Zach might become our best greek freak stopper down the road, but I don't think it would have been pretty last night
I don't like that Stotts is always the coach who changes his rotation to match up with the other team, and not vice versa. How about you play your bigs who deserve consistent playing time, especially early in the season on the 2nd of a back to back and make The Bucks adapt to you? With Turner out that is where we could have really outplayed them. Also, I think it's beneficial for young rookies to get consistent playing time (if they deserve it, and they do). When they don't get consistent minutes is typically when they'll put too much pressure on themselves when they do get playing time. Consistency breeds confidence.
Yeah. I thought he would go with a bigger rotation. Gotta think he will eventually give them consistent playing time given the length of the season.
I'll give coach a pass on not playing them this early in the season. If they keep showing the same level of maturity and growth on the court though...
The best defensive option might just be injured. Noah is one of the few that has the size and the length along with the ability to guard on the perimeter that might have at least slowed the GF down a little. Anything was worth a shot as he was having his way with everyone else.
They were beasting when they were together. Hopefully Vonleh can come back strong and they can become that big, brute force that they were last year for a stretch.
Zach Collins had problems with TJ Leaf the game before. He has all the tools to be something special in the future - but it is way too early to put him in and expect him to slow the freak.
I’m not sure Zach is convincing the coaches he can chase stretch 4s on the perimeter or switch out there onto smaller guys on picks.
It was the right call. As much as I'd love to see Collins get meaningful minutes, both guys played badly in the prior game, and this Bucks team is no joke on the road on a back-to-back. Portland played an 8 man veteran rotation, and it just didn't work. These guys will hopefully get a few practices in, prove they learned some lessons since their last PT, and get inserted in less hostile environments (or when an injury inevitably takes somebody out). My big gripe was that Ed Davis only got 16 minutes.
Guys look, That Bucks team is pretty well built. Middleton was doing shit he doesn't regularly do like he's been working in the offseason. Beating guys off the dribble and shooting floaters in the lane hasn't really been his forté. He's even better than he used to be. They also start Snell who stretches the floor as a 3 & D guy. They beat us by 3, on their floor, and it took 3 spectacular defensive plays (Giannis is a BEAST) to do it. Calm down and wait till they come to town. We'll win that one.
Speaking of TJ Leaf....I wanted him at 20 and was laughed at. He is still a year away but I still say he will be a player.
As much as I am loathe to agree with anyone in the anti-Stotts camp, it does indeed to make more sense to expand, not contract, the rotation on a b2b.
Not when the guys you’re talking about would likely end up matched up against the Greek Freak. He would eat Swanigan an Collins alive.
