Roy "not comfortable" with Miller?

I've said since his signing Miller could fit okay with some of the bench players (not Oden) but would get in the way of most of our players who like to post up. His signing was a PR move meant to help ticket sales after a disastous summer of failures, more than an actual help to this team.

 

Ridiculous. As if a no-name like Andre Miller will bring fans back after the loss of Sergio Rodriguez. You greatly inflate Miller's value and underrate the ability and popularity of Rodriguez.

 

Do you really think KP would make a move for the purpose of pr?

 

I think you meant to send this to KP.

 

It appears so.

 

Clearly. I mean what else would possess a GM to give a future HOFer, like Sergio, away for peanuts?

 

Apparently the same GM who needs help selling tickets despite having over 60 consecutive sell outs.

 

Roy is starting to piss me off.

Can he shut up now?

 

The thrill he gets from being Nate's bitch?

 

You're the one who claimed that that was Andre Miller's purpose. If you understood how much greater Sergio Rodriguez was, you would realize that couldn't possibly be the reason. No one replaces a superstar with a journeyman "for PR reasons."

 

Fuck Jason Quick lol Roy is thrilled to have Miller here.

 

What's the context? I imagine it would be awkward for the first days of camp.

Let's be sure to overreact to whatever this report means.

 

how surprising is it that it's Quick with the pot stirring bad chemistry "reports"

JQ is a proven tool. Petty, sloppy, unprofessional, very loose with facts when there are rumors and innuendo about, and loves to frame himself as the central figure of his reports. I'll take any of the O's other writers word over his in such a situation and generally try to avoid the links to his stuff that posters relay.

STOMP

 

I'm not too concerned about what Brandon said or if Quick misconstrued or if what Quick said was misconstrued by a listener. I'm sure Brandon can learn to be fairly comfortable with Miller.

But my own feeling is that Miller would work best with (and benefit their games more than Blake could) Fernandez, Oden and Batum. So I do think this would be a good 2nd unit. It would be nice if they could expand the NBA games to 60 minutes, so they could be fully utilized. As far as who fits with who, I don't see Travis really fitting with either unit. Bayless is really gonna be the odd man out.

I don't think any of those players would be really happy with 20 minutes a game, although Batum would probably be most accepting. And Oden could easily play with the first unit late in games. And Miller could take minutes away from Blake if Blake wasn't shooting well.
Finding more minutes for Rudy might be difficult; I never thought the Roy-Blake-Rudy combination really clicked; maybe Roy-Miller-Rudy would work better.

 

About as surprising as you berating a writer from the Oregonian.