were just throwing it out there meaninglessly. You answered the question though.
Nailed it. However, we will see some sort of spin that either outcome (him not getting another job or getting one) is somehow proof that he wasn't a good coach despite the obvious conclusion being that a coach getting a job (or not) doesn't mean anything. Certainly there have been good coaches who got fired and never got another chance, just like there have been coaches who did suck and got second chance.
