Blazers are only team in West that hasn't won a playoff series in 10 years.

[BlazerBeav]

Better than Cheeks and Carlesimo? Yes. Better than "Dumbleavy"? Not based on record he isn't.

If you only look at their record with the Blazers, Mike D had more success than Nate.

Of course, but since we all have the ability (or at least most on here) of considering mitigating factors such as available rosters, then it's quite easy to reason that he too was a worse coach than Nate. Mike egregiously underachieved with the most talent laden roster this franchise has ever seen. Nate took what may have been the least talented roster in the league upon his arrival and had it as the #4 seed in his third season.

 

[Boob-No-More]

None of those teams were stupid enough to blow up a very talented team and get nothing in return just because the newspaper told them to.

The newspaper made Bob Whitsitt trade Jermaine O'Neal for Dale Davis and do the Brian Grant for Shawn Kemp sign and trade? They made him bring back Detlef Schrempf and Rod Strickland to a roster that already had playing time issues and caused a team that had the best record in the league and hadn't lost more than two games in a row all season to immediately lose 5 in a row, lose 14 of their final 22 games, drop from first seed in the west to 8th seed and get swept in the first round by the same Laker team they'd taken to 7 games in the Western Conference Finals the year before?

Interesting... I never knew Whitsitt was so weak minded that he'd cave in to pressure from the local media like that. I guess that explains why he completely destroyed a very talented team that came within one horrible 4th quarter of winning a title the year before and started our current streak of playoff futility. Thanks for pointing that out.

BNM

 

[Tince]

I guess I did as well. The Adelman bashing puzzles the hell out of me.

Bashing Adelman, Dunleavy, or Nate doesn't make much sense to me.

We fired RA and downgraded to PJ
We fired MD and downgraded to Cheeks

 

[PapaG]

This shows me how insignificant a first-round playoff series is in terms of winning a title.

I think setting a goal of winning a playoff series for a season as being uselss, but that's just me.

 

[maxiep]

You fuck with the game, the game fucks with you. The Jail Blazers fucked with the game. The game has been fucking us ever since.

 

[jlprk]

sweet jesus

Lord help me! You can't understand that Allen replaced Whitsitt and instructed his new management to dismantle a very good team, to please the media critics? What's hard to understand?