PG Hawks: One Good Quarter

MVP2110 · Post #81 » by **MVP2110** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:30 am

It's ok to think Kuzma needs more time but anyone acting like he played well tonight is just trying to be optimistic. If we get this Kuzma the rest of the year then the season is over. He was bad, and what's worrisome is he was bad in the same way he was bad in Washington

PG Graveyard · Post #82 » by **PG Graveyard** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:33 am

Matches Malone wrote:I want to be mad at Horst, but then I think about the moves that could have been that ultimately got squashed by the Owners or Giannis. Passing on Atkinson for Doc was an abomination. Jimmy Haslem is a cancer that needs to be cut out of our organization. One of you needs to become a billionaire already and buy some of the team lol.

I’m ready to consider the Haslem curse idea. Nothing has went right since that ghoul came on board. Can Eden’s find someone to buy him out?

bucksfansince88 · Post #83 » by **bucksfansince88** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:33 am

PG Graveyard wrote:I don’t love the Brook slander here though. He clearly needs some time off. He was playing really well earlier. He just looks exhausted and he’s on the injury report. Hopefully we can bring his minutes down to more around 20. It also may be a sneaky opportunity to take him out of the starting lineup.

We should’ve sent him to Disney at the deadline. Buddy had two rebounds, softest 7ft 280lb guy ever

fan230 · Post #84 » by **fan230** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:34 am

Ajax has not impressed me. He is zero on offense. I would have loved it if he were traded instead of AJ Johnson.

Green is regressing recently.

Dame is so weak on defense.

Trent is streaky. When he makes 3s we tend to win. Not the steadiest of players though.

Kuzma: too early to say.

Prince is an unimpressive player.

Portis has been a bright spot overall.

Brook has played way too many minutes; he must be exhausted and it is beginning to show.

We traded Khris and the promising Johnson: the writeups expressed relief that we were under the second apron. I was surprised; I thought the original plan (based on all the writeups before that trade) was we would trade Pat C to get under the second apron.

Pat C is still here. I remember reading that he had some business collaboration with one of the minority owners of the Bucks, but I may be faulty in my memory. In any case, I hope PCs business here is going well. As a player, he has really regressed and is quite useless to the team.

I am hopeful that Porter will be a good addition. Otherwise I do not think our trades made us better, which if true, means a wasted year of Giannis’ prime. That is the last thing we should have succeeded in accomplishing.

Doc said 3 different players were at the wrong places on defense on one of the plays. He seemed to indicate they were veteran players; I wonder who they were.

By the way, our poa defense has not improved.

RiotPunch · Post #85 » by **RiotPunch** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:34 am

Matches Malone wrote:I want to be mad at Horst, but then I think about the moves that could have been that ultimately got squashed by the Owners or Giannis. Passing on Atkinson for Doc was an abomination. Jimmy Haslem is a cancer that needs to be cut out of our organization. One of you needs to become a billionaire already and buy some of the team lol.

Ball is in your court, Supreme.

rilamann · Post #86 » by **rilamann** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:37 am

The only excuse I will give this team. It's hard to really evaluate our players when the head coach is as bad as Doc Rivers.

bucksfansince88 · Post #87 » by **bucksfansince88** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:39 am

Yall ready to go in on another billboard?

msiris · Post #88 » by **msiris** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:41 am

MVP2110 wrote:It's ok to think Kuzma needs more time but anyone acting like he played well tonight is just trying to be optimistic. If we get this Kuzma the rest of the year then the season is over. He was bad, and what's worrisome is he was bad in the same way he was bad in Washington

He pretty much stood at the 3pt line.

fan230 · Post #89 » by **fan230** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:41 am

Isn’t Atkinson from the Popovich tree? Maybe we shouldn’t have fired him Bud because whatever coach or players we have got since then has not worked well for the team.

Matches Malone · Post #90 » by **Matches Malone** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:42 am

rilamann wrote:The only excuse I will give this team. It's hard to really evaluate our players when the head coach is as bad as Doc Rivers.

Doc keeps using the effort excuse saying the team is too casual, but that's partially on him. He also seems to not see that Brook can't be played in certain matchups and refuses to cut his minutes for who knows why. Just some braindead stuff from Glenn.

fan230 · Post #91 » by **fan230** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:43 am

msiris wrote:
MVP2110 wrote:It's ok to think Kuzma needs more time but anyone acting like he played well tonight is just trying to be optimistic. If we get this Kuzma the rest of the year then the season is over. He was bad, and what's worrisome is he was bad in the same way he was bad in Washington
He pretty much stood at the 3pt line.

I wasn’t impressed by Kuzma, but it is his first game and we will see what happens. Clearly he is not in the same class Khris though.

PG Graveyard · Post #92 » by **PG Graveyard** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:43 am

bucksfansince88 wrote:Yall ready to go in on another billboard?

This will certainly keep Giannis happy. Please don’t. You do realize we still have one of the best records in the entire league since 2018

MVP2110 · Post #93 » by **MVP2110** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:44 am

msiris wrote:
MVP2110 wrote:It's ok to think Kuzma needs more time but anyone acting like he played well tonight is just trying to be optimistic. If we get this Kuzma the rest of the year then the season is over. He was bad, and what's worrisome is he was bad in the same way he was bad in Washington
He pretty much stood at the 3pt line.

4/13 shooting, more turnovers then assists, and was -15. It's ok to say he was bad.

Matches Malone · Post #94 » by **Matches Malone** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:44 am

fan230 wrote:Isn’t Atkinson from the Popovich tree? Maybe we shouldn’t have fired him Bud because whatever coach or players we have got since then has not worked well for the team.

From the pop tree and ran a lot of 5-out in Brooklyn like Bud did. Then he went to Golden State and melded their cutting and passing influence into his style. He got to take a step back, gain more knowledge and now he's rolling in Cleveland.

SupremeHustle · Post #95 » by **SupremeHustle** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:47 am

RiotPunch wrote:
Matches Malone wrote:I want to be mad at Horst, but then I think about the moves that could have been that ultimately got squashed by the Owners or Giannis. Passing on Atkinson for Doc was an abomination. Jimmy Haslem is a cancer that needs to be cut out of our organization. One of you needs to become a billionaire already and buy some of the team lol.

Ball is in your court, Supreme.

thonnisbeastley · Post #96 » by **thonnisbeastley** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:48 am

paulpressey25 wrote:Having a cadre of G-league guards while paying $60mm a year to rich man’s Mo Williams won’t cut it.

This. Dame doesn't play winning basketball.

rilamann · Post #97 » by **rilamann** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:48 am

Matches Malone wrote:I want to be mad at Horst, but then I think about the moves that could have been that ultimately got squashed by the Owners or Giannis. Passing on Atkinson for Doc was an abomination. Jimmy Haslem is a cancer that needs to be cut out of our organization. One of you needs to become a billionaire already and buy some of the team lol.

Shout out to you guys who wanted Kenny Atkinson.

I was kind of neutral on Atkinson, I wasn't necessarily hyped about him but I wouldn't have been mad if we hired him. I wanted Nurse.

But I do indeed remember some of you guys shouting from the roof tops that Atkinson should easily be our #1 target to replace Bud.

Bucks would be significantly better off right now had they listened to you guys.

fan230 · Post #98 » by **fan230** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:48 am

We really need to give minutes to Tyler Smith, especially since we have lost AJ Johnson.

fan230 · Post #99 » by **fan230** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:51 am

Horst has made too many wrong decisions. Hoping that Porter plays well.

rilamann · Post #100 » by **rilamann** » Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:57 am

Matches Malone wrote:
rilamann wrote:The only excuse I will give this team. It's hard to really evaluate our players when the head coach is as bad as Doc Rivers.

Doc keeps using the effort excuse saying the team is too casual, but that's partially on him. He also seems to not see that Brook can't be played in certain matchups and refuses to cut his minutes for who knows why. Just some braindead stuff from Glenn.

Doc is a snake oil salesmen of a head coach.

If you didn't watch Doc coach and just listened to him talk before and after games, he actually kind of sounds like he knows what he's talking about. He sounds like he would be a good coach.

But then you watch him actually coach and it's obvious he is a bottom 5 coach in the league.

Doc was actually a decent coach back in the early 2000's, but the game has long passed him by. His gift to gab continues to get him paid though.