Bedge is in Debbie Downer mode after all these close game losses and a lot of blame seems to be falling on the players who just joined us. So this seems as good/awkward a time as any to bring Nate's Contract up.

• What is Nate being paid? How long is Nate's Contract?
  • Answer: 2 Year through 2013 ... undisclosed pay
• Does Nate get along with the players?
  
• Does Nate have a consistent offensive/defensive system that the players can get behind?
  
• What is Nate's role on Team USA (will they bring him back if the Blazers do poorly this year)?
  
• And the facetious question: Does Nate get bonuses if the starters reach peak minutes per game?

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I have tried to watch every game but I can't seem to recall how often Felton, Aldrige, Wallace, Wesly and Batum play together. Anyone know of a website where I could find this analysis, I feel like there may be one.

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Gilbert Arenas has been amnestied and now that Roy has retired perhaps Gilbert could step in for a while. Pretty sure we could get him on the cheap... good idea, bad idea? Consult the poll below or comment to express your opinion.

Personally I feel that Arenas would be a strong addition to the blazers and would not only bring us one championship, but, and I am just guessing here, at least five. But in all seriousness I think Gil is a good guy who got in a bad situation in the east, maybe some time west coasting with the blazers would bring his A game back.

I just wanted to get peoples thoughts on a comparison between Brandon Roy and Chris Paul. If I am recalling correctly the first year when Paul got injured the Hornets struggled and Paul missed a lot of games. The second year he made a comeback and the Hornets still got stomped in the playoffs but looked a little better. I will try to go over the stats after the jump.

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Yo Yo Yo Everyone loves the trail cat so here is the long awaited Extreme Trail Cat Edition of the Junk

going to try and keep this one simple:

The daily Junk Drawer (JD) fanpost is the place where people throw words at each other... mostly underhand.

HERE ARE THE TRAIL CAT RULES

 

• 1. Obey the trail cat
• 2. A statement without a cat pic will not be taken seriously
• 3. Obey the trail cat
• 4. Adopt 1000 cats
• 5. Good Luck ; Have Fun
• 6. Swearing might get you in trouble
• 7. Obey the trail cat
• 8. Quickly establish an Alpha Male
• 9. This junk is not intended for those traveling in outer space
• 10. Aces are wild
• 11. Always use bullet numbering for lists

 

As you try and navigate through the junk drawer, remember that you can use 'Z' or 'C/X' to mark a post as read and move on to the next one.  Hitting shift-A will mark all comments as read.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Nate-McMillan-miracle-worker;_ylt=Ap.jLUyys77Q9fxuzgimj5q8vLYF?urn=nba,233908


I wonder if this article would have been about the thunders coach if they had won last night.  The article says pretty nice stuff about the blazers though it also states that there is no way Brandon is playing.  Is Brandon just in denial?  Either way its a nice article so read up if your interested; gives out some real respect to Nate.