The Best Blazer Team Since 1999-2000

[PapaG]

...won 54 games. Here were the players on that team, listed by minutes played per game.

Nate won 54 games with this team. Unreal, looking back at it. Remember, Oden only had a PER of 18.1 in this season.

By mpg:

1 Brandon Roy
2 LaMarcus Aldridge
3 Steve Blake
4 Travis Outlaw
5 Rudy Fernandez
6 Joel Przybilla
7 Greg Oden (21 mpg)
8 Nicolas Batum
9 Sergio Rodriguez
10 Jerryd Bayless
11 Channing Frye

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2009.html

Roy had a PER of 24 that season; nobody else was above 19.3.

 

[MARIS61]

That team was scrappy as all getout!

 

[PapaG]

That team was scrappy as all getout!

That team should have only won 42 games, at best. How lucky were we at that time? Too bad Oden's body imploded, and Roy's knees fell apart.

 

[RoyToy]

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[jlprk]

By mpg:

1 Brandon Roy
2 LaMarcus Aldridge
3 Steve Blake
4 Travis Outlaw
5 Rudy Fernandez
6 Joel Przybilla
7 Greg Oden (21 mpg)
8 Nicolas Batum
9 Sergio Rodriguez
10 Jerryd Bayless
11 Channing Frye

Sergio and Rudy were underrated contributors. Przybilla, the 2nd-best player on that list, is the most underrated player of the McMillan era.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Dude, you need to find a new crusade. Nate is not getting fired in mid-season. He will *probably* leave this summer by "mutual consent"....but I wouldn't even consider that a done deal.

 

[jlprk]

I agree with your last two sentences. As for the first, Seattle management won't fire him unless they hear the fans loud and clear. It's far from a done deal, ergo the crusade is necessary.

 

[roywonder07]

Man...I miss that team. I loved every one of those players except Outlaw and Blake.

 

[Sinobas]

Oden and Joel had among the highest rebounding % in the league, and were defensive presenses inside. We outrebounded our opponents, commited fewer turnovers, and won based on getting more shots. That, and Roy had a lot of late game heroics.

If we'd have just broken even on our close games this year, we'd probably all be singing a much different tune about this roster.

 

[e_blazer]

Brandon Roy.

A team is only as dominant as its best player.

 

[Rhal]

That team hit a very very high % of our threes which led to us coming back and winning so many close games as well as the best Brandon Roy we would see. People expected him to overtake Wade as the #2 SG the next season as well as unseat Kobe in a few years. I still think if we had gotten anyone but the rockets we advance to the second round and the refs in that series really let the Rockets man handle us (of course that was playoff basketball to bad our D just couldn't be as physical).

 

[PapaG]

That team hit a very very high % of our threes which led to us coming back and winning so many close games as well as the best Brandon Roy we would see. People expected him to overtake Wade as the #2 SG the next season as well as unseat Kobe in a few years. I still think if we had gotten anyone but the rockets we advance to the second round and the refs in that series really let the Rockets man handle us (of course that was playoff basketball to bad our D just couldn't be as physical).

That team was 5th in the NBA in scoring margin (+4.6), and #1 in 2nd-half scoring margin (+4.5).

 

[PapaG]

Brandon Roy.

A team is only as dominant as its best player.

I'll add that a coach is only as good at his dominant player(s).

 

[SlyPokerDog]

...won 54 games. Here were the players on that team, listed by minutes played per game.

Nate won 54 games with this team. Unreal, looking back at it. Remember, Oden only had a PER of 18.1 in this season.

By mpg:

1 Brandon Roy
2 LaMarcus Aldridge
3 Steve Blake
4 Travis Outlaw
5 Rudy Fernandez
6 Joel Przybilla
7 Greg Oden (21 mpg)
8 Nicolas Batum
9 Sergio Rodriguez
10 Jerryd Bayless
11 Channing Frye

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2009.html

Roy had a PER of 24 that season; nobody else was above 19.3.

Rick Adelman could have taken that team to at least the 2nd round of the playoffs.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Rick Adelman could have taken that team to at least the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Rick Adelman = zero NBA titles.

I don't know what that means...but it's a statistic, so it must be important!

 

[PapaG]

Rick Adelman = zero NBA titles.

I don't know what that means...but it's a statistic, so it must be important!

Rick Adelman hasn't coached in the playoffs the past two seasons, and he's on the outside looking in at this point with a road-heavy schedule to end the season.

 

[MickZagger]

Rick Adelman hasn't coached in the playoffs the past two seasons, and he's on the outside looking in at this point with a road-heavy schedule to end the season.

You've mentioned that twice, but its not true.

 

[jlprk]

You've mentioned that twice, but its not true.

He will now repeat it 10 times and get beaten to a pulp every time. He loves to play the victim.

 

[PapaG]

You've mentioned that twice, but its not true.

Shit, you're right. Whoops.

 

[jlprk]

you're right.

Jlprk's son here. He just died of a heart attack. The bastard had better have a fuckin' will around here someplace. I'm ransacking the place looking for it.

 

[PapaG]

You've mentioned that twice, but its not true.

Since nobody caught your error, and I joked about it thinking at least one of the experts here would see your obvious error, Rick Adelman hasn't coached in the playoffs since the 2008-09 season. That's two complete seasons. Not sure where you're getting your information, but if you're going to call me out, at least be accurate.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/

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Season Lg Team W L W-L% Finish SRS ORtg DRtg Playoffs Coaches
2011-12 NBA Houston Rockets 22 19 .537 3 0.44 104.9 104.8 K. McHale (22-19)
2010-11 NBA Houston Rockets 43 39 .524 5 2.14 111.3 109.0 R. Adelman (43-39)
2009-10 NBA Houston Rockets 42 40 .512 3 -0.28 107.6 108.0 R. Adelman (42-40)
2008-09 NBA Houston Rockets* 53 29 .646 2 3.62 108.4 104.0 Lost Western Conference Semifinals R. Adelman (53-29)

 

[PapaG]

He will now repeat it 10 times and get beaten to a pulp every time. He loves to play the victim.

I'll repeat it 1000x because it's true. Rick Adelman didn't coach in the playoffs the last two years he was in Houston.

I wouldn't expect you to catch it, though. No offense...

 

[MickZagger]

Since nobody caught your error, and I joked about it thinking at least one of the experts here would see your obvious error, Rick Adelman hasn't coached in the playoffs since the 2008-09 season. That's two complete seasons. Not sure where you're getting your information, but if you're going to call me out, at least be accurate.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/

Hmmm, I thought without looking it up that the year they lost Yao in the playoffs was during the 09/10 season.

Nonetheless, Adelman's a better coach than McMillan. He's been to the Finals and Western Conference Finals more than McMillan could dream of.

 

[Sinobas]

Brandon Roy.

A team is only as dominant as its best player.

Not true, you have to have a supporting cast. You honestly think the other 8-9 guys don't matter? Roy was a bit of a deteriment to the production of other players because of his ISO. He was average at best on defense as well.