Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and roll!!!!!

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Yes. If they don't fix this by next game I'm no longer at fan.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

You're kidding, right? Sergio switches on EVERYTHING as well. You must be blind if you can't notice this. And the ONLY time he goes UNDER the screen is when the point guard is a great three point shooter. If you ask me, Sergio is just asking to get his ass pulled. He goes under on Mo Williams, on JJ Barea, on Steve Nash etc. The guy has mush for a brain.

Yes Jerryd gets killed on the PNR just like the rest of our guards, but his 1 on 1 defense is light years ahead of Sergio's and Blakes, PLUS he stays on his man off the ball, unlike Sergio who loses his man on every possession and ends up looking like a stray dog on defense.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Jesus. I love the fucking hyperbole people spew around here sometimes ... unless you were just being sarcastic and my brain is too tired to pick it up right now, in which case nevermind.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Orlando does this all the time.

They will say have Ben Gordon dribbling the ball. Joakim Noah comes up and sets a pick. Jameer Nelson fights through the screen and sticks on Gordon, but Dwight lets Noah roll to the basket, and attacks Gordon with a strong double team.

It's not exactly a bad strategy as long as everyone else is making the right rotations on defense.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Coaches usually get the most blame when the team is losing . . . I don't think it is justified most of the time, but understand it goes with the territory.

But here in Blazer land, we take it to a differnent level. The Blazers are performing better than expected by many analysts out there and they sit in the 4th position in the Western conference at 30-18 with the second youngest team in the league . . . and the coach still gets blamed.

If you can't beat them, join them. I agree . . . it's all Nate's fault the Blazers are 30-18.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Yeah it came in loud and clear after 7 hours of sleep and a few cups of coffee

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Some of it is over the top and unjustified, but a lot of the critiques and complaints are well earned, imo. Its what a message board is for in my eyes, and its definitely interesting to hear what different members think about how we can improve the team (especially on the defensive end). I'm just not a fan of calling Nate an idiot, dumbass, incompetant or anything like that, as overall I think he has done a great job since he came. I mean we have improved by an average of 10 wins every year he has been here, and are on pace to do the exact same thing this year, which is an amazing accomplishment.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

It's true that this is what the board is for, not saying these threads should stop. I justknow that when/if the Blazers hit a losing streak, this stuff will dominate the board, but didn't expect it now.

There is a saying: coaches get too much of the blame when the team is losing and too much credit when the team is winning. I don't think that saying applies to this board.

But yes, this is a message board so bashing Nate, Oden, Outlaw, Sergio, Bayless and everyone else is fair game.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

Not true. He was a much better all-around player at the beginning of the season. He has turned into a spot up three point shooter and it's sad. He was so much fun to watch in the first month of the season.

This pretty much sums up how I feel.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

I'm going to start bashing LaFrentz to switch things up.

 

Re: Earth to Nate!!! Stop teaching your players to switch the pick and role!!!!!

I might be mistaken, but I recall that many of these times the "power" forward in the game was T-law. It might be that Travis follows the smaller player on the perimeter, forcing someone to cover Dirk. That someone turned out to be Bayless. I am going to try and see if that is what is happening in tonight's game with Green playing the role of Dirk.