Let us readdress this issue shall we? Nate McDillon :fail:

I read his point as being that McMillan is well-respected in the basketball community, versus not being well-respected in this cyber-cage full of anonymous, screaming chimpanzees.

You aren't very good at logic, as I said.

 

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Tince: Fail (Again)

 

Half the posts seem to be you berating other posters. So, in a shock-jock manner, this is a good thread. I'm entertained!

 

Well then you aren't very good at reading.

Topic: Nate McDillon :fail:

Response: Right, that's why he was an assistant coach on the Olympic team.


Jog on Katie.

 

21 of the 80 are mine.

So far you've proved yourself to be a poor reader and counter.

Are you blind or something?

(Thoughts and prayers)

 

To some extent I agree. But let's extend your mechanic analogy a little further. Up to this point all he's ever worked on were fixer-uppers, vehicles that needed lots of TLC, and if you ever relaxed a little they would fall apart.

A mechanic with that kind of background is naturally going to be pretty tentative at first managing a new Porsche. And we really had a Porsche team at the beginning of this season, with Oden really beasting and the amazing engine of Miller just aching to be unleashed. I was as furious as anyone at how badly Nate mismanaged the situation.

But a funny thing happened along the way. The Porsche suddenly started breaking down all over the place. Wheels fell off named Oden and Batum and Outlaw and for a time Roy. At that point Nate's fixer-upper skills really started to shine. In the process he was forced to finally drop the Miller engine in and suddenly it's purring like it always could have.

We unloaded the old four cylinder of Blake and the cheesy chrome exhaust pipe of Outlaw and added some new treads in Camby, and now we're off to the races.

Now Nate might not be the ideal guy to fine tune the Porsche. He isn't the guy you want building it. (He got this one built correctly as much by accident as design.) But he knows how to keep the Porsche running, and if it ever breaks down again and we're left stranded on the side of the road wondering what the hell to do, he'll be there with a screw driver and some duct tape figuring out how to keep us limping along.

And really, most of the building is done. He can't fuck that part up anymore. Miller, Roy, Batum, Aldridge and (next year) Oden are bolted on tight to starting jobs. The bench needs tinkering, but fixing up oddball parts is what he does well.

He may not drive this team like a Phil Jackson, but then maybe that's more Miller and Roy's job at this point. With those two managing the on-court team, I don't mind having a guy sitting in the back seat with some bailing wire waiting for things to go wrong.

 

Kudos. You extended that analogy to a pretty extreme extent without it breaking down.

Good analysis too!

 

This post actually makes me feel worse.

Is this supposed to be a PRO Nate story?

 

No. It's a cry about the finicky nature of Porsches.

 

It's not really pro or anti Nate. He is what he is. A good guy to have when shit goes wrong. A lousy guy to have if you want somebody to be creative.

If we didn't have Miller and Roy (and even Camby) managing our team on the court, I'd be a lot more worried about Nate's inadequacies. Since we have them, though, it makes it a lot easier to appreciate Nate's strengths.

 

As I said. You have trouble with logic.

 

Hell, I was just kidding. There is no nuance or ambiguity in your OP, so there really is no point debating you on the subject. That you've actually posted that many times in this thread is hilarious!

 

As somebody who has owned Porsches in the past, I think you are spot on. Awesome fun when they run right, annoying (and expensive) as fuck when they inevitably break down. This current team is a Porsche in both senses.

 

Never owned one (but have been tempted, for sure). I know the experience as well, as I tend to run vintage Alfa Romeos and Loti (which are much worse, at least the Loti).

 

"Neat story"

 

The one legitimate question I have in this ridiculous thread is this.

Where did "McDillon" come from?

 

Not sure David.

 

Huh? Now you're making even less sense than you did in your original post.

 

Neat story