than watch Miller go 1 on 4 and fall down

I would bet just about anything you wanted that when Miller gets his shot to be the starting PG with Roy at SG and Blake in the second unit, that he’ll have all the nay-sayers swallowing their tongues in embarrassment.

let him start as the sole point guard and see what we get before cutting him. However I don’t see Nate not starting Binkie which is amazing in and of itself.

I’ve been thinking Miller isn’t a fit because of his style of play, but you’re right we should start him and see how that works out.

The only reason I see not to, is if there’s internal power struggles going on with Nate and Miller. Miller was benched, and I would guess there’s a reason. In those situations I’ll generally support the coach because players should NOT be running the team.

If a power struggle IS going on, then it’s time to move on regardless. if one isn’t, then yeah… let Miller start and see how that works.

even one game with Miller starting at the point and Brandon playing the 2

For the record, Nate did start Miller-Roy for 2 preseason games. They didn’t go well (Roy wasn’t trying particularly hard, and Miller wasn’t in shape) and Nate scuttled the RAMBO lineup and went back to the default. But I agree, there’s no way this “trial” was an adequate test of the Miller-Roy starting backcourt. The fact that the team defended so well (7-2, low 40% OFG%) with the 3 guard lineup and then got “scored on” again after Andre was removed from the starting lineup should argue towards trying Miller, instead of Blake

I so agree with you….the fact that we haven’t started Miller w/o Blake for at least 10 CONSECUTIVE GAMES is such an embarrassment !! I am so tired of the Brandon show…how can we even know the potential and possibilities? Isn’t Nate CURIOUS? He’s started everything but the kitchen sink but yet he won’t start Miller….I just don’t get it….does Blake have a secret of Nates? We are acting like the small market we are…..

Wojnarowski is a hack with what appears to be a vendetta against Kevin Pritchard.

Do you really think that he’s going to have insider information from the Blazers? Or that Portland coaches like to run at the mouth about their team, their personnel or their plans and intentions? Seriously, guys like Wojnarowski are able to exist because they develop relationships with a couple of people and trade off of that to make people think they are wired into all of what’s happening in the league. Wojnarowski deals mostly in wild rumor, some of which he makes up himself.

Plenty of people (including people outside of PDX) saw Miller’s poor fit for this team. That is why I had hoped that he would lead the 2nd unit and make that a great Blazers advantage. Well, that hasn’t worked out either (obviously Roy’s fault somehow).

I do think Miller will get another shot at starting if we lose the Houston game. Nate’s running out of options. Call that Plan C. If that doesn’t work out we move to Plan D (trade Miller) after the ides of December and Bayless may finally get his chance.

I’m don’t know if Hinrich has anything left in the tank. The only times I’ve seen him on TV this year it didn’t look like he had a lot left even if we could get him.

that was my thought too. Not only that, but if he’s not working out WHY would you undermine the trade process by admitting that?

Woj seemed to read or hear about the same rumblings we have read or heard about here in Portland and then just wrote down his point of view

A-Woj has his league sources (Warkentine) and he generally will write articles that put KP in a “negative” light. This is one of them. But it doesn’t mean that such a deal is not being discussed, and that Miller’s trade value has been “diminished” because of other published reports (Spears, etc)

does that hurt his ability in the future to request specific personnel moves?

If Miller is dealt this quickly after being signed, I think it casts doubt on Nate and KP’s ability to identify which kind of new players will best “fit” with their current young stars. Sure, you “never know what you’re going to get” until you plug the new guy into the mix, but as a fan I would hope that some of these “playing alongside Brandon” questions would have been gone over before Andre signed on the dotted line, last July.

Unless Nate or BRoy go to another team, there won’t be anybody else that would want Blake.

It’s hard to make good trades when you’re the GM who has the urgent need

It’s better to “hold” what you’ve got until someone else is desperate for it. But if the team continues to struggle, KP may have no choice if he wants the W-L record to maintain pre-season expectations

Realistically I don’t think Nate trusts his players. He’s treating the team like they’re all a bunch of rookies; yanking them out for no good reason half the time.

If Nate had taken over the team after the initial development phase, I think he would have been a good fit, because that is an entirely different relationship dynamic between player and coach. Since he’s been here and been the one to develop the players, I just don’t see him recognizing the growth and changing his style of coaching to match the growth.

Not yelling all the time in practices doesn’t count as change to me either. That has everything to do with the people you’re having to deal with and their attitudes, not their ability to play the game.

Fan’s were tired of hearing about cap space and lopsided trades. It was like a $7 million dollar coupon that was about to expire and they had to use it or lose it.

Trading Miller’s assists and passing skills for Jone’s knee problems and another pg that can’t help us now. That’s desperation if I ever saw it.

fact that he’d work well with Brandon Roy is exactly why the Miami Heat will keep hang onto him as Dwyane Wade’s backcourt running mate.

if he were to learn to play off the ball more. As Ben’s post on the front page states, Brandon is excellent at shooting off of screens. He’s got the talent to be the team’s main offensive threat along-side Oden, he just needs to make a few adjustments.

I’ve been saying this since there were rumors about Miller this last summer. Miller passing to a moving Roy will create beautiful offense once they finally get past the problem of Roy always needing to be the initiator.

reflecting that he’s accepting some responsibility. so, i’m feeling better here.

he had a hard time getting bites because he was asking for 10mil

everyone thought he was a pretty good deal at just under 7 like we got him.

someone making sense

it turns every game into reason to talk about Durant vs Oden.

Just asking (nicely) since there’s no way OKC parts with KD unless someone named LeBron or Howard is involved. CP3 for Roy + ? Maybe, but not Durant.

I think you’re misinterpreting the desire of most people that want to see Miller start. For me, I’d love to see Roy expand his game and also lengthen his career by getting out of his comfort zone and allowing someone else to direct the offense so he’s not constantly being battered inside and doubled outside. He could be an even greater offensive player if he’d just allow others to create some of the offense for him.

The frustration with Roy is disappointment, not disgust.

Sheesh….Brandon did not like LaMarcus at first…took him a year to buddy up to him……I’d say that Brandon has his own “miller-itus”

of Nic and Travis to the team. Nobody at the 2 or 3 brings the defense that Nic did, and no one at the 3 or 4 off the bench brings the scoring and ability to create their own shot like Travis did.

These are big holes.

Keep Rudy!

Can Roy complement Oden and LA well enough?

Any surprise the Charlotte has been doing well since that trade? Not me. They could actually be in the running for the playoffs now.

I can’t blame KP for turning that deal down