This Suns game was the most appalling display of laziness, lack of attention to detail, and total indifference to defense that I've ever seen from a team I root for. Stotts is completely worthless. He can't game-plan, he doesn't get his guys to play defense, nothing. I can't understand for the life of me what qualities of an NBA coach Larry Harris ever saw in him, because he has NONE. This franchise is in an absolute freefall right now. We're an extremely young team, and Stotts is absolutely poisoning the kids' future by not making them play like professionals in any way. Once again, it is totally amazing to me that Stotts is still the coach. He has no value in any way as a coach. He is the most worthless pile of crap I've ever seen. The players have tuned him out, he can't get them to execute or do anything else he asks. As long as he is our coach, this team will continue to plummet. Stotts absolutely must go NOW.
Larry Harris is a piece of work himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stotts is still around to protect his (Harris) own neck. Bucks have given up 100+ points in 9 out of 14 games thus far. What coach would you replace Stotts with?
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Larry Harris is a piece of work himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stotts is still around to protect his (Harris) own neck. Bucks have given up 100+ points in 9 out of 14 games thus far. What coach would you replace Stotts with?</div> Well, I'm hoping that Mike Fratello is available after the season, because he brings the style I'd like to see implemented with our roster. But I'm sure Harris won't go that direction. I don't have a clue who Harris would bring in, though; he's anything but predictable, and like you said, often screws things up by going for the high-profile move instead of the right one (Magloire trade, anyone?). In the short term, if Stotts got fired, I guess we may as well use one of his assistants, because I doubt anyone else would be willing to jump on board with this fubar'd team in the middle of an already lost season
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Larry Harris is a piece of work himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stotts is still around to protect his (Harris) own neck. Bucks have given up 100+ points in 9 out of 14 games thus far. What coach would you replace Stotts with?</div> Rick Adelman? Bogut and Redd would thrive in the Princeton offense.
Larry Brown is always out on the market, but he'd come at way too high of a price tag. However, if you're looking for a coach that'll implement defense and the typically correct way to play the game into your players, he's about as good as they come. I don't know how well all those young guys would mesh with his coaching methods though, as we saw the debacle that was the Knicks last year, and seeing as how they were much like the Bucks in terms of age, I'd be very weary of ever contemplating bringing him in. The Adelman one is a good thought though that I could see working very well.
Adelman is actually a pretty good pick, Durvasa. He woldn't make the boys play defense any more than Stotts does (well, maybe a little more LOL), but he'd definitely bring a winning attitude and pedigree that we haven't had on the bench since George Karl left, and I'd love to see what he could do with our young offensive weapons, like you said. I wonder if Harris would get Herb Kohl to open his wallet for him, though... Definitely a name I hadn't given as much thought to as I will now. Very interesting...
Rick Adelman would get them to the playoffs no problem. The laundry list of Rick Adelman playoff collapses, though, would probably dissuade me from going that direction. In the biggest, most pressure packed situation, a person will probably resort to what's most familiar to them, and to Adelman, that's getting conservative and coaching on his heels.
I agree with Adelman. That's who first came to my mind for this team, since you have two big men who have good passings skills in bogut and villanueva. Im not sure if Charlie V has had a chance to showcase his passing skills in milwaukee yet, but in Toronto we saw some really good things out of him in terms of being able to find the open man. With the quality of outside shooting the Bucks have, and the skilled big men you have, I think Adelman would be a GREAT fit for your team. I dont understand why Stotts got hired in the first place. Its not as if his NBA coaching career has been impressive But trust me...I feel the burn of having a head coach who is often costing the team games by simply getting "out-coached". its happend one too many times with mitchell.
i wouldnt blame it on the coach id blame it on the GM. When yall had TJ yall played better and when he was hurt something happened yall started playing bad. Im not saying Charlie will not help yall because he is going to be a great player but yall know wut him saying yall r Buck fans yall c wut im sayin. The Bucks will get it together tho.
Honestly, despite TJ's big numbers in Toronto, we didn't make a bad trade in getting rid of him. Our biggest problem right now is perimeter defense, and he's not much help there. By playing Charlie Bell at the point, we've got a much better defender, and Mo is not at all a bad 1. While it's true that this team has faded badly late in a few games, again I don't fell that TJ would've made a huge difference. He's a veteran 1, but he also had a tendancy for shaky play late and due to his erratic shooting, he didn't make you feel real comfortable with a close game. I don't miss him all that much, because Villanueva's been better than I thought he'd be so far when healthy, and Mo/Charlie have done a nice job at the point. This team has a lot of issues, but I don't think any of them are a direct result of Ford's absence.
I agree with Schaddy, the Charlie V trade was good for them. Ford although putting up good numbers and being unselfish a lot of the time, at times he seems to be moving too fast for his ability to react and make plays, and he isn't a very good 3 pt shooter.
