(Sorry, it's been awhile but I'm back!!)
Sure the Leon Wood blew a bundle of calls in the end and when the fans started to chant "(Steve) Javie sucks", he wasn't going to help bailout Brandon Roy and the Blazers in the final stretch. Oh, and not the greatest night for Roy, who shot miserably and air-balled the potential game winner in regulation.
Let me scrutinize the coaching matchup between "Mike D'Antoni Jr." Tony DiLeo (also notice the 2 capital letters in both last names) vs. Nate McMuffin... You'd think an experienced coach like McMuffin would have the advantage over an interim coach like DiLeo, but if you haven't been following McMuffin or DiLeo, you wouldn't know it...
In the 1st quarter when the game was still even, Nate subs Outlaw into the game for... wait for it... Batum... as always... NOT noticing that Steve Blake was getting torched by Andre Miller. An average Joe (like myself) would know better that if you're going to sub Outlaw in, sub him in for Blake and move Batum over to guard Miller.... Sure Blake had a good run in the 3rd quarter, but pretty much stunk it up in the other periods. BUT you might not have noticed because commentator Mike Barrett's lips are stucked to Blake's you know what...
Once again, how the hell does McMuffin keep under-utilizing Batum with 16 minutes... Outlaw was terrible last night but I guess our genius coach didn't notice it.
Rudy was on fire in the 4th and I still don't know why Nate subbed him out w/3:29 to go; let alone he subbed Outlaw in for Fernandez instead of Batum...
Once again, and I guess no surprise, McMuffin doesn't know a how to create matchups/sub players in/keep a player in that is on fire but does everything he can to try to lose games that we should win/or win close games vs. bad teams that should have been easy blowouts...
Oh, and Nate's flip-flopping of backup PG's is just another mind-boggling situation. If you're a playoff caliber team or contender, shouldn't you have your rotation's down? AND by doing this, you give both Sergio and J-Bay the lack of confidence to succeed (i.e. J-Bay doesn't go to his strengths and plays like McMuffin)... BUT I think I figured it out: Nate McMuffin can't coach PG play because he himself was a underwhelming PG...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Refs Blame Overshawdows DiLeo Outcoaching Nate
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76ers,
Andre Miller,
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Brandon Roy,
Nate McMillan,
Nicolas Batum,
Rudy Fernandez,
Steve Blake,
Tony DiLeo
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