Tonights prohoop show?

[GrandAdmiralDan]

Anyone else think Jim Todd is completely hammered every time you see him?

Yes. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so

Jim: we try to hold them accountable. But these are the guys we have. Us coaches maybe need to do a better job. But no matter how bad it gets, like Michael Redd says often, we've got to stick together. Can't point fingers at each other.

Uh oh.
I don't think saying that is a terrible thing at all, but I remember a bunch of people taking issue with that kind of comment when Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld made it. Let's not turn this into a political thread (I thought about not mentioning it but it is too similar so I couldn't help it) but I'm guessing I'm not the only one that saw the parallel there.

Jim: I don't think it will help. Chemistry is not that bad [damned by faint praise here], In Toronto we had great chemistry, great guys; these are good guys, good people, just not jelling together as a group. There are no fist fights at practice, coaches are not going off at players.

no fist fights at practice + coaches not going off at players = chemistry being not that bad

Great metric.

Caller 3, Chris: What about defence?
Jim: senator gets on the coaches every time, "you better have a better defensive FG%."

Why is Senator Kohl getting on the coaches about anything? I mean, I know this to be true and have for some time, but it just brings it to the surface when an assistant coach mentions this on the air while on the radio. The GM is supposed to be the guy who should be "getting on the coaches" if that needs to be done. If the owner is to "get on" anyone it should be the owner getting on the GM.

[Stopshere2]

It was funny when the caller asked why the defense was so bad and who on the team are actually good defenders.

Todd paused and laughed a bit as he was only naming guys on the bench except for Bogut. Then he realized it was all bench guys and said, obviously the problem there is those guys can't score points.

That's been the problem for way to long. For years the main guys who play the most minutes don't defend well, so Harris/Kohl tried to "fix" the defense by getting a few guys for the bench that defend. Those guys don't play enough though to impact the bad defense as much as it needs and often those bench defenders are subpar offensively so there is little net gain.

The only guys that didn't get subtly thrown under the bus one way or another were Redd, Bogut and Yi (and maybe Des through lack of mentions). I got the impression from how he spoke about many of the guys that the combination of players is all wrong, that they'd actually have to be completely different people to mesh. I thought he trotted out the pat "we have to stick together" as a token to the corporate line.

He indirectly confirmed that there are lockeroom issues over minutes and playing style. Chemistry was "great" in Toronto and they were "great" guys. MKE has "good guys, good people" but not on same page. They ARE pointing the finger at each other.

I think he's confused as to what this team wants to be as much as any of us. His opening remark about thinking he was coming to a run and gun, jump-shooting team underlines this.

Mentioning that the senator raises the issue of defensive FG% confirms somewhat his tendency to interfere. I mean, what sort of coach needs to be told that? Does the senator set specific goals for this team?

I though he did a great job of confirming much of what is discussed on this board.


ETA: I see GAD has already jumped on the senatorial interference. It really was a WTF? moment.
I should add that Todd did say at one point that Des is getting back to the way he was playing last time in MKE (there's that faint praise again).

[blkout]

It's one thing for him to be getting on the coaches about specific thing, it's another for him to do it with such a limited statistical understanding. Opponent FG%? Idiot.

[Bucks_Revenge]

i have a feeling Jim Todd regrets leaving Toronto.

[Magic 32]

Anyone else think Jim Todd is completely hammered every time you see him?

That is true. Everytime I see him on TV he even looks like he came strait from the bar before the game. Red-glazed over eyes. Look once, it does seem that way. I guess it will make it easier when the whole coaching staff gets canned! Or Kohl will promote him???

[Matt Foley]

I think Jim Todd was definitely better on the show than the other assistant coaches that say the same ol bs.