we need to dump steve ‘boring’ blake. If roy hates to run fine, pair him with a pg that’s at least AVERAGE at it. with lamarcus running the floor there’s easy points to be had.

Provide some then please! I always saw him guarding non point guards and bigger players, as Rose or Gordon, much smaller guards had to guard the point.

Those that seem to be for Hinrich spell it Hinrich. Those against getting Heinrich, spell it Heinrich. Again, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the spelling, but I find it interesting that the spelling’s partitioning like that. If there’s a doctoral student in psychology around, this could be an interesting study on us all.

I know you like to voice you’re criticisms and I like that but I just can’t determine your tone after reading this twice. From my perspective, Nate loves to run the pick and roll and makes that the bread and butter of our offfense. However our player are not always effective at implementing those P&R. This could easily be a criticism of how Nate coaches the P&R or of how the players execute. I can’t tell which side your beef is with.

  As for the KP and his desire to draft Durant, are you implying that KP should be fired for even considering drafting Durant. I know I’d want him fired if he didn’t honestly look at all options for that pick. I’m happy with his choice though. I think both Frye and Ike were low risk/medium reward options. They didn’t cost us much, we had them for sufficient time to evaluate them as role players, and neither is a good fit for this team. Nothing ventured nothing gained. I love Frye as a person, but without the minutes his talent is wasted. He’d be a good fit with many teams including ours if he weren’t stuck behind Lma. But he won’t be a good bench player until much later in his career as he needs more mintues. The same was also true for Ike.

about KP, nothing you said about him is true.

one well-known deficiency of his is the "fallen angel" syndrome

Huh? Channing Frye and Ike Diogu are 12th men, on rookie deals. Those are good chances to take, much better than giving the MLE for a 12th man like many GM’s do.

plus, he doesn’t like parting ways with busts such as Jerryd Bayless

Bayless is a rookie, playing less than 15 mins a game, in less than 55 games. When he got time he played well, like during Steve Blake’s injury time out. Calling him a bust is premature, and trading him for scrap when he has value in a league that values potential talent on rookie deals is crazy. If a trade was offered that included Bayless but made the Blazers a better team, I don’t believe KP would have a problem pulling the trigger. By many accounts, the Blazers stood pat at the trade deadline because the offers they were getting from teams for RLEC were garbage.

Allegedly, Pritchard also doesn’t fully grasp the importance of interior play — which is supposedly the case due to his desire to draft Kevin Durant over Oden

Who “alleged” this? Everything that I have read has been people towing the company line about Greg being the “right” choice for this team.

Personally I think KP is the right man for this job, and is doing about as well as he can. Him losing a couple of cheap gambles on players like Frye or Diogu mean nothing, when he hits home runs on Roy, LMA, Rudy, Batum, and Oden.

I especially liked

 “Allegedly, Pritchard also doesn’t fully grasp the importance of interior play — which is supposedly the case due to his desire to draft Kevin Durant over Oden.”

 So funny. While I appreciate your case for taking Oden over Durant, I can’t see how this can be anything other than sarcasm. He took Oden. Kind of End. Of. Story. material.

Man AK, your view of your own powers of evaluation never ceases to amaze me:

Complaints about Nate and KP; calling Bayless a “bust”, etc, etc.

At what point are you willing to consider that maybe the guys who have taken the 21 win team to 54 wins might know something? At what point do you acknowledge that maybe Nate wouldn’t have been selected to coordinate defense for Team USA if he were as lousy as you suggest.

You love Van Gundy, but his career record is about .520 and his record in the playoffs is exactly .500; the definition of mediocre.

Seriously, I am not trying to flame you. Everyone here has opinions and a right to express them. I just find it amazing that you are so confident that yours are better than the professionals.

I’m just a fan, and happy to admit that I don’t know everything.

Rice has his souces

(…or maybe the terra-cotta Confucious whispered it in his ear?)