Don’t you think you are overreacting a bit?

Just a wee little bit?

if you feel bad about nate’s coaching just take a look at a warrior game and witness don nelson’s coaching. you’ll feel much better about your coach and team, trust me haha.

it doesn’t mean we should fire him! Why can’t we simply point out what we think is a problem and then discuss it with out the fire him or trade them stuff?

Play Pryz. I’m sick of Oden’s weak stuff…

Who would you replace him with? Do you have a specific coach in mind? I’m thinking it’s probably a really bad idea to change coaches on a young team is already playing above their heads. The team is 18-12 without a single consistent perimeter defender. That is nothing short of a miracle. The coaching staff has done wonders with what they have. They have a starting center who is roughly halfway through his recovery time after coming off major knee surgery. They have 25 jump shooters and one guy who can take it to the rim consistently. They have a roster filled mostly jump shooters. I think they are doing pretty good with what they’ve got.

Joel is having a career year. Blake is having a career year. Sergio is having a career year. Roy is having a career year. The team is winning. Leave it alone.

Seriously, these types of posts are my tabloids.

To me, the players look young. They get confused, out of position, and we get burned on defense and in transition.

One important point I’d like to make: I like Rudy and am glad we have him. He does exciting things but then so did Billy Ray Bates. His defense costs us points. He is consistently burned in transition. He is not that useful as a help defender. Even on offense, he cannot create his own shot. It is a cliche, but one it seems true in his case. When the defense is set against him, he throws up some very Travisesque uglies. Again, I am very glad we have him. He is Manu Ginobilli, but then Manu is a different player now than he was his first two years in the league. I am excited about the kind of player Ruday can become.

Rudy is a rookie, no matter his age. So are Oden and Batum. San Antonio is mixing in some young players into their regular rotations and being successful but who else? Atlanta, maybe, New Orleans, kind of. I give Nate all kinds of credit for doing what he is doing with this young bunch.

I was elated with last year’s .500 finish. I am even more amazed with the success so far this year, with so many new players and actually less experience in the regular rotation than last year’s team. Thanks for helping me remember how much I like this team and the coaching staff.

First of all, Nate and the management have done wonders for this team. Nate is doing a great job right now, and oden is just in a big mess and he’ll recover over time.

Second of all we have the youngest team in the nba! (minus Lafrentz).. We are going to have many close losses like tonight thats apart of all the learning we’ll go through together, but i do understand why you could be irritated right now i was too after the loss, but oh well.

No coach is perfect, nates doing fine

post from last year and let you guys draw conclusions.

4. Blake: What you see is what you get. He’s solid. He’s one of the few guys on the squad who doesn’t look like he’ll get better segnificantally. If he hits a few more of his open three point shots, his points with me jump up, as would our win total.

15. Nate: Mr. Sonic is a good couch. I’m not sure he’s a great one. He seems to lack imagination for me at times. But despite that, he might be the best couch for this team. His offense suddenly seemed unstoppable during the streak. It seems to require a healthy, deadly shooter to make it work. Now that we’re adding even more weapons next year and then it’s look out league. And they say the players love him. Heck that alone might be worth more than imagination. Still, I’m not worried, if he doesn’t win a lease one ring in 3 years, 4 tops, you can be sure we’ll have someone else at the reigns.

18. Oden. Lots of you, maybe most of you on this sight, are reserved and cautious about how long you think it’ll take for us to be legit contenders for the crown. Greg Oden instantly makes us contenders. He is going to, or has the real potential to be the greatest center………wait for it……. EVER!. I’m not saying we will win it but I won’t be all that shocked if we did. And if I was on when of them sports shows and they asked me to prognosticate on who’s going to win it… I’d say Portland. I’m not saying it now no, I’m just saying if I was one, you know, on one of those shows.

OK, maybe Nate is not the only problem, and probably there is no better coach out there right now (I don’t agree to this). But I think that we all see that Nate has some responsibility in this game, and IMO is not the only game he has been totally off.
He doesn’t react and adapt to the games, never, and he only trust a bunch of players… the more the games are close, the less the players rotate. We looked tired and uneffective yesterday in the 4th Q… (and in other games), look at the minutes Roy, Blake and Travis played…

I do not think the Blazers have demonstrated that Nate is a particularly good defensive coach.

I do not like the unimaginative and plodding offense the Blazers run.

I do think Nate is a nice person with an even temperament. But so was Mo Cheeks.

Somebody else that sees through the media’s “kiss ass” antics of Nate!! What the hell was he doing subbing out Sergio 2 mins into the 4th when he was very efficient. Another signature of Nate: If it works, ignore it. Hint for Nate: Just look at what JJ Barea did.

And why did he sub Vanilla Gorilla… a huge reason you won the last game vs. Denver (no thanks to Nate b/c he was gonna play Oden but he got a foul every play). Oden’s first play in was a travel and then (gulp) getting beat by Brandon Bass…

I applaud you Blazersaurus!!

 — Kevin Pritchard is a fortunate man to have so many basketball experts available here at BE to call upon when he finally realizes what a poor coach McMillan is.

Yep, it never fails to amaze me the level of expertise that pours forth from BE when it comes to analyzing and assessing what it takes to coach and win in the NBA.

I bet some of you could even tell us how to turn around the economy, win the war in Afghanistan, bring peace and prosperity to Dafar and eradicate malaria.

      your ideas have been proposed and will
never be followed. Why won’t Washington listen ?
1. Two party system (cronyism)
2. Special interests (Cronyism)
3. Fractured populace – irrationality
4. GIGANTIC federal beauracracy

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