PDXKnight wrote:JasonStern wrote:I still resent the fact that Stotts was fired. I know it was Olshey passing the blame for his incompetence onto Terry. Doesn't make it right.
Stotts is obviously better than who followed him. But at the same time he was one dimensional as an offensive coach and his pace was quite slow in the modern NBA so he wasn't exactly irreplaceable
I think the reality is Portland is incapable of making a good hire at coach. Either it's hubris or we just can't attract a good coach with the combination of the worst owner in the NBA and the tanking. Either way we are great at scraping the bottom consistently
While it's true that Stotts has never lit the world on fire in terms of pace of his offensive schemes, it should be mentioned that in PDX the offense always went through Lillard and Lillard is a slow-paced PG. That's part of why Stotts and Lillard fit so well together. Portland also never really had a secondary creator off the dribble in the Lillard/Stotts era. Fast paced teams tend to have 1 or 2 players besides the PG who can initiate and create with the ball in their hands in transition.