Hoopsworld: Source within team says Nate "has no idea what to do," and is on hot seat

http://www.hoopsworld.com/nba-saturday-mcmillan-on-the-hot-seat

From Alex Kennedy:

The most daunting part of all this? "There’s a growing number of players who would like to see McMillan fired, with assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff taking over as interim head coach

That would be a disaster. We need to clean house.

 

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More Bobcat influence. ugh.

 

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"Sources within the organization have criticized the coach’s rotations and in-game adjustments."

But wait... how can that be???? We have the biggest second half scoring margin in the league. Just last night we had a +17 second half margin. Doesn't that mean Nate is the absolute best coach in the entire league at making adjustments at half time? It must be true. There can't possibly be any other explanation.

BNM

 

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After a 40 point half time drubbing, I expected him fired this morning! I say he wont last the week, nor should he!

 

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Interesting that the article notes that Bernie has won 414 games (Basketballreference.com say it's 415) as a head coach. What they don't mention is that he lost 517 games over his career.

Yay.

Go Blazers

 

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Well if he's a sub 500 coach with ties to the Sonics he should be hired right now! HAHAHAHA!

 

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I was expecting to see him s**t canned today after that disaster yesterday as well. I have a bad feeling he's going to get a chance to survive until after the trade deadline at the very least.

 

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20 point loss can happen ,but 40 at halftime? It's hard to think that even the greatest Nate supporters would now ignore that he's lost his team!

 

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40 point half time deficit shows there's no accountability amongst the players on the floor. Zero discipline and execution. That's on Nate.

 

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We need to trade the malcontents and sandbaggers the same day we fire Nate. If that's Felton, Wallace, Camby, Crawford (my likely suspects), so be it. They should all be traded for future assets or young players anyway, and the sooner the better. We are quickly running out of time.

 

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The biggest thing I'm scared of more than losing is our young guys picking up bad habits from some of these crappy players.

Crawful repeatedly shoots after buzzer at the end of quarters because he's selfish. For the first time during their tenures in PDX, I saw Wessy and Nic both do the same recently. Not a good environment for some of the youth on our team to develop.

 

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Don't know the recipe for this destruction but I do know this can become cancerous if not contained in a hurry! In my eyes Felton, Camby, Wallace should all be traded right now! Who cares what we get in return, we're not making the playoffs but 3 more months of this crap could really affect LA, Batum, Wes, Joel and Elliot....on top of that the fans may for the first time head for the hills, because I think it's clear that PA and crew are already summer breaking!

 

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God SlyPokerDog is a big baby. As I've posted, it's time for Nate to move on, and is anybody surprised that the Vulcans are looking yet another scapegoat? I mean, somebody needs to be blamed, and it sure isn't going to be Paul Allen, or the lackeys surrounding him. Larry Miller should be as much on the hot seat as Nate, but since he's not, it's just another example of the organization getting rid of a respected basketball person, and keeping a bunch of boobs whose primary goal is to not get fired.

 

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C'mon guys, being down 35 at the half to a very average Celtics team is jump-off-a-bridge bad by itself....no reason to exaggerate.

Go Blazers

 

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Wallace is obviously coasting at this point. Either that, or he's the biggest headcase in the NBA, who turns into a passive 'fraidy cat on the road for some reason.

LMA seemed about ready to start punching people in his quotes from today's Oregonian, and Batum basically echoed my words from last night.

At least Batum seems to get it.

I suppose he could solely blamed it on Nate, like all of the experts on this board, but it was obvious that the players quit on themselves. That doesn't happen when it's just coaching.

 

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Isn't Alex Kennedy the same dumb ass from Hoopsworld that said sources from other teams wanted to talk trades with the Blazers but were not sure who to call?

If it is the same guy then he has no credibility. That was a Canzano type statement. Totally absurd. Really, a GM from another team is not resourcefull enough to just dial the number and ask?

Although I don't doubt Nate has no idea what to do with this mess, because there is no solution. Do any of you know what to do? I don't. Players always look for excuses instead of taking the blame themselves. Batum seems to be the exception here.

 

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If McMillan is canned it wont be tell after the road trip. Has a coach ever been fired in the middle of a road trip?

 

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I'm a little surprised to see you showing (at least tepid) support for Nate, after the way you dogged Dre for not taking any teams out of the first round in his career. Nate took a team (Seattle) out of the first round once in 11 years. Other than that he missed the playoffs altogether six times, and lost in the 1st round four times. Add in this year, and it will be either another complete miss, or a one round and out.

Dre missed the playoffs six times in 13 years, and lost in the first round seven times. Why so hard on Dre, but give Nate the benefit of the doubt.

Btw, I've never been a Nate basher. I think he's a good guy and an ok coach. Trouble is, this team is lost in the wilderness, and Nate has to shoulder a lot of that blame. I still don't dislike him, but it's just time for him to move on to a fresh start.

Go Blazers

 

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I was hard on 'Dre because I felt he wasn't the PG that was going to get the Blazers to elite status, and because he was a sieve defensively. He's found a nice bench role in Denver, though, which is where he probably belongs at this point in his career.

You should note, though, that after the All-Star break last year I announced I was going to stop dwelling on 'Dre's limitations, and start enjoying his strengths. From that point forward, I didn't bash him, because I knew what he was, and it wasn't worth typing the same things about his negatives over and over. It actually made games enjoyable.

My thought now is that unless there is a change in ownership, it's not going to matter who is coaching the team, or who is the GM of the team. I think Nate's ready to move on, and I'm quite sure the longknives in Seattle are making things miserable for him. I hope that sufficiently explains things for you, honestly.