monopoman wrote:Chauncey has not really lost the players yet so I think he gets minimum one more season, I know many fans here think he is garbage but when you listen to the most important players on the team they don't agree.
The tweet by Dame also doesn't really indicate jack ****, he was a huge proponent of wanting Billups during the initial hire. Since then he has never gone against Billup, and has said he believes in Billups on more than one occasion, this is even true in extremely recent interviews. We have to remember that a main reason Stotts was likely fired was he had lost a good portion of the player base and it felt like the players were not really listening to him in his last year or two.
Who cares if the players like Chauncey? It doesn't change the fact that he can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. 17 blown double digit leads - and that was before they decided to tank with Damian Lillard having the best season of his career. With Chauncey running the show, even a 20+ point 3rd quarter lead wasn't safe.
You know what else players like? Winning, and that's never happening with Chauncey Billups as our head coach. Watching the Blazers piss away leads while Chauncey made ZERO adjustments, it was clear he is in WAY over his head as an NBA head coach. Other coaches regularly coached circles around him. There is simply no other excuse for blowing 17 double digit lads when you are actually trying to win.
Chauncey may be well liked, but I suspect that is because he doesn't hold players accountable. Prior to tanking, the Blazers had the 29th ranked defense in the league. They actually improved on the defensive end when they were trying to lose (finished with the 27th ranked defense). So much for Chauncey being a defensive mastermind. He is so incompetent his team played better defense when they are trying to lose.
With less than a month left in the season, and the team actively tanking, he was still giving big minutes to Reddish and Thybulle over Shaedon Sharpe. In a meaningless 16-point blowout loss to the Knicks on March 14, he played Sharpe less than 7 and a half minutes. He finally started playing Sharpe big minutes on March 22. What the hell is the point of limiting the minutes of your prized rookie when you are in full on tank mode? Instead, Chauncey chose to give those minutes to guys in their 4th season who are who they are and had already had over 400 minutes and a month and a half worth of playing time to audition for the Blazers.
I get that the front office wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want to keep Dame happy by claiming they want to build a contender around him, but also want to develop younger players. The problem is Chauncey is terrible at both. At the start of the season, they were all about making the playoffs, but after blowing 17 winnable games, they threw in the towel, and rather than immediately insert Sharpe into the starting line up, Chauncey kept him on the bench for a month and a half (and 16 games), playing behind a couple known quantities, rather than start the kid and let him gain some valuable experience.
There has never been a better time to be in the market for a new head coach. So many proven coaches are currently available (Bud, Nurse, Vogel, Monty), but we have hitched our wagon to a failed experiment by hiring someone with zero experience and giving him a 5-year guaranteed contract. It's painfully obvious the Chauncey experiment was a failure, but Jody won't fire him and eat the least three years of his contract. So, other teams that actually want to win, will snap up all the good coaches and we will continue to piss away the remaining productive years of the best player to ever wear a Portland Trail Blazer uniform. So sad. So pathetic.
seriously? 
