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After seeing the names mentioned here as replacements for Nate, I feel incredibly lucky that we have him.

Bake it!
 
Nate does instill professionalism and discipline into our young players. Great mentor, lousy ingame coach.

Seeing as there is no one better suited at the moment, maybe its best to let it ride until the perfect candidate comes up.
He sure could use an offensive assistant though.

On second thought. . . Get a real NBA coach in here Mr Allen!
 
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Fez said:
Greg is raw but the fact that Nate doesn't have any plays for him is concerning. Nate is stunting the growth and development of the players with his horrible offense.
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you mean the horrible offense that is 2nd in the league in efficiency?

i agree that oden needs more plays run for him as that opens up the offense and makes it even easier for everyone, the problem for the blazers is not on the offensive end. the problem is that while blazers are an elite offensive team in terms of efficiency, they are below average defensively. getting oden involved more in the offense to get the opposing bigs in foul trouble and to get oden going defensively definitely is something that would be an improvement in that area, but the team really has to do a much better job defensively if they want to get anywhere.
 
If Nates fired it will be for one reason and one reason only "not developing Oden"
 
I think we just need a Trade Oden! thread to complete the trifecta.

Blazers Suck!

Fire Nate!

Trade Oden!
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
I think we just need a Trade Oden! thread to complete the trifecta.

Blazers Suck!

Fire Nate!

Trade Oden!
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Trade Oden? He's just inconsistent and lacking in self confidence. Maybe he needs the chops back?

"Mount Amish" is the man!
 
WillG said:
Trade Oden? He's just inconsistent and lacking in self confidence. Maybe he needs the chops back?

"Mount Amish" is the man!
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Good point. Perhaps his beard is his strength. A return to the mohawk couldn't hurt at this point either.
 
its been said that sarge is a great assisant coach for defense (the role he played on USNAT team) but not a head coach,,,,,,
 
rocketeer said:
you mean the horrible offense that is 2nd in the league in efficiency?
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Let's unpack this a bit. In our wins, we shoot about 5% better in FGA (in almost exactly the same # and/or "pace"), 7% better on 3's (1 more 3PA in losses than wins), and 8% better in FT shooting (79 vs. 71). Our rebounds are 4 lower in losses. Our efficiency in wins is 120.4...by far the best in the league. (The LAL are leading, last time I checked, at 111). Yet in our losses, our efficiency is (iirc, I don't have my spreadsheet up) 28th.

If you want to amalgamate the numbers and say "we're #2 in offensive efficiency, don't change a thing!", then it's convenient but you're not getting a good picture of where the team is. Today our efficiency was not that of the #2 offense in the league. Not close.
 
BrianFromWA said:
Let's unpack this a bit. In our wins, we shoot about 5% better in FGA (in almost exactly the same # and/or "pace"), 7% better on 3's (1 more 3PA in losses than wins), and 8% better in FT shooting (79 vs. 71). Our rebounds are 4 lower in losses. Our efficiency in wins is 120.4...by far the best in the league. (The LAL are leading, last time I checked, at 111). Yet in our losses, our efficiency is (iirc, I don't have my spreadsheet up) 28th.

If you want to amalgamate the numbers and say "we're #2 in offensive efficiency, don't change a thing!", then it's convenient but you're not getting a good picture of where the team is. Today our efficiency was not that of the #2 offense in the league. Not close.
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where did i say that the blazers had the #2 offense in the league and shouldn't change a thing?

the entire first post was talking about how terrible the offense is and how it needs to change. the offense is ranked 2nd in the league in efficiency. it is not the blazers main problem. the blazers main problem is on the defensive end. of course the blazers can improve offensively. actually getting oden the ball in the post more than 3-5 times a game would be a start and would likely help the defense as well.
 
apparently we want to fire Nate McMillan now? wtf people? He's been developing this team beautifully over the last 3 years. Winning roughly 10 more games a year consistently. As of tonight we were on pace for 52, an 11 game improvement over last year.

Heck, he's being considered for COTY honors.

So many Portland Trailblazer fans are absolute knuckleheads sometimes....
 
free_lafrentz said:
apparently we want to fire Nate McMillan now? wtf people? He's been developing this team beautifully over the last 3 years.
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I think the teams progress in the last 3 seasons pretty is much tied to the raw talents of Roy and LMA and the drafting skills of KP. This team still plays D and runs offense as badly as the first season he arrived, we just have some better players.
 
craigehlo said:
i think the teams progress in the last 3 seasons pretty is much tied to the raw talents of roy and lma and the drafting skills of kp. This team still plays d and runs offense as badly as the first season he arrived, we just have some better players.
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+100000
 
Nate is the worst coach in the league and he will be fired within 2 years. He is making greg oden look like kwame. Nate you suck go back to seattle.
 
craigehlo said:
I think the teams progress in the last 3 seasons pretty is much tied to the raw talents of Roy and LMA and the drafting skills of KP. This team still plays D and runs offense as badly as the first season he arrived, we just have some better players.
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This couldn't be truer. He can put how he "molded" this team into a winner on his resume and move along.
 
I don't know where the "blame" belongs. I am beginning to lean towards the coach though. The problem I have, is I don't know if it is the players not executing, or if they are actually being told to do what they are doing. One thing I can say though, is that the lineups in the game, are not in control of the players, and the play time and play calling for one particular player, is bothering me. Oden. I will leave it at that.
 
I have been saying this for about a year. Fire or let him go. He never coached big men and it shows. His defensive message is " we need to man up" Give me a fucking break Nate you man up and go away. His offensive sets are atrocious, his defense is horrible. He can't even teach his own position to his players. I would go after Gundy who had experience with big men and took them to the Finals. He had a fragile Yao and T-Mac in Houston, otherwise he kept them in contention.
Bye, Bye Nate... Our #1 pick picks up half of his fouls on help outs. He touched the ball 6 times with 2 assist last night:crazy::crazy:
 
I was wondering if there is any chancel Rick Adelman might be cut loose from Houston. He has a track record of success, and he has developed some very good bigs over the years(Duckworth, Divacs, Cweb, Gerald Wallace, Hedo Turkoglu, Cliff Robinson...you can go on and on and on.)
 
What was our defensive efficiency last year?
 
I don't think Portland needs a retread coach. And I don't think they need another developmental coach. Adelman hasn't done crap in the NBA and is a career big game loser. This team needs a coach that can win a title.
 
Karl Malone's Elbows said:
I don't think Portland needs a retread coach. And I don't think they need another developmental coach. Adelman hasn't done crap in the NBA and is a career big game loser. This team needs a coach that can win a title.
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Well Nate isn't that either.
 
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