Objective analysis: Terry Stotts is the most underrated coach in the NBA.

If you came to Blazer’s Edge today looking for impartial and objective analysis you’re not going to get it. The next several hundred words will be dedicated to extolling the virtues of the most underrated coach in the NBA.

Here are four reasons whyTerry Stottsshould be a Trail Blazer for life:

Players love him

打电话给我过于感性（您将是第一个），但我认为球员和教练相处会有所作为。赢得并不重要 -George Karlhas the sixth most wins in NBA history — but a little boost of chemistry could make a tiny bit of difference in a league that’s often decided by literally inches.

And make no mistake, the Blazers genuinely care about their coach.From Zach Lowe’s recent article on the team:

A compilation of instagram/twitter well wishes from the players:

注意Evan Turner和Jusuf Nurkic包含在该列表中；两名被替补席或担任角色的球员经常改变。它说，超级巨星和角色扮演者都在支持斯托斯方面发声。

最大化团队成功

One of my favorite stats:

Nic Batum’s assist percentage, by year, in Portland: 7.8, 8.0, 8.1, 7.9, 20.3, 20.9, 20.5.

Notice the massive jump between years four and five? That’s when Stotts arrived. It’s the biggest jump ever in a single season for a player averaging 30+ minutes per game with the same team.

(I don’t know if that’s true, but it sounds good and I have little doubt it’s exceptionally rare so I’m going with it.)

开拓者在三个后的两个中都超过/低于季前预后，这也就不足为奇了。LaMarcus Aldridge季节并将安静的重建变成了连续的季后赛。斯托茨知道如何最大限度地提高阵容的集体才能并赢得尽可能多的比赛。

这在他在波特兰的整个比赛中都显而易见。即使可以追溯到2012-13和2013-14赛季，球队也相对于期望表现出色。2013年的球队在赛季中期参加了季后赛狩猎，JJ Hickson从中锋开始，而2014年的球队在最近的回忆中是最令人jaw时令人jaw目结舌的意外开始。

That’s not to say Stotts is innocent of errors. He failed to integrateWill Barton在2014年迫切需要替补席的阵容中。但是现实是没有教练是完美的。与联盟中两位最受吹捧的教练一起，看看波士顿和犹他州的情况正在发生什么。在大局中，斯托特斯一再证明他有能力在任何给定的阵容中挤奶尽可能多的胜利。这就是您所要求的。

(No, I’m not going to re-legislate last year’s playoffs. He did make adjustments. Unfortunately they didn’t work out, fans are free to disagree with him, but no amount of hindsight tweaking was going to “fix” that series.)

Stotts is memeable

The NBA season is long. Memeability is important to help keep us all entertained on the Twitter machine.

每天，我都会把那个看上去很困惑。

He’s a good person

我第一次获得NBA新闻通行证时，斯托茨给我留下了深刻的印象。在小费前大约30分钟，大多数媒体都默默地坐在一个狭窄的，无窗的会议室里的笔记本电脑（阅读：Bally Boy/Girl）突然出现时，疯狂地问是否有人划领带。当服务员陷入困境时，我们所有人都很好奇地环顾四周，摇了摇头。

原来这是Stotts寻找领结to wear in honor of long-time National Basketball Coaches Association directorMichael Goldberg那天早些时候去世的人。在赛后媒体的可用性上提出任何问题之前，他提出了解释领结的象征意义。

Stotts certainly had other game-related tasks to be doing minutes before tip-off, nonetheless he prioritized finding a way to honor a lost friend and then remembered several hours later to mention that friend to the media. In my mind, that attention to compassion and humanity spoke volumes about his character.

Our own Akicks had a personal run-in with Stotts that highlighted the coach’s humanity:

Coach Stotts was fantastic. His smile, the feature of him that actually started this whole adventure, was on display. He was warm, gracious, genuine and very nice to my kids. He was also extremely adept and professional. There was a camera there and he immediately went into interview mode, asking me questions, listening intently and making things as easy as possible for me. He ribbed me a bit about one of my not so flattering choices and expressed how much fun he and his wife has had with them. Before I knew it we were on our way. It all felt so natural and was exceptionally fun.

关于斯托特的真正亲和力的许多故事date back to his pre-head coaching天。不需要教练是好人，但是从我的粉丝角度来看，我宁愿为斯托特欢呼，也不愿某些人能站起来。结合了持续的领域成功，显然，斯托特教练应该是一生的越野西装外套。