Milwaukee Bucks Thread 2009–2010 (part 2)

[davego]

Danny G...wow.

 

If Andrew could play, I'd like our chances for a game 7 win...but the way this team is hitting the jumpers, who knows!

[Baldkin]

It's amazing how much better they look when Delfino makes shots! What a game!

[greeg35]

We definitely should have tanked this year. This is no fun at all.

[FVBrewerFan]

I was there for game 3, and yes the BC was rocking at times. I'm still really dissapointed in the crowd in the lower section though. Just watch games in other cities (OKC, Portland, Utah, etc.) Those fans are on their feet for much of the game, screaming.... At the BC the crowd goes silent for long stretches, even when it's the "right" time to get loud, like when a defensive stop is needed. So yea, the BC crowd stepped it up from the regular season, but nowehere near what a playoff crowd should be like.

 

As far as the actual basketball is concerned, this series shows you what coaching can do.

[RayKingsForemanGrill]

What stat guru out there has the probability of coming back to win a playoff series after going down 0-2, or the actual percentage of which it has happened in the NBA?

[Invader3K]

 

Kids, don't try this one at home!

[craigharmann]

This is the first year in a while that I've gotten excited about watching the playoffs. My 2 favorite teams, the Bucks and the Spurs are looking good and playing exciting ball! I don't know what I'd do if both somehow made it to the championship! That said, it's much more likely that the Spurs would make it, and if they win, I can go to the River parade! That would be a blast!

[endaround]

What stat guru out there has the probability of coming back to win a playoff series after going down 0-2, or the actual percentage of which it has happened in the NBA?

Because the NBA is so talent lopsided any stat like that is going to be meaningless. IE a 1 seed is usually so much better than an 8 seed that when the 8 seed goes down 2-0 they have no shot. The Hawks are likely better than the Bucks without Bogut but the talent differences isn't a 1-8 thing.

[Oldcity]

As great as this has been, it's tough not to get frustrated because they'd have most likely won the series with Bogut. Still, the fact the Bucks are playing right with a team so much more athletic than them is a testament to how good a job Hammond/Skiles have done.

[FVBrewerFan]

Why is Redd never at any of these games? He'll be back on the roster next year, how can he possibly face these guys that he hasn't been supporting?

[greeg35]

I think his Bucks playing days are done one way or the other. Let's move on to talking about decent players.

 

How much will Salmons get on the open market and should we pay it? I go back and forth on cost and really can't come up with a figure I believe in.

[trwi7]

Why is Redd never at any of these games? He'll be back on the roster next year, how can he possibly face these guys that he hasn't been supporting?

Who cares where he is? He's done, he's not coming back and even if he was okay to play (with how bad he looked after one ACL surgery, imagine how bad he would look after a second one) there's no way Hammond and Skiles would even allow him to play in a game after they saw how much the offense stagnates when he's on the court.

 

If he can't come back, that's cool. Expiring contract 80% covered by insurance. If he can come back, he'll be T-Mac'd.

 

[Baldkin]

Gave me a good laugh yesterday.

 

As for Salmons, it's a shame he's gonna opt out (he'd be crazy not to). Maybe the Bucks can offer him a 2-3/yr backloaded deal to keep him. Something like 3/24 -- 6/8/10 maybe?? I honestly don't know what he'll get as a FA.

[Mr QL]

Bango has been awesome this series. The backflip dunk, "welcoming" Hawks fans, body surfing over Squad 6, floating some Hawk fans hat away with a balloon.

[Gobias Industries]

Are you talking percentage wise? I think if they can get a decent draft, it should all come together

Yeah, that's what I meant. I think the franchises are trending in opposite directions.

[hawing]

I'll admit to only the barest interest in the NBA, but that video of Bango is terrific. It made me laugh after getting home from Tuesday's Brewer game, and that's saying something. I love Bango, and it only made the video funnier that every Hawks fan in it is wearing the same #15 jersey.

[berniebrewer4life]

Gave me a good laugh yesterday.

 

As for Salmons, it's a shame he's gonna opt out (he'd be crazy not to). Maybe the Bucks can offer him a 2-3/yr backloaded deal to keep him. Something like 3/24 -- 6/8/10 maybe?? I honestly don't know what he'll get as a FA.

The guy drinking the water is the best. I die everytime i see that.

[yoshii8]

Game 5 tonight in Atlanta at 7.. Hopefully the Bucks can keep up their stellar play and steal one on the road. I think its going to be a very physical game, and its going to take a really good shooting night to make it happen. Go Bucks!!

[Menotti80]

please get off to a good start bucks!

 

the last thing we need is for horford and josh smith to get off to a hot start early...

[trwi7]

Dick Bavetta and Marc Davis are two of three officials tonight. That's a total buzz kill. There's no way they win this game.

[bbrauch2000]

They are bringing in Bavetta? I guess its a compliment we made the NBA nervous enough to step in

[Buckylovesbeer]

Was Marc Davis the guy who hated George Karl so much? Bavetta is a known "NBA guy."

 

Edit - As I watch Bavetta call a block on Delfino a step and a half before contact, show it up, and then blow the whistle. And One...... Gotta love NBA officials.....

 

One other observation as I watch this game.......Atlanta's fans are pretty quiet most of the time. I thought that place would be nuts after seeing their team lose two in a row to the Bucks.....but that really has not been the case so far.

[bbrauch2000]

Davis was the official who cost us the Lakers game with that terrible non-travel call and shooting foul on Kobe

[Baldkin]

Just heard this on the radio:

 

Only 2 rookies are starting in the playoffs. 1 is Brandon Jennings, the other is Wesley Matthews.... undrafted out of Marquette.

[Menotti80]

I think Steve javey was the one who hated Karl