Hollinger was hobbling around on crutches tonight. Said he hurt it playing ball. Zags I missed you down there, you should come back!
Harassed? I guess I remember it a bit different. Nash fumbled the ball out of bounds twice in his own backcourt, threw a no look behind the back pass out of bounds, and threw a couple of more (would be easy) passes to the wing into the seats. The majority of Nash's t/o's were unforced. If anybody got harassed it was our defense. Up until the last 4 minutes of the game, Nash was KILLING it.
I heard Dwight grilling Nate on radio this morning because he was supposedly incredibly upset with Nic when he shot that heat check open three in the fourth. It's just the sort of thing that most good NBA coaches don't care about. I hate Nate's anal attitude about turnovers or quick shots.
I hear what your saying yuyuza, but that was a pretty ill advised shot with just over a minute left and the game almost in the bag I'll give props to Nate for picking AJ out as the newest backup PG, and his 2, 3, 4 guard rotations working well and are fun to watch.
Nate could play Nic 48 minutes and you'd still find something to complain about. When it comes to McMillan, I swear, you're MIXUM-lite. Not even sure about the lite part as far as that's concerned.
He could use a few more minutes. But playing devil's advocate..............the season is long. It is a back to back. He and Wes do exhurt a lot of energy on D. AND he did log a lot of minutes this summer playing for France. Once Joel and Greg get back I hope to see LMA get a few less minutes. Broy also needs to get closer to the 35 minute mark. But they had to have the W last night.
I suspect he's going to get plenty of minutes this year. I also suspect that you'll always be able to find something to grouse about when it comes to Nate.
The way I look at it, I don't mind guys who want to step up and take shots, because the last few years, we have had a lot of guys who really didn't want to shoot the ball. Portland needs a second scorer to take pressure off of Roy. Don't hold them back. The fact that Batum was ready to throw a dagger to finish the game off doesn't both me at all. It shows me he has confidence to hit the shot. Let him hit them. It will just build more confidence.
Definitely deserves more minutes. That said, when he delivers as he did last night, I'd probably not still pound on Nate.
I doubt that Nate was incredibly upset as Dwight suggested. No reason for Nate to stop coaching with 90 seconds left. He encourages Nic to shoot, and shoot the 3. The last one he took was too soon in the shot clock. The others were the right shot to take, the last one was not. No big deal, but it's his job to point it out so he doesn't do it again in that situation.
Thats because how much Batum plays is about #11 on the list. Congrats on playing one of your best players last night McDills.
Turn that clown town frown, upside down. We won the game, and Batum played nearly 30 minutes and had a double double.
Yeah I know. I'd also like to congratulate Phil Jackson for playing Pau Gasol last night. Brilliant move IMO.
I'm sure Jaynes was exaggerating about how pissed Nate was. Batum was one of the key reasons we won that game with his shooting at the end. Plus, a double-double in 25 minutes? I'll take it. His defense didn't look that good last night though.
