After a hot-start, the Blazers fizzled. How much of this blame should go to their head coach, Chauncey Billups? Is Billups the right guy for the job heading into next season?
This video is presented by BetOnline! Use promo code BLEAV to receive your 50% welcome bonus with your first deposit!
NBA Uprise (NBA Channel):
https://www.youtube.com/c/NBAUprise
Blazers Uprise Live (Streaming Channel):
https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersupriselive
Discord:
https://discord.gg/UAbNem5
15 Comments
Chauncey also has good taste in sweaters! Yow! Go, Blazers!🙂
The thumbnail graffic is fire
Great video and in good time! One recurring problem I saw for this team was the apathetic starts to the 1st Quarter. Like a lawnmower flooded with gas, they couldn't get a spark going and I think psychologically it drop-kicked their confidence. I didn't see a single player on the Blazers successfully break that mold, not even at home games. Is Chauncey not responsible in some way for this?
The Blazers subreddit pin way too much of the teams shortcomings on Chauncey. He definitely has his flaws but its no secret that identifying a coaches impact either positive or negative is nearly impossible. I think things like roster rotations and play sets are the only truly measurable things we as outsiders can use to guage a coach. Everything else feels so shotty and speculative. Its very easy to look good as a coach when you have a well balanced roster with no huge flaws like Milwaukee or Boston. I'm definitely in the camp of allowing Chauncey to coach next year. Its very rare to see players go out of their way to show love and respect for a coach, which all of our players have done in interviews. He definitely has the attention of the locker room even though we are in the same position as the Mavs, who are clearly having issues in that area.
He was a mistake from day one.
Great video Torey! Clean ass thumbnail too🔥
Great job kid. On point for sure… Nothing to ad for me. thanks.
Chauncey didn't have his whole roster they we're injured all season so give him chance with better player if he don't win then fire Chauncey
What a roller coaster of a season. I remember when the team first started like you said we looked elite defensively…then we got scouted and teams made us look silly again. Do you think going into next season there’s a way to avoid that? Obviously you can’t completely avoid it, just because teams scout everything. But, is there a way to use coverages differently? Why can’t we practice a coverage for every team that takes away from each teams plays or strengths? Or is that just not possible and and we need players that are perfect mold for the coverage itself?
Sorry if these are really stupid questions I’m really just trying to learn, especially at a higher level like you guys think. Hope to hear back from you guys!
Fire him. Chauncey sucks he's this he's that
GREAT VID HOMIE
Chauncey use of the challenge was bad, only used it in 4th quarter, and the offence needed more second passes with off ball screens.
I have a couple additional gripes with Chauncey: 1) Preparation. As @Addz points out below, we came out flat way too many times this season… finding ourselves down double digits within the first 8 minutes again and again reflects poorly on game planning and motivation management. We also often came out flat to start the 2nd half… I can't count how many times I wondered what the hell they talked about at halftime; 2) In-game adjustments. When opponents changed up their rotations and schemes, Chauncey just kept going with the same plan. A big reason we blew so many leads was his inability to recognize changes in the flow of the game, and make the necessary adjustments. This is an essential skill for an NBA head coach.
I appreciate that you are even-handed in your assessment of Chauncey's season… it's true that there were some factors beyond his control. But every team deals with injuries, so that's not a good excuse and the guys he wanted — "Chauncey's dogs" — were ineffective. Let's not forget that Josh Hart was inconsistent for most of his season with the Blazers, seldom showing the form he displayed after coming over from New Orleans last year, and that he played his best basketball of the season after leaving town to join the Knicks. Last year Roco and Norm quit on the team, this year Hart didn't always look fully engaged, and GPII was an unmitigated disaster. At what point do we ask if maybe coaching has something to do with why none of these guys seemed to want to compete their hardest under Billups.
I think the answer to your title question is no. Chauncey is not "still the right coach for the Portland Trail Blazers"… if he ever was. But the fact is we're stuck with him. All we can hope is that he takes a huge leap in his own development this summer, and comes back in the fall ready to escape his current status as a bottom-5 coach in the league.
bad inbounds plays, quick hitter offense when you should run some clock, everyone jackin up threes when you just need a deuce … there's little things that make Chauncey an ideal Coach for a team planning to TANK
I love this channel