Nate needs to go!

I personally think Wallace and Batum said it best per Ben’s recap last night:

But both Wallace and Batum said clearly that the poor play was on the team, not McMillan.

“I don’t think this has anything to do with the coach,” Wallace said. "This is all the players. The coaching staff, they do a great job of drawing up the execution that they want us to do out on the court, it just comes down to us executing.

“The coaches can’t get out there, they can’t get the rebounds for us. They can’t pinpoint the passes where they have to go. Those are some of the main things killing us. Turnovers in bad situations and at the wrong time, and rebounds. We play pretty good for 23 seconds and we give up a big rebound, second chance, that has nothing to do with the coaches.”

Stop with all this fire Nate stuff. This teams problems have nothing to do with him. Did he twist LA ankles? DId he make Felton fat? Is he forcing Crawford to make bad passes at critical times? Is he the one missing open three after open three? Is he the one that cant finish a three on one break that any team filled with 7 year olds could do? Is he the one missing countless buckets right at the rim? Our problems are because of our PLAYERS PLAY, not our coach. And if you really think that by playing the rhino, elliot williams and nolan smith more is gonna solve our problems then you need to get a reality check. There is a reason they dont play alot!
Nate’s doing the best he can with the players he got, if your gonna blame anyone blame our teams front office. Nate can only cook with what he’s given, if he’s given crap then whatever he cooks is gonna taste like crap no matter what he does.

I think Nate is good for some fundamentals, but is lacking in the area of in-game adjustments and strategy/tactics. He know some pieces, but can’t put them all together consistently. Player rotations are stiff and predictable. Adverse to taking some risks. He is better for young teams that are terrible and makes them respectable. I don’t think he has what it takes to get a team over the top.

in the short term, but wouldn’t do anything to fix what really ails us; terrible guard play!

You don’t switch horses mid-stream. Even if that horse stumbles a lot.

Miller and Rudy aren’t playing any better, at least statistically, in Denver than they were under Nate.

when the knicks were devastated by injuries. every coach would stick with him given the tear he’s on but there was a lot of luck that went into getting the opportunity.

Nate McMillan is a talent killing crappy coach who has no idea how to play the game. I know a lot of you fools love him, but you probably suck at hoops yourself. Trust knowledgeable people.

Lots of “fire Nate” here, but nary a suggestion on who would be a preferable alternative?

I certainly have issues with Nate’s coaching, but do consider him an “above-average” NBA coach. I don’t think he’ll ever lead a title team. I’m all for replacing him with someone better, but is that coach available?

short list (likely unattainable)
Phil Jackson
Jerry Sloan

other than that, who ’ya got?

but he is a great coach and has done an amazing job with the situations hes had to deal with. We could all say he needs to play young talent more or whatever but we aren’t at the practices. Other people above have explained very nicely that Nate is not the problem. The bottom line is you can’t win basketball games at any level when you continuously give up offensive rebounds and make bad turnovers. At the nba level the players should be held responsible for those deficiencies.