Nate the scapegoat thread

[tlongII]

Seemed like a good idea...

 

[Tortimer]

If Nate hadn't played Oden yesterday he wouldn't have got hurt.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Last night wasn't his fault. The players just couldn't execute. I haven't seen Brandon Roy play that badly before.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I have decided to go easy on Nate......at least for a bit. Something desperately needs to change, but maybe it's more his assistants than him?

I think it was dumb to start Travis, and our offense still sucks and we still don't run, but maybe it's the assistants?

 

[dreamcloud]

No.. I have never seen our players just so nervous.. the players just need to have tougher minds..

 

[Mediocre Man]

Last night wasn't his fault. The players just couldn't execute. I haven't seen Brandon Roy play that badly before.

Nate came out himself and blamed himself.

 

[MrJayremmie]

Nate came out himself and blamed himself.

I really respect Nate. I think he is on his way to being one of the top 5 coaches in the league in a couple years.

 

[alex42083]

I think he blamed himself just to direct the blame away from the players, which is what a lot of coaches do.
He's not going to blame his team for playing like crap, and say he gave them a game plan and they didn't execute it. It's a young team, and he's not going to pin it on them after the first game.

 

[tlongII]

I like Nate a lot and I think he's the right coach for this team. I hadn't read or heard that he blamed himself. I think that's good, because imo he's the one that screwed up the most with his lineup change. You just can't do that to a young team like ours when your going into the home of an elite team for the season opener. It fucked with everybody's heads.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Most of the team didn't show up to play last night - they came to watch Penknife play. There is only so much Nate can do to convince grown men to act like professionals.