OT: Post Game Wolves/Bucks

75totheMACCfund · Post #1 » by **75totheMACCfund** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:19 am

last game of the season. I was able to attend and met Charlie Bell after the game and he confirmed that he is Flintstone which I never believed. He laughed and said he's been meeting a bunch of realgm guys. Nice guy though.

My buddies sitting by the bench were calling for gadz to get in the entire game and he and the rest of the bench were laughing at it the whole game.

Anyways, the season is over. Last post game thread for 6.5 months. Let's try and make this one more than 4 pages.

Andrew34r · Post #2 » by **Andrew34r** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:21 am

Did you see any other Bucks fans there besides you guys?

Post #3 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:23 am

Which one of you MSP guys was holding the "John Hammond is my homeboy" sign?

http://www.last.fm/user/DPF55 · Post #4 » by **Buck You** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:23 am

Were you wearing a Bucks away jersey and did you have a sign?

75totheMACCfund · Post #5 » by **75totheMACCfund** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:29 am

there were a lot of bucks fans there...none of my friends had signs...not after last year when my buddy made a sign that said "RUBEN: THERAPIST"...plus I just sat with my girlfriend this year so I nor my buddies could embarrass me in front of people I knew.

http://www.last.fm/user/DPF55 · Post #6 » by **Buck You** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:30 am

75totheMACCfund wrote:there were a lot of bucks fans there...none of my friends had signs...not after last year when my buddy made a sign that said "RUBEN: THERAPIST"...plus I just sat with my girlfriend this year so I nor my buddies could embarrass me in front of people I knew.

Aw. That guy with the sign won extreme fan of the game.

Fight the Tank · Post #7 » by **Fight the Tank** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:33 am

Yeah there were quite a few Bucks fans there. A couple of army guys were rooting pretty hard in the upper decks. Overall an extremely pathetic atmosphere and apparently the Bucks decided to play spoiler to the Wolves lottery hopes. Congrats.

Horrible season. Hopefully the offseason can breed some hope.

Fight the Tank · Post #8 » by **Fight the Tank** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:36 am

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Mo made the trip. Probably another factor pointing to his impending departure.

Bucks_Revenge · Post #9 » by **Bucks_Revenge** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:37 am

hey 75 were you the guys with the "Everyone loves Ramon" sign.

That was clever.

fam3381 · Post #10 » by **fam3381** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:41 am

Pretty much our season in a nutshell...

Hilarious how Sessions puts up these monster numbers to close the season.

75totheMACCfund · Post #11 » by **75totheMACCfund** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:46 am

Bucks_Revenge wrote:hey 75 were you the guys with the "Everyone loves Ramon" sign.

That was clever.

nah, no signs this year...had to behave this year after last year's debacle

75totheMACCfund · Post #12 » by **75totheMACCfund** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:47 am

Bogutneedsball wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Mo made the trip. Probably another factor pointing to his impending departure.

mo was not there...correct

Post #13 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:50 am

75totheMACCfund wrote:-=mo was not there...correct

They asked Gery Woeffel today on the radio about Mo's injury and Gery seemed to indicate at this point it was more a "It's better for Larry K. and Mo that Mo sit these last games out" rather than a real injury problem.

europa · Post #14 » by **europa** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:55 am

paulpressey25 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

They asked Gery Woeffel today on the radio about Mo's injury and Gery seemed to indicate at this point it was more a "It's better for Larry K. and Mo that Mo sit these last games out" rather than a real injury problem.

Not that this should be a surprise but I've heard that Mo is not a very happy camper right now. Then again, people in the organization aren't exactly doing cartwheels about him right now either.

GrandAdmiralDan · Post #15 » by **GrandAdmiralDan** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:52 am

75totheMACCfund wrote:last game of the season. I was able to attend and met Charlie Bell after the game and he confirmed that he is Flintstone which I never believed.

You still didn't believe he was flintstone after bigkurty and I went and saw him at Sam's Club, were talking to him about his postings on RealGM, and posted about that on here, including pictures we took with Bell?

Man, you are quite the skeptic

Rockmaninoff · Post #16 » by **Rockmaninoff** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:25 pm

Well, might as well end this like it began. Some thoughts on the game last night.

- At least this one wasn't a blowout loss like the last preseason game. We made progress.

- To borrow a phrase from PP25, Andrew Bogut scored the quietest 24 points I've ever seen. I looked at the stats in the fourth quarter expecting to see 10 and 10, and couldn't believe that he had 20 and 15. But, he was never dominant. His back to the basket post moves are still awkward and he still isn't a force on the defensive end. A big part of the problem with our perimeter defense, is that our bigs are not good at showing and recovering, nor are they good at weakside shotblocking (maybe Yi can be that guy?). He also hit a seven foot jumpshot, which totally blew my mind.

- Michael Redd looked totally lost. It seemed like the team was also ignoring him for the most part, which is fine if that's the way it has to be. The team needs to seriously consider Redd to the Cavs for Wally World and picks this summer.

- We need better versions of Michael Ruffin (DJ White) and Awvee Storey (Tyler Smith). The team looked much more balanced and played better ball when those two were on the court. The guys who played the best together, were:

Sessions
Simmons
Storey
Mason
Ruffin
Voskuhl
Bogut

I'd still like to bring Ruffin and Ivey back on minimum salaries, as the 11th and 12th men. Really was impressed with Ruffin and even with Voskuhl to an extent in this game. I'm sure in the case of Voskuhl it's because he was matched up with Madsen and Doleac. Ruffin has impressed me all season long. He makes the most of his limited ability. I should probably give thanks at the Shrine.

- The reason we lost this game, and I do hate to put it on one player's shoulders, was because of Charlie Villanueva. He cost us countless points at the end of the game because of poor positioning, lack of awareness, bad fouls, and lack of hustle. He had more than a few rebounds stolen from him. He was also shooting everything he touched, not driving, not trying to score inside. Well, actually he did try at first, but it wasn't working, so he started to drift. He was leaving everything short, even tip-ins, which to me screams lack of effort. If they guy had 1/2 the heart, motor, and awareness of Ruffin, he would be a perennial All-Star.

- Sessions was masterful. Keeping everyone involved, great on the fastbreak (we need athletic combo guards/swingmen for this guy to play with), scoring in the flow of the offense, and verbally directing the team. I was extremely impressed. One play that stood out, was when Marko Jaric came from behind him to steal an inbound pass, made the steal, missed the shot, a different Wolf rebounded and passed it back to Jaric, but Sessions got right in there and stole the ball back. I thought that showed a nice competitiveness. He also hit a half court shot at the end of the half that had the fans shouting. In fact I think I heard at least equal applause for Sessions, in relation to the amount Foye was getting. Lots of ooh's and ahh's on Sessions' nice passes. The guy can make the passes. And, his defense wasn't that bad.

- Larry K. did a poor job of managing timeouts at the end of the game, and I thought the rotations were bad as usual. Good luck in the future, Coach K.

- The half time show was an asian woman on a 15 foot tall unicycle, who rested bowls on her shins, while keeping balance, and then proceded to kick them in the air and catch them on her head. Words can't do it justice, it was radical.

- Well, that's all I got. Time to start missing Bucks basketball for another 5 months. :cry:

75totheMACCfund · Post #17 » by **75totheMACCfund** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:38 pm

GrandAdmiralDan wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

You still didn't believe he was flintstone after bigkurty and I went and saw him at Sam's Club, were talking to him about his postings on RealGM, and posted about that on here, including pictures we took with Bell?

Man, you are quite the skeptic

I never saw those pictures or heard that story. But I like my information first hand. Ha, I guess I'm a little skeptical

Post #18 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:50 pm

Rockmaninoff wrote:- We need better versions of Michael Ruffin (DJ White) and Awvee Storey (Tyler Smith). The team looked much more balanced and played better ball when those two were on the court. The guys who played the best together, were:

- The reason we lost this game, and I do hate to put it on one player's shoulders, was because of Charlie Villanueva. :

I agree with those thoughts.....no one played last night, but CV could have won that game by himself if he just tried in the fourth.

For now I can still dream of the following offseason....

-Rose
-Mo for Haslem
-CV for Francisco Garcia

Then figure out if you want to send Redd packing as well.

LISTEN2JAZZ · Post #19 » by **LISTEN2JAZZ** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:54 pm

I still don't believe that Bell is Flintstone.

emunney · Post #20 » by **emunney** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:49 pm

adamcz wrote:I still don't believe that Bell is Flintstone.

One nice thing is that you'll never get picked for a jury.