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19 Responses to “3/5/08 Box Score: Sonics 106 Bucks 118”

1. Mr. Baker Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

   Gelly +6

2. Mr. Baker Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

   12430

   Hawks at Hornets, not a game that draws well

3. Myk Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

   I hope everyone gets teh chance to watch LeBron’s highlights on SportsCenter tonight…freaking amazing…how he isn’t the NBA I don’t get it…

   The dunk in the pregame warmup dunk was great

4. Patches Pal Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

   And Phoenix loses again. The PHX pick just got better as they fell behind Houston for the six spot in the West.

5. MartinH Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

   And meanwhile, Sene goes for 30/18 in the D-League.
   Can we just send half the team down there?

6. Crow Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

   Bennett / Presti had a shot at Adelman and let it slip by not wanting to spend the money / win more sooner or share that much power. I’d've hired him.

7. Crow Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

   Too early to predict this but Shaq might be back on the market if it doesn’t work out. Clips, Dallas, NY, Washington or Orlando?

8. Eric E Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

   This just in. We are not good.

9. Alex Chan Says:
   March 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

   Crow, you have opened up yourself to a lecture from Myk about Adelman’s past playoff failures. I find it impressive that Houston has been able to maintain its suffocating defense, despite the coaching change; perhaps too much credit was given to Van Gundy for the defense because after all, the players are the ones who have to execute on defense.

   The Rockets have gotten better on defense, despite playing defensive stalwart Chuck Hayes less and less over the last couple months. I guess that’s a testament to the defensive abilities of guys such as Rafer Alston, Shane Battier, and even your boy Carl Landry. Their defense shouldn’t let up either with the Yao injury because Mutombo is the better defensive player.

   The question with the Rockets is can they score enough to win; Adelman really hasn’t figured out a way to push the right buttons with the offense and his job is going to get a lot harder with the Yao injury. The biggest difference in the offense from this season Houston’s team from last year’s team is that they don’t shoot as many threes and don’t shoot as well from three.

10. Alex Chan Says:
    March 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    “Too early to predict this but Shaq might be back on the market if it doesn’t work out. Clips, Dallas, NY, Washington or Orlando?”

    The early returns aren’t promising for Shaq in Phoenix; do you think Kerr would entertain the possibility of taking on Marbury’s contract so they clear themselves from Shaq’s contract one year earlier? Perhaps they could also require New York to take on Boris Diaw’s horrific contract in exchange for an expiring deal such as Malik Rose’s deal. Perhaps Phoenix should offer Shaq/Diaw for Rose/Marbury/Balkman.

11. Alex Chan Says:
    March 5th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    If Josh Smith, Andre Igoudala, and Emeka Okafor only sign one-year qualifying offers this offseason in hopes of a better market in the 2009 offseason, the Suns, if they make the Shaq/Diaw for Marbury/Rose/Balkman trade this offseason, will be in position to make a very strong offer to any of the three. Of course, the Suns could sit out of the 2009 free agent market in hopes of landing James, Wade, or Bosh in the 2010 offseason assuming that the three opt-out of their current contracts.

12. Myk Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 12:07 am

    Crow, you have opened up yourself to a lecture from Myk about Adelman’s past playoff failures. I find it impressive that Houston has been able to maintain its suffocating defense, despite the coaching change; perhaps too much credit was given to Van Gundy for the defense because after all, the players are the ones who have to execute on defense.

    - Ya and before they pulled off this pretty impressive run people were wondering why Adleman was coaching so poorly…its all relative. Reggie Theus is doing just as good in Sacramento as Adleman did last year (with less talent)

    If you look at Houston’s record from last year Adleman has basically had no effect. They are averaging and defending at the same ppg and are in the same playoff position. Perhaps, we could sign Van Gundy instead

13. AK1984 Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 3:02 am

    “The early returns aren’t promising for Shaq in Phoenix; do you think Kerr would entertain the possibility of taking on Marbury’s contract so they clear themselves from Shaq’s contract one year earlier? Perhaps they could also require New York to take on Boris Diaw’s horrific contract in exchange for an expiring deal such as Malik Rose’s deal. Perhaps Phoenix should offer Shaq/Diaw for Rose/Marbury/Balkman.” {Alex Chan}

    Dude, I thought nearly the same exact thing!

    Unfortunately, though, there’s some stuff that’d probably need to happen before the occurrence of such a scenario.

    1. The Phoenix Suns would need to miss the playoffs this season, since that’d probably cause panic among everyone within the organization—including Robert Sarver, Jerry Colangelo, Steve Kerr, David Griffin, and Mike D’Antoni. Otherwise, it’s possible that most of them — especially Sarver and Kerr — won’t be willing to admit their mistake in acquiring Shaquille O’Neal. Yet, either way, I have no qualms with the idea of the Suns trading O’Neal and Boris Diaw to the New York Knicks for Stephon Marbury, Malik Rose, and Renaldo Balkman.

    2. In any event, the Knicks would need to make some organizational changes, with CEO Jimmy Dolan finally firing Isiah Thomas as the ballclub’s president of basketball operations and head coach. Thomas’ replacements would probably be retreads like Glen Grunwald and Herb Williams, respectively, but at least they’d bring about some semblance change. From that point forward, Dolan would need some crazy motivation to pursue an declining O’Neal.

    3. Prior to that transaction, Zach Randolph would have to be shipped out of New York — even he was dealt to the Milwaukee Bucks for a god-awful package like Bobby Simmons and Charlie Bell — as there’s definitely not enough room for him and the “Big Diesel” in the “Big Apple.” The Knicks would need to select a guard with its first-round pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, too, for Jamal Crawford can’t handle the backcourt all by himself.

    4. Kerr must relent somewhat by allowing D’Antoni to implement his fast-paced, up-tempo 2-1-2 high-post offense without any restrictions. A lineup of Amare Stoudemire, Grant Hill, Balkman, Raja Bell, and Steve Nash — with a rookie interior player (e.g., Darrell Arthur), Alando Tucker, and Leandro Barbosa coming off of the bench — could take the reigns of D’Antoni’s run-’n'-gun system. The Suns would probably fill out the roster with Sean Marks, Rose, a rookie long-distance shooter (e.g., Richard Roby), D.J. Strawberry, and Marbury. Marbury, however, would most likely be bought out from his contract; that’d cause the Suns to sign a free-agent such as Dan Dickau — who’s a homeless man’s version of Nash — to a one-year, minimum-level contract, since he’d fill out the 13-man roster requirement.

    Wow, that’s a convoluted string of hypotheticals.

14. Lester Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 7:20 am

    The ESPN draft machine is up and it has us drafting DeAndre Jordan if we’re not #1 or #2. The program must be infected with the Wally Walker Virus. At least it doesn’t have us picking Kevin Love.

15. Patches Pal Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    And according to the Times Steve Ballmer and John Stanton are the guys to Save Our Sonics. Now the pressure really needs to be turned up on Olympia to accept this offer within the next week. Let’s get it done people. Call your legislator.

16. Crow Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    I don’t think Adelman is a top 5 coach but he is probably a top 10 guy and keeping a good team in 50 win territory is usually a sign of doing a good job. He would be among the best Sonics could have gotten in past or probably future.

    I don’t think NY gets Phoenix to take Marbury but they might take other pieces directly or get involved in a multi-team arrangement.

17. phenom Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    The Phoenix Suns still can still figure out how to best utilize Shaq, but perhaps they’ll start to rebuild sooner than later….are those picks Seattle acquired lottery protected?

18. Sunsei Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Fairly sure that they are both unprotected

19. AK1984 Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    “The ESPN draft machine is up and it has us drafting DeAndre Jordan if we’re not #1 or #2. The program must be infected with the Wally Walker Virus. At least it doesn’t have us picking Kevin Love.” {Lester}

    Yeah, Kevin Love probably lacks some of the necessary traits (e.g., extraordinary athleticism) to be a top-ten pick; yet, at some point during the 2008 NBA Draft, he’d be a decent selection for a team like the Philadelphia 76ers. With a frontline of Samuel Dalembert, Love, Jason Smith, and Reggie Evans, the 76ers would possess a group of interior players who’ve got complementary skill sets.

    Before the trade deadline this season, the 76ers should’ve dealt Andre Miller elsewhere for players who’ve got expiring contracts — such as this transaction http://tinyurl.com/37bzyf for example — since that’d've freed up some extra cash for the team to re-sign restricted free-agents Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams during the upcoming off-season.

    On the topic of DeAndre Jordan, he’s seemingly the type of project pivotman that Wally Walker and Rick Sund would drool over for whatever asinine reason. I, however, definitely want the Seattle Supersonics to also avoid drafting Jordan—so let’s hope that Sam Presti is on the same wavelength as us.

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