Going to be entertaining to see him guide the Bucks to ~55 or so wins and repeated early playoff flameouts.
Wow, The NBA sucks.
To understand how the Bucks went from hiring the guy the general manager literally named his dog after, to firing him seven months later after the team had won nearly 70% of its games, you have to look back at something else Horst said last fall.
Something that has guided every decision Horst and the Bucks have made since Antetokounmpo entered his prime.
“If you’re being honest,” Horst said then, “with Giannis, you’re kind of always on the clock.”
Eleven days later, Milwaukee got lit up by Atlanta at home in just its second game of the season. Eight Hawks scored in double figures, and the team shot 50% from the field.
After the game, Antetokounmpo mapped out his frustrations with the team’s scheme on a giant whiteboard that covers nearly an entire wall inside the Bucks locker room.
Antetokounmpo grabbed a marker and began diagramming plays to Bucks assistant coach Josh Oppenheimer, growing more animated and intense as he mapped out the team’s spacing and actions, revealing in real time what he felt went wrong and where they needed to be on the floor. He eventually grabbed his brother Thanasis and forward Bobby Portis to join him.
Now, maybe Giannis is some kind of basketball genius, who will become a genius head coach. I’m kind of hoping he does, or else…
I mean, you trade away your best defensive player, you’re gonna lose some defensiveness.
Did he also map out how they were going to steal the basketball from the opponents’ locker room?
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Bump…
Charlotte Hornets are interviewing Harding for their future coaching vacancy.
Lindsey Harding. Female Lindsey Harding, currently Coach of The Year in the G-League for Sacramento’s team in Stockton.
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Iverson gets a statue… at the Sixers’ Practice(!) Facility.
He takes it in stride.
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anyone know why in the Play-in games 7 play 8 and 9 plays 10. Seems odd
would think is should be 7 playing 10 and 8 playing 9
Simple - the winner of 7/8 is the 7 seed while the loser gets a second chance to be the 8 seed by hosting the winner of 9/10 game.
7/8 has to win only 1 of 2 games to be in the playoffs.
9/10 has to go 2-0.
didn’t realize there was a 2nd round
bit, I am still trying to figure out the in season tournament
Yeah first year they ran it I’m like WTF, since I had the same thought you did but it makes sense the way they do it.
It’s kind of funny in the West this year Warriors are the 10 seed but have a better record then they did last year when they were the 6 seed.
Alternative is to have the 7th seed locked in and four (or two) teams play for the 8th seed.
Not sure what the reasoning is for the current format. But it is pretty interesting, even if not logical.
My guess is TV money. As for the how the play in works, I kind of like it. But why they added a play in instead of just cutting it off at 8 each conference like they used to is a mystery to me unless they thought it brought in more revenue.
Seems like three games. And a two-round play-in (for the 8th spot only) is three games.
For an 82-game schedule, four teams from each Conference seems enough. But my thoughts might differ if I were getting some money to determine a playoff scheme.
It started during Covid in case teams had more players miss because of Covid they wanted to still give those teams a chance to make it. Then they saw the revenue it produced and kept it
Eventually the NBA and NCAA will go this route:
https://apnews.com/article/nba-jontay-porter-banned-265ad5cb703d9483347037762ee90a8f
Jontay Porter banned for life from NBA
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Jamal Murray throwing a heat pack onto the court had me thinking about the Austin Powers line “Who throws a shoe? Honestly”
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Lots of discussion about this among the talking heads this morning. If it was the 12th man on the bench, he’d probably be suspended. But there wasn’t even a Technical Foul called at the time. Can’t take a star like that out of the series!
Same for Joel Embiid, who grabbed Mitchell’s legs while sitting on the floor during the Sixers/Knicks series. Can’t suspend a superstar…fewer people will watch / bet on the games.
Yeah, if it were during the regular season it would be a suspension. I think I saw an article that pointed to someone who did throw something on the court during a regular season game and was suspended. Might not have been quite like this one but similar.
It cost him 100 large. That seems like a pretty big fine. But he should have been suspended with a smaller fine but that is unlikely to happen in the playoffs unless your name is Draymond Green.
Going to be in Boston next week, tempted but not paying $300 for nosebleeds.
I’m going to be in Indy this weekend but not really interested in either team so no way I’m shelling out the coin it would take for 4 seats.