The current one in which we are overloaded with young lousy players who don't know how to play, but supposedly will someday, somehow. For example, Webster, Bayless, and Fernandez.
Webs - Picked in 2005, five years ago. 24 years old. Part of an ongoing youth movement? Maybe by your definition, but not mine.
JB - Acquired in 2008, two years ago. As I mentioned, he is the end of the youth movement.
Rudy - Acquired in 2007, three years ago. 25 years old. How is Rudy part of any ongoing youth movement?
I define experience as having learned more than one system in one's career. The way a player learns is to go through more than one coach. Barring a coaching change here, a player can get that only by changing teams. Batum and maybe Cunningham look like the only ones who will amount to anything without getting experience around the league. McMillan's coaching style isn't succeeding with the other youth players. (Aldridge would vastly improve under a different coach, too, but I'm not including him as tradebait.)
I guess Roy, Oden and LMA will never amount to anything because they haven't had more than one coach? lol
I've noticed that LeBron and Kobe have always suffered because they didn't have more than one coach, too. Your definitions remind me, a lot, of some of MIXUM's 'truths'. No wonder he's your favorite poster.
Roy, LMA, Greg and Nic are rotten? How is it that they will win 49-50 games again? With all of that inexperienced lousy youth, how did they win 54 games last year?
Webster, Bayless, and Fernandez need further coaching to become reliable wandering journeymen, which is their ceiling. Pendergraph will be the same.
I'll bookmark this. Rudy will do well, either here or with another team. He's not a great fit with Roy here, which has little to do with multiple coaches.
Bayless will have you eating crow. I'll be sure to serve it up for you.
Webs...who knows? What makes you so confident that having another coach would make Webs reliable?
Management should have started long before they won 21 games, by not giving away the experience we had for too little.
What experience did management give away? Are you missing Steve and Trav already?
For years, we have given up wins each season because of the strategy of a youth drive instead of an experience drive. New experienced guys might only last with the team a couple of years before they fade, but they're cheap, so if we keep them coming in, we have a better team than we do now, in which we count on players who don't know how to play.
And there will always be a supply of experienced, skilled vets, at the positions that the Blazers need them, willing to come to PDX for cheap? Good plan. We don't need no steek'n draft picks.
...Because for several years, management shed veterans (beginning with Sheed) and replaced them with youth (or lesser experienced players). You say we needed to wait for the team to make the playoffs before adding age, but it's the opposite. Lacking experience was what caused us to leave the playoffs, and then delayed the return of the playoffs. So we needed to accelerate adding age, not wait on it.
Yeah, like keeping that idiot was going to allow the team to win the rings? (BTW, they traded Wallace for SAR, Dan and Theo. In case you're not following, they were not youthful.)
So, the year that we won only 21 games for the season, we should have been moving the young guys for vets, so we could win the title? Whatever.
Go Blazers
