prior to coming to the Clippers. Each year his scoring and assists went up. Then he comes to a Gentry coached team that won 27 games (great by Dunleavy standards). I watched him play and he didn’t seem to fit in here, I don’t know why.

So he goes to Denver and averages roughly 14 pts and 7 assists over a 3+ yr period and off to Philly where he did pretty well.

I don’t think it’s a knock on him that he didn’t fit in here. He did o.k. with three other teams.

got barely half that. And here I am again this year hoping for the same. I’m not sure if it was Gentry’s first head coaching gig (I’d have to look it up) but he certainly did not perform well here.

And as far as Miller goes, I actually liked him. He was here for one year (and by far out performed Baron in his first year) and he was gone the next.

They are 7th in pythagoresn W-L after being 5th last year. His PER is down, but this is his 33rd year.

Question: Why isn’t it McMillan’s failure that he can’t figure out how to use Miller? Seems like its a coaching problem that McMillan doesn’t know how to handle vets and making them run silly conditioning drills to try to humiliate them.

Always nice to see Andre Miller spread the love.

What I take away from this article and situation is how it’s rather odd in retrospect that he fit in rather well in both Denver and Philly. He was far from a disaster on either of those teams, but he wasn’t a perfect solution either.

The other thing about the article is that it manages never to mention Steve Blake. Or say anything about the Portland GM and the decision to sign Miller, rather than the ways in which McMillan is trying to figure out how to use him.

The problem is that Miller assumes, with some reason, that he’s a much better basketball player than Steve Blake. So it seems like a no-brainer. But you have to look at Portland’s roster and especially at Brandon Roy and how he likes to play. Once you do that, and establish Roy as the Blazer’s bedrock, then it seems like a pretty quick question to ask who is BRoy going to play better with, Steve Blake or Andre Miller? It doesn’t take long from there for an observer to notice that BRoy has some strong similarities to dominant SGs like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, and how they like to play with guys like Steve Kerr or Craig Hodges, or Ron Harper or Derek Fisher. Blake bears a vague resemblance to Kerr perhaps, but Andre Miller isn’t like any of those guys. He’s a dribbling, ball-dominant PG. And it’s pretty obvious, completely so in hindsight, that he’s not a great fit with BRoy.

But that sparkling, friendly personality makes up for everything else, of course.