Playing our centers a combined 10 minutes in the second half??? What the fuck is wrong with you? Those lineups and substitutions he trotted out there in the second half were absolute garbage. Then I just watched that fucking moron's press conference on the postgame show, and all he could say is "you gotta make shots and you gotta defend." DUH! You think so? Holy mother of shit this guy is a god damned genius. Make shots and defend! Of course! Draw it up on the clipboard, McScribbles! Here's an idea ... you think when the other team is absolutely raping us in the paint that it might make sense to ... oh ... I don't know ... PLAY TWO OF THE BEST SHOT-BLOCKERS AND REBOUNDERS IN THE GAME??? All of the sudden this basketball mastermind thinks we are Golden State and he's gonna trot out small-ball. Not good enough, Nate.
Well he's trying to force the mentally tough card, it's been working out for Mike Singletary with the niners in football. But with Nate he, half asses this approach by compromising it constantly by screwing with the players mentality through the course of each game.
That no center lineup has sucked last year too, every time Nate tried it, but he's been going to it on a regular basis this year. And nearly every time, teams start just dunking on us and get easy layups. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the twilight zone, wondering how Nate can possibly be doing this if we're watching the same game. Anyway, we're just not that good and we need to make some changes.
Wow, your a sorry ass 49er fan too? Me too. They are very similar. Just trying to do the same thing over and over, even though it doesn't work. Then for some bizaare reason, they suddenly try something else that DOES work, but they go back to what doesn't?
This cake is far too overbaked and needs to be seriously sliced up. Some of it has gone mouldy. (I'm looking at you Stevey, NATE and Outlaw) Throw the medical staff in on the next trade to please KP. . .
That gave me my only laugh for the night. I was just thinking about a famous quote and applying it to Nate: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
Love this thread and is the exact thing everyone was talking about in our section. Not having Greg or Joel in there is STUPID! Argh!! LA and Travis just can't rebound. I hated that lineup and it cost us the game!!
I'm pretty sure that was Rita Mae Brown. I actually think he tried something new... he wasn't trying the same thing. He was going small to try to light a spark. But it's a bad fucking idea. One of STRENGTHS of this team is our size. We should be bigger than our opponents at every position most of the game. Instead, we went small and were smaller than our opponents at every spot than the PG (where size is least important). Not a good move. Greg should have been allowed to foul out and then Joel shoulda been back in to finish the game. Ed O.
That's one of the things I hate. Greg taken out at the beginning of the fourth because he picked up his fourth foul. Put back in a few mins later, picks up his fifth with 4 mins left, and taken out again. Just leave him in there dammit, and let him play it out! Let him learn to play with fouls!
you know what I hate? the name "McMuffin." it's just dumb, and irritating. but seriously, he has no idea how to coach
Let Oden foul out. Fouling out isn't going to hurt his self-confidence any more than being parked on the bench after 1-2 minutes of play. Every time a game ends in which Oden has less than 6 fouls, there were minutes he could have played that were left on the table. That's something that has bugged me in general...not just with McMillan and Oden, but with coaching in general. They end up artificially limiting minutes because they try to "save" their players from fouling out. Once the fourth quarter rolls around, play Oden as normal until the game is over or he fouls out. At least that way, he gets every possible minute. Otherwise, it's essentially the same as if Oden fouls out on 4-5 fouls, instead of 6. It's just that you, the coach, are fouling him out prematurely.
I agree. I vote for McScribbles. Assclown McScribbles. Or maybe Assclown's the middle name. Mr. Sonic Assclown McScribbles.
Nope, if Rita borrowed it from Albert it's OK. Nate has tried the small ball many times before and it is always to try to match up with the opponents and there is no way Roy, Andre and Blake should be on the floor at the same time. Why he refuses to make them match up with us is beyond me.
I was at the game, so I didn't hear what happened, but why was Greg sitting to begin the second half??
