Preach it brothers

And he cleans up with his tongue. He sucks.

 

I really think all Nate needs to do is delegate some parts of the team a bit more. I believe that is why he brought in more experienced assistants this year. The guys he brought in are very knowledgeable in the game. Every time Bickerstaff has had to take over a team, it has almost always been a bottom rung team that was rebuilding. Much like Lionell Hollins, who had never been successful as a head coach until last year. Hollins was always shafted with a bad team who had fired their coach mid season. Bickerstaff is much the same way, many of the teams he took over were really bad at the time. It doesn't mean they don't know basketball, and it doesn't mean they aren't good communicators. But it does mean they were in charge of a broken team. How many jobs had Alvin Gentry been fired from before he had success in Phoenix last year? How many coaches has Steve Nash made look like a genious? Which one of those factors was truly what was responsible for PHX success last year? We may never know. But Gentry gets the credit.

 

Interesting logic.

That must mean The Blazers got to the finals because they all listen to Nate.

 

Huge plus 1 here. I hate watching our guys set picks. The laziest looking picks ever set.

 

Not having a go believe me... I make enough grammatical errors of my own.... But I love it when people misspell "Genius"

 

Nate must be telling them to set lazy picks then. They play so hard for him.

 

That's exactly how Nate looked up at me when I suggested that George Karl should put Payton at the 2, Kendall Gill on the bench, and McMillan starting at the 1. Then he saw me smiling and he realized this was in his favor. Then he liked me.

McMillan has a DNA gene that makes the cold stare his first instinct. He cocks his head to a rebellious angle and sizes you up.

As an aside, anyone who wants Payton as assistant coach doesn't know the turmoil he causes.

 

We all talk about "Nate's offense".....but is Nate really calling the shots? I sometimes think we should be talking about "Roy's" offense.

 

That's certainly worth considering; the NBA has had an "inmates are running the asylum" kind of vibe to it for some time now. I am however slightly encouraged after hearing Roy's comments when he was interviewed in Vegas, this quote in particular caught my eye, "I got a lot of credit for being a good leader, but it's easy to be a leader when you get to do whatever you want." That tells me that he at least acknowledges that he's got to evolve a little bit as a player if this team is going to achieve a high level of success. The proof -- as always -- is in the pudding.