Also, would it be too difficult to practice doing things we are bad at? For example, rebounding, fast breaks, 3 pt. shooting, passing to LaMarcus, layups, et cetera?

Nate is blaming the players for not making plays, but I don’t think he’s doing what is necessary to keep the guys in their best form. We’re not playing anywhere near our potential and we add up to less than the sum of our parts. That’s bad coaching, and so is the same old “we didn’t make shots down the stretch” and “make plays.”

Nate gave (singular) Batum an opportunity…the problem is that Nate has been very slow to give Nic consistent opportunities and the opportunity to grow. Even while Nate complains about consistency he has sat one of his most consistent player (not saying much but that’s what we got).

Nate is not accountable, and does not hold players evenly accountable…

Fire Nate

I think people would cut him a lot more slack if every once in awhile he actually admitted he made a mistake with something.

I think back to that situation a couple weeks back where we needed the D Rebound on a free throw situation, and we didn’t sub Camby in to get it. We of course, gave up the offensive rebound. Asked about it, Nate gave the media a bunch of bull about how he didn’t have a timeout left to get Camby in the game (hello – free throw – no timeout needed). It would be nice if just owned up to it and said “you know what – my bad. I forgot about him (or perhaps he made a decision to keep a better 3 point shooter in the game and gamble on getting the rebound. that’s fine – just freaking own it for once”

He’s annoyed about the Batum questions. That’s his right I suppose, but as long as Batum is playing fewer minutes than people like Wesley and crash, the questions aren’t going to go away. Does Batum make mistakes? of course. but so does every player on the roster, and it sure seems at times like Batum is cut less slack (playing time) for those than some other players are. And in the end, even if he is making those mistakes, if the team truly wants to develop him into one of their building blocks going forward, the only way to do that is to play him – mistakes and all.

but lots of 2s depend on assists…Rudy, Hamilton, Miller….you have 2 types of 2s…shooting guards and off guards. Nic is more the shooting guard type.

Heck, Matthews is a classic shooting guard (who can’t shoot all of a sudden) not enough handles to consistently create….classic.

The point is, Nic can do what Matthews does…and he can rebound the ball better (and shoot better too…this season). There is no evidence that Nic should have fewer minutes….he is better than Matthews (as much as I like Wes).

had management know Roy was going to retire, or had he retired after the Dallas series, maybe we ride out Miller’s contract this year – after all, he and the team had pretty a pretty good flow going when Roy was out last year, but every time he came back, there were bumps in the adjustment process.

(this is not a reflection on Roy, just on Roy/Miller together).