Much better than their other guards, if their gonna trade someone, trade the older less talented guys. they might be able to get a good role player

Benching or severely curtailing Steve’s minutes is probably a decision he wanted to leave up to Nate. If nothing happens in the next week or two then I’ll probably give up.

B.S. that Jerryd isn’t getting playing time. Blake continues to receive a pass from the coaching staff after he repeatedly plays horrible. He is getting more minutes than nearly everyone on the team save Roy. If the coaches would actually open their eyes, maybe we would not be playing so horrible. Blake runs a terrible STAGNANT offense, and the only thing he is good for is his 3 point shot. When he isn’t making his shot, he is worthless. We might as well play 4 v 5 because he defense is horrible also. He cannot fight through screens and consistently gives the opposing team mismatches.

For the love of God, please give Blake a smaller role. Having Bayless in the wings is just another reason.

We fans should really be after the coaching staff about this. Sure their job is to win games, but they’re only getting paid to entertain us. We like what we have seen in Bayless, and it seems pretty clear to me a lot of fans entertain notions about Bayless being on for at least a couple years. When Oden went down I lost all thoughts of the Playoffs. If we had had less injury’s the Playoffs would have been a great learning and growing experience for this team, but as it stands we have a lot of players that are not (who i think) our core players (should be) playing our starting positions. As such we should use this time to develop players we want to be part of our core.
That being said, I think Bayless should at least get the opportunity to try and be part of our core. This is a talented, athletic young man, with an incredible drive to impress and succeed. It is likely that Bayless with become an upper tier player (able to help a team to a ring) during his career, and we have his rough skills and ability’s as ours to develop. I know there are some who question his BBIQ, and if there is knowledge that the coaches have on him that I dont (the only one I can imagine is that he consistently gets tired/careless after playing 10+ min) but it is clear to most everyone something is wrong with how his minuets are distributed.

And since Rudy’s out for a little bit I’m surprised that they are giving most of his minutes to Blake instead of Bayless. Maybe when Nate takes back over this week that will change, then again, maybe not. The only thing I don’t like about Bayless so much is he tends to get a bit out of control but without playing time that’s not gonna change. So, while Rudy’s out why not give him a chance and hopefully in a month Bayless can start taking some of Blake’s minutes and we can have a Rudy/Bayless backcourt … when they have been on the court together it’s actually seemed to go pretty well!

However, we’ll have to wait and see what happens now that the road trip is over and Nate’s going to be coaching again … Rudy was a late scratch from the Houston game and they’ve been on a road trip so there hasn’t been a lot of time to make adjustments. Although, making adjustments should really just be a matter of course at this point in the season … sigh!