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The headline from today's story is great.....I'm sure Herb Kohl is celebrating this publicity......

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=723545

Bucks' dynamic backcourt duo taking big steps forward
By CHARLES F. GARDNER
Posted: Feb. 29, 2008

These guys are hot.

The Milwaukee Bucks backcourt tandem of Michael Redd and Mo Williams is carrying the team with a stunning offensive display since the all-star break.......

......Redd said there was a reason for his approach.

"I'm attacking and just trying to be aggressive every play and every game," Redd said. "Not that I wasn't before the break. But it's an emergency now, so I've got to be aggressive."

"Redd has been super-assertive and aggressive early in games," Nets coach Lawrence Frank said. "He's getting up shots."

Frank carefully watched film on Redd and Williams before his team's victory, achieved against a porous Milwaukee defense.

"It's the way they're getting it, their explosiveness," Frank said of the duo. "Plus, they're getting to the free-throw line, so they're putting teams in the penalty.

"They have the potential, if they continue to play at this high level, to be one of the better backcourts (in the league)....."
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Why did it take Redd so long to attack again.

It is pretty rare that a sports story in the newspaper makes me feel nauseous, so hats off to Chuck Gardner for this beaut. 'The Bucks backcourt is so amazingly HOT!!!! ...that it nearly made up for its own excremen-terrific "porous Milwaukee defense" in a thrilling 14-point loss to the Nets. If Mo and Redd could ever play on a team where their stunning offensive brilliance wouldn't get overshadowed by their own team's stunningly poor backcourt defense, they'd be all-stars!!!!!!!!!! Hooray!"

If we must live with Mo and Redd's backcourt defense, it's imperative that the team put some shot blockers around them in the frontcourt. Hasheem Thebeet would be a nice start.

Wise1 wrote:If we must live with Mo and Redd's backcourt defense, it's imperative that the team put some shot blockers around them in the frontcourt. Hasheem Thebeet would be a nice start.

We don't have to and won't live with there defense...........

Wise1 wrote:If we must live with Mo and Redd's backcourt defense, it's imperative that the team put some shot blockers around them in the frontcourt. Hasheem Thebeet would be a nice start.

I disagree---I think much more important than shot blcokers is to have very smart defenders in general. Gadz, Bogut, and yi are all decent to good shotblockers, but only bogut is even close to a smart defender as of yet.

This dynamic backcourt is bringing excitement back to the bradley center!!

MJS Bucks guys = Idiots. I hope Mike Hunt laughed at Gardner in the office today. What's so "dynamic" about ths duo other than scoring? Nothing.

Wise1 wrote:If we must live with Mo and Redd's backcourt defense, it's imperative that the team put some shot blockers around them in the frontcourt. Hasheem Thebeet would be a nice start.

If we must live with their backcourt defense, you might as well get ready for that lull called mediocrity.

So how much did Kohl pay him to write this propaganda?

crkone wrote:So how much did Kohl pay him to write this propaganda?

I think this came directly from the Bucks PR staff and Gardner just put his name on it.

"We're at the point of the season where we've simplified our offense a little bit, and we're asking those guys to go make some plays," Bucks coach Larry Krystkowiak said.

"We're not thinking as much and playing off instincts, which those guys are good at."

Sigra wrote:"We're at the point of the season where we've simplified our offense a little bit, and we're asking those guys to go make some plays," Bucks coach Larry Krystkowiak said.

"We're not thinking as much and playing off instincts, which those guys are good at."

Awful, just awful.

Thank you Mo and Redd for all the winning seasons and championships you have brought us! Also thank you guys for our record this season!

They must have had some space to fill in the paper. The fact that this is best Gardner can do is embarrassing.

Of course, if they'd written about Bogut's "amazing" 22pt/15reb line in the loss you'd all be going ga-ga.

I just think this is an indictment on our backcourt's basketball IQ.

Not thinking makes someone play better, just seems odd.

Low b-ball IQ + No thinking = Better basketball.

Anyone else feel like Gardner and this Bucks team are like the local small town paper writing about a 7th grade basketball team?

Gardner: "Hey guys! We are going to write a feature about you!"
Redd/Mo: "Oh boy! We're really going to be in the paper? Wait til our parents find out!"

And the article is brimming with blind compliments and enthusiasm because it's about little kids. Some of these comments sound like the local writer talking about how "improved" 7th grade Jimmy is because he could barely make a layup at the beginning of the season and now he's hitting shots from the free throw line even though their team sucks in reality and is 5-10 on the season.

CharlosVllnueva wrote:Anyone else feel like Gardner and this Bucks team are like the local small town paper writing about a 7th grade basketball team?

Gardner: "Hey guys! We are going to write a feature about you!"
Redd/Mo: "Oh boy! We're really going to be in the paper? Wait til our parents find out!"

And the article is brimming with blind compliments and enthusiasm because it's about little kids. Some of these comments sound like the local writer talking about how "improved" 7th grade Jimmy is because he could barely make a layup at the beginning of the season and now he's hitting shots from the free throw line even though their team sucks in reality and is 5-10 on the season.

It's funny that you picked 7th grade because this sounds exactly like my 7th grade basketball team. Except, you know, we never got anything written about us in the paper.

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It's funny that you picked 7th grade because this sounds exactly like my 7th grade basketball team. Except, you know, we never got anything written about us in the paper.

Yeah, my 7th grade team is similar to the Bucks as well...except we had more basketball IQ. Oh, and we won games.

REDDzone wrote:I just think this is an indictment on our backcourt's basketball IQ.

Not thinking makes someone play better, just seems odd.

Low b-ball IQ + No thinking = Better basketball.

It's something else, isn't it? Only on this team could the starting backcourt basically be called dumb by the head coach and he's trying to spin it in a positive manner.

I love this team.