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Originally Posted by Drake
The backlash from the Trail Blazers’ coaching search and his concerns over whether a championship contender can be built have become major factors that could force Damian Lillard to request a trade.
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Don't know how they bungled that up so bad. Could have had a great proven coach (D'Antoni). Could have had a groundbreaking coach for great PR for the organization (Hammon). Could have had a respected, experienced, former-player coach (Cassell). Instead they went for an inexperienced PR disaster. I haven't educated myself about the accusations against Billups, but it seems totally avoidable by the organization.
It's going to get even worse if it comes out that they had decided on Billups from the beginning, which makes involving Hammon look like using her for the positive PR. Don't see how anything beyond a full reset of the coaching search (and maybe changes at the management level) walks them back from this.