Mr. Mac back to his old tricks

The money quote, imho is:

"We've just got to execute with that group," McMillan said. "I'm trying to get Andre (Miller) back with that group."

Andre Miller is not a good half-court offensive player in Portland's scheme. This comes down to changing the entire scheme to work in a role player - or using him to his best - as a leader of a fast break team for a change of pace purpose.

If Andre Miller plays 12-14 of his minutes as the leader of the fast-pace team with Rudy, Web, LMA and Joel - this leaves him only 12-14 minutes per game with the half-court offense, and leaves 15-18 minutes per game working the old scheme with Roy handling the ball more with 2 long-range shooters near him to open the floor.

 

That is because there is no "sure things in the nba. For every statement, there is probably a player that breaks the statement. But in general what I have found is the draft picks that can't "ball" at all when they come into the league, for the most part never turn into good players, nor the experienced veterans you speak of. In order to turn into those "cagey" vets, they have to at least have some ability to play basketball before getting the experience. One of the only guys that I can even remember breaking that statement is Shawn Kemp. For 20 years people have been looking for the next Shawn Kemp. It hasn't happened since IMO.

 

This is obviously sarcasm by RoyToy....your obviously not smart enough to realize that

 

I have a bad feeling about this....whether right or wrong, Miller will not be happy with a reserve role

 

I demand you delete this!!! This is not the time nor the place for a reasonable opinion!

 

Nate is already doing this. He pulls Miller earlier in the 1st so he can be reinserted with the 2nd group.

Some may assume this is a prelude to pulling him from the starting line-up entirely. I think eventually that will happen when the 3 guard line-up ends, but for now I think he keeps starting.

 

And in the first stretch of games, Miller looked affected by it, and he resorted to National Media to get out his frustration....

Its in the best intrest of the team to avoid this

 

In the 1st stretch of games he was coming off the bench entirely...currently he's starting...

 

And you just said that when the three guard lineup ends, he will be on the bench...

and im saying, lets avoid that

 

And I'm saying we're stuck with the 3 guard line-up for a while so let's not worry about it. But, on the underlying point, I do disagree a bit...in a total vacuum, Miller is the better player, but right now, on this team, I tend to think Blake is the better fir for the team on the starting unit...

 

Yea it must be that steller OSU degree that makes you so smart.

 

Nate is simply not a very good manager of the game. he is a poor X's and O's coach as well. People always seem to point to us being so good out of timeouts, but most of the time it's because Roy makes a very good play, not because Nate drew up some amazing basketball play.


Nate is, for all intents and purposes, an Assclown. I realized it the day he was hired, and now others are seeing it too.

 

Last season, many, including myself would tell you to go fuck yourself and you have no idea about the game. This year, including myself, are really starting to question Nate's ability to coach a team with a ton of talent.

 

Thanks, it is

 

Suprised???

 

I do not think this is where it is going. I think Andre will start, play 6 minutes with the starters, get out for Rudy. Come back and play most of the 2nd quarter with the 2nd unit and LMA in a fast-pace unit, and the rest of the game he will play with whatever unit seems to be working for them.

He is playing around 30 minutes per game right now. There is no reason to expect at least 12-15 of those to be as the leader of a fast-pace unit.

 

A lot of people still tell me I have no idea about the game, so it's all good.

 

Well then the steller degree has spoken . . . fire Nate says the OSU student, what is KP waiting for.