Portland is up 31 points and Coach Nate puts in Greg Oden!?!?!!??!

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Nate is making some pretty big coaching errors, but this is inexcusable. With Portland up 31 points and just over 6:00 to go Nate took out Joel and put in Greg. Attention Nate, Coaching 101 says you take out your best players when you're blowing out the other team, not the other way around. All Portland needs is to lose Oden for the season because Nate wanted to give him worthless minutes in a game already in the bag. Getting Odem minutes is important, but not in garbage time. Enormous coaching gaffe tonight. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
 
Rookies are rookies. Garbage time is when they learn. Nate knows what the hell he's doing.
 
I have no problem with it. The only way you learn is by playing. What better time to play then when it doesn't matter if you miss the shot or not.
 
This is the worst thread in the history of threads
 
Nate probably feels that Oden needs court time to learn and get his conditioning back. I don't think it's a bad idea, putting him an extra minute or 2 in the final quarter of a blowout.
 
In Nate's defense, both guys ARE rookies and need minutes. Also as interchangeable as our lineup is, the second 5 log about as many minutes as the starting 5.
 
joel is our best center, and nate wanted to help build oden's confidence. there was nothing wrong with the move.
 
A team with the youngest age in terms of active players, that is 10-6 agains the toughest schedule in the league so far, dares put in a few rookies to get them some more experience when beating a team by 40.

Oh no! :ohno:
 
dpc said:
I have no problem with it. The only way you learn is by playing. What better time to play then when it doesn't matter if you miss the shot or not.
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This.
 
Rofl, this thread is SOOOO retarded. He put in the rookies to get some more time, genius. Not too hard to figure out, but apparently slipped by some people.

BTW, Joel is 1000x better than Oden is right now...
 
Drink Your Milkshake said:
Nate is making some pretty big coaching errors, but this is inexcusable. With Portland up 31 points and just over 6:00 to go Nate took out Joel and put in Greg. Attention Nate, Coaching 101 says you take out your best players when you're blowing out the other team, not the other way around. All Portland needs is to lose Oden for the season because Nate wanted to give him worthless minutes in a game already in the bag. Getting Odem minutes is important, but not in garbage time. Enormous coaching gaffe tonight. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
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STOMP
 
They've been talking about Greg needing to get into game shape. He needs to play to get in that kind of condition.

Nate didn't leave him in very long, anyway.
 
I'm happy to see those guys back in. Batum and Oden are like any rookies--they need game time experience to develop skills and confidence.

When you play a 10 man roster and only two guys get over 29 mpg (Roy/Aldridge), does it really matter who the starters are when determining garbage minutes?
 
mook said:
I'm happy to see those guys back in. Batum and Oden are like any rookies--they need game time experience to develop skills and confidence.

When you play a 10 man roster and only two guys get over 29 mpg (Roy/Aldridge), does it really matter who the starters are when determining garbage minutes?
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I'm not sure the last time I recall a young team with this deep a roster dominate like this over three teams in a week's span.
 
I think it's HORRIBLE that the Blazers didn't play with 4 players so the Heat could have a shot at a comeback.
 
Rodolfo said:
I think it's HORRIBLE that the Blazers didn't play with 4 players so the Heat could have a shot at a comeback.
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To be fair, they really should have put in players they are thinking about drafting next season!
 
Rodolfo said:
I think it's HORRIBLE that the Blazers didn't play with 4 players so the Heat could have a shot at a comeback.
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we should have at least loaned them a center, since now they have to go play shaq/amare on national TV friday.
 
I don't have a problem putting them in the game in a blowout but if Oden would have went down with an injury the haters on this board would have had a field day.
 
roydezlaw said:
I don't have a problem putting them in the game in a blowout but if Oden would have went down with an injury the haters on this board would have had a field day.
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Why? Oden is an afterthought so far this season. He needs some experience.
 
crowTrobot said:
joel is our best center, and nate wanted to help build oden's confidence. there was nothing wrong with the move.
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I agree.........next time someone says Joel sucks, I may have to put them on ignore.:crazy:
 
This thread cracked me up. I was hoping Oden and Batum would be put in. If anything (and it's nothing because tonights game was perfect), Batum should've been put in when Oden was.

Rookies are rookies. They need to learn, and there's no way to do that than in no-pressure REAL NBA GAMES.

Batum is solid, but he needs to develop an all-around offensive game instead of stand in the corner and hope for a consistent jumper. Oden not only needs to work on his conditioning, but also just simply play more basketball. He's barely played in a year and a half.
 
I can't believe someone is upset that Oden is getting experience. We're not going to hide Greg and keep him under 20 minutes. His offensive game is improving, but still has a lot of room for growth. Going in while the game is in hand is a great time to work on some of his moves.
 
Wow, from some of the responses I can tell there are some real basketball newbs with a serious lack of knowledge on this board. I question if many of you have ever watched a great player develop. This isn't even debatable among serious basketball fans. Do you think Phil Jackson would ever keep the injury prone Shaq in a game when the Lakers were 31 points up? Hell No. No coach with common sense would. If Greg Oden goes down because some scrub tries to prove himself in garbage time of a decided game it would be one of the most pointless and easily avoided franchise injuries ever. It would be indefensible, yet you all want to defend it.

Greg Oden is a starter. If you want to give him minutes, you give him minutes when starters get minutes. The players that need playing time in those situations are Bayless, Diagou, and Frye, players that can't otherwise get minutes. You do not, under any circumstances play your starters in a blowout. NBA Coaching 101.

What Nate did was amateur, hopefully he learns from his mistake.

For the newbs, not every NBA minute is the same. Oden and Batum need quality minutes, not garbage minutes. It's called garbage time for a reason, because the play resembles garbage, with the worst players playing and not showing a glimpse of team ball. There's nothing for players like Oden or Batum to learn from that, it's all sloppy. The chances of Oden getting injured in garbage time of a blowout are far greater than the chances of him learning anything that would help him develop into a champion.
 
I don't even need to read your garbage.

Maybe Oden doesn't want to be labeled "injury prone" his entire career, and wants to play late in the game like every other rookie should?

And Oden needs more than just learning. He needs playing. He needs stamina, and not just stamina developed with jogging or swimming. He needs to play basketball, and the best way to do that in the middle of the season is to play in the games... as much as he can.

"Newb."
 
Can you give negative rep to people who demonstrate a severe gap in what they know, and what they think they know?
 
Putting rookies in during garbage time is the right thing to do. It's a valuable learning experience.
 
Using Shaq and Phil Jackson is a horrible example. Shaq was already developed and very dominant when he was in LA. So you are correct Phil would not have him in during a blowout. It is not the same situation.
 
Come on, stop trying so hard to find what Nate did wrong in a 40 point blowout. You are starting to sound like some other people around here...

Greg needed the experience... he is rusty and not in shape. He has a long way to go. It was the right move... he isn't our best Center right now and you can't treat him like a fragile doll.
 
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