Blazer profile: Bill Bayno

Name: Bill Bayno

Position: Assistant coach

Years with team: 4

Years in NBA: 6

His job: “(Wednesday), it was working with (Martell Webster) on his mid range. And he’s better going left, so getting him repetitions going right and taking contact.

“With (Jerryd) Bayless, we do (it) every day. We work on making contested shots. Everything: off the dribble, off the catch. Emphasizing really getting extra work with his left hand.

“So, it just depends. Jeff (Pendergraph), just trying to continue to develop his post game and help him grow and give him different moves and counter-moves, to how the defense is playing him. So, it varies from day to day. In the NBA, a lot of your work is pregame. Patty (Mills) and I will probably get 100 possessions live pregame.”

This season: “The thing I think gets lost — in having been a head coach and knowing how hard it is to put a team together; to get them to be unselfish — I just think it’s been lost the job that Nate (McMillan) has done with all of these injuries.

“I would never, ever want to have to coach a team where we had all those injuries in the preseason. Then guys come back. Then they get hurt again. So, the chemistry has constantly been a challenge; it’s always been evolving. And I really think Nate doesn’t get the credit that he deserves, nor do the players. These guys have weathered this. They’ve stayed together. We’ve had some unbelievable wins on the road: San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix. And I think sometimes people take it for granted.

“ I think getting (Marcus) Camby has really helped us; he’s fit in. Getting Brandon (Roy) back — he’s still not totally got his legs. But we’ve got (13) games left, and I think we’ve got a shot to make a run in the playoffs. We’ve just got to continue every day to get better and not to get complacent.”

— Brian T. Smith