Blazers Just Won a "Close Game"

[PapaG]

Fire Nate!!! :MARIS61::MARIS61::MARIS61::MARIS61:

 

[MickZagger]

The law of averages.

 

[RoyToy]

NATE MCMILLAN!

CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

 

[B-Roy]

2-9

You realize that's still the worst in the league right?

 

[HailBlazers]

It's a good thing LMA is injured, you heard it here first.

forcing this team to get it's $hit together

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We're going to Disneyland!

 

[PapaG]

The law of averages.

That's been my argument the entire year.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Don't care how, I'll take it! Beat the Clippers tomorrow and turn this season around!

 

[Nikolokolus]

All is well. Nothing to worry about. Smooth seas. Calm waters. Xanax. Valium. Ambien ...

 

[PapaG]

2-9

You realize that's still the worst in the league right?

Look up Nate's last four years in "close games", then get back to me.

Oh wait. I already did that!

http://sportstwo.com/threads/207508-Nate-you-are-an-idiot!?p=2742471#post2742471

I consider the 1-9 stretch a statistical anomaly. Looking back on past seasons, here are Nate's teams in games 5-points or closer.

2011-12 - .100 (30th in NBA)
2010-11 - .586 (8th in NBA)
2009-10- .542 (14th in NBA)
2008-09 - .600 (7th in NBA)
2007-08 - .700 (1st in NBA)

He's been top half in the NBA, and with a winning record, for the previous 4 years. 3 of those 4 years saw the Blazers in the Top 8 in the "close game" category. One of those years saw the Blazers lead the league in "close game" winning.

It's an anomaly. If you're the type willing to fire a coach, based on the "ONLY stat that matters", when it historically hasn't been a problem, I'd say that say more about your own use of statistics than it says anything of mine.

Also, NINE STRAIGHT HOME LOSS? I assume you meant "close loss". This trend will self-correct, IMO. In the meantime, the past 4 seasons, with multiple injury problems and player rotations, Nate has proven he can win close games.

http://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat...ate=2008-06-18

I offer that Nate's coaching in close games, with all of the injuries, has been remarkable and borderline elite. Would you dump LMA if he had a rough stretch?

 

[SnakeOiler]

2-9

You realize that's still the worst in the league right?

Who cares??? You're lucky to have a season.

 

[B-Roy]

Look up Nate's last four years in "close games", then get back to me.

Oh wait. I already did that!

What exactly does that prove? That Brandon Roy and Andre Miller are good clutch players?

 

[The_Lillard_King]

NATE MCMILLAN!

CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

lol

 

[The Professional Fan]

It's a good thing LMA is injured, you heard it here first.

forcing this team to get it's $hit together

Actually I heard CIP say the same thing this morning around 6:20am, but you're definitely the second person I heard it from. Haha....

 

[PapaG]

What exactly does that prove? That Brandon Roy and Andre Miller are good clutch players?

Clutch players that never got out of the first round of the playoffs?

I know it hurts many of you to give Nate credit, but I'm going to stand up for the best coach Portland has had since Rick Adelman. Unless, of course, Nate being respected enought to be a Team USA coach is all because of Brandon Roy and Andre Miller.

Miller's sucking pretty bad recently in Denver, fwiw. It's funny to look at Miller's career advanced stats, and see that Nate has used 'Dre more efficiently in terms of PER than George Karl has as a coach.

 

[MickZagger]

Clutch players that never got out of the first round of the playoffs?

I know it hurts many of you to give Nate credit, but I'm going to stand up for the best coach Portland has had since Rick Adelman. Unless, of course, Nate being respected enought to be a Team USA coach is all because of Brandon Roy and Andre Miller.

Miller's sucking pretty bad recently in Denver, fwiw.

Dunleavy was a better coach.

 

[The Professional Fan]

The Blazers problems have nothing to do with Nate. Never have. He's milked this team, every year, for every thing they've got. They've just never had elite and at times experienced talent.

 

[HailBlazers]

Fire Nate!!! :MARIS61::MARIS61::MARIS61:

Notice Mark Jackson in the huddle, last play of the game? Did NOT look confident, not to mention his assistant was the one drawing up the play.

 

[B-Roy]

Clutch players that never got out of the first round of the playoffs?

I know it hurts many of you to give Nate credit, but I'm going to stand up for the best coach Portland has had since Rick Adelman. Unless, of course, Nate being respected enought to be a Team USA coach is all because of Brandon Roy and Andre Miller.

If you're going to go with that, shouldn't Nate receive blame for not being able to get out of the first round.....for three consecutive seasons?

 

[BlazerBeav]

Dunleavy was a better coach.

Bullshit. Dumbleavy failed to win a title with the best roster money could buy. He criminally misused Arvydas Sabonis. He was terrible.

 

[PapaG]

Dunleavy was a better coach.

Dunleavy has a career winning % of .461, and his team blew a 17-point second half lead in a Game 7 with a much better team than Nate has ever coached.

Nate has a career winning % of .516.

Whoops.

 

[PapaG]

If you're going to go with that, shouldn't Nate receive blame for not being able to get out of the first round.....for three consecutive seasons?

He gets blamed for it, doesn't he?

 

[B-Roy]

He gets blamed for it, doesn't he?

You don't think he should, do you?

 

[PapaG]

You don't think he should, do you?

Does it matter?

 

[B-Roy]

Does it matter?

You're "standing up for the best coach the Blazers had since Rick Adelman".

When that coach is decidedly average (little better or worse depending on who you ask), don't you think they should be looking for someone better?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

You're "standing up for the best coach the Blazers had since Rick Adelman".

When that coach is decidedly average (little better or worse depending on who you ask), don't you think they should be looking for someone better?

You say "decidedly average", national media pundits say "one of the best coaches in the league". Tomato, to-mah-to...

 

[Tince]

What exactly does that prove? That Brandon Roy and Andre Miller are good clutch players?

So are you saying the Blazers won close games because they have clutch players, but now that they don't have clutch players, it's Nate's fault? There is a serious gap in that logic.

 

[B-Roy]

So are you saying the Blazers won close games because they have clutch players, but now that they don't have clutch players, it's Nate's fault? There is a serious gap in that logic.

Huh?

I was not the one who brought up McMillan, PapaG did. Notice I never did blame Nate for losing close games.

I just don't think he's a good enough coach.

 

[PapaG]

You're "standing up for the best coach the Blazers had since Rick Adelman".

When that coach is decidedly average (little better or worse depending on who you ask), don't you think they should be looking for someone better?

An average coach who is an assistant on Team USA?

If Paul Allen fires Nate, this organization will finally become the laughingstock that is deserves to be seen as in the eyes of the national media. I actually hope it happens to some degree, because then perhaps the Accidental Zillionaire will be shamed into either selling the team or stepping back and letting somebody with an emotional age over 25 run the team.

KP ... fired for what?
Cho ... fired for what?, and without getting a shot at a draft.
New GM ... still waiting one year later. The college scouting director who has whiffed on three drafts now is the "acting GM"

The joke lives in Seattle. Denying that seems unbelievable at this point.

 

[B-Roy]

The joke lives in Seattle. Denying that seems unbelievable at this point.

I agree with this.

But I still don't see Nate as a good coach. Or let me put it this way, I don't see him as a championship coach.