...won 54 games. Here were the players on that team, listed by minutes played per game. Nate won 54 games with this team. Unreal, looking back at it. Remember, Oden only had a PER of 18.1 in this season. By mpg: 1 Brandon Roy 2 LaMarcus Aldridge 3 Steve Blake 4 Travis Outlaw 5 Rudy Fernandez 6 Joel Przybilla 7 Greg Oden (21 mpg) 8 Nicolas Batum 9 Sergio Rodriguez 10 Jerryd Bayless 11 Channing Frye http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2009.html Roy had a PER of 24 that season; nobody else was above 19.3.
That team should have only won 42 games, at best. How lucky were we at that time? Too bad Oden's body imploded, and Roy's knees fell apart.
Sergio and Rudy were underrated contributors. Przybilla, the 2nd-best player on that list, is the most underrated player of the McMillan era.
Dude, you need to find a new crusade. Nate is not getting fired in mid-season. He will *probably* leave this summer by "mutual consent"....but I wouldn't even consider that a done deal.
I agree with your last two sentences. As for the first, Seattle management won't fire him unless they hear the fans loud and clear. It's far from a done deal, ergo the crusade is necessary.
Oden and Joel had among the highest rebounding % in the league, and were defensive presenses inside. We outrebounded our opponents, commited fewer turnovers, and won based on getting more shots. That, and Roy had a lot of late game heroics. If we'd have just broken even on our close games this year, we'd probably all be singing a much different tune about this roster.
That team hit a very very high % of our threes which led to us coming back and winning so many close games as well as the best Brandon Roy we would see. People expected him to overtake Wade as the #2 SG the next season as well as unseat Kobe in a few years. I still think if we had gotten anyone but the rockets we advance to the second round and the refs in that series really let the Rockets man handle us (of course that was playoff basketball to bad our D just couldn't be as physical).
Rick Adelman = zero NBA titles. I don't know what that means...but it's a statistic, so it must be important!
Rick Adelman hasn't coached in the playoffs the past two seasons, and he's on the outside looking in at this point with a road-heavy schedule to end the season.
Jlprk's son here. He just died of a heart attack. The bastard had better have a fuckin' will around here someplace. I'm ransacking the place looking for it.
