Okay, so I’ll admit to failing at my goal of blogging for a straight month. But if you compare my blog ratio to Potters, I am doing pretty darn good. Even bigger news, now that Coach Meyer has been announced, Jeff Potter has promised to start blogging again. Apparently the coaching search was really cutting into his blog time. Before you get too excited, the blog is more likely to be about “You Think You Can Dance” than anything D-League related.

Jeff Potter would probably be a better person to ask about our past coaches relationships with our affiliates. Maybe I can get him to blog about it (if he ever gets back to blogging!) I know Jaren went and visited each affiliate to meet the coaching staff and sit in on a practice or two. So I think the affiliates were comfortable, but I think Coach Meyer just takes it to another level. They know what he has done to help guys like Ramon Sessions. He just has so much experience and worked with so many different people over the years.

The Bucks last year simply did not have anyone that would be a goof fit to send to the D-League. They were originally talking about sending down Luc Mbah a Moute but he played so well for them that he began to get a big chunk of minutes. I know the Pistons were concerned about sending Walter Sharpe down because of a sleeping disorder that he had and thought it would be bad to give him a sudden change of scenery. I am not sure why we did not see more of a guy like Alex Acker.
The Pacers have never used the D-League, and I know our fans and office would love to see that change. With it being a two hour drive, it would be so easy to send a rookie down for a game or two at a time to get some real on-court experience.

Okay, I will quit rambling, hopefully I at least partially answered the question. :)