Portland is up 31 points and Coach Nate puts in Greg Oden!?!?!!??!

Nate is making some pretty big coaching errors, but this is inexcusable. With Portland up 31 points and just over 6:00 to go Nate took out Joel and put in Greg. Attention Nate, Coaching 101 says you take out your best players when you're blowing out the other team, not the other way around. All Portland needs is to lose Oden for the season because Nate wanted to give him worthless minutes in a game already in the bag. Getting Odem minutes is important, but not in garbage time. Enormous coaching gaffe tonight. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

 

Oh look, 4 minutes to go and Nate inserts another starter, Batum.

Talk about brain dead coaching.

 

Rookies are rookies. Garbage time is when they learn. Nate knows what the hell he's doing.

 

I have no problem with it. The only way you learn is by playing. What better time to play then when it doesn't matter if you miss the shot or not.

 

This is the worst thread in the history of threads

 

In Nate's defense, both guys ARE rookies and need minutes. Also as interchangeable as our lineup is, the second 5 log about as many minutes as the starting 5.

 

joel is our best center, and nate wanted to help build oden's confidence. there was nothing wrong with the move.

 

A team with the youngest age in terms of active players, that is 10-6 agains the toughest schedule in the league so far, dares put in a few rookies to get them some more experience when beating a team by 40.

Oh no!

 

This.

 

Rofl, this thread is SOOOO retarded. He put in the rookies to get some more time, genius. Not too hard to figure out, but apparently slipped by some people.

BTW, Joel is 1000x better than Oden is right now...

 

STOMP

 

They've been talking about Greg needing to get into game shape. He needs to play to get in that kind of condition.

Nate didn't leave him in very long, anyway.

 

I'm happy to see those guys back in. Batum and Oden are like any rookies--they need game time experience to develop skills and confidence.

When you play a 10 man roster and only two guys get over 29 mpg (Roy/Aldridge), does it really matter who the starters are when determining garbage minutes?

 

I'm not sure the last time I recall a young team with this deep a roster dominate like this over three teams in a week's span.

 

I think it's HORRIBLE that the Blazers didn't play with 4 players so the Heat could have a shot at a comeback.

 

To be fair, they really should have put in players they are thinking about drafting next season!

 

we should have at least loaned them a center, since now they have to go play shaq/amare on national TV friday.

 

I don't have a problem putting them in the game in a blowout but if Oden would have went down with an injury the haters on this board would have had a field day.

 

No Blazer played over 30 minutes.