Rebuilding just around the bend?

[Fez Hammersticks]

Ben Golliver @blazersedge

Blazers Coach Nate McMillan Says The "Rebuilding" Word.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

"It's no question that we have to look at where we go from here. Because you just don't lose an All-Star in Brandon Roy and not look at, OK, are you rebuilding? How are you going to do it? What moves do you need to make to do that? We still have some talented players."

-B.Edge

 

[Trader Ed]

it was not as damaging a statement as you think in context. I have no problem with what he said

When every word you say is covered by the media with millions of fans waiting to pounce as well... I feel for those people....

good golly take a deep breath and chill... LOL

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

PG:
SG:
SF: Batum
PF: Aldridge
C: | Freeland


We have a lot way to go to find LMA his robin (or batman).

 

[RR7]

PG:
SG:
SF: Batum
PF: Aldridge
C: | Freeland



We have a lot way to go to find LMA his robin (or batman).

wes at the 2?

 

[Draco]

Rebuilding has only taken the Clippers 30 years to almost make the playoffs. The TWolves and Cavs struck gold with once in a generation MVP players in the draft, should we hope for a similar eventual fate as those teams?

I'd rather follow a franchise like the Suns model of retooling with a few smart additions here or there.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I think they just need to get LMA his PG and the other pieces will eventually fall into place.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Rebuilding is something normally classified for a team without a star. Fortunately, despite everything, we're still blessed with one. Is there work to be done? Surely, but as long as we have LMA who is the best player on the floor at least half the nights we play, we're not in full rebuild mode.

 

[Carlito]

Retool sounds better

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Retool sounds better

When I read this, I thought to myself: "A Mustang is just a retooled MG because they're both cars and have M & G in their names."


we're in a grey area between retool and rebuild. It'll depend on how Batum does this year, and if we happen to get any pleasant surprises out of our backcourt youngsters.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Arguing the semantics is silly.

The team needs big changes, no matter what you call the process.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Rebuild on the fly, dont tear it down. We have talent, we just need another talent upgrade trade like the gerald wallace one.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I've said it before: we should employ Bob Whitsitt on a series of 10-day contracts.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Arguing the semantics is silly.

The team needs big changes, no matter what you call the process.

Our needs are the same as this summer: a starting quality Center, and a starting quality Point Guard. We have a great PF, a good SF, and a good SG.

Oh, and an entire bench. We need one of those, too.

Woof... ugh.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I've said it before: we should employ Bob Whitsitt on a series of 10-day contracts.

lol! Alternate Whitsett and Nash on 2-week contracts.

 

[Pinwheel1]

The Dallas Mavericks re-tool/re-build every year. They keep Dirk and keep making moves all around him.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Day (year) late and a dollar short dumbasses

 

[Carlito]

Only issue is LA is no Dirk

 

[Mediocre Man]

Only issue is LA is no Dirk

LA is honestly about as close to Dirk as you can get

 

[Carlito]

Maybe but still far apart. Dirk is beyond clutch and shoots 3. La not so sure

 

[julius]

lol! Alternate Whitsett and Nash on 2-week contracts.

so we'd go from making a sweet trade, to trading that player for a bum, to making a sweet trade, to trading that player for a huge contract only to waive said player.

I think it's just crazy enough it might work!

 

[Draco]

Arguing the semantics is silly.

The team needs big changes, no matter what you call the process.

If you are "rebuilding" a house how much of the old one do you keep? 10%? 20%? What is the equivalent of that in basketball, keeping only Aldridge and one minor player, then dumping every other player on the roster? Dumping all of Felton, Camby, Oden, Batum, Wallace, and Matthews right now?

When you "rebuild" something usually you tear down nearly all of the old structure first before you start building anything new. When I hear rebuild in the NBA I assume dumping nearly the entire roster and spending years with an atroucous club out of the playoffs that is trying to stay in the lottery to acquire draft picks. I want no part of the Blazers urgently jumping into that strategy.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Personally, I think McMillan should be fired for saying that. One of his only saving attributes has been his ability to get his guys motivated every game, and if he loses that he needs to go.


Even negative Canzano can come up with something more assertive and positive than that:

"Roy is gone. Oden is going. Aldridge will be back. But what Portland mostly has is a clean mix of hungry players (some young, some old) who find themselves with an opportunity to band together and become something more than anyone expects.

Nate McMillan's team must fight. The organization must forget the awful mistakes of its recent past and do its best to act with diligence and wicked-quick smarts. And fans must stop looking back and lamenting, and rather, raise the expectations for this franchise.

The Blazers make their own luck from here.

They can choose to blame whatever happens to them on a shortened season, a lockout, a retirement, bad luck, Oden's ligaments, or whatever else comes. Or the Blazers can look at each other, realize that they're sitting in a place of golden opportunity, and become one of the most remarkable feel-good stories this league could have. "

And after listening to some of the Blazers' interviews after the first practice I'm feeling the same way. Things actually do feel a lot clearer and simpler now. Let's be as good as we can be.

 

[MickZagger]

Coaches should never bring up rebuilding. Especially not long tenured coaches like McMillan. With rebuilding almost always comes a new coach.

 

[THE HCP]

Rebuilding has only taken the Clippers 30 years to almost make the playoffs. The TWolves and Cavs struck gold with once in a generation MVP players in the draft, should we hope for a similar eventual fate as those teams?

I'd rather follow a franchise like the Suns model of retooling with a few smart additions here or there.

Who did the TWolves get?

 

[THE HCP]

Maybe but still far apart. Dirk is beyond clutch and shoots 3. La not so sure

I bet you 25 teams in the NBA would take LA over Dirk right now though.

 

[Natebishop3]

Who did the TWolves get?

Kevin Garnett?

 

[Draco]

Who did the TWolves get?

Ricky Rubio.

Gold Jerry, Gold.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Coaches should never bring up rebuilding. Especially not long tenured coaches like McMillan. With rebuilding almost always comes a new coach.

Not bashing here, but do you think Nate might be ready to move on? It has to have worn on him like it has us fans, right?

 

[Natebishop3]

Not bashing here, but do you think Nate might be ready to move on? It has to have worn on him like it has us fans, right?

I really hope so.