Opening Night..... Blazers vs Suns Game Thread 10/26/10

Nate has always been a matchup coach, so why is this surprising? You can always try and figure out what Nate is going to do next by watching what the other team is doing. If they go small, we are going small. If they go big, we will go big. The problem being, we are always playing their game, and not ours.

 

Haven't read through the entire thread . . . but cool things about the game:

-besides the wells fargo on the back of the hats, i thought the rip city baseball hats were cool

-chalupas can now be redeemed using your Blazer ticket (I like the coupons better because I gave them away)

-the t-shirt give away has a new toy, a machine gun type toy that shoots out 3-4 tshirts at one time. very cool. But no more little basketballs?

-our isle won a free grocery bag, a little basketball and a water bottle, but it was never announced

-the well fargo basketball shpts to win money . . . fan hit the lay up the top of the key and the three point shot and made the one time free throw

-there is going to be a fight taht breaks out over the parachute drop . . . one fan grabs the box, another fan grags the parachute and another fan grabs the strings and they all fight over who gets the fifty dollars usually decided by who is the first intot he box to get the coupon out

-Cho is sitting next to PA, so his job seems secure for now

-Miller sat on the other side of Allen, retrieved a ball for the ref and went to sit in his seat taqht folded up making Miller fall flat on his ass . . . I thought it was funny

-I think there was also a game played, but who watches that with all the excitement in the arena

 

I don't think it's really fair to complain that Portland never imposes its will on the other team when Portland perennially has the slowest pace in the league.

 

Pace has nothing to do with replacement patterns.

 

Wow you are taking this personally. OK here is defending my position . . . it is absoulutely nuts and ultra hyper compulsive to start questioning a coach on the very first substitution they make for the season. there is more there than an unbiased fan . . . that fan is looking to bitch.

Were you there during practices? How many preseason games did you go to? Do you have any idea what the coaches thought were going into the first game. Maybe Nate wanted to see what Miller, Roy and Matthews could do as soon as possible? Maybe Nic's shoulder hurts and they were going to give it a first 6 minute regular season test and get him out? Maybe Nate wants to leave Miller in a little longer a get him in more game shape? Maybe Nate likes the way Miller and Wes practiced togehter? There are so many factors we are not privy to that to sit there and start analyzing and publically taking shots at Nate for subbing Wes for Nic instead of Miller at the 6 minute mark of the first game is crazy.

So yes, I'm sure a poster who questions the very first decision a coach makes in the first quarter of a first game (which had little impact on the game) is a fan looking to bash Nate, IMO.

I don't know if I need to say it again but since you think I have no argument . . . we are talking the first substitution of the first game of the season (did I say that).

 

You say you don't understand why Nate did that substitution and I'm trying to explain of course we don't know, we don't know what has been happening for the past six or so weeks because the season just started.

How are you suppose to understand a substitution when all they have been doing practicing and playing games that don't count. There could be many reasons . . . you are surprised you don't understand and then immediately detremine it is Nate being his quirky susbstition self? If you don't understand (according to your words) then why blame Nate for something you don't understand?

I'm not reaching, I'm explaining there could be hundreds of reasons, but you are sold on the one that says Nate is a Dufuss, And it is no secret you have been anti Nate since last year. Also, weren't you the one who got your undies in a knot because Nate took a rip on some fans and you were in that group? I know you don't like Nate much so not surprising you take what you don't understand and automatically attribute it to Nate's incompetence . . . sport.

 

Check yourself man . . . you don't even remember what you said in this thread:

All I'm saying is that this is another in a streak of odd decisions dealing with rotations and players. Going back to Travis starting over Batum, after telling Batum he'd start. Or having Sergio play SG so that Jack could be the primary PG. Or starting MIller/Blake/Roy

And calling Nate out on a substitution 6 minutes into the first game of the season . . . you're all about attention.

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First sorry for the fan looking to bitch, I thought you attacked first. (not the ultar hyper compulsive . . . because we all are on this board when it comes to certain topics about the Blazers.

BFW . . . I have an arguement. My arguement is anyone who is analyzing the first substitution of the season is overanalyzing a situation that they have very little information about (have you not undestood my argument all this time).

I get your arguement, you didn't like the substitution because in that 6 minutes you thought with the high feild goal percentage it is a mistake to take out a good defender on the Phx guards. My arguement are you kidding, it is the first substitution of the season (My guess is Nate had that sustitution in mind before the game started and probably based on all the practice time and what he saw in practice . . . that would make sense right? Do you know some coaches map out the first 10 plays of a football game regardless of what the otehr team is doin ) It's like why don't we go ahead and analyze why the new center got over 3 minutes in the first half. If this was the end of the game, I would get you jumping on who Nate had in the game, but this was the first quarter of the game.

Look it's no secret that you have wanted Nate fired for over a year now, and then you jump on his first substitution and want to argue the merits of the substitution. I'm calling you out as that is a over the top and I guess we are now to all this.

And nice pull? I got that on the same page of this thread that you said I created stuff you were saying.. You want a nice pull I could go back and show where you have wanted Nate fired for a while . . . but who has time for that.

I get you will be all over Nate's decisions starting day one decision one . . .l I should have just let it go, but now that I am in this deep I will maintain that I think you are over the top and your dislike for Nate is creally what this is about when you are analyzing his first substitution. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but that is my feeling and can you really not understand why someone would think that?

But no doubt Nate will make some move in teh 4th quarter, the Blazers will lose and then you will have good fuel to blast Nate as a coach . . . and plenty of psoters agreeing with you. So your day will come, I just don't think that first substitution makes your point.

Sorry for he name calling, but you started it . . . I think . . .

 

They do it only one game a year I don't think that is really very dangerous.