Chauncey Billups: “Their physicality on both ends hurt us.” | Trail Blazers vs. Kings | Oct. 9
October 10, 2022
Chauncey Billups: “Their physicality on both ends hurt us.” | Trail Blazers vs. Kings | Oct. 9
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With Grant and Nurk’s length I wish we’d just stay out on guys more. Giving up threes like we have been is a recipe for disaster.
“A perfect preseason game is like what we just saw from the Kings.” Defintely looked way out of sorts. Appreciate Chauncey calling out our guys for not playing the way they want to do to pressure. Still, not completely worried or anything as it was a preseason game. Better to get this out of the way now and learn from it. Will be interesting to see how we respond tomorrow.
Thought the goal was to build a roster to not have defensive nights like this. We wanted to have an athletic crew that will play like dogs and we had no dog in us at all. I mean GP and Winslow were out but none of the guys cared to try on defense. Really hope we turn up during the regular season and this is our wake up call
Appreciate Chauncey’s straightforward answers. This has been an issue since Wes went down. We can’t handle aggressive, physical play and we let the other team dictate the pace and style of the game. Very reactive, never setting the tone or the pace. We simply lack grit.
The energy, effort, and IQ are just not there, or guys are playing out of position. Dame is and has been the only exception. We’ve had Dame plus bad-to-decent role players for 7 years, and we’re still there. CJ had the skills and the IQ but lacked the grit. Nurk is tough but plays dumb. Hart has all three but he’s another undersized SF. Anfernee is CJ 2.0. Nas has the energy but lacks the IQ (edited to clarify. Nas is very intelligent. It’s his BBIQ I am talking about). Et cetera.
Sucks to watch, and it’s a factor that separates contenders from middle of the packers. Aggressiveness, physicality, willingness to set the tone.
I at least appreciated his utter lack of sugarcoating. “Not one guy played well. I didn’t like anything about the game” he says, and I don’t know who could argue that.
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t a good coach at all. And I wanted Chauncey.
Chauncey.. we’ve had it with the tough talk / accountability. It’s time to get these guys playing the right way
7 comments
With Grant and Nurk’s length I wish we’d just stay out on guys more. Giving up threes like we have been is a recipe for disaster.
“A perfect preseason game is like what we just saw from the Kings.” Defintely looked way out of sorts. Appreciate Chauncey calling out our guys for not playing the way they want to do to pressure. Still, not completely worried or anything as it was a preseason game. Better to get this out of the way now and learn from it. Will be interesting to see how we respond tomorrow.
Thought the goal was to build a roster to not have defensive nights like this. We wanted to have an athletic crew that will play like dogs and we had no dog in us at all. I mean GP and Winslow were out but none of the guys cared to try on defense. Really hope we turn up during the regular season and this is our wake up call
Appreciate Chauncey’s straightforward answers. This has been an issue since Wes went down. We can’t handle aggressive, physical play and we let the other team dictate the pace and style of the game. Very reactive, never setting the tone or the pace. We simply lack grit.
The energy, effort, and IQ are just not there, or guys are playing out of position. Dame is and has been the only exception. We’ve had Dame plus bad-to-decent role players for 7 years, and we’re still there. CJ had the skills and the IQ but lacked the grit. Nurk is tough but plays dumb. Hart has all three but he’s another undersized SF. Anfernee is CJ 2.0. Nas has the energy but lacks the IQ (edited to clarify. Nas is very intelligent. It’s his BBIQ I am talking about). Et cetera.
Sucks to watch, and it’s a factor that separates contenders from middle of the packers. Aggressiveness, physicality, willingness to set the tone.
I at least appreciated his utter lack of sugarcoating. “Not one guy played well. I didn’t like anything about the game” he says, and I don’t know who could argue that.
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t a good coach at all. And I wanted Chauncey.
Chauncey.. we’ve had it with the tough talk / accountability. It’s time to get these guys playing the right way