Portland coaching staff???

[Epicurus]

BTW Nurcic has played only 45 games in the last two seasons. Who in their right mind looks to incorporate him more offensively when he can't be on the court? Folks have to get beyond the leg-injured Nurk of 2019 season. This guy now is go, but he is not the beast projected from 2019. Maybe he wll mature attitudinally into a defensive role playing big like Bogut.

[DeBlazerRiddem]

Yea, let's see what the offense rating is with an unleashing of Nurk. Let' watch that efficiency go beyond 2nd and 3rd of the last two years, or the usual top ten of the Lillard years.

Offensive rating is not efficiency. Offensive rating is really more like average points per game. Portland was #2 in offensive rating but #15 in efficiency. We were even better rated in the post-season but obviously that didn't do us very much good did it. You can throw all the numbers you want out there but the Blazers did not execute when needed. We scored a lot, but we allowed a lot of scoring, and we were outscored when it mattered. Credit to Denver they are a good team, but saying our offense is fine because our offensive rating is fine kind of misses the bigger picture that despite that offensive rating we still failed to outscore the other team.


Even if our offense is fine, developing new wrinkles is not a bad thing for a team to do. So I'm not sure what you are arguing except to argue.

The rating is pts per possession ( xs 100). That is pure efficiency. Now you wish to talk about defense. That's a sliding sands argument. New offensive wrinkles are not bad if they increase the offensive rating. They are if they decrease it. That you can't comprehend such basics is not my problem.

[DeBlazerRiddem]

That's my "if this is how you are going to be then I'm done with ya" reaction BTW.

youre not going to get best out of nurk if you use him as a role player and quite frankly, why would he accept that, hes better than that and thats why he was unhappy with his role and terry stotts system is not favorable for centers

things that billups mentioned (ball & player movement) fits nurks playing style, as hes a good and willing passer and that will make our offense better and obviously we need to run pnr with dame & nurk as much as possible (ill remind you there was a time when these two were the 2nd best pnr duo in the nba, but for some reason, blazers went away from it)

billups also mentioned that nurk can score more, which i absolutely agree and on given nights, he can be second or even first scoring option, when he gets it going or has favorable matchup etc... i want to see him keep shooting 3s (he was 12/30 last season, which is 40% and its small sample size, but it shows improvement in his 3 point shot) and also more low post game

i keep saying that nurk has all-star level player potential (he was becoming that when he broke his leg), but in order fo him to become such player, he needs to be used properly, but also stay healthy... it looks to me like chauncey billups is the right guy for nurk, a guy who will help him become that player and therefore if nurk becomes that player, blazers will become better team

im intrigued to see if billups and his assistants can improve our defense and therefore make it easier for nurk... he alone can improve our defense to certain point, but you cant have your defense depend on just one or two guys, it takes collective effort

terry stotts wasnt the right guy for nurk, at all...

Hopefully Billups can get more out of Nurkic because short of Olshey actually shaking up the roster that is our best bet at significant improvement. Having more options to run the offense through is always a good thing and I agree that Nurkic can and should be asked to do more. I don't know how many times I screamed at the screen when our guards couldn't get anything going just to jack up a bad shot, or how hard trapping has continually frustrated Lillard in the playoffs. Numbers aside those are offensive problems for us. We absolutely need that high post wrinkle with Nurkic when our other options fail.

[Epicurus]

You seem incapable of engaging a different view, and pridefully admit such. So be it! You were very wrong regarding offensive efficiency and offensive rating. Being charitable maybe you meant shooting efficiency, failing to understand the shooting is only part of an offense. I don't know, but I do know what you wrote was in error. Live with it!

[Norm2953]

Portland does add Edneisha Curry to their coaching staff, perhaps to please Jody Hammon. Nobody
knows much about her other than she has been coaching at the U-Maine and is a former WNBA player.

[DeBlazerRiddem]

Portland does add Edneisha Curry to their coaching staff, perhaps to please Jody Hammon. Nobody
knows much about her other than she has been coaching at the U-Maine and is a former WNBA player.

Well I'm sure the people hiring her know a little more than that lol

[Norm2953]

In reading up on her resume, she did play at the UO and was the only woman assistant coach last
season in men's college basketball. Presumably she's on the staff to please Jody Allen.

[The Sebastian Express]

In reading up on her resume, she did play at the UO and was the only woman assistant coach last
season in men's college basketball. Presumably she's on the staff to please Jody Allen.

Do you understand how absolutely demeaning it is to suggest a woman was hired only to please another woman?

[Norm2953]

In reading up on her resume, she did play at the UO and was the only woman assistant coach last
season in men's college basketball. Presumably she's on the staff to please Jody Allen.

Do you understand how absolutely demeaning it is to suggest a woman was hired only to please another woman?

I do understand but that's not any just any woman but the owner of the team. Whether in reality it indeed pleases
the owner is another matter. It would be the same as a college team hiring a HS star's dad in order to get the
HS kid to sign with their school.

[Sinobas]

In reading up on her resume, she did play at the UO and was the only woman assistant coach last
season in men's college basketball. Presumably she's on the staff to please Jody Allen.

Do you understand how absolutely demeaning it is to suggest a woman was hired only to please another woman?

It's true though. I guess now that we've hired one qualified assistant it's time to fill the staff up with people that will make SJWs happy. Jody Allen can now look good at her little cocktail parties because she hired a woman.