This team is done. Fire Nate. Seriously. This is ridiculous.

Stats don't lie. The poster I was responding to was posting about 2nd half adjustments by the opposing team. Portland is 2nd in the NBA in 2nd-half scoring margin. I'm not spinning that stat; I'm just sharing it, Wonder Woman.

 

I've been calling for a coach replacement for 2-3 years.

Q: I don't see anyone better available. Can you name one?

A: All last year I said Kevin McHale. He's now doing well with the Rockets. The real answer is, ANY fired head NBA coach, including Paul Westphal, would be as good as McMillan, given all the money Paul Allen spends on assistants and advance scouts.

As for whether we're civil, let's STOP being civil and run this guy out of town.

 

PapaG even though those stats are inflated due to our dominance at home I must say you cheered me up tonight, thx,

 

Before tonight we had the best point differential in the Western Conference. Now we're #2!!! :MARIS61:

 

I know I'm comforted.

 

It's sac queens guys. We shouldn't have lost to them. Our head is incredibly not in it on the road. We've really never been a good road team. Yeah I blame Nate for that. I'm getting really tired of it too. Nate isn't a good coach or our road record would be much better. It's insane!

I am super homer and I can't live with this crap. It really is nates fault; then aldridges second. He must be a vocal leader and get in nates face if he believes shit needs to be done. Insane!

 

Get Er done Allen!

 

Nate is so stubborn he will never make a change. He's only made changes in the past because he was forced to do so due to all the injuries. Ironically, he probably is still the head coach of this team because of the injuries. I mean this is the same guy that started Steve Blake over Andre Miller...

 

We have a GM by committee, why not a coach?

I suggest a select S2 panel should text in game plans and instructions during timeouts, it's foolproof.

 

Or we could just do what Nate does... hand the ball to your best player and let him do whatever he wants

 

No way! You would take all the credit for our genius. BTW, what's a "play"?

 

Not unless you think Jamal Crawford is our best player. Nate does designate a go to guy who will get the majority of the shots in the 4th quarter, and it seems like it's ALWAYS a guy who can bring the ball up the court and get off a shot without any passing or player movement. It's like he's afraid a play involving more than one player is too complex for the team to handle. So, he goes the "safe" route of non-stop isos for the 2 guard. The ineptitude of this scheme was masked when Brandon Roy was one of the best 1-on-1 offensive players in the game. Jamal Crawford, not so much.

The second half point differential is severely skewed by the 32 point home win over Sacramento, the 38 point home win over Phoenix and the 44 point home win over Charlotte. We blow out the shitty teams at home, but lose to Detroit, Phoenix and Sacramento on the road.

BNM

 

Same old story as Blazers falter on the road
I love that title by Joe Freeman.

No shit!!!

This team is awful on holding onto the lead. I blame the coach. He needs to have more timeouts and change of strategies.

 

That's probably why he wanted Crawford so badly. He wanted Roy 2.0 because his offense can't exist without a shooting guard with handles.

 

This team does need to look in a different direction. The coach is stale, the offense is stale. Nate has never been a good schematic coach, not good at all IMO. He is a great motivator when you think things are snowballing out of control he'll motivate and overachieve. He doesn't know how to run an offense that can utilize more than one main option at a time. Shit, look at what kind of wonders Adelman has done in Minnesota with a rookie PG. Ball movement, player movement. All good coaches emphasize it. Tired of watching Blazer guards dribble the air out of the ball.

I have said it for a couple years, but I think Budenholzer a long-time Pop assistant would be a good hire. Lets get some new ideas on offense.

 

Those numbers are just a bit skewed by the blowouts against Phoenix and Charlotte.

 

I havent had a chance to read through the game thread but my thought was why, in the second half, of a b2b, when we were struggling on offense did Nate keep the starters in almost the whole third quarter? If its not working you have to try something else. It takes a few key plays here or there to spark things sometime and the starters just werent getting it done. Im not saying a wholesale substitution but you gotta try something. I also think this was the kind of game that Batum would have been the perfect person to make those plays that spark the run we so desperately needed.

 

Why blame McMillan?? He wasn't the one who botched a simple 2-on-1 play, that was Crawford.