It seems that a lot of Blazer fans aren't happy with Nate's offensive sets, pace, sub patterns, etc. So I ask, what available coach would be an upgrade over Nate?
Nobody worth hiring is currently not coaching. I say Rick Adelman but it obviously isn't going to happen.
Then why won't anyone hire him? It's been years now we have been hearing about how he wants to coach...
I don't know, but the guy is one of the smartest guys to ever play, played under some of the best coaches at all levels, deserves a chance (finally), and wouldn't he be a good guy to coach Oden and LMA?
Quickly thinking of the top assistant coaches, My top-2 choices: 1a) Tom Thibodeau 1b) Monty Williams
A blurb about Kareem and head coaching: http://www.boston.com/sports/basket...2008/06/07/he_wants_to_hook_on_as_head_coach/ If Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a head coach, things would be different. For starters, Kevin Garnett. He's a great post player, he can shoot the turnaround, he's got great range. But if Abdul-Jabbar was head coach, Garnett wouldn't be taking all those 18-footers. "If I were coaching him, I'd like to see him closer to the basket," Abdul-Jabbar said after the Lakers' shootaround at TD Banknorth Garden yesterday. "The closer you are, the higher percentage your shots are." But, you know, that's if Abdul-Jabbar was a head coach. The concept's been kind of a tough sell. The past three seasons, Abdul-Jabbar has been a special assistant for the same Lakers organization he helped win five NBA championships, a big-man guru contracted by Phil Jackson to develop players such as Kwame Brown and Andrew Bynum. But Abdul-Jabbar hasn't been able to crack the NBA's coaching fraternity. If something came up, he said, of course he would entertain the thought. "But it may not present itself," he said. He can't pinpoint a reason. Age possibly, he said. He retired at 42, took time off to deal with burnout, and tried to get into coaching at 46. He's 60 now. Experience could have been another factor. Abdul-Jabbar's only head coaching experience came in 2002, with the Oklahoma Storm of the United States Basketball League. The storm won a championship, but that has been glanced over on his résumé. He said his only head coaching opportunity came three years ago, when he interviewed with Columbia University. "I had hoped to get an opportunity to be a head coach," he said. "But it hasn't happened. But working with Andrew has been a real pleasure and I'm glad I got involved." Is there a bias against big men in the coaching fraternity? Ballhandlers get all the jobs, Abdul-Jabbar said. Bill Russell was the first big man to catch a break. And Abdul-Jabbar is still waiting on his. Maybe at the college level. "A university would be something I would certainly entertain," he said. "I enjoy that environment, and being able to teach the game at that level would be fun." But at this point, he's open to any opportunity. "I think somebody that might want to consider me now knows that I have the experience," he said. "They see I'm coaching. It's not like I'm living up in Alaska."
Bill Walton? Kidding. I don't think there is one. And I wouldn't replace him right now anyways. But someday, I think it will have to happen.
I don't like Nate very much. I think we have poor execution out of timeouts. I don't know how many times we come out of a timeout, and it looks like there is no set play, and usually we don't score. Timeouts usually mean 2 points. Also the preseason game in MC against phoenix his clock management was poor at the end of the game. I know its preseason, but still. We got within 5 pts, and we don't foul right away, and let them get the ball to Nash with less than 5 secs left on the shot clock, and than we foul. It makes no sense to me. I am not sure who I would want as coach, but almost anyone would be better than Nate.
I think that's the conundrum, I don't like Nate as the 'Blazers' coach . . . But, to be honest, there's no-one else out there at the moment (that's available) that will step in and do a better job. Watching sargeant McMuffin's game strategies though is akin to slapping your forehead with a brick repeatidly.
On this point you are mistaken. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120846936079424371.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
+1 Adelmen's teams move w/o the ball, play unselfishly, and get tons of easy buckets. He's an amazing coach, but at least at the beginning of the game tonight the players were running lots of plays and moving w/o the ball (not to great success but it's improvement). A lot of the responsibility at the end of the day has to fall on Brandon too though. He is not a threat at all w/o the ball other than spotting up, and he needs to learn to make his teammates better by drawing defensive attention by moving (and in the process get himself some easier buckets). He's not too much of a 'star', Wade and Bron do it and it's made all the difference for Kobe as he's reluctantly learned.
Great Wall Street Journal article about the Blazers leading the NBA in change in the score after the 1st 2 possessions following timeouts, as measured by the 82games site. One question--the Wall Street Journal has never had a sports section. It now hides sports stories in its new "Life & Style" section?
If you'd like to refute the numbers then feel free to correct them and I shall acknowledge it. Otherwise I will trust that the numbers are correct. I quoted him on his point about the Blazers being unable to score after timeouts, which the link addresses.
