Open Thread: Regular Season Game 42

The Big Dog photo is hilarious. Thanks for posting it. I hate that comment by Jamison. My fear is that when Gilbert comes back - they are going to rely on their offense to win games and not play with the same defensive intensity. Hopefully Eddie and Ayers can convince them otherwise.

Wiz, over

The Big Dog has one of the best nicknames ever.

I just don't see anyone on the Bucks slowing us down tonight.

I would like to see either Pech or Blatche spend some extended minutes guarding Yi. I think Blatche in particular will have quite a few opportunities to abuse the rookie. Further, its a big night for Brenda as he avoided one soft Euro center only to confronted with a slightly grittier, less talented Australian one.

Like the Grizz, this is another perimeter team. Besides Mo Williams, these guys are strictly jump shooters. If we can lock down, we shouldn't have any problems.

We are getting owned by Storey and Ruffin.

Anyone who says the offense flows better without Gilbert needs to watch a tape of this game. Caron at the foul line is our offense.
Also, Songaila for Haywood substitution leads to 7-0 Milwaukee run. Why that substitution at that time?

We're not the Celtics or Spurs, we cant just show up and play half-hearted basketball while expecting to win. That is what we did last night, we are on the Rockets/Raptors/Nuggets/Magic/Blazers/Cavs-level, not the Spurs/Suns/Pistons/Celtics level that we're good enough to do that........ we thought that because we were playing a bad team (Especialy without Redd) that we could just sleepwalk through and win the game, they are still an NBA team and we are NOT that good (Very few teams are) where we can do that. This has been happening recently and I first noticed it in the Cavs game where we weren't playing with the same sense of urgency, I think we got a little gassed.......

So in that sense Im glad we lost last nights game. If we had won the game we wouldve been getting away with it and maybe thought we could do it again where this becomes an ongoing issue that we could see in maybe a game against the Clippers or 76ers or whatever.......

so hopefully by us losing last night that teaches us our lesson and it never ever ever happens again, because getting beat down by guys like Awvee Story, Royal Ivey, Charlie Bell and Michael Ruffin due to a lack of effort and sense of entitlement (While having a chance to get 6 games over .500 before a very tough stretch of opponents in the next 10 games before the Allstar break) is VERY VERY VERY VERY tortorous to watch and dissapointing.... and because if we want to get where we're shooting for (4seed) we have got to play very hard every night and never let this happen again. Real recognize Real, but if you want to stay "Real" you've got to bring A+ effort every night, because we're real on the Blazer/Raptors level and not the Celtics/Suns level, we need to play with 100% effort every time, hopefully we learned our lesson.

(By the way Caron was the only one I saw play with passion last night for all 48 minutes, and the bench was the most dissapointing last night by far, you could tell they didnt show up from their first stint in the game where they got demolished while relinquishing our lead..... Deshawn and A.D. also had a lack of passion last night and were dissapointing... also Brendan's lack of effort especially on defense was concerning as he got lit up by Bogut nearly as bad as he got lit up by Big Z a week ago..... if we're gonna double we should either be all in or dont do it at all. So trap hard or dont double at all, because that half-hearted double team killed us in both ways.)

 Very bad loss but hopefully we learn from our mistakes.