What are the moves you would undo during Jon Horst’s time as Bucks General Manager?
Justin and Camille revisit the history of Jon Horst and the moves that did not work out. Signings, trades, draft picks, they’re all on the table. What move(s) would you undo, which stings the most and how would you rate Horst’s success guiding the ship. We dig into on the latest Locked on Bucks
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Too many to count…He got us the chip, but he’s also the reason we don’t have multiple championships we should’ve won.
1. Not resigning pj tucker. I truly believe that cost us the chip that year
2. Trading divicenzo for washed up ibaka. That was terrible
3. Paying bledsoe instead of brogdon who was a 90 50 40 guy
His first round picks have generally been awful, and his second round picks haven't been any better. Firing Coach Bud was a mistake because he didn't find a better coach.
my biggest regret drafting Jabari Parker over Joel Embiid and second drafting jimmer then trading back and getting tobias harris and garbage and passing on Klay Thompson, mic drop because none of these other piddly moves really matter that much
The list is endless and it just explains why Giannis doesn't have 2 more championship rings.
1. Re-signing Bledsoe in March of 2019 instead of Brogdon to save 6-7 mil more and loosing another very important asset. Brogdon kept improving and with Pacers ended up to lead the East in assists a couple of years later, while Bledsoe continued to have another terrible playoff year. Horst traded Erik the following year for Jrue including him in a very expensive package.
2. Picking Jabari over Embid (no words).
3. Declining Danny's Ainge offer back in 2018 which would have brought no3 draft pick of 2017 (Tatum) In Milwaukee for either Jabari or Middleton. Not many people are aware of this. But it is true and it was reported by one of the most credible analysts in the league, who is Mark Stein of Espn. Just imagine how would it be if Tatum was next to Giannis.
4. Overpaying and re-signing Middleton. Middleton has not been the same player for years now. He played only 80 games in the past 2 years. He is injury prone and defensive liability. He struggles to dunk. The ideal would be either to keep Middletton with a contract under 20 million which would create salary space or trade him this past January.
5. Overpaying and re-signing Lopez last year. Just horrendous. Lopez has only been good in the regular season, and nowhere else. In fact in the championship year, in most of the games he was not even a starter and he has never been a factor. Overestimated.
6. Not bringing back PJ Tucker. Pj was covering all Brooks weakness in rebounding, in switching. BIG Mistake.He still had a good year left.The defense collapsed after his departure.
7. Signing Grayson Allen as the main shooting guard. Terrible. Good in the regular and non existent in the playoffs.
8. Signing Malik Beasley as the main shooting guard. Even more terrible. For the same reasons as above.
9. Trading Di Vincezo to Kings for Ibaka, a player who did not even play.
10 Spending 5 Draft picks for Crowder. LOLOLOLOL.
11. Spending additional 4 draft picks for Mirotic back in feb 2019. John Horst totally spent 8 draft pics for 2 bench players who did not stay more than 6 months. Neither did Mirotic help.
12. Completely disregarding improvement through drafting, in an attempt to bring veteran tired players who offered absolutely nothing. (De Marcus Cousins, Hood, Monroe, George Hill, Dragic).
13. Signing a rookie coach with no experience and sending him to Giannis house to be aprooved. I believe what has happened the past summer just shows the inability and the impotence of Milwaukee Bucks management to take serious responsibility, and to show some true leadership.
Grayson Allen now
In no particular order based on recent memory
1) Trading divicenzo for ibaka
2) not getting a proper 2ndary/3rd option behind kmid /giannis so jrue can shine in his role as a pure defender with some offensive punch.
3) extending pat connaughton, then again understandable why they did since he was quite instrumental in the championship run.
4) not re-signing pj tucker. The most successful lineup they had in the playoffs was to get giannis as small ball 5.
5) Not keeping jevon carter. I know he is small but he is a dog and good POA defender and when given the chance, he could create his own shot, which is something the bucks desperately needed when they didnt have kmidd/giannis on the floor.
6) drafts. Say no more.
Not giving Kane the supermax to keep him here
The Bucks have failed Giannis off the years Malcolm,Donte and letting Pj🤦🏾
You have to include daft picks as well..and those have been close to awful
I just hate Jabari got hurt. Larry Sanders love bud too much and we let Brogdon get away he would have been a perfect back up to Jrue.
Giving Griffin the head coach job
Giving up Holiday for Dame !!!!!! . and him moving to the Celtics. Didn't gain anything , lost our best defender & look what happened .
He was right to fire Bud but his choice to replace him was a disaster.
not paying pj tucker. trading dante for a washed up ibaka. i love nwora but keeping him too long on the roster.
It's much easier to ask which moves were good
Dante was not liked by the other players. He did not vibe with anyone in the locker room at all as a matter fact like I said they didn’t like him. At least that scuttlebutt on the street. Seriously, the dumbest thing we did at least the last season besides getting rid of Drew Holliday if we could’ve got dame and kept him that would’ve been amazing, but the real mess up was getting rid of dirt cheap Wesley Matthews, who still had a lot in the tank and a lot to offer on defense And even behind the three-point line.
Releasing Demarcus cousins 😂
Resigning Slopez AND Kash