Tag: Thon Maker

I admit, Thon Maker did some impressive things against the Jazz. “Impressive” in that it is a miracle every time he manages to catch the ball (that means not having just bonk off his hands) and manipulate it into the basket without losing control of it. There were multiple plays where I said out loud…

Okay, here’s the deal: I would trade literally any player from any team in exchange for Thon Maker. If it’s an NBA player and he’s still breathing and his brain still works, I will take him as long as it means Thon goes away. There’s some pesky thing called the “trade deadline” which supposedly prevents…

Credit where credit is due: Thon Maker has not looked as horrifically unplayable these last few games as he did at the beginning of the season. He likely still is (horrifically unplayable), but at least he sometimes does positive things on the court, enough to fool the casual observer. I still have no confidence whatsoever…

For one of the few (only?) times this season, Thon Maker did a significant amount of positive stuff on the court, enough to outweigh the negatives. He could have had even more points if he could catch a pass in any sort of traffic, but I’m going to take the handful of three-pointers and the…

Defying the expectations of pretty much all Bucks fans, Thon Maker did not build on the “promising” playoff series he had against the Raptors. Notice those quotation marks? Those mean that DownToBuck did not think Maker’s play against Toronto in the postseason was very promising at all. He looked kind of okay, sometimes. Nothing that…