Rumor Trail Blazers players getting frustrated with Chauncey Billups coaching style?

Yeah....probably not productive to even try and have a discussion with those people.

 

...totally unrelated to the OP here, but I think it interesting that Lillard is labeled to have an elite BBIQ along with Billups -- and maybe this deserves its own thread too @Rastapopoulos? -- but I've never got the sense that his BBIQ was "elite" I can't be the only one thinking this?

 

Dame's BBIQ on the offensive end is high. He tends to play hero ball after hitting teammates who are wide open, going to the hoop, under the hoop or open from three and watching them blow what he had made easy for him. Calling his own number has worked in the past and it's likely to work again. Right now his shot isn't falling but he has supreme confidence that it will again so he's using the old adage that shooters shoot through a slump.

The only thing I've ever thought Dame had a problem with mentally was denial of the negative. He denies that his teammates don't fit with him or aren't that good and this season he's denied that he's too injured to be effective. That denial has been instrumental in him overcoming the odds so I don't really hold it against him and think that we need people above him to trade away the players that he won't accept aren't right around him and make him sit or even get surgery.

 

prior to this season, i feel like dame could manipulate and read defenses better than anyone this side of chris paul. he's also consistently been the best P&R PG in the league before this year. takes a lot of IQ to get to that level given his size limitations, offensively anyway.

 

So why aren't we using the pick and roll under Chauncey much?

 

it's a good question. Chauncey has admitted that while our offense was very potent, it was also very predictable. Also, Dame's shot is in the tank to start the season-- completely reduces his effectiveness as a P&R pg when teams aren't selling out to fight over picks to guard him.

 

My thought is we're turning over the ball trying to pass in traffic and then hesitate to thread the needle after so many bad passes....our passes don't have much zip on them