PGT: Blazers at Bucks

trwi7 · Post #61 » by **trwi7** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:04 am

Turk Nowitzki wrote:
MVP4Champ wrote:
SupremeHustle wrote:GET HEALTHY MICHAEL REDD!

HELL YEAH!!

:23 - :26. That's the part in reference to the post but the whole clip is good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlIm-riMN6Q[/youtube]

Jez2983 · Post #62 » by **Jez2983** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:04 am

paul wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:I'm kind of a bit surprised at how down everyone is already. We shot like crap, Bogut got blocked all the time and was apparently 'passive'. Yet he had 12-9 with 2 blocks. If that's a pube game I'll take it everytime he has one. We've got 3 fit starters. One of the unfit starters was our best scorer at the end of last season. The other unfit starter is the anchor of the team who always starts seasons poorly. We got beaten by a better team.

Give it a few weeks at least before chucking in the towel. I think we'll be 3-7 or 4-6 after 10. Then we really should start to click. Obviously I'd like us to be 5-5 or 6-4, but watching the team at the moment, that's not going to happen. I'm willing to be patient.

You didn't watch did you Jez

No, and I probably won't get time to. Work will be rather busy now one of my collaegues jumped off a balcony and broke 7 ribs and a wrist :-?

But we looked OK against Charlotte, and Portland was always going to be better than us. That's why I didn't make specific comments on the game

Bogut did get blocked all the time, which I suppose is what people were talking about him being passive. I'm just being optimistic - we started last season pretty badly too

Post #63 » by **blkout** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:06 am

Jez2983 wrote:No, and I probably won't get time to. Work will be rather busy now one of my collaegues jumped off a balcony and broke 7 ribs and a wrist

paul · Post #64 » by **paul** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:06 am

Jez2983 wrote:
paul wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:I'm kind of a bit surprised at how down everyone is already. We shot like crap, Bogut got blocked all the time and was apparently 'passive'. Yet he had 12-9 with 2 blocks. If that's a pube game I'll take it everytime he has one. We've got 3 fit starters. One of the unfit starters was our best scorer at the end of last season. The other unfit starter is the anchor of the team who always starts seasons poorly. We got beaten by a better team.

Give it a few weeks at least before chucking in the towel. I think we'll be 3-7 or 4-6 after 10. Then we really should start to click. Obviously I'd like us to be 5-5 or 6-4, but watching the team at the moment, that's not going to happen. I'm willing to be patient.

You didn't watch did you Jez

No, and I probably won't get time to. Work will be rather busy now one of my collaegues jumped off a balcony and broke 7 ribs and a wrist But we looked OK against Charlotte, and Portland was always going to be better than us. That's why I didn't make specific comments on the game Bogut did get blocked all the time, which I suppose is what people were talking about him being passive. I'm just being optimistic - we started last season pretty badly too

The second, third and fourth quarters were about as bad as basketball gets. I knew you didn't watch because no one who watched will be as positive as you just were

You should definitely tell your coworker not to jump off balconies. Or find a higher one....

Prince12 · Post #65 » by **Prince12** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:07 am

BLKOUT wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:No, and I probably won't get time to. Work will be rather busy now one of my collaegues jumped off a balcony and broke 7 ribs and a wrist

Not the desired result?

jerrod · Post #66 » by **jerrod** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:07 am

BLKOUT wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:No, and I probably won't get time to. Work will be rather busy now one of my collaegues jumped off a balcony and broke 7 ribs and a wrist

some people take these pube games a little too hard

Rockmaninoff · Post #67 » by **Rockmaninoff** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:08 am

farzi wrote:That being said, what was your guys' impressions on LaMarcus and Armon Johnson? We've been pretty pleased with their overall games and defense (especially LMA for not just being a bitch and taking foul line extended jumpers, and seemingly playing semi decent defense on a few good centers now)

I liked Armon Johnson in the draft. He had nice measurements and really good efficiency stats.

LMA has legit PF/C size, so maybe it just took him awhile to realize it.

Jez2983 · Post #68 » by **Jez2983** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:09 am

paul wrote:The second, third and fourth quarters were about as bad as basketball gets. I knew you didn't watch because no one who watched will be as positive as you just were

You should definitely tell your coworker not to jump off balconies. Or find a higher one....

You wouldn't think a mid-30's physio would try and jump into a pool from a balcony, but here we are...

I shall continue to not watch our crap basketball and be optimistic

Can't say 14 points in a 1/4 of bball is much to be optimistic about...

Garbs_7 · Post #69 » by **Garbs_7** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:12 am

Jez2983 wrote:
paul wrote:The second, third and fourth quarters were about as bad as basketball gets. I knew you didn't watch because no one who watched will be as positive as you just were

You should definitely tell your coworker not to jump off balconies. Or find a higher one....

You wouldn't think a mid-30's physio would try and jump into a pool from a balcony, but here we are...

Jackass 3D has just come out here I guess...

GHOSTofSIKMA · Post #70 » by **GHOSTofSIKMA** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:31 am

maybe we'll start to play better if we start identifying ourselves as a crappy underdog team.

bogut and jennings need to lead. as out of sorts as we are with the rest of the team, we cant win if neither of those 2 bring their A game. at least 1 or both need to have an A game or were cooked. i dont care how salmons, maggette, gooden, delfino, etc, etc are..... if our 2 goto guys, arent goto guys, then the others are gonna mail it in.

ugly games so far. im not even enjoying watching them really.

Post #71 » by **paulpressey25** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:31 am

Got back from the game.

Unfortunately tonight reminded me a lot of that Philly home game back in the fall of 2007(?). It was that game where we had momentum with that 7-4 record and then the players came out to a sparse crowd, got spanked by Andre Miller and Philly and it all went downhill from there.

Tonights crowd was pathetic. This was the second game of the year for a playoff team against a high quality opponent. That crowd tonight were chicken littles. Almost like people sensed the team last year might have been a fluke so why get emotionally invested.

Squad 6---you guys have to get the horns and drum back.

Herb Kohl/John Hammond----please don't tell me we blew our wad this past summer a year too early.

BucksRuleAll22 · Post #72 » by **BucksRuleAll22** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:36 am

Salmons is playing like I expected and like he has played his whole career when its his 2nd season on a team. Most overrated team this season. Added nobody good and signing Salmons and Gooden who are scrubs to big contracts.

I loved Salmons last year when he had the motivation of a contract year and playoffs on a new team, but Salmons is already back to his self now. Kinda reminds me of Randy Moss.

steger_3434 · Post #73 » by **steger_3434** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:37 am

It's early, but I'm a little concerned. EVERY single one of our off season transactions (Gooden, Maggette, Dooling, Brockman, Boykins, Salmons ext) look really bad right now. I'm really hoping everything gets back on track.

Agree with PP about the crowd. It was pathetic.

GHOSTofSIKMA · Post #74 » by **GHOSTofSIKMA** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:38 am

its really a big deal that the crowd sucked. you can see our team lacks swagger or the hungry chip on the shoulder that became ftd. this is more than "just not geling" imo. were playing scared and like were overmatched. something is missing from last year and it feels like more than just chemistry. personally i think we have too many guys for any real roles...... i think the role players are bummed, and our stars feel overmatched with taking the next step which is the new task at hand.

EastSideBucksFan · Post #75 » by **EastSideBucksFan** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:39 am

BucksRuleAll22 wrote:Salmons is playing like I expected and like he has played his whole career when its his 2nd season on a team. Most overrated team this season. Added nobody good and signing Salmons and Gooden who are scrubs to big contracts.

I loved Salmons last year when he had the motivation of a contract year and playoffs on a new team, but Salmons is already back to his self now. Kinda reminds me of Randy Moss.

Yep, Salmons. The guy who has been injured all preseason and has only played 4 games so far. He's out of shape, but calling him Randy Moss is one of the dumbest comparisons I've seen on this board.

Randy Moss?

(shaking my head)

paul · Post #76 » by **paul** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:40 am

I was really shocked by the crowd when the camera panned up. Hard to believe the place was half full on our second home game of the year against a good young team, I really thought Milwaukee would embrace the team this season. Hell I'm about to organize to divert my honeymoon at great expense to watch them against Detroit and Toronto in April lol.

jerrod · Post #77 » by **jerrod** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:42 am

well it was election night

steger_3434 · Post #78 » by **steger_3434** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:43 am

jerrod wrote:well it was election night

And on Saturday night the clocks get set back an hour giving Milwaukee an extra hour of bar time. No doubt that will hurt attendance. 8-)

paul · Post #79 » by **paul** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:45 am

steger_3434 wrote:It's early, but I'm a little concerned. EVERY single one of our off season transactions (Gooden, Maggette, Dooling, Brockman, Boykins, Salmons ext) look really bad right now. I'm really hoping everything gets back on track.

Agree with PP about the crowd. It was pathetic.

Agreed on Salmons, Gooden and Dooling, but I wouldn't say Maggette, Brockman or Boykins look 'really bad'.

Maggette is doing what he's paid to do. He'll take some bad shots and miss some assignments on D, but we all knew that coming in. Dude is averaging 16/5 in 22 mpg, he's far from perfect but on this team that's his job. Brockman was acquired for Darnell Jackson, when you watch him play it's worth keeping that in mind. He's not playing his best ball but he's working hard. Boykins has barely set foot on the court and when he has he's been OK.

steger_3434 · Post #80 » by **steger_3434** » Wed Nov 3, 2010 3:47 am

paul wrote:
steger_3434 wrote:It's early, but I'm a little concerned. EVERY single one of our off season transactions (Gooden, Maggette, Dooling, Brockman, Boykins, Salmons ext) look really bad right now. I'm really hoping everything gets back on track.

Agree with PP about the crowd. It was pathetic.

Agreed on Salmons, Gooden and Dooling, but I wouldn't say Maggette, Brockman or Boykins look 'really bad'.

Maggette is doing what he's paid to do. He'll take some bad shots and miss some assignments on D, but we all knew that coming in. Dude is averaging 16/5 in 22 mpg, he's far from perfect but on this team that's his job. Brockman was acquired for Darnell Jackson, when you watch him play it's worth keeping that in mind. He's not playing his best ball but he's working hard. Boykins has barely set foot on the court and when he has he's been OK.

I'll agree with you on Boykins, he hasn't played enough to warrant any kind of analysis. As far as Brockman maybe it's Skiles fault for playing him at center or maybe it's my fault for thinking he'd be this rebound machine, but the guy doesn't play like I thought he would. He tries hard, but hell, Jerrod would try hard. Maggette is the loan bright spot for me right now, but the ball movement completely stops when he's in the game.