There's nothing bad about his PER numbers. A 15 PER is essentially an average starter quality player, which is fairly valuable. The fact that the Blazers are deep enough to bring a starter-quality player off the bench (or, were deep enough, when Batum was playing well) is a luxury.
The Clippers "couldn't wait to get rid of him". That is silly. They traded him for value - excellent value, in a young Andre Miller. That is the furthest thing from "dumping" Miles or evidence of wanting to get rid of him. That team had an abundance of forwards and cashed in one for a rare young point guard. The Cavs were coached by Silas. He had lost it around that time and wasn't a good coach. I don't take what he says seriously. I remember Silas trashing Boozer - when Boozer was a free agent to be. Boozer said he wanted to be an all-star and wanted assurances that the team saw a future for him in Cleveland that was compatable with that dream. Silas said Boozer would never be an all-star as a Cav as it was LeBron's team and LeBron was option 1, 1a and 1b. What a moron. And I thought so at the time. Yes, the Cavs did want to dump Miles. Miles was completely misused by Silas in Cleveland and his production plummeted. And so, of course they "butted heads". These situations always beg the question - who is most at fault here? - the player who sucks, or the coach who has a failing team? Silas "butted heads" with essentially every star player he coached. What does that tell us about Miles? Not much. Look at Miles numbers from Clippers to Cavs to Portland. Of course Cleveland wanted to dump him - he didn't work out for them at all. Blame Miles, blame the coach, blame the system. what does it matter? That marriage didn't work. Oh, by the way, the Cavs "couldn't wait to dump" Silas either. As for Cheeks - I couldn't wait to dump him from the Blazers. Forget Miles, I didn't like the Cheeks hire. Didn't like him when he coached the team. Wanted him gone every year. And, did you forget that Cheeks admitted that he was an instigator in Miles' outburst? Miles went too far - flipped his lid. But, Cheeks needled him in front of the team - and in a unfair way.
singling out Darius for the team's poor team D when their starting backcourt was VanX and Damon, when DM was arguably that club's best defender. Man Nash was a horrible GM. Besides signing Joel (who basically came to PDX on his own recognizing an opportunity to play with injury prone Theo as the starter w/a new max deal), I don't think he was at the helm for a single move that I applauded. As much grief as TBob received for his infamous "not a chemistry major" comment I've never followed more gruesome Blazers squads then those that Nash so proudly assembled. They were a complete mess of overpaid limited talents with conflicting skillsets led by Cheeks. I don't blame the individual players for being frustrated with that mix... many/most NBA players are just dumb jocks. Put them in a good situation and they'll likely buy into team goals and get the most out of their ability. Put them in a trainwreck like was saw here and they'll fend for themselves. STOMP
Yeah, no room for common sense here. I can see why you'd feel threatened by me. Mile's legacy in Portland has apparently become good, and Outlaw is no better today than he was five years ago. Brilliant.
Is this post intentionally stupid, you know, as a joke - ha ha. Or, is something this comical, inadvertent?
Darius Miles wasn't a very good basketball player. Is the debate over "why?" really worth all this angst?
Which makes them representative of the people they moderate! Just relax dude....don't smoke the seeds, smoke the grass.
Interesting story on Miles and Portland's salary cap. Did you guys see this (dec 18th)? http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...slug=aw-milesreturn121808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
