Head Coach Discussion: Canned Ham, Who Is Our New Coach?

From Buha's article for The Athletic regarding planning for Joker.

 

Why wouldn't they have done this to start? It's his one obvious weakness is he's got slow feet on defense - get him moving tiring him out.

Any opportunity to involve Murray or Jokic needs to be the focus on every single possession. Not only are they not great defenders but this how you can slow them down on offense by making up use energy both ways

 

This.

I mean... I think every analyst I've watched said this before the game.

 

you know, if Ham hadn't tried the small ball lineup, it would eat him up at nights wondering how it would work out. I'm glad he got it out of his system in game 1, and I think it's hilarious that we had a shot to steal the game at the end.

 

I just don’t get this dude sometimes. Anyone with eyes knew that you can’t trot out a three guard lineup against such a long and tall squad like Denver.

 

unless it worked

just had to know hahaahaha

 

unless it worked

just had to know hahaahaha

 

.... WORD!!

 

Bobby Portis suggesting that the Bucks roster this year was fine, but the biggest thing working against them was Ham’s departure

 

Idiot. Cost us game 1.

No more 3-guard lineups to start please.

 

The only logical thing I can think of is that he wanted the Nuggets to adjust to our "strength".

 

Good to hear we are not considering setting us up for failure by going 3 guards again.

 

Including his own now …. finally, for the bad idea in the first place. Correct HIS mistake.

 

Missed shots, turnovers and poor transition defense, is why we got into a big hole in the 1st half.

We got back into the game midway through the 3rd by playing Rui and Jarred together with either Lebron or AD. They did a better job on the switches. While much is made about Rui on Jokic, I think the biggest difference, was how we played the Jokic P&R. They were killing AD with that action, because he was sagging off, drifting back towards the paint, giving up open jumpers all game. Rui was switching and closing out on the shooters. It also helped that we were making more shots and wasn't getting caught lacking in transition defense as much in the 2nd half too.

It will be interesting to see the game 2 adjustments. If I'm Denver, if you have Rui on Jokic, I'm camping AD's man out at the 3pt line, and running Jokic straight to the front of the rim, everytime down the floor. Sending Rui help, is going to open up a lot of good looks from the perimeter. Then it's just a matter of whether their perimeter guys can knock down shots.

 

Facts over feelings

 

Let's get him going early, see if he can ride the confidence wave.

 

Don't be an idiot tonight please.

Start Rui over Dennis.

Play Vando more.

NO 3-GUARD LINEUPS and that includes any of the following combinations:
Dennis/Dlo/Reaves
Dlo/Reaves/Walker
Dennis/Reaves/Walker
Dennis/DLO/Walker

And stagger AD"s minutes with Jokic.

 

I feel like the title change is disingenuous.