I would think a straight swap of Eddie Jordan for Nate would give us the chance to add some motion to our offense while shoring up PHI's defense. And giving them a strong coach personality.
A straight swap for Flip Saunders would be nice, too. He's one of the better offensive minds in the league.
A lot of the good coaches actually are as good as they are because of their assistants. There are several assistants (some of them are getting really old) who are specialist in offense, and defense. Remember Dick Harter? How about Pete Carril who designed the Princeton offense and was Adelmans assistant why the Kings learned it back in the Cweb days? Tex Schram architect of the triangle. No team has run the triangle successfully unless he was on board as assistant. (That may be because the Triangle is a straight line if you don't have Kobe or MJ on your team! ) Tom Thibodu of the Celtics is one of the leagues current team defense guru's.
Tex Winter. Tex Schramm ran the first Dallas Cowboys team and has since passed away. He wouldn't help Portland.
Because it was their first playoffs together. All the key players had never been in the playoffs before and we'll still won two home games and seriously challenged the Rockets in Houston in Games 3 & 4.
But he DID change. We DID get Oden involved. And Roy sacrificed his game. His numbers went down and he had little chance of making the All Star team the way things were going. He didn't like it, but he did make the sacrifices. And it wasn't working.
False. Oden opened preseason with an 18/9 game and followed it up with a 20/12 game. Our first priority was getting the ball to Oden and Roy sacrificed his game in the process.
Dahntae Jones is one of the very best one-on-one defenders in the league and Roy absolutely lit him up.
But Oden came off the bench for a part of the season. When he did start, he picked up two fouls almost instantaneously.
That is just ridiculous. I know Greg's offense isn't that refined, but LaMarcus almost never operates in the low post. He gets his points off of ridiculously hard looking fade away jump shots.
A) Since when is Greg a dominant center? He was averaging 11 & 8. Solid but not dominant. B) Since when does Miller know how to play with a dominant center? What dominant center has Andre Miller ever played with? On our team, he only had 7 assists in the first 20 games of the season.
They do not consider a jump shot as inside. LMA: shot selection jump 64%-6.7 close 24%-3.0 dunk 10%-2.6 tips 2%-0.2 Oden shot selection-points jump 9%-0.5 close 57%-4.3 dunk 22%-3.2 tips 12%-0.8 greg makes 8.3 points in the paint while LMA makes 5.8 points in the paint. So no, KingSpeed.
I consider a "post presence" to be someone who you can throw the ball into and get a score from them. LMA is much more effective at that than Oden. Yes, Oden gets more inside points than LMA but those are from putbacks and wide open dunks created by Roy and Blake. Oden does not have a better "post game" than Aldridge. Not even close. Put it this way, who would you rather have shooting a hook shot? LMA or Oden?
