Monte Williams

[Dakotah612]

Monte deserves a lot of the credit for the vast improvement of Travis Outlaw. He's essentially our Tim Grgurich. Mike Barrett said after practices Monte will bring out the white board and break down the offense in a way Outlaw could understand it easily, breaking it down step by step. We have some of the best development coaching with Monte and Bill Bayno. This is why I think bringing in a raw player like a Tryus Thomas could be a great move. We have the coaches to teach him how to play the game the right way. Just as Travis Outlaw!

[TBpup]

Monte is also trying to help Sergio get more arc on his shot and helped Joel improve his FT shooting tremendously.

[cucad8]

Maybe I should start a new topic on this, but I will just use this as a sounding board on the coaches in general. I am impressed with the work Monty has done as well. I fear he won't be with us for too much longer, but I guess that is a part of being successful.
That being said, exactly what does Maurice Lucas do? Now, i don't want to criticize too much what he does behind the scenes, since I am obviously not there to see. But my assumption would be him working with power players, or most of our bigs on the toughness needed in the league. If so, then I think we can probably find someone better. I know a lot of people will probably jump on me for saying so, especially with young guys, but I dunno. I feel like Joel is one of the only guys willing to be physical, and he seems to have a private strength coach for that. And James Jones, but he most likely had that coming in here, being a veteran guy. Maybe it is just youth, and I hope so, but seeing guys like Travis and LaMarcus,a nd to a small extent, Channing just not boxing out consistently is frustrating. And maybe it isn't Lucas, so I apologize if it isn't, but seems like he would be the one teaching the art of the box out, and either he's a poor teacher, or some of our guys are poor learners.

[d-train]

I have a lot of respect for Nate and his coaching staff. Nate in particular and his staff to a lesser extent are always on the hot seat because everyone has an opinion on how they should be doing their jobs. These guys are an experienced and competent crew and obviously, they are doing their jobs well.

[PDXKnight]

Nate definitely has some nice assistants. Monte Williams has produced very notable improvements on this team and the other assistants have also done a good job of developing our young players into studs. I know I've had my doubts about McMillan but he and his coaching staff have really been good at developing players.

[Wizenheimer]

Monte deserves a lot of the credit for the vast improvement of Travis Outlaw. He's essentially our Tim Grgurich. Mike Barrett said after practices Monte will bring out the white board and break down the offense in a way Outlaw could understand it easily, breaking it down step by step. We have some of the best development coaching with Monte and Bill Bayno. This is why I think bringing in a raw player like a Tryus Thomas could be a great move. We have the coaches to teach him how to play the game the right way. Just as Travis Outlaw!

does portland really want to take on a project player in their overloaded frontcourt? Especially one who would fill the same niche as Travis Outlaw?

And I doubt Chicago would give away essentially their 2nd pick in the draft. And since portland would need to clear some space for him anyway, who should they trade for TT? Outlaw...webster...jones?

[Voodoo]

Maybe I should start a new topic on this, but I will just use this as a sounding board on the coaches in general. I am impressed with the work Monty has done as well. I fear he won't be with us for too much longer, but I guess that is a part of being successful.

I am totally out of the loop on this one, do you say this because his contract is nearing the end? Or are you saying this because he has been so successful that other teams are willing to offer him a real coaching position or something? I really don't know this is an honest question.

[cucad8]

Oh, I have no idea about his contract. Saying it mainly because it seems like he has done a really good job, and with our success, everyone will become more high profile, and become candidates to coach throughout NCAA and the NBA.

[Charcoal Filtered]

I really like Monty as well. Very articulate in his interviews and the work with Travis and Joel speaks for itself. I like his approach to player problems in that before complaining about what a player cannot do, he thinks how can he fix it.

Give credit to Nate as well for having him on his staff. One person is not going to be able to develop 15 youngsters.

I see Monty as a head coach somewhere in the near future.

[BlackMamba]

nice to know how good and valuable the coaching staff is.

anout tyrus thomas. the blazers are one step away from being a team that can't afford to have projects, they need to have players ready to be on the line and produce.