Portland Fires Coach Nate McMillan

McMillan has been a solid coach over the years, but IMO it was time to let him go, so I'm glad they did. Many thanks and best of luck to him.

His fault was that he would only let his team play the way he wants them to play.. he did not utilize some players as well as they could have been because of that. We started playing more uptempo this year, like we should with the roster we had, but it was still clearly Nate's offense. He limits his players to make them fit into the offense. All coaches should, but Nate does it too much. The PG in his system doesn't get many chances to create for himself and we play through the wings and the post. We had good PG's over the years. I hope Felton starts playing well with Nate out.
Just some ramblings.. still stunned by all that has happened to the Blazers today. damn.

Sloan available?

Terrible move by the front office / ownership of Portland. I'm confident we'll see him coaching elsewhere quite quickly.

[QUOTE=PHaYze]Knicks already in talks with Nate.[/QUOTE]
nate would be good for the knicks

Isiah used to praise him a lot, so there you go :lol

And i call it yesterday in the game thread... i see all. :bowdown:

Thanks Nate for everything you have done for us! but now it's time to move on jerry sloan available? :pimp:

Kevin Pritchard said Canales used to sleep at the practice facility in case a player wanted to work on his game in the middle of the night.

[quote=Toizumi]McMillan has been a solid coach over the years, but IMO it was time to let him go, so I'm glad they did. Many thanks and best of luck to him.

His fault was that he would only let his team play the way he wants them to play.. he did not utilize some players as well as they could have been because of that.[/quote]

Absolutely from an outside perspective it's a WTF but NATE SUCKED BALLS. Overrated is all I can say, he had zero flexibility as a coach and tried to force his style no matter what players he had to adjust to. Good riddance. Go coach another team to another boring first round loss.

[QUOTE=InspiredLebowski]Kevin Pritchard said Canales used to sleep at the practice facility in case a player wanted to work on his game in the middle of the night.[/QUOTE]

I think it is also a situation where Canales would be better than Bickerstaff at evaluating for the future, and Bernie may want to coach again in the future, so having him bumped to head coach in a tank season is really doing him a disservice.

Nate McMillan is a good coach. Portland is dumb to get rid of him and earlier Cho. I really question Paul Allen with both firings, specifically how he handled them.

I'd like to see McMillan in CLT( NC is his home state) next year if Paul Silas retires.

[QUOTE=CLTHornets4eva]Nate McMillan is a good coach. Portland is dumb to get rid of him and earlier Cho. I really question Paul Allen with both firings, specifically how he handled them.

I'd like to see McMillan in CLT( NC is his home state) next year if Paul Silas retires.[/QUOTE]

Firing McMillan was the right move, but I agree that firing Cho was bad. He new the team should have started rebuilding over a year ago, and Paul Allen didn't want to listen. I also don't think Pritchard should have been fired.

More I sit on it... more I realize if Sloan doesn't want Clippers job... this guy needs to be a top option. Never before in NBA history do I remember 4 top tier NBA coaches being available in Sloan, PJ, McMillian and D'Antoni. Clippers NEED to get one of these 4.. in order.

What happended to Portland? They were starting off pretty good, what the heck happened? Suddenly blowing everything up?

I thought Allen and McMillian were BFF's for life.

[QUOTE=Eat Like A Bosh]What happended to Portland? They were starting off pretty good, what the heck happened? Suddenly blowing everything up?[/QUOTE]

you dont keep up with the nba?