re: NBA WCF: Warslameagle’s Warriors @ theducks’s Trailblazers “To Gsweep or not to Gsweep”

quote:

---

I would say Nurse is easily worse. Stotts did lead the Blazers to the WCF without the services of his third best player (Nurkic) for the entire playoff run. Also, Nurse has done a lot of inexcusable dumb shite like starting Green over Powell and giving Van Fleet over 20 MPG. The Blazers might have choked away a bunch of huge leads but I don't remember Stotts doing anything strategically idiotic like Nurse has been doing.

---

Stotts also benefited from being in the easier bracket this year. The Clippers gave Golden State with KD a better fight in round 1 than the Blazers did in the WCF. I really don't understand what Stotts does during games. They went into halftime leading, the Warriors make adjustments for the second half, and Portland never made a counter 3 of 4 games. I'm not even sure what the heck that lost shot was. Not to mention Portland looked like a deer in headlights the whole series last year against New Orleans.

I have Stotts, Malone, and Nurse (still need to see more) on the same level. Great coaches at creating a system and a culture, but have very questionable game management skills.