Bucks 2022-2023 Season Thread

[patrickgpe]

There are some rumors that Monty Williams will be fired. If that happens he is my top choice for the bucks coach. 

[adambr2]

Miami just gonna roll all the way to the NBA Finals or...?

[sveumrules]

38 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Miami just gonna roll all the way to the NBA Finals or...?

At this point my pref list to win it all would be…

DEN (love Jokic’s game and all he’s missing is the ring)

MIA (would soften the blow of losing to them, be a great story, mean no BOS/PHI, and would rather Butler get his first ring than Curry/LBJ get their fifth)

LAL (would be rad for Darvin Ham, plus a non-bubble ring for AD, also a fun story with the mid season re-tool)

GSW (they aren’t BOS/PHI)

BOS (Smart/Grant Williams are two of my least favorite players, but they aren’t Harden/Embiid)

PHI (love watching James/Joel flop and flail their way out of the playoffs)

[patrickgpe]

Monty Williams has been fired and is my top choice for the bucks job. 

[wallus]

Do not hire the guy that got outcoached by Bud in the Finals

[nate82]

37 minutes ago, patrickgpe said:

Monty Williams has been fired and is my top choice for the bucks job. 

No thanks his players absolutely quit on him after the first quarter in their last game.

[Brewcrew82]

Steve Kerr is the one the Bucks should hire. Him, Nick Nurse, or Ty Lue. 

[patrickgpe]

13 hours ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Steve Kerr is the one the Bucks should hire. Him, Nick Nurse, or Ty Lue. 

I don’t know if I could cheer for the bucks if kerr was the coach, plus the warriors aren’t letting him go anyway. 

[patrickgpe]

If the sixers (stupidly) fire Rivers I want him. I know Williams has some issues but he won coach of the year 2 consecutive years. For those that would not want him, whom do you want. I can point out a flaw or 2 in your top candidate as well. 

[sveumrules]

Of the name coaches on the market I’d prefer Nurse. Just seems like he’s a notch above the field from a strategic standpoint.

I’d trust him more than any of the other candidates to devise a scheme that gets Giannis to maintain MVP calibre production via a more under control play style as he approaches his thirties and waning athleticism.

 

[patrickgpe]

25 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Of the name coaches on the market I’d prefer Nurse. Just seems like he’s a notch above the field from a strategic standpoint.

I’d trust him more than any of the other candidates to devise a scheme that gets Giannis to maintain MVP calibre production via a more under control play style as he approaches his thirties and waning athleticism.

 

He was great with kawaii, but there is this.  Ultimately if the hire a “retread” he will have some flaws or baggage. My preference is Williams, yours is nurse. Both good coaches, some flaws. Id be happy with either but neither are perfect 

 

[patrickgpe]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10076110-shams-monty-williams-to-be-aggressively-pursued-by-bucks-after-firing-as-suns-hc

bucks looking strongly at Williams as HC

[homer]

On 5/13/2023 at 9:17 PM, nate82 said:

No thanks his players absolutely quit on him after the first quarter in their last game.

To be fair, he had a bunch of loser malcontents to start with.

[MrTPlush]

On 5/12/2023 at 10:20 PM, sveumrules said:

LAL (would be rad for Darvin Ham, plus a non-bubble ring for AD, also a fun story with the mid season re-tool)

It would be interesting from a Lebron standpoint if they won. With all the Jordan/James comparisons, of their 10 combined rings, neither has ever won it with a weaker team. What I mean by that is neither has ever won it with a team that wasn't 1st in their division. Not sure either has ever won it without a #1 or #2 seed. If the Lakers won after being dead last in their own division, that would give him something pretty notable over Jordan in playoff terms.

[CheezWizHed]

Wouldn't it be sad to find out that Ham was actually the source of the adjustments when we won the championship...only to lose him to the Lakers?

[patrickgpe]

Doc Rivers fired too, Philly seamed like a bad situation. I think he is my second choice., after Monty Williams. These guys wouldn't have to deal with guys like CP3, Harden, or Simmons. 

The number of coaches that are available that have had great success in the league is insane.

[owbc]

8 minutes ago, patrickgpe said:

Doc Rivers fired too, Philly seamed like a bad situation. I think he is my second choice., after Monty Williams. These guys wouldn't have to deal with guys like CP3, Harden, or Simmons. 

The number of coaches that are available that have had great success in the league is insane.

All of these coaches are just going to shuffle around to new teams. I'm fine with either Doc or Monty. 

[patrickgpe]

21 minutes ago, owbc said:

All of these coaches are just going to shuffle around to new teams. I'm fine with either Doc or Monty. 

just a big game of musical chairs. I'm OK with Vogel or Nurse as well. 

[homer]

I really don't want Doc Rivers. 

[GAME05]

So the Bucks have $114M in guaranteed contracts next year with a projected salary cap of $134 and eight other roster spots to fill. They also have $90M tied up in Bird Rights players allowing the team to go over the cap to re-sign them. The luxury tax line is $162M, or $48M above the salary cap.

Ownership has said they're fine taking on the repeater tax, though I suspect it's not a strong commitment.

My brother had the idea of trading Middleton in order to sign Brown from Boston, but you can go over the cap to re-sign a current player, but not to sign a new one.

Jrue is also a FA after next season, and the idea of extending both him and Middleton while continuing to pay the repeater tax just doesn't seem like a possibility.

I wonder if there's a good possibility the Bucks are hoping for a sign-and-trade of Middleton as well as trading Jrue this offseason for something of a soft rebuild to not only make the team younger but also to start adding players who would best compliment the style of whatever coach they hire.

[SeaBass]

I don't hate Doc Rivers but his teams haven't been able to beat the Celtics so I really don't think he helps us much.

Ime Udoka would have been my dream hire but he was off the board before the Bucks flunked out of the first round and landed in the coaching search pool. None of these other guys are going to excite me the way that guy would have.

[patrickgpe]

1 hour ago, SeaBass said:

I don't hate Doc Rivers but his teams haven't been able to beat the Celtics so I really don't think he helps us much.

 

I get that.  All of the top "retread" candidates have flaws (and all of them occurred in the playoffs). I think the bucks is a better situation than Philly or Phoenix, so my thought is that the right coach will get the bucks further in the playoffs than the last 2 years. 

[Brewin]

I really don't want anything to do with Doc Rivers as the next coach. He has a long history of playoff failure and underachievement.

[nate82]

I really want someone who hasn’t been a HC but no idea on who that should be.

[sveumrules]

1 hour ago, nate82 said:

I really want someone who hasn’t been a HC but no idea on who that should be.

Think I saw they got permission to interview Heat assistant Chris Quinn who has a pretty good reputation, or maybe it’s just the Spoelstra connection.

Obligatory mention of former Bucks Sam Cassell and Jerry Stackhouse whose names seem to come up every offseason but have yet to land an HC gig. Don’t believe either has been connected to MKE this go round though.