Pop was a president or GM or something of the Spurs before he was the head coach. I think he took over for Bob Hill after he fired him.
Nate has no control over star type players by example. It's with an Iron Fist and stubbornness. Everyone sees it and articles are even pointing this out now. Hell even Blazer fan beat writers are wanting some type of coaching back-bone.
Man I am tired....up all night with a fussy baby.....when I first looked at the title of this thread I thought it said Poll: Eric Millegan, but it said Poll: Fire McMillan.......I think I need to go back to bed providing my son will let me.
I think that if you start Bayless, play Oden till he fouls out, have LMA shooting deep jumpers from the corner, and get Roy 25 shots we're a better team than I've seen in the last two weeks.
I guess my main question is, if they fire him, who do they replace him with? Unless you have somebody to move in who will take the team to the next step, you may just be trading one failure for another. Does one of the assistants recognize the shortcomings that have been happening and step in and take the team to another level? It reminded me of a couple of years back where Monty Williams had black and white conversation with Martell Webster and told him unless he started acting like a professional basketball player, he would be out of the league as soon as his first contract is up. It was refreshing. It could be possible that an assistant without the pre-conceived notions Nate has would be an improvement.
Well I'll tell you what, if I knew that we were going to struggle the rest of the year I would love to give Bayless a shot to work him through his growing pains at PG and see what he can do.
Yea I think Hill came after Brown. But not completely sure. If I remember right Popovich had been working in the front office and moved down.
This. I've yet to run across a coach who can make our franchise player not have bad knees, our front line players not be injured, or instantly turn a rookie low draft pick PG into a qualified NBA backup.
Dang. Funny to see how many wanted to give Monty Williams a chance a year ago, and now he's tearing it up as the coach of the Hornets. Monty was there from the start of McMillan's career in Portland and the slow and steady rise of the team from 21 wins to 54 and 50 (with tons of injuries) wins. Now that he's gone you see the Hornets team he's coaching at 13-5 (after just finishing a .451 season) and Nate's Blazers team at 8-10 (after just finishing a .500 season). McMillan has only had one standout season as a coach when Monty wasn't around--the year he took a 37 win Sonics team (that he'd also coached) to 52. I guess the jury's still out. A lot of guys on the national team seemed to like Nate's coaching, and that 52 win Sonics team was a real accomplishment. (Ray Allen, Rashard Lewis and a bunch of role players.) But yeah, I'm kind of regretting we let Monty get away.
Nate is the best available coach at the moment, and another coach would have to be really desperate (unqualified) to want to take on this injury-riddled mismatched potluck of disgruntled players and the paranoid, incompetent and confused management that appears to be so clueless they have completely destroyed the last 6 years of patient rebuilding in less than a year.
Considering the Blazers couldn't even find a good replacement for KP I don't even want to see what kind of coach they would find to replace Nate with. I have no faith in this organization anymore at the management level.
