http://www.dwightjaynes.com/there-was-almost-a-blazer-trade Coaching staff. But "Nate" draws more attention to the thread.
If that "player" Jaynes refers to is Sergio and I ever find out, I am going to become incredibly HEATED. Especially towards Mr. McMillan.
Take everything with a grain of salt, obviously. Still discussion worthy. I can speculate that it was one of three: Outlaw, Sergio, Batum
I trust KP's evaluation of talent more than a guy who chooses to play Sergio over Jerryd and Magloire over LaMarcus. I don't think I would let Nate dictate roster decisions like this.
Nate doesn't have the power to block a trade and has-been Jaynes is looking for discussion on his crappy blog.
I don't think Nate "blocked" a trade. As PapaG says, he doesn't have that power. By "coaching staff won out," I assume it means that Nate and his staff were consulted on a trade, went to bat for a certain player and persuaded Pritchard that the player was worth keeping. Assuming this report is accurate.
So which of the "youngins" do you guys think Nate balked on? Nicolas, Jerryd, Sergio, Travis ... Channing wink?
Exactly. With all those circumstances assumed to be true I would imagine it's a SF - either Batum or Travis. Sergio would be the most expendable and easiest to move.
I think it wasn't sergio, but I could see Nate being too attached to batum and outlaw. If I had to pick one that i thought he tried to pull his veto out on it would be Batum. I think they see that he is going to be a special player. Interesting tho....Seems like everyone is just looking for someone to blame.
It doesn't matter. It's time to get past this and move on. Sometimes these things just seem worse than they are because it's been pretty frustrating the last several years and folks just want to see the team get better.
I think I got it actually. Though I thought Sergio at first, I realized it couldn't be possible because Nate is racist! That rules out all the whities. Sergio, Rudy, Joel, Blake, Shavlik. Nate would never fight for them! I also realized that Nate was bald, meaning he would never fight to keep players that weren't bald for fear of being different! That rules out Roy, Aldridge, Frye, Bayless, and Batum. That leaves only Webster and Outlaw. Webster is in a boot, and Nate is not. Therefore, the player Nate was protecting must be Travis Outlaw!
Because he's someone the coaches love having on the floor as he steadies the youngsters. Coaches want to win now, and Steve helps us do that.
Yea but not by much. Those two you mention are the only ones who show up every night. They are also the only guys who have really been improving from year to year while maintaining a consistency from game to game. That is the problem. Those two show up almost every night (like 99% of them) and then it's a crap shoot on who else shows up, if anybody.
I'd say it was Batum and it blocked the Crash Wallace trade. They probably like Batum's starting right now and maybe Wallace might have been too offensive of a player for Nate's liking.
