Giannis Antetokounmpo drops 54 points on the Indiana Pacers for his 7th career 50 point game but the Milwaukee Bucks fall to the Indiana Pacers 126-124. Justin Garcia and Frank Madden take a look at another slow start on both ends of the floor, Giannis’ suddenly resurgent free throw shooting and look ahead to the upcoming schedule.
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Some of what happened alot is Giannis in crunch time but it’s also players have to recognize what’s happening – get Giannis off the ball and get a good shot – this was a scoring game for him so he wasn’t looking to pass alot – hey coaches get a timeout and explain what’s happening it happens to all pros it’s ok stop the ego stuff – bench guys too – what I do like is the defense was better and Giannis effort was better – I’m not too mad about the loss because they can build off of it and I know it seems weird – Marchon gotta play more even with the mistakes because he hustled and is a good rebounder and we need that – tough game but I was pleased with the defensive effort against a team who has been really making shots
Giannis was gassed in the end. And yeah, Dame is the only person to handle the ball in the last 4 minutes, even if we win with 40…I stayed awake up to 3:30am where I went form "this is a blowout" to "Giannis is winning it himself" to "we got THIS!" to "WTF???" and then just some poor sleep.
Just to note: Marjon and AJJ were the people that got us back in defensively. And honestly they could have closed the game in last 2 minutes.
Am I the only person remembering Jrue on the "live and die by the 3" defence? Where we made everyone a 3p hero?
I have two points, both related to the age of our stars. 1) Back to backs favor the young. The Pacers didn’t look gassed, but our guys certainly did. 2) Griff’s defensive scheme is high energy trapping, trying to force turnovers. I’m not surprised Marjon and Andre are eating it up. They’re 10 years younger and still have knees that are intact. This defense is exhausting.
Malik and Brook should have been playing down the stretch
Dont worry Dame will have that record soon enough
We’re gonna have to try and acquire a defensive minded guard. Someone’s gonna have to go to make it happen.
There was 2 tech FT after the ejection. I was proud
Why is Camron Payne closing the game out. Come on coach that was a personal screw up. I hope they learn from it
We’re not winning the championship if we don’t play our best players. Our best players that need the most minutes are Giannis Dame Middleton Brook Bobby Crowder Marjon Andre – those 8 should have the most minutes on the team EVERY SINGLE NIGHT if we want to be at our best. Payne beasley and pat are next up but they should all play 0 to 15 minutes a night. If we play Pat 24 minutes and marjon 13 min and Ajax 5 mins we can just accept defeat now before we even play denver. Marjon and Andre are literally not getting enough minutes because of their age and only their age when they’ve proven that they’re better options on both ends compared to pat and beasley. Shits sad
Doesn't matter how many points giannis has, if its a close game he will choke turn the ball over an miss his freethrows. Bucks not on Celtics level and your precious Jrue will lock Dame down🍀
Seems like Grif got himself thrown out because the manual says to support your superstar by getting thrown out. He sort of promised it yesterday. Two techs how fast? for what? Did he really just suddenly and for no obvious reason completely lose control? Its early, but I'm worried about the coaching. Games start with the team completely lost for a quarter until Giannis gets fed up and just takes over. That's not really a game plan.
Where is the defense, that would be the story of the season. I don't think we have the personnel to play defense, Mids is done defensively.
Next to the Pacers, the Bucks looked old. Interrogating the coaching when Griff’s just started seems unfair. Everyone harkening back to the Bud days, like turnovers and offense, wasn’t a problem then, too. Khris is struggling. Marjon is not quite ready. We are going to get blown out this season. I can feel it. Dame will have to be a legend to steer this ship into the playoffs.
Also, I wish Giannis didn’t have to work so hard. Score so much. And still lose the game.😞
I'm starting to get frustrated with the lack of patience with the Bucks defense. It's obvious they are trying different things. Getting a feel for coverages and personnel. I'm comfortable as a fan going through this process. Let's wait until we get 25-30 games in to determine where they are. People are such prisoners of the moment!
Sitting your stars for early season back to backs will cost you wins.
But being the number one seed is meaningless.
Bucks coach need to go..