Andre Miller speaks the truth..

like i said, miller will get the starting minutes! it just doesnt mean that he has to be in the game when it starts. he will play a bigger role than blake... look at it like this. blake will play 15-20 minutes and miller will play 25-30 minutes... but blake still starts.. its a very good strategy. we did it with batum and outlaw last season. miller and roy have a lot of the same skill sets and it would be very useful to have them playing while the other is on the bench. there playing time will overlap and will play minutes together its just that all of steves minutes (however few they are) will have to be played with the starting unti.. and dre three ball will not hurt us, its nice to have guys on the floor to spread the d but dre makes up for it in a lot of other ways. basically, what i am trying to say is, the best players dont have to start. and if dre does come off the bench he would make a great candidate for 6th man. Miller is going to play a huge role on this team.. i would predict that he is going to be the third option the team only behind Roy and lamarcas. Miller will be the best point guard on the team and will get the majority of the minutes, but that does not mean he has to start, and it really does not matter how much they make. ginobli is one of the best players on the spurs team and he comes off the bench. Nate would not have asked Miller what he thought about coming off the bench if he was not seriously looking in to what i am talking about, or even something esle that i am missing. Miller is going to play solid no matter where he is at in the rotation, blake will have a harder time though and he does a great job playing along side roy, and roy does a great job playing along side blake. I think my solution is very logical. But only time will tell if this is what they are doing. i could see them trying to do this to start the season off anyway reguardless of what they do later in the season just because blake knows our offense and miller could take some time to get use to it.

By the way,no disrespect to Blake,he's a great player who is our Steady Eddie.

Josh..............Dre's 3 ball deficienecy will not hurt us,he can do so many other things, things that Blake Can't.All the McMillan talk that Blake is the starting PG is all "CoachSpeak" for the Media.Like ucatchtrout says,They didn't pay all those bones for Dre to come off of the Bench. Blake will be good to steady the Second unit.Dre has NEVER not started for a team he has played for.I just think Dre gives us a better chance to improve.

so here is what i think: Miller is a good veteran point guard who has been underrated for a long time. But on the topic of whether he should start or not, here is why it would be better for him to come off the bench; it actually has nothing to do with Andre Miler and the questions about him being able to play well with b-roy. they will do just fine together, i have little doubt about that. It has more to do with steve blake playing with second unit. for the sake of my argument/explanation, lets say that the starting unit looks something like this: Blake, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, and Pryzy (the same starting lineup as last season, which Nate said he planned on keeping the same). That would leave the second unit looking something like this: Miller, Rudy, Webster, Outlaw, Oden. If miller is starting and blake is in the second unit, where is the offense coming from? the only people on the floor will be a bumch of jump shooters. there is nobody there to initiate the offense, and this will lead to travis going one on one and and taking a few poor shots that are awesome when they go in and irritating when they dont (i like travis, he is one of my favorite players so dont take that the wrong way; i personally think he was forced in to taking some of those shots because of lack of offense). With blake starting and Miller coming off the bench, there will always be somebody on the floor (either Miller or Roy) who can take the ball to rim and either get two points or draw a foul. Miller also has a bit of a 3pt problem in that he is terrible at them, this way miller is surrounded by rudy, martell, and outlaw, all of whom are excellent three point shooters. this keeps their defenders honest, and if not, bang 3pts. Roy will also be surrounded by 3pt shooters in blake Batum, and aldridge can hit the long 2s to spread the defense.

just because miller wont be starting doesnt mean he wont get more minutes. look at outlaw, ginobli, jason terry..

I believe Miller will start. The Blazers didn't agree to pay him twenty two million dollars to give him Sergio Rodriguez 11-15 minutes and have him come off the bench.

After I spent some time watching Millers highlight films on YouTube I came away convinced not only that he will fit in, he will be terrific. I'm sure the Blazers spent more time looking at Andre than this old man and his laptop. KP and company do their homework. By this time next year we'll all be singing the praises of Andre Miller.