Quick's postseason bombshell! Startling revelations!

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Wow, we must be really apathetic if nobody wants to even post this link.
http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...sider_how_portlands_worst_team_season_in.html

One of my favorite quotes:
"Something was amiss. McMillan could feel it from the start. " Really?

Anyway is some good stuff about what a couple whiny little bitches Crawford and Felton are; a reminder that the team doesn't really have a strong leader who backs up words with deeds, and just an overall view of the terrible season.
 
After this, I'm guessing that a few of the players that JQ says threw McMillan under the bus are going to be willing to push him in front of one as well.
 
this artical almost seemed to throw McMillan under the bus more then Quicks other two targets (Crawford,felton). pretty much blamed McMillans stuborness that lead to all the discord.

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Good article. Not seeing anything in it that wasn't true.
 
I expected to see a nude picture of whats-her-name, the sideline reporter from a couple of years ago, and her very inappropriate tattoo.

barfo
 
barfo said:
I expected to see a nude picture of whats-her-name, the sideline reporter from a couple of years ago, and her very inappropriate tattoo.

barfo
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C'Mon guys...... that's my girl.
 
In typical Oregonian fashion, Quick picks, picks, picks at scabs by embellishing unimportant anecdotes with exaggerations so large that they become outright lies.

The paper's mottos for many years: "Always look for the negative and make it more so." "Stick on the coach's side, and make the players and management the enemies."

The paper might become reputable if it cut Blazer column inches by about 75%.
 
jlprk said:
In typical Oregonian fashion, Quick picks, picks, picks at scabs by embellishing unimportant anecdotes with exaggerations so large that they become outright lies.

The paper's mottos for many years: "Always look for the negative and make it more so." "Stick on the coach's side, and make the players and management the enemies."

The paper might become reputable if it cut Blazer column inches by about 75%.
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Not seeing any lies in Quick's article. Crawford is a lil biatch, Felton is fat and the team sucked balls this year.
 
He takes one little honest remark about Nate's overcontrol and twists it into wild claims of player insurrection. He does this for Felton, Crawford, and Aldridge. He exaggerates everything, and the sad thing is, this will be remembered as true history forever by Blazer fans, and will be sourced forever as the only evidence of false events.
 
jlprk said:
He takes one little honest remark about Nate's overcontrol and twists it into wild claims of player insurrection. He does this for Felton, Crawford, and Aldridge. He exaggerates everything, and the sad thing is, this will be remembered as true history forever by Blazer fans, and will be sourced forever as the only evidence of false events.
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That's kind of the point of having a newspaper job, isn't it?

barfo
 
Disappointing article. It started like it was going to be a five page thesis about what went wrong and then got wrapped up too quickly. I want more, Quick!
 
Really, the one thing I learned was that Nate had serious reservations about Crawford and Crawford had serious reservations about coming to Portland. Publicly, it looked good, the team needed a shooter, Crawford had Roy's endorsement.

I don't think Aldridge came off bad, he just told the truth. Felton was unquestionably a bad trade, still don't know why he just didn't work out here; it's not lack of talent. I don't know if I'd call it the worst in team history (hard to top Brian Grant for Shawn Kemp).
 
One of the better and more informative articles on this season. It pretty much lines up with how I saw things from the outside, and how it was time for Nate to go. The discussions between Crawford and Nate prior to his signing seem reasonable. I don't think either thought it was a good fit, but Nate saw he had no scoring, and Crawford saw a chance to play on a decent team instead of coasting in Sacramento.

Felton comes off as completely unprofessional, but Quick makes a good case for it by pointing out Ray's contradictory statements on his fitness. Kudos to those of you who called him out as being fat over the summer. I wanted to believe in the guy, because of the pace he could bring, but he wasn't fit enough to consistently be successful at that pace, which is 100% on him. It basically cost the Blazers and entire season, so thanks Ray, and I hope you fall on your face with whichever team is dumb enough to pick you up this summer.
 
Pretty nice summation if you ask me (and none of you will, but oh well). It was a toxic mix of personalities, malcontents and bad luck and in the end maybe after the purge the team will be better for it ... in time?
 
Nikolokolus said:
Pretty nice summation if you ask me (and none of you will, but oh well). It was a toxic mix of personalities, malcontents and bad luck and in the end maybe after the purge the team will be better for it ... in time?
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I don't know? if they give the GM job to Chad full time, it seems those people filling the roster with malcontents and injury risks will still be in charge
 
I found this part interesting:

"Sometimes (as a coach), if you take the blame for it, it makes the team feel like you are with them," said Aldridge, a co-captain. "But if you are always 'This is y'all, this is y'all, this is y'all' -- and I love Nate -- but I think that was one of the things that made guys stop listening."
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Not sure how I feel about it though. I kind of held LMA as one of the guys who would work no matter what. Now he looks a bit like, "well, if the coach blames me too much then I'm just going to tune him out."
 
Blaming people simply does not work in leadership, it's pretty basic.

PapaG said:
It cost the Blazers an entire season, so thanks Ray, I hope you fall on your face with whichever team is dumb enough to pick you up this summer.
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For example, nobody would ever follow PapaG anywhere.
 
Reep said:
I found this part interesting:



Not sure how I feel about it though. I kind of held LMA as one of the guys who would work no matter what. Now he looks a bit like, "well, if the coach blames me too much then I'm just going to tune him out."
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At some point people just say "ok, if that isn't going to be good enough, nothing is, so fuck you"
 
I think it's interesting that he wanted to start Batum at the 2.
 
We keep hearing "it's a business" but normally in a business if both potential employee and potential supervisor have doubts - you can pretty much guess it won't work. Look at evidence but also listen to your "gut".

Except after eating too many bean burritos.
 
westnob said:
I think it's interesting that he wanted to start Batum at the 2.
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I saw that, too. The article said that the Black Friday announcement of Roy's retirement, Oden's further knee issues, and Aldridge's heart trouble messed up Nate's plan to play Batum at the 2G spot. I was wondering how that meshed up with McMillan's statement, prior to BRoy's retirement, that Roy would be starting at the 2G spot. Either the team never believed Roy's optimistic reports prior to camp or the idea of playing Nic at the 2 was only a backup option. Either way, I think I'd agree that Nic's best minutes this season were when he played the 2.
 
crandc said:
We keep hearing "it's a business" but normally in a business if both potential employee and potential supervisor have doubts - you can pretty much guess it won't work. Look at evidence but also listen to your "gut".

Except after eating too many bean burritos.
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That's a good point. It also shows just how uncertain Nate was about the team, though, in that he went against his gut because the team needed scoring, and badly. The gamble backfired, but after losing Roy, and seeing Felton's body during the summer, Nate probably figured it was going to be a rough ride, anyhow.
 
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e_blazer said:
I saw that, too. The article said that the Black Friday announcement of Roy's retirement, Oden's further knee issues, and Aldridge's heart trouble messed up Nate's plan to play Batum at the 2G spot. I was wondering how that meshed up with McMillan's statement, prior to BRoy's retirement, that Roy would be starting at the 2G spot. Either the team never believed Roy's optimistic reports prior to camp or the idea of playing Nic at the 2 was only a backup option. Either way, I think I'd agree that Nic's best minutes this season were when he played the 2.
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Roy retiring shouldn't have done much to damage Nic's chances of playing more minutes at the 2 guard it should have enhanced it. Oh well, thank god this season is almost over.

As far as I'm concerend, seal this bitch in a barrel, ship it to Yucca Mountain and bury this clusterfuck of a year 3 miles deep.
 
Nikolokolus said:
Roy retiring shouldn't have done much to damage Nic's chances of playing more minutes at the 2 guard it should have enhanced it. Oh well, thank god this season is almost over.

As far as I'm concerend, seal this bitch in a barrel, ship it to Yucca Mountain and bury this clusterfuck of a year 3 miles deep.
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That was the point I was making. Before "black Friday" Nate said that Roy would probably return as the starting 2G. Assuming Wesley remained as the
backup 2G, there wouldn't have been many, if any, minutes for Nic there. Yet Quick reports that black Friday messed up Nate's plan to play Nic at the 2G spot. The two don't mesh real well.
 
e_blazer said:
That was the point I was making. Before "black Friday" Nate said that Roy would probably return as the starting 2G. Assuming Wesley remained as the
backup 2G, there wouldn't have been many, if any, minutes for Nic there. Yet Quick reports that black Friday messed up Nate's plan to play Nic at the 2G spot. The two don't mesh real well.
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Oh I agree ... Bt frankly, none of this season makes much sense to me and it's anybody's guess what Nate's real plan for Nicolas was. Regardless, I don't know if there's much to be learned with a post-mortem of this season. It's kind of like performing an autopsy on a dead sky-diver; did he die from the trauma of the fall or did he die of a heart-attack seconds before he hit the ground? Either way, dead is dead.
 
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