Milwaukee Bucks are being WILDLY DISRESPECTED | New NBA Power Rankings
14 we have the Milwaukee Bucks now not surprised now excuse me they are second in the East right now yes they have lost four of their last five games but my whole thing is how do you have them behind the Kings the magic the Pacers the Pelicans when they’ve got two of the
Best players in the league they’re still second in the Eastern Conference just barely off the pace of the Boston Celtics said I look at this Ashley and I go man they haven’t played their best basketball they haven’t been good defensively they haven’t figured it out
They have lost four of the last five and yet still second I mean that speaks more I feel like to the Eastern Conference than it does the Milwaukee Bucks as a team listen when Drew holiday ended up in Boston via that just Blockbuster situation I said one of the concerns for
Me is what the Milwaukee Bucks were going to do defensively Damen Lillard huge fan of Dame time but he’s an offensive player he’s never been known for his defense you get rid of the core the anchor of your defense he’s now in Boston they get better both offensively
And defensively now how do you you feel that void in Milwaukee I haven’t seen it their game plan reminds me a lot of the Brooklyn Nets in the era of Kyrie James Harden and Kevin Durant the game plan is to Simply outscore you and yeah when you’re playing certain teams you can do
That but everybody and for most part in the NBA if you have a star on your team can shoot a three-pointer and sometimes you get into these high-scoring games as we’ve seen I mean look at the game on January 8th against Utah 132 points the
Jazz were able to put up so if you want to get into a shootout get into a shootout but you run the risk of losing that if you don’t have a way to stop points from happening so I don’t know how they combat that I haven’t seen a
Game plan on how they combat it it constantly just looks like a shootout and in the regular season yeah you’ll get away with that in the East yeah you’ll get away with that but when it comes to the playoffs your bluff is going to get called every single time so
If they don’t figure that out I think there may be a situation come March April this is not about the playoffs yet though this is about our rankings right now bill it’s always about the playoffs joh it’s always playoffs they cannot possibly be 14th Colin’s my guy but um
We’re gonna we’re gonna figure out why he hates the city of Milwaukee and it people never go to Milwaukee again this is some HED Guy this is some hot garbage I mean look you’re and by the way Ash you’re 100% right and that Echoes what
GM told me a few the Skeptics and I wasn’t one of them so I want I want to be right I want Milwaukee to figure it out their backcourt defensively is vastly weakened on the on the defensive end and they’re 21st in defensive rating and last year and the years they’ve had
Real success in the playoffs like most teams they’ve been great at both ends of the game including defense but let me be like not only are they second in the East they have the best or second best player on the face of the earth that is significant there is an issue with their
Head coach and we’ll see how that works out but I do think we sometimes forget that even though we expect superstars who who come together to immediately gel and for it to work it’s a process and it takes time and for LeBron and Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosch and I cover that
Team so I I fall back on it it took a season and Damen L and Yiannis I think have made strides but that is still a process and I think in those two stars figuring out how to play together yes their defense could catch up to them
100% 100% right by the standards of are you NBA champions how did you lose in the Conference Finals that is not a 14th team in the if we’re talking that they’re a top six and by the way Ash they are a better team than the Knicks I
We’ll get this later I know but like a second because both you and John are not fans of where they’re ranked right now but if you look at the current Power Rankings they’re not ahead of Boston that’s fair right they’re not ahead of would you put them ahead of OKC right
Now I I mean I would put them ahead of the Kings I would put them ahead of uh your New York Knicks I would put them in competition I think with somebody else John your six magic the Pacers the pelic just are we just looking at
Rankings in terms of where they are in their conference or we looking at power rankings in terms of like offensive defensive look they’re top they’re a top offense okay there is a I I just they are the second best team in the Eastern Conference and I think there’s a world
Where they get better in terms of that partnership and that head coach gets a little more comfortable and the Team figures it out and they improved all defensively and even with those things having not happened not a guarantee it will they’re still second in the east I
Mean I’m not good at math but that feels like top four right like there’s two conferences yeah I think for me when I look at maybe it’s the way I think of a power ranking is yes obviously second in the Eastern Conference means something should they be as low as 14 probably not
But when I’m thinking power ranking I’m also looking at complete teams I’m looking offense defense I’m looking at you know points in the paint threo percent I’m looking at everything and there are other teams that yes they may be seated lower in their conference but when we’re talking about actual complete
Compl teams from multiple angles of the game there are teams that are better than them I mean I think that’s a fair assessment I think totally disagree I mean like there’s an old saying there’s an old saying and Bill parcel was one of the guys who used to say it but there’s
Plenty of coaches that have said it over the years you are what your record says yes right and their record is they’re the second best team in the Eastern Conference you can you could nitpick really and we could go through it and we’re going to do that with your Nicks
Because I’m glad you say you got to look at offense and defense I’m gonna bring that up later but you look at the Milwaukee Bucks they’re they still are barely off the pace of the Boston Celtics and I think that speaks volumes
John Gonzalez, Bill Reiter and Ashley Nicole Moss debate the Bucks’ place in our latest NBA Power Rankings.
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