Ours is remarkably efficient, just not very creative or fun to watch. Nate is a defensive minded coach with a mediocre defense. I see us going either for another player-development guy (Juwan Howard, perhaps?) or a defensive coach. Someone like Thibodeau would be perfect, but he’s getting an HC job no matter what (someone will want him, no doubt, and he wouldn’t have turned down the Hornets unless he had a better opportunity awaiting), and I don’t know who else has a great defensive system and is looking for an associate assistant coach spot. If Larry Brown has any young-ish assistants, that would be great.

by the way, had been with the Sonics franchise through a portion of George Karl’s reign and all of Paul Westphal’s short tenure; thus, he wasn’t an outside hire by Nate McMillan, but rather an organizational guy. Regarding Weiss, he came from an up-tempo, flex offense background — which he installed when he took over for McMillan after “Sarge” left for Portland, although it failed miserably — however, the man known then as “Mr. Sonic” was who he was in spite of having this grizzled veteran on his coaching staff.

In the end, ultimately, my point here is that McMillan will never change his ways—no matter who’s on his coaching staff. McMillan is who he is at this point, end of story.

hmm. Evidently I can’t.

Monty is best known for coaching up Travis, and lately Batum. Now, Bill Bayno and Kaleb can also work with players one-on-one, but if the Blazers don’t have Williams they may decide not to draft high school kids or freshmen and develop them in house, like they were doing in the past.

We saw the beginnings of this change in draft strategy last year, when they drafted Cunningham and Pendergraph, and Chad Buchanan repeated the other day that at this stage of their “window” the Blazers are looking for kids who can step in and help right away (“they already know who they are”) as opposed to younger prospects

So said a sign in a Portland-area bar window, during the 1990 finals