My eyes tell me that the team has bought in. We have one of the youngest rosters in the league and play hard every night. Defensively we are communicating and despite the injuries remain competitive. If you were realistic about how the season would play out we are overachieving to this point. PaTiEnCe rip city ✌🏾
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We making these posts 7 games in to a new season but two years into his coaching. What he’s done for …7 games…doesn’t make up what he’s done for 2 years. He was bad. Period. Now if he can keep it up? Maybe.
It’s because our fan base legit doesn’t know anything and Billups is an easy target. He’s gotten better as an overall coach and his player development is off the charts
He’s the coach. And he has had a big list of terrible habits that needed to be improved on. These have been discussed in length.
I’m still somewhat skeptical but I can’t deny the effort and fight we’ve seen so far. I genuinely hope they keep it up and he turns out it be a good hire.
I think there’s different roles coaches can provide. There’s coaches that are better at developing young players and teaching the NBA game and there’s coaches that are better at getting the most out of vets and matchups.
Chauncey definitely has a style he wants his team to play and he’s getting out of the young guys. I don’t know if he has the Xs & Os to take a team far into the Playoffs (not a knock, just haven’t seen him with vets that fit his style)
He might not have the Playoff chops, but so far his been doing a great job with this youthful rebuild. They definitely fall flat at times, but they’ve been competitive way more than I hoped (especially with injuries mounting)
Playing hard and winning/losing games doesn’t paint the whole picture. Nor does “communicating on defense “more””. It’s kind of like using the analogy that we should keep said player like CJ Elleby on the roster because he tries really hard… We get it, but the kid was never meant to be on the roster to begin with.
And I know that it’s early, but I don’t really get how the team’s overachieving. Thus far, Portland has beaten 3 bad teams - Detroit, Toronto, and Memphis. Games that the team should be winning due to the sheer young talent that the roster brings.
As for actual team stats so far:
Last in PPG, 2nd to last in FG%, 2nd to last in 3P%, middle in RPG, dead last in APG, 5th worst in TOPG, and middle of the road in DRTG / Opponent’s PPG
These are pretty bad stats 8 games in.
Buying in is one thing, but having a mediocre/bad coach is another. Of course the team’s going to buy-in - there’s nothing really to lose other than to build. Billups still exhibits his bad habits pretty regularly, which people have highlighted, along with myself, on here many times.
The question then becomes as to whether or not that he breaks these bad habits and actually improves on his coaching. And I’m not confident about that. Most would agree that he was a bad hire and still is a bad fit for the organization.
'Patience rip city" we’ve had two years of watching Chauncey. I hate these takes where people act we have no idea of who Chauncey is as a coach.
Making young players play hard every night is the criteria for you? Cmon