OAKLAND, Calif. — There have been times during his three years with the Trail Blazers when Evan Turner wonders what is going on under the placid demeanor of coach Terry Stotts.



“Sometimes, it’s like, ‘Yo — you alive in there?”’ Turner said.



So when a video made the rounds after the Blazers’ Game 1 loss to Golden State showing Stotts’ giving a salty answer to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater about Portland’s pick-and-roll coverage against Stephen Curry, Turner liked what he heard.



“You want to know something? I don’t get mad when Stotts throws a little attitude because he’s always classy in a sense,” Turner said. “So I don’t get mad when every now and then he has to regulate his G. So when I heard about that (quote) … I was like, yeah, I guess that’s a shut-the-fuck-up moment. I was like, shit, he’s got some balls to him.”



And so...