Quick's postseason bombshell! Startling revelations!

At some point people just say "ok, if that isn't going to be good enough, nothing is, so fuck you"

 

I think it's interesting that he wanted to start Batum at the 2.

 

We keep hearing "it's a business" but normally in a business if both potential employee and potential supervisor have doubts - you can pretty much guess it won't work. Look at evidence but also listen to your "gut".

Except after eating too many bean burritos.

 

yeah, it is an editorial piece and one I ten to agree with most of

 

I saw that, too. The article said that the Black Friday announcement of Roy's retirement, Oden's further knee issues, and Aldridge's heart trouble messed up Nate's plan to play Batum at the 2G spot. I was wondering how that meshed up with McMillan's statement, prior to BRoy's retirement, that Roy would be starting at the 2G spot. Either the team never believed Roy's optimistic reports prior to camp or the idea of playing Nic at the 2 was only a backup option. Either way, I think I'd agree that Nic's best minutes this season were when he played the 2.

 

A completely uncalled for cheapshot. Who are you, again?

 

That's a good point. It also shows just how uncertain Nate was about the team, though, in that he went against his gut because the team needed scoring, and badly. The gamble backfired, but after losing Roy, and seeing Felton's body during the summer, Nate probably figured it was going to be a rough ride, anyhow.

 

Roy retiring shouldn't have done much to damage Nic's chances of playing more minutes at the 2 guard it should have enhanced it. Oh well, thank god this season is almost over.

As far as I'm concerend, seal this bitch in a barrel, ship it to Yucca Mountain and bury this clusterfuck of a year 3 miles deep.

 

That was the point I was making. Before "black Friday" Nate said that Roy would probably return as the starting 2G. Assuming Wesley remained as the
backup 2G, there wouldn't have been many, if any, minutes for Nic there. Yet Quick reports that black Friday messed up Nate's plan to play Nic at the 2G spot. The two don't mesh real well.

 

Oh I agree ... Bt frankly, none of this season makes much sense to me and it's anybody's guess what Nate's real plan for Nicolas was. Regardless, I don't know if there's much to be learned with a post-mortem of this season. It's kind of like performing an autopsy on a dead sky-diver; did he die from the trauma of the fall or did he die of a heart-attack seconds before he hit the ground? Either way, dead is dead.

 

Agreed. I'd much rather just put this season in the rear-view mirror and move along. I don't expect that we'll have either Felton or Crawford to worry about next season.

 

Let's define two terms.

The article blames some bogey man it names "Black Friday." This is simply the knowledge, which all of us except Quick had, that Oden and Roy were done. It also blames the players for "tuning out" the coach. This is simply the inability of any veterans to play successfully in McMillan's horrible system. Only young know-nothings take his guff. For the first time in his coaching career he had a very experienced and talented roster, causing his helplessness. After each game he would blame his own players for lack of effort, when we could all see them struggling as hard as they could within his rotten system.

Quick's good guy, year after year, is whoever will talk to him, play tennis or golf with him, etc. His bad guy every year is whoever, whether player, GM, or owner, treats him like the peanut he is. The Portland media does not know its place and thinks that it is running the team.