Lakers fired their coach after two seasons with a much better track record than Chauncey has. I’ve seen so many poor calls made by Chauncey the last couple seasons. I get that we want to ride out his contract but I think it’s not conducive to our player development and getting us to where we need to be for championship contention in a few years. Why are we still holding on to him and teaching our rookies and young players poor habits?
by Gnargnarbinx12
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Honestly, it’s always felt like Ham was a coach in name only. There’s a lot more pressure to do things better when you’ve got the spotlight in your city.
Firing Chauncey at this point is like firing Nate McMillian after a 41-41 season in 07-08. It doesn’t help. They told us patience was needed, and that’s all we have to be.
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Because the FO is playing capture the flagg next year
Chancey a shit pokemon
Because we aren’t trying to win games and don’t have players wanting their head coach to leave. Players like CB
Because next years draft is the one to really tank for
The fact that you’re comparing these teams says a lot. The Lakers have Lebron and are expected to win now. The Blazers are rebuilding. Of course Chauncey’s overall record the last couple seasons isn’t good. It wasn’t expected to be. We are not in that part of our build yet. Also, poor habits? Several players he’s coached have come out and said otherwise. They’ve said he’s taught them a lot and has been a positive mentor. What makes you think you know better than the players themselves?
I don’t care if we keep Chauncey but let’s not be disingenuous.
Because Chauncey is doing fine. Will he be the coach during winning time? I don’t know, probably not. But he has the players’ respect and the locker room vibes were good despite a 21 win season. Also Scoot showed a ton of growth throughout the year, Toumani as well, Walker has improved a lot, etc. Thybulle mentioned that Chauncey has a special ability to break things down in simple terms when teaching. You’ll have to spell out the “poor habits” you think you’re seeing because I don’t see them
They had championship aspirations. They have LeBron at the end of his career and no time to spare.
Please tell me you can see the difference in the situations. You don’t have to think Billups is a good coach to see that.
Completely different. Chauncey isnt a great coach, but he’s cheap, we are rebuilding, and at least the players look up to him. Is he a coach on a winning team? No, probably not. But we don’t have a winning team. It makes more sense to finish his contract and then not re-sign him.
One team is competing.
The other is rebuilding.
There’s no reason to fire Billups. What would you be hoping to achieve by it? We are still a rebuilding team, regardless of who is coaching.
Because we are actively trying to lose next year and the harm is relatively minimal to let Chauncey’s contract run it’s course at this point.
Lakers are trying to win a championship. Key word “trying”.
Blazers are so far from being a competitive team, like 2 years minimum before they will make any noise and MAYBE get a playin berth. All Jody Allen and Bert Kolde care about at the moment is holding the franchise hostage until the 2-team expansion and they collect their fat owners checks. Once those two worthless human beings have their cut of the pie, you will hear about how they are open to selling now. Go figure.
Fuck Jody Allen. If your brother was alive to witness your buffoonery…well I don’t really feel I need to finish that.
Fuck Bert Kolde.
I don’t understand why it is so difficult for people to understand that Jody doesn’t want to pay two coaches when we will actively be trying to be bad next season. Just let his contract run out.
Because they have playoff aspirations and we have lottery aspirations. Chauncey being bad is a feature, not a bug
Poor habits? Sorry but you’re kind of an idiot and don’t even know what you’re talking about lol Also, the Lakers situation isn’t even close to what the Blazers are doing
Ham lost the respect of the two superstars the Lakers front office needs to appease, AND the organization expects to contend for championships right now.
Chauncey has the respect of his players, and the organization basically expects to be bad in part intentionally in order to rebuild a good team with high draft picks.
Does that answer your question?
It’s fine. They’re gonna keep Chauncey for his last guaranteed year so they don’t have to eat any dead money, then quietly move on next summer when they’re ready to maybe, possibly try to be good agaib
No other coach could put the blazers in a better position to draft Cooper Flagg
Because we don’t have any reason to do it.
Let’s hire JJ 😅
We’re trying to lose. Chauncey is genuinely one of the best at it whilst somehow keeping a cohesive locker room.
And yet we have better ball movement and defensive effort than when stotts was coach. Just say what the real reason is out loud