JasonStern wrote:Shem wrote:JasonStern wrote:
They aren't useless. They give Shem a reason to validate Chauncey Billups as head coach.
Would it kill you to stop making sh** up??? Would it??? It's like talking to a Trump supporter. Let me put it to you this way. If you have to lie to make someone look bad, what does that say about your integrity? Or your credibility for that matter? Of course I'm trying to reason with someone who thought that the Blazers would have made the playoffs with Terry Stotts instead of Billups the season where Dame played 29 games and was playing injured in the games he played. But look who I'm replying to. Someone who wasn't aware the Blazers had a 3 game winning streak this season.
Are you okay? You never used to take things so personal.
If anything, you're making this personal because I've embarrassed you by digging up old quotes proving that you are full of yourself. And you hold a grudge for it to a point that you'll make sh** up. These are personal attacks on me because of your pride... your ego to the point you now feel the need to take cheap shots at me out of the blue. Get over it!
JasonStern wrote:But yeah. Stotts would have taken us to the play-in, which we would win.
So you're going to double down that the Blazers would have made the "play-in" the year Dame played 29 games? This is the part of the fire Billups crowd that I don't understand. And that's OVERVALUING the talent on the roster. The roster isn't as good as you think it was.
First you have to make an argument on a season where Blazers made the playoffs where Dame missed 53 games (or a season where he missed more than half of the games). That never happened. In fact, how many times did the Blazers have a losing record at the all-star break and Dame went on a rampage to carry the team to the playoffs?
Just look at Monty Williams. Two years ago he coached a team to 64 wins and the Suns ended up with the best record in the NBA. The year before that, he coached the Suns to the Finals. And yet, this year, Monty Williams's team will likely have the worst record in the NBA.
Think about it. 64 wins and the best record to 13 wins and the worst record in two seasons. It's almost like talent matters more than who the coach is. Dame being a top 75 player of all-time had something to do with those seasons where the Blazers creeped into the playoffs because he went into mega superstar mode during the 2nd half of the season.
Go back to the 2020 season. The year COVID interrupted the season. When the season shutdown in March, the Blazers were 29-37 and that's with Stotts at the helm and a healthy Dame too. When the season resumed in late July and early August, Dame went nuclear to win the Bubble MVP and the Blazers finished at 36-39 to get the 8th seed after beating Memphis in the play-in game.
Do you really think the Blazers would have made the playoffs that season without Dame? And yet you're arguing that the Blazers had enough talent to overcome Dame's injury with a shot at the playoffs in the 2022 season if only they had Stotts as the coach. I'm sorry, but the Blazers would have been lucky to have made the playoffs any of those years with whomever was on the roster besides Dame.
Management has made a clear signal that they want to rebuild and tank this season and so many people have this idea that if the team had a different coach than Billups that this team would have made the playoffs. There's a reason we haven't seen Malcolm Brogdon during the 2nd half of the season. It's because the Blazers are 15-24 with Brogdon and 6-32 without him. Had Chauncey decided to try to win at all costs and hinder development from our young players, this team could have easily won 30-35 games with Brogdon getting big minutes. Assuming he's completely healthy the whole season. But that would have hurt Sharpe and especially Scoot's development this season.
Guess what??? We're likely tanking again next year too.
The fact is, you only made that argument originally about the Blazers would have made the playoffs with Stotts in the 2022 season because you forgot that that Dame played 29 games that year. Just like you forgot the Blazers had a 3 game winning streak. But instead of realizing your mistake, you doubled down. Just like you doubled down on saying you wanted Drummond in the 2012 draft even though I dug up a quote saying you wanted Barnes. Even when I proved that wasn't the case, you still doubled down on it despite the evidence.