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Chuck Diesel wrote:haha, just being honest. Nothing against Iranians in particular, but it is kind of satisfying to watch terribly outmatched foreign guys get demolished by TEAM USA every once in a while.
He hasn't donned a Superman cape like Dwight Howard. He didn't enter the league with the hype and hope of Greg Oden or Yao. Some might argue that Bogut isn't even the best center from his draft class named Andrew (Bynum would get a few votes). But at the very least, the 23-year-old, ambidextrous Australian should soon find himself as Howard's backup for the East in the All-Star Game.
Bogut was asked about being a leader on the Bucks, but said that if was difficult to assume such a role with the constant turnover since he joined the team. Many players on the Bucks are worried that the team is destined for another blowup this summer, with the future of general manager Larry Harris in question, and several observers believing that the team needs to start all over with just Bogut and Chinese rookie Yi Jianlian, who missed last night's game with a wrist injury.
"You got a new coach coming in again, probably a new GM, the way things are looking; the things you read on the internet," Bogut said. "Next year, it's going to be the same again. We are going to have to adjust to a new GM. That's the toughest part. No matter how many leaders you have, when you keep shuffling things around, you have six or seven new players each year, it doesn't help the chemistry of a team."
That probably won't keep Bogut from wanting to remain with the Bucks. He is eligible for a lucrative contract extension this summer. "I would definitely like to get extended," Bogut said, "but obviously, we also want to see the direction of the franchise. I think it's stable, but you want it to be more stable."
fam3381 wrote:Thanks for the link. Obviously the Wiz saw Bogut on one of his better nights, but I suppose it's always good when outsiders have nice things to say about your players. I thought this was the most interesting part:Bogut was asked about being a leader on the Bucks, but said that if was difficult to assume such a role with the constant turnover since he joined the team. Many players on the Bucks are worried that the team is destined for another blowup this summer, with the future of general manager Larry Harris in question, and several observers believing that the team needs to start all over with just Bogut and Chinese rookie Yi Jianlian, who missed last night's game with a wrist injury.
"You got a new coach coming in again, probably a new GM, the way things are looking; the things you read on the internet," Bogut said. "Next year, it's going to be the same again. We are going to have to adjust to a new GM. That's the toughest part. No matter how many leaders you have, when you keep shuffling things around, you have six or seven new players each year, it doesn't help the chemistry of a team."
That probably won't keep Bogut from wanting to remain with the Bucks. He is eligible for a lucrative contract extension this summer. "I would definitely like to get extended," Bogut said, "but obviously, we also want to see the direction of the franchise. I think it's stable, but you want it to be more stable."
I'm not sure of the context of the question--Bogut might have been referring to what the rumors are saying, or he might have been referring to LK being new this year, but it certainly reads like he's saying LK and LH are gone...
"If we could bottle up the second and third quarter and play like that the whole game, we'd be a decent team," Bogut said. "We just go to isolation basketball; we go 1-on-1.
"Obviously we want Mike (Redd) to take shots, but at the same time, what got us back in the game was moving the ball. Guys were taking it to the basket and weren't settling for jump shots.
"That's how it was before I got here, and it's a hard thing to change. Obviously when Ray (Allen) was here it was the same thing; you live and die by a shooter. That's how we do things and we want to do them that way, but we still can definitely move the ball."
europa wrote:The problem I had with Redd last night (and the problem I have with Mo quite often) is that they ignored what was working in favor of forcing their own offense.