BNM wrote:Shem wrote:BNM wrote:
Yawn...
Always with the excuses. Poor Chauncey is the victim here. The team couldn't hold a double digit lead when they were a healthy, veteran team trying to win and the young players are not developing. If anything, they are getting worse.
In three seasons I have seen zero evidence that Chauncey is, or will ever be, a competent NBA head coach. None. Zip. Nada.
And always the "fire Billups" crowd hates facts. Yeah, don't bring out all the games core players missed via injury. Goes against the narrative... the propaganda. I'm sorry, you guys don't live in reality. Your reality is if we had a coach like Phil Jackson, he could bring a team with G-League talent into the Finals right away.
The "fire Billups" crowd doesn't hate facts. We love them and post them all the time. You chose to ignore them and continue to make excuses for the most incompetent coach in franchise history.
Worse than:
P. J. Carlesimo??
Mike Schuler??
Jack McCloskey??
Stu Inman??
Rolland Todd??
Seriously? I bet you hadn't heard of many of those names.
When I mention the facts of about the core players that missed a lot of games over the last three years, you put their fingers in your ears pretending that didn't happen. That's ignoring facts.
BNM wrote:This is one of the worst posts you have ever made. Are you really oblivious to the fact that there is a WHOLE LOT OF MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN GETTING PUMMELED BY 60 POINTS MULTIPLE TIMES IN ONE SEASON AND WINNING AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP???
You missed the part where we played 6 rookies in that game. Lately the team has been starting 5 of them. Please, ignore that fact about playing G-League level talent can be exploited by good teams at times. People like you have this belief if you have a certain coach, it doesn't matter who is on the floor and ignore "fact" how bad the Spurs have been the last 4 years under Popovich.
It's like you forgot not too long ago the Thunder were rebuilding for the last 5 years around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and at one point the OKC Thunder set the NBA record of being blown out by 79 points. Uh oh, another inconvenient fact to ignore.
BNM wrote:That's the weakest take I've ever seen and a total strawman. No one has ever said a better coach would lead this team to a title. It's not just the losing. It' the way this team loses, the complete lack of a coherent NBA offense, ZERO in game adjustments and the lack of development of the young players.
I can tell you've never coached before on how difficult it is to develop players. Especially when core players are missing game via injury. Lineups and rosters are in flux. 22 players have suit up for the Blazers this season. Many G-League level talent is out there. But again, facts don't matter to you.
BNM wrote:There are some facts for you to shew on. If you disagree, please feel free to rebut any of those points, but please site actual \examples, not just excuses and strawman arguments.
So they're strawman arguments when you don't like what is said. Got it!
Here are more facts you won't like.
-Simons has missed 28 games
-Grant has missed 20 games
-Sharpe has missed 42 games
-Ayton has missed 26 games
-Brogdon has missed 35 games
-Scoot has missed 19 games
That messes with any team. But look at last year.
-Simons has missed 28 games
-Grant has missed 20 games
-Sharpe has missed 42 games
-Ayton has missed 26 games
-Brogdon has missed 35 games
-Scoot has missed 19 games
-Time Lord has missed 68 games
Last year
-Dame missed 24 games
-Grant missed 19 games
-Simons missed 20 games
-Winslow missed 53 games
-Nurk missed 30 games
-Little missed 28 games
And at one point last year, the Blazers were 3 games from the 4th seed with 22 games left in the season and management thought it was tank for the draft pick so they did.
Then the year before, Dame played 29 games and in the games he played, he was hurting the whole season. I've already argued with someone about how they thought Dame having surgery and playing horribly for 29 games should have made the playoffs and would have under Stotts. Even though Stotts have coached a team where Dame sat our most of the season like that before.
THESE ARE FACTS YOU WANT IGNORE. Facts you want to use mental gymnastics to get around. And why is that? Because you live vicariously through this team and losing hurts you personal ego and you're so simple minded that you think a different coach would have gotten us in the playoffs or something.
We're tanking and missed the memo. It's like people think "I want to tank, but I need 1 point losses for all 82 games or we need a new coach" type mentality.
Phil Jackson couldn't have done much better.