What it will take to get Stotts fired?

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  1. GDiama

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    I agree,but during summer we were reading about the all star in the making Anfernee Simons and the perfect bench facilitator Hezonja. Luckily Trent stepped up, but I wonder who can really handle the ball in this roster? Certainly not Hood or Ariza. We are missing something. We should have signed a decent backup guard.
     
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    You mean we get beaten by teams that are generally agreed to be better than us (like the Warriors last year). This is an improvement over basically the past 20 years of the Blazers, when we would lose to teams that weren't, if we made it at all. Even the Drexler Blazers got upset by an inferior Lakers team at the height of their powers.
     
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    We must be reading different things.
     
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    How has he fooled all these people in the NBA coaching fraternity? How is it that only YOU have managed to see that the emperor has no clothes? Kudos!
     
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    Somebody should isolate all teams' stats for each quarter - if we're not the worst in the league in the third it'll be pretty amazing. But that means we're probably among the best teams in the league in 3 out of 4 quarters!
     
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    Surface level argument. Stotts is a nice guy. Coaches rave about all their peers. I've heard more respect given to David Fizdale. Guess we should hire him if all that matters in regards to coaching is what other people say.

    Cut out the prop arguments. Discuss basketball instead.
     
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    I'm not seeing anything wrong with his post.
     
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    im thinking it’s both
     
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    I'm thinking going from David Vanterpool to Jannero Pargo might have been a downgrade....Nate is the defensive coordinator now and if I changed anything it would be that role on the bench...find Stotts a better defensive coordinator. Bill Laimbeer type...I'd start there
     
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    Yeah probably
     
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    Did I say it was against forum rules?
     
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    I'm either too vague or too specific. Can't win either way.

    You'd think with all this championship talent people believe Stotts has had over his tenure, that at last one of his former players would've hooked up with another coach or teammates where their contribution would have push their teams over the top. Instead there seems to be a lot more examples of players who Stotts managed to make decent contributors, went to another team and they were far less successful.

    If it were 100% coaching, why aren't there a bunch of examples of marginal players under Stotts going on to be top quality starters elsewhere? You'd think all those other amazing NBA coaches would be able to do more with talent than him, right?
     
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    Yes we did run cuts to the rim.

    Maybe some would be happy if we ran flex and screen-down/screen across, I don't know.
     
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    Did I say you said it was against the forum rules?
     
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    There are certainly better coaches than Stotts, I won't disagree with you there.

    It's interesting how these amazing coaches like Mike Brown and Ty Lue are NBA finals caliber coaches when they have the best player in the league, but they're crap coaches when they don't have the best player. If coaching plays such a large role in wins/losses, why do teams records fluctuate so much more with major roster changes than during coaching changes?
     
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    Does Stotts not have a top five player on the team he coaches? Sorry I must’ve missed it when the Blazers traded away Lillard. SMH.
     
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    Are the Blazers not missing two starters and one of those starter’s replacement? Does anyone think that the combination of Dame and CJ (especially with both dinged up) has more impact on success than LeBron and AD? Do coaches matter more than the rosters they have available?
     
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    He was comparing Stotts to Ty Lue - who, say what you want about his coaching ability, actually guided the 2015-16 Cavs to a championship that year. Will Stotts ever sniff a Finals even (let alone a championship) in his head coaching career?
     
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    Will Olshey ever get another player close to Dame’s caliber on the roster?
     
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    I think he will with Dame here in Portland....Lue had a player coach as did Brown in Lebron...Lebron takes over his teams...I don't think winning a championship is what makes someone a great coach...I think that's having all the pieces in place at the right time and health...we'll see. I know with Hood, Ariza and Collins healthy we're alot deeper on the bench than we are without them
     

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