I followed them for fantasy purposes. They've been, as Emmit Smith would say, "blowed out" many times this season. He might be a great coach, but he's lost his team, and their offense was worse than the worst of Rudy T's Francis era Rockets.
They waited too long to really do it right, they will be a top 10 pick when they could have landed a top 5. The Rockets should have jettisoned all the vets preseason and played the 09ers all year.
McMillan is a great coach. He will find a job very quickly. I think the Knicks are going to wait for Phil Jackson. McMillan probably ends up in Charlotte or Washington.
McMillan is a good coach. He just got caught up in a situation he could do nothing about. The Blazers have had terrible luck and have gone from a cut below elite in the west to an also-ran almost overnight. I'm certain he'll coach and have success again in the very near future.
Portland is doing what the Rockets should have been doing for a long time: don't be satisfied with mediocrity and tank to rebuild.
Yes, he can coach but he screwed this job up. Portland was designed by the nature of their personnel (Felton, Matthews, Crawford (guy they just signed), Batum, Wallace, even Aldridge) to be an uptempo running team. Nate tried to turn them into a half-court, slow it down, set it up and burn clock offense. They weren't built for that. Nate's stubbornness and unwillingness to adapt to his personnel when it was so obvious how they should be playing....is on him. Great guy. Good coach. Winner. But he just flat out screwed this job up.
