McMillan too good for Portland? (Warning: Canzano Piece)

I'd worry that the players wouldn't be able to understand what Porter is saying in the huddle.

 

Reading between the lines here you are infering (like others have) that Nate can't coach a team with lots of talent. This never made sense to me because we never had whole team for a whole year for him to fuck up. There was always a piece or two missing. Unless people actually thought their first trip to the playoffs against Houston was ready to do more.

Nate is solid. We will do worse when he leaves.

 

I'm guessing he meant Terry Porter. Though Stotts fits too.

As for McMillan, I'm pretty much in the camp of not seeing a better available coach. I think McMillan is a solid head coach, even if I don't agree with all of his decisions. He's in the large pack of interchangeable NBA coaches. He's not a difference-maker, in a positive or negative way. If a positive difference-maker became available, I'd want Portland to go after that guy as much as possible.

That also means I'm not all that invested in Portland keeping McMillan. If the front office identifies someone who's not well known that they think has a lot of potential, I don't think it's a bad risk to take to go with that guy.

 

Porter might be a good coach, I'm not sure, but his unclear speech creates the wrong impression and gets him fired. You have to appear smart, not just be smart, to lead.

 

Yeah, that works great.

 

The opposite is also true.



Wait a minute...

 

You shouldn't mistake someone who isn't well spoken for being stupid. The opposite is true.

 

What about if someone just looks dumber than a box of rocks?

 

I think that describes pretty accurately a number of coaches as well as our previous president. I would offer that you should look for substance over style.

 

Because Bush was just oozing with both.

 

He had more of the former than you would ever give him credit for, because you're so blinded by his lack of the latter.

 

I'd like to see a comprehensive argument that Bush was smart. Watch his many semi-presidential press conferences, that the networks hid from the nightly news, in which he'd start arguments with reporters, behaving like a Saturday night drunk cowboy. His SAT scores were lower than mine, but his father got him into Yale (after the much lower U. of Texas had turned down his application). His transcript is online; he got Cs and a couple of Bs. And even if you think he was smart then, which I don't, the many years of cocaine addiction that followed wiped out what little he had between the ears.

 

You shouldn't mistake someone who is well spoken as being intelligent.

 

Yeah, the press worked hard to protect President Bush. They coddled him.