Canzano: Some players working against Nate in the locker room.

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All while Chad B., the acting GM, sits and does nothing.
 
I blame PA and Larry Miller. Where is the organization backing the coach. They are doing the same thing tn Nate as they did to Mo Cheeks. If we had a GM who could move players instead of getting permission from PA, miller, the Vulcans to get it done, players might have to worry about being moved. Nate is toast and the Blazers will enter the draft in June with no Coach or GM. Dark times are here. Cap space will not help without someone to recruit a FA without having to overpay them. I'm afraid dark times in Blazerland are here.
 
I imagine the franchise makes a butt load more money if they play a few playoff games. By the time this road trip is over, maybe Larry Miller will abandon that plan and direct someone to take steps to improve the team for next season. I honestly don't care if the Blazers win another game this year as long as they focus on taking steps to make the team better next season.
 
Crawford is our starting PG -- I have no confidence in Chad and Larry to make any smart (or bold?) moves to help this team.
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Crawford is our starting PG -- I have no confidence in Chad and Larry to make any smart (or bold?) moves to help this team.
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Me either. I have no confidence in Miller, Nate, Kolde, Vulcans, or Uncle Paul to make a basketball decision that's good for the future of this franchise.
 
Some people believed Miller was bad for team chemistry because he was about quiet professionalism, rather than shaking pom-poms and kissing babies and/or asses.

Aren't we soooo glad we replaced him with Felton!
 
By waiting this long, while trade values continue to dip outside Nic, is frustrating.
 
If I was Nate, I think I would call three players into my office (at the same time), maybe Pryzbilla, Wallace and Crawford and tell them he really wants to hear the truth about what is wrong with the team and what is wrong with the coaching.
 
Working against Nate in the locker room? Come again? This team is working against him openly on the court with their play. Conspiracy shmiracy.
 
I guess that is what happens when you're a coach who constantly throws his players under the bus and never takes responsibility when a game plan goes poorly.
 
Nate's under contract for next season.

Felton is perhaps the worst PG in the NBA right now, and it's time to waive him and just see what Nolan Smith can do for 15 minutes off of the bench.

Jamal Crawford is the starting PG right now. Think about that one, and tell me which coach in the NBA could make that work.
 
PapaG said:
Nate's under contract for next season.

Felton is perhaps the worst PG in the NBA right now, and it's time to waive him and just see what Nolan Smith can do for 15 minutes off of the bench.

Jamal Crawford is the starting PG right now. Think about that one, and tell me which coach in the NBA could make that work.
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This falls squarely on Chad and Larry. Nate's system and Felton's game -- it was a sinking ship from the beginning.
 
yuyuza1 said:
His article is out. He has anonymous quotes and does everything but actually name Felton and Camby as the guys who are apparently against Nate.
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I didn't see that. Canzano is only saying that Felton and Camby aren't playing hard enough.
 
"Raymond Felton, 1 for 9 against Minnesota, has been awful. He's playing a season-long shooting game named: W-O-R-S-E."

lol :lol:
 
yuyuza1 said:
At least it seems Larry Miller is coming to his senses and that his deluded opinion of how this team has all its pieces is wrong:http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...sider_for_portland_only_hard_decisions_r.html
But he seems to think making the playoffs is the main goal for this team,, rather than actually building a contending team for the future. WTF. He should not be running the BBall side.
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If his goal is to sneak into the 8th seed he is not coming to his senses
 
What the Blazers should do, is trade some of these assets away to teams who want some help in the playoffs. Camby, Crawford, and Felton have some rental value. I doubt any of them return next year anyway. Of the 3, I wouldn't mind retaining Crawford, but I don't think he'll want to return....
 
Sinobas said:
What the Blazers should do, is trade some of these assets away to teams who want some help in the playoffs. Camby, Crawford, and Felton have some rental value. I doubt any of them return next year anyway. Of the 3, I wouldn't mind retaining Crawford, but I don't think he'll want to return....
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I don't think Felton has any trade value as a rental. He's been that bad. So bad that his close-to-mediocre past performance has probably been washed out entirely. The upside is a close to average point guard...the current reality is a not-NBA-caliber point guard. That's not a bet I expect many teams to take.

Next year, he might be picked up by a team as a deep reserve "bounce back" gamble on a minimum contract.
 
I like the quote by Crawford about laying it on the line and cheering for your teammates. I really like Crawford. As for Matthews, remember how good he was when Roy went down early last season? What happened?
 
KingSpeed said:
As for Matthews, remember how good he was when Roy went down early last season? What happened?
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Players who are merely average in their best seasons have strong collapse risk in any particular year. Blake is a good example, though Matthews is notionally a better defender then Blake.
 
Minstrel said:
Players who are merely average in their best seasons have strong collapse risk in any particular year. Blake is a good example, though Matthews is notionally a better defender then Blake.
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No more Dre. That's what happened.
 
HCP said:
I don't understand the Camby part. I have watched him balls out diving on the floor more in the last 2 weeks then I can remember! He brings it!
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Yeah, I just looked at his game logs, and I can't find any particular pattern where he was noticebly better earlier in the season and crap now. He has been inconsistent ALL season long. We just didn't notice it as much when we were winning more games.
 
PapaG said:
Nate's under contract for next season.

Felton is perhaps the worst PG in the NBA right now, and it's time to waive him and just see what Nolan Smith can do for 15 minutes off of the bench.

Jamal Crawford is the starting PG right now. Think about that one, and tell me which coach in the NBA could make that work.
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No perhaps about Felton.

He is not only the worst starting PG in the NBA - he is the worst big minute player on a non-cellar-dweller team at ANY POSITION.
 
yuyuza1 said:
His article is out. He has anonymous quotes and does everything but actually name Felton and Camby as the guys who are apparently against Nate.
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Canzano said:
Joel Przybilla was ticked after the game, and bee-lined to the locker room from the bench like a guy thinking, "I came back ... FOR THIS?!?"
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LOL at Canzano. Since when does what the author thinks someone else is thinking belong in quotation marks? This is Canzano's idea of a quote from a veteran player (i.e. something totally fabricated, but listed in quotation marks).

Horrendous journalism aside, Canzano gives Nate WAY too much credit. The coach has lost his players - that seems to be the whole point of the article. Doesn't the coach deserve at least part of the blame for that?

Unless, of course, this is Canzano's attempt at damning with faint praise - the coach is doing everything he can and the team just isn't responding.

BNM
 
I'm patting myself on the back. I got through this whole thread without clicking on Canzano's article and boosting his ratings.
 
Regardless of whether or not Nate is the problem, he needs to go. This team just needs a fresh voice so badly.
 
B-Roy said:
Regardless of whether or not Nate is the problem, he needs to go. This team just needs a fresh voice so badly.
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And you think Bickerstaff is that voice?!?

The Blazers aren't going to bring in someone from outside the franchise mid-season. I'm tired of Nate too but we might as well wait to fire him until the end of the season.
 
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