


Agree with Skull and Paul's current assessment of Mills and his ability to change games and have an immediate impact in coming off the bench.
And I do think that Paul had a dig at the current Boomer's coach there AB4EVA. ;)

Japorms, steals are NOT usually a good measure of a player's on-ball defence. As mentioned, a player can gamble on D to get in the passing lanes for extra steals, but often gets burned if he misses the steal.
Having said that, its nice to see Mills continuing to get mins and put up numbers. He's showing he can learn from his mistakes and is clearly building trust with the coaching staff.
Awhile back I would have said you were dreaming if you thought Mills would ever start at PG for Portland. Now, I can actually see a scenario where it could happen.
IF the Blazers decide to stick with Roy as their franchise guy and he is able to get his knee woes sorted, I could see Miller being moved on. From what I read awhile back, Roy doesn't coexist well with Miller and would rather have a role player in the backcourt with him that can stretch the D, play defence and not demand the ball too much. Patty could do just that for him.

Do people that actually know how and what basketball is about actually post on this website???


I did show some love. I said it's good he's playing well.
I take it you haven't watched him playing often for Portland. His steals come from intercepting the passing lanes (Off-ball defense). However when he's defender the ball he struggles to contain his man. eg. Steve Nash going 20pts and 16asts in like 28min on 10-16 shooting. or Monta Ellis making him look silly, and Patty is a very fast player. His +/- needs to improve massively as well. He's a good Backup PG but not starting quality. Nor will he be, Least at Portland, other teams it might be a different story however. Sacramento could use him to shoot 3s to desperately help Tyreke Evans.


Steals doesn't mean your a good on ball defender. He has great anticipation but too many times he gets caught gambling too much and giving up easy baskets. Offensively he is more of a scorer then a PG that will make the rest of the team better while scoring. And he needs the ball in his hands to do anything, which won't be good if he plays alongside ball-dominate players who are a lot better then him.The best he'll be is 6th man.

I know what eventually means, but it still won't happen. If they trade Andre Miller they'll get another PG back who will be better then Mills. If they let Miller's contract run until it expires they'll draft a better PG. Because Mills would be the weak link if he started, his defense still isn't good enough to start in a Portland system.

It's good to see him play well but he's not good enough to be a legit starting PG. Let's get realistic here.

Yup. So far 12 pts on 5-8 FGA. 2-4 from 3 with an assist and 3 steals in just on 10 minutes of action.
