

Cavs by 9.
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Oden2 wrote:I don't get it. I give James a lot of credit but I don't get how the Blazers have sucked against the cavs lately. They're mediocre but they're nothing special. If/when they can get james a sidekick, then I'll consider the cavs good. As it stands, Roy, LA, GO >>>>> James + fodder.
541Blaza wrote:I watched this entire game.
We've said it, and I'll say it again Nate McMillan is RESPONSIBLE for this loss. His game plan completely threw our offense to a hault. Why didn't he learn from the success of our last two games and also the 1st quarter?
His substitution patterns turned to **** in the second half giving Jack Blake's minutes, Jack commited 3 or 4 fouls in limited minutes and gave the Cavs free points. Jack turned the ball over twice, and he played below average defense. He passed up open shots that Blake would've taken and probably made.
I can go on and on about Nate's mistakes. Why would you change the gameplan after it was working so well? All because of your fear of LeBron. Wow.
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Agreed, Nate has made a lot of questionable moves late in games. From what I've seen, Nate is an average coach at best and while he might take this team to the playoffs, I fear that he may waste 3-5 years of our players' careers before management realizes that he's not a championship caliber coach. I don't know, maybe I'm judging him too fast but from what I've seen, the Blazers' chances of winning a title with McMillan as the head coach are slim at best.
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Nate insists on using the shot clock and playing BORING half court basketball. Problem is our team doesn't have any scorers, they SUCK in the half court, this season is 3/4 done and he still can't figure that out. What ever happened to us being a running team? We don't even need to be a running team, just stop keeping the players on such a tight leash. You can tell no one wants to take a open shot becuase of that, and we end up getting shot clock violations.
The Cavs started double teaming LaMarcus and Nate had no other option on offense, it's like the Blazers hit a brick wall, pretty soon Outlaws taking fadeaway 15 footers with 2 on the shot clock.
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