Anybody hear the Pro Hoops Show last night?

trwi7 · Post #1 » by **trwi7** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:36 am

So I'm listening to the Doug Russell Show and they were talking about the Bucks and they play a clip from the Pro Hoops Show last night with Larry Krystkowiak.

The clip had Krystkowiak saying something like "If we make the playoffs and the fans aren't happy then they're not very good fans."

What a tool this guy is. Yeah, sorry we're not going to be excited about an 8th seed ass kicking and we're not going to be excited when more deserving teams in the West are going to be sitting at home for the playoffs.

God I hope they fire this moron after the season.

Dags · Post #2 » by **Dags** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:00 am

I think the bigger worry is that Larry K thinks the team actually has a chance of getting into the playoffs.

Nowak008 · Post #3 » by **Nowak008** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:21 am

^^ Agreed on both. I was one of the few minority on this board that were saying that Stotts was better then LK a couple months back. We can't forget the who is going to war with me speech during that team meeting. Pure stupidity.

IrishRainbow · Post #4 » by **IrishRainbow** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:56 am

While I think that that comment further distances LK from the realm of competent and from that of the few loyal Bucks fans left. I can't believe that could still be thinking about the playoffs. Did he say that last night too? Cause I could've sworn that he said the same thing, or something very similar a week or two ago.

Matt Foley · Post #5 » by **Matt Foley** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:56 pm

i swear that's an old clip.... I think I heard that awhile ago. Didn't bother listening to the show when I heard Babcock was on.

trwi7 · Post #6 » by **trwi7** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:59 pm

Matt Foley wrote:i swear that's an old clip.... I think I heard that awhile ago. Didn't bother listening to the show when I heard Babcock was on.

It might have been. I could've swore that Doug Russell said it was from last nights show but I didn't listen to it last night so I don't know.

GrandAdmiralDan · Post #7 » by **GrandAdmiralDan** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:14 pm

trwi7 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

It might have been. I could've swore that Doug Russell said it was from last nights show but I didn't listen to it last night so I don't know.

Doug did say that, which threw me off a bit since I listened to the Pro Hoops Show last night and don't recall hearing that soundbyte from Larry K.

Maybe it was just a slip of the tongue and that audio was from some other time.

Does anyone know?

I mean, it is an absurd think for LK to have said no matter when it was said, but if he said that at any point this week, that is even worse.

EastSideBucksFan · Post #8 » by **EastSideBucksFan** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:22 pm

I heard about 20 minutes of the show in the car. Babcock was on.

I didn't hear that LK clip, but I'm positive thats from a show like a month ago.

Babcock was getting drilled about the "promise" made to Yi and why didn't Charlie get a fair shake to compete for the starting job at the beginning of the year.

He cited CV's injury which is fair and he said Yi "outplayed CV at both ends of the floor in training camp" which is true as well.

My contention is just we didn't make the switch soon enough when CV was ready and Yi was obviously out of gas.

Babcock was also asked about why didn't we played Yi and CV together.

He said "it's too bad Yi went down when he did and CV started playing like he did. I know the coaches have talked about it (them playing together) and when Yi comes back theres a very good chance that you will see them in the starting lineup, it'll be hard to bench either of them"

then he qualified it all by adding "well, at least I know the coaching staff will talk about it"

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #9 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:25 pm

I'm pretty sure that is old.
Only Babcock was on last night.

For the quote, I think you guys are reading too much into it.
I don't think he was saying fans should be content with the playoffs. I think he was trying to say fans who want to tank aren't real fans because you should want your team to take every chance they can get at a ring no matter how much against the odds it is.

That's my take atleast

LUKE23 · Post #10 » by **LUKE23** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:33 pm

LK just doesn't strike me as a guy that really gets upset when his team is losing. Everything you see on the sidelines and everything you hear on the post game press conferences would back this up. He's always kind of either rationalizing or just saying "we didn't do this, we didn't do that" instead of saying, "this team needs to start doing this, and this is how we're going to fix it". Basically, he is accepting of mediocrity.

Stotts was a better coach.

Thunder Muscle · Post #11 » by **Thunder Muscle** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:38 pm

LUKE23 wrote:LK just doesn't strike me as a guy that really gets upset when his team is losing. Everything you see on the sidelines and everything you hear on the post game press conferences would back this up. He's always kind of either rationalizing or just saying "we didn't do this, we didn't do that" instead of saying, "this team needs to start doing this, and this is how we're going to fix it". Basically, he is accepting of mediocrity.

Stotts was a better coach.

Sadly I agree with this. Larry K is everything I thought he wouldn't be. I was expecting a guy that would have a zero tolerance attitude and he's been a guy, as said above, that just rationalizes everything.

Who would've thought that we would rather have had Stotts. Yikes.

crkone · Post #12 » by **crkone** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:49 pm

And we were all fooled by the no-nonsense quotes by LK before the season. How he would sit players for not playing defense. BS

Bucks_Revenge · Post #13 » by **Bucks_Revenge** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:36 pm

Terry Porter was the only coach since Karl that would sit anyone who didn't play well..thats why the players respected him...if Redd wasn't playing right he would of took him out the game....but people think he was a bad coach because he couldn't get a crappy team to the playoffs. If you dont think Porter was a good coach then none of you know what your talking about period

showtimesam · Post #14 » by **showtimesam** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:55 pm

Bucks_Revenge wrote:Terry Porter was the only coach since Karl that would sit anyone who didn't play well..thats why the players respected him...if Redd wasn't playing right he would of took him out the game....but people think he was a bad coach because he couldn't get a crappy team to the playoffs. If you dont think Porter was a good coach then none of you know what your talking about period

Agreed, Porter>>>>>>>>>>>>>Stotts>>>>>>Larry K

I really miss Porter, and there's no reason they shouldn't have given him that third year to prove himself.

I would've loved to have seen what Porter would have done with a large upgrade in talent compared to his first year as coach.

Post #15 » by **ReasonablySober** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:08 pm

I honestly can't discern any one of our last three coaches from each other. I look on the court and I seem the same crap, year in and year out. Nobody plays much defense, ball movement is putrid, players take stupid shots. Every night it's been the same thing whether it's T-Pot, Beaker or Larry K.

The common denominator has been the owner, the GM and the relative lack of talent. Put a stud on this team, we're winning 50 games and there isn't a lot to complain about. But when you have a chance to add a Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Shawn Marion or Carlos Boozer and you don't, then we can easily see the results.

Doc Rivers was one of the biggest dopes on the bench. Give him some serious talent and he's coaching a team with the NBA's best record. Piss and moan about our coaching, but in the end if he's working with stiffs then what does it really matter?

rilamann · Post #16 » by **rilamann** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:08 pm

I belive that Larry K quote is from the show in late January when he went on and on about the Bucks ''easy schedule'' that was comming up at the time.

That was also the show Larry K ''went out on a limb'' and predicted 36 big wins.

I dont know whats worse....our coach predicting 36 wins like its a great accomplishment or the fact 36 wins is an unattainable goal for this team in an eastern conference that is so weak 36 wins might get you a 6th seed.

Also Larry K or anyone in the Bucks front office has no bussiness telling us fans that ''we arent very good fans''.

If Larry K was half as good a coach as we are fans the Bucks might actually have a shot at those 36 wins.

Larry K is a **** chump.

trwi7 · Post #17 » by **trwi7** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:10 pm

rilamann wrote:That was also the show Larry K ''went out on a limb'' and predicted 36 big wins.

He seriously went on air and predicted 36 wins? OMG Stotts is 1,000,000x the coach he is. He predicted 36 wins, lawlz.

jerrod · Post #18 » by **jerrod** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:14 pm

DrugBust wrote:I honestly can't discern any one of our last three coaches from each other. I look on the court and I seem the same crap, year in and year out. Nobody plays much defense, ball movement is putrid, players take stupid shots. Every night it's been the same thing whether it's T-Pot, Beaker or Larry K.

while it's true that none could get any defense to be played, you have to look closer at the incompetence.

porter was the worst play caller/creator i've ever seen, stotts brought horrible substitution patterns, and lk appears not have the slightest idea how to actually make use of of the player's talents

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #19 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:14 pm

DrugBust wrote:I honestly can't discern any one of our last three coaches from each other. I look on the court and I seem the same crap, year in and year out. Nobody plays much defense, ball movement is putrid, players take stupid shots. Every night it's been the same thing whether it's T-Pot, Beaker or Larry K.

We need a caring nickname for Larry K

rilamann · Post #20 » by **rilamann** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:19 pm

trwi7 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

He seriously went on air and predicted 36 wins? OMG Stotts is 1,000,000x the coach he is. He predicted 36 wins, lawlz.

Yea he predicted 36 wins and he did it in a way as if to say ''this team is going to get its **** together and start playing great basketball and finish with 36 wins''.

Larry K was on a roll on that praticular show like I said he went on and on about the ''easy shcedule'' coming up and the 36 wins.He went on and on about how great this team looks in practice and how this team has played great basketball all season but they've just had 1 bad qtr each game.

When you hear Larry K speak its realy not that hard to figure out why this team plays so terrible,granted the talent isnt great but they should be better than 20 games under .500.

I kinda gave Larry K a pass last season after he took over for Stotts because Larry was thrown in there without a training camp and all that but this season the guy has made Terry Stotts look like Phil Jackson.