I am not sure how well the Stephen Jackson in Milwaukee experiment is going to work. He’s an older guy who just wants another championship. They’re a team caught in the middle, neither good enough to contend or bad enough to rebuild. It’s a weird fit and I’m not so sure that StackJack will be the easiest guy to deal with if he’s not happy with the direction the team is going.
That being said, since he’s been at training camp with the Bucks, he has dropped some pretty incredible quotes. These come from Jeremy Schmidt at Bucksketball, who was at Media Day to document these gems:
“If guys come in here not focused on a championship, just making the playoffs, we need to trade them. We need to be talking about championship and nothin’ else. You can’t limit yourself to just playoffs. Who wants to do that? Playoffs is not really an achievement to me. Anybody can get to the playoffs.” [...]
“If I’m shot, I’ma get stitched and play the next game. I got hit by a car and played two days later.” [...]
“[Scott Skiles is] a fiery guy, and I’m looking forward to me and him arguing, because that means the fire is on the team and we goin’ in the right direction. To be able to play for him and Jim is a blessing for me.” [...]
“Who won the championship again? I didn’t even watch the playoffs.”
“Dallas sucks to me.” [...]
“I don’t mind leading by example, I don’t mind fighting for my teammates, I don’t mind putting myself on the line for my teammates.” [...]
“Was there a lockout? I don’t know, I wasn’t even watching the news, I wasn’t affected by the lockout, I don’t have money problems. Yeah I wasn’t playing basketball, but I can’t control that. I was doing my music stuff at the time.”
“When it was over, they called us, told us to come. Now I know what’s going on.”
And these come from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Charles F. Gardener:
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