DON’T BLAME Dame For The Milwaukee Bucks’ Slump

DON’T BLAME Dame For The Milwaukee Bucks’ Slump

Should Dame slump be concerning for the bucks at this point in the season no we’re 0 and2 on the dock that’s the concern so should doc slump be concerning for buck fans at this point in this the doc slump right now and I love and and I love doc being

The coach just the doc slump right now I don’t think is in because those shots you know they they traded Dame to come to be able to score in the in the fourth quarter during the playoffs so that slump is nothing I mean um we’re just 0 and2 under dock right now

And well hopefully we get out of it so Lexi should should the Bucs be concerning all with names slump right now not really kind of finding that I don’t think I mean being a shooter it happens sometimes and the way he shoots the ball and and the shots he takes are

Like not easy ones um but yeah he’s gone through a lot of transition which I’m sure he wasn’t expecting to be under a new coach halfway through his first year in Milwaukee new city like we said his family’s not there just there’s a lot of changes like off the court that can

Affect you as a a player on the court but um again he’s fourth quarter Dame hopefully playoff Dame um but yeah doc 0 and2 that’s unfortunate but I think that’ll be fine Mr Habachi should Dame slump be concerning the bucks at this point I mean Dame being I mean if he’s in a

Slump you know whatever that is if that’s a just a slump for him I’m not even you know I mean a slump is you know if you are you taking wide shots and you’re just missing those or you know like it’s just you’re being doubled and you know

Like there’s different ways of calling something a slump just you know you missing wide open shots and you just feel like you’re in a slump you know offense changing uh Personnel changing the way they’re playing you you know that can have you just missing shots the

The the the shots he takes sometimes or you just be like well how would you shooting be if you actually took 22 foot three-point shoot three-pointers versus 30 Footers right like like I know you can shoot from this far but I’m PR sure I’m pretty sure this percentage is going

To be way less than this percentage right so you know getting closer threes versus trying to shoot the longer threes like this you know this generation is more into making the ooh three like I want to shoot the closest three if I’m on a heater I’ll pull up from here but

These not going to be my everyday three shooting 30 Footers like 30 and a 23 you know that’s like shooting a long layup mhm right like why am I going to jump from the free throw line cuz it looks cool when I can just get [ __ ] right

There and make the layout I’m going to make the no it’s like being on a fast break and trying to jump as far as you can to make a [ __ ] finger roll a long layup got a long layup long lay just you know so that is the least of their concerned they have

Way bigger problems than that and the they really big problem like media Dame is not the reason for bad defense losing Drew hollay and Grayson Allen is the reason that your defense is not where it was yesterday right the defensive schemes hasn’t changed remember I kept questioning like wait hold on how

They’re bad defense when they had First Team all defense back there with uh Lopez and then you have Giannis back there how’s their defense this bad right one person can’t turn the defense this bad right well the problem is they’ve never had a defensive scheme they had smart defensive players who understood

How to play the game so when you watch Drew himself when it when it was him and PJ Tucker think about PJ Tucker right he’s going to give you a 2.9 he’s going to come here he’s going to block out you drive he’s going to be there he’s going

To get back he’s going to dig right things that you can’t really quantify or have stats on so he does that just naturally yeah Drew holiday does that naturally you that’s not part of their scheme you drive left-handed and he decides I don’t have a shooter let me go

Catch in and he run down there and he’s the block man or he’s going to die he’s individually is doing things outside of the system that saves defense saes defense that make everyone look a little bit better make the team look a little bit better that smart guy that’s on a on you

On a ISO and he’s just hey I got your 2.9 I got your 2.9 I got your 2.9 I’m help push him this way push him that’s him he’s the guy that’s sitting there doing it that’s not part of your scheme so when you lose two of those

Guys who’s doing all the netting up the two Nets left now these guys are on their own so when Greek to goes to block a shot no one’s boxing there’s somebody boxing out now you got Brook Lopez used to doing what he do box out no you got

To go get the rebound now y’all giving up offensive rebounds because what Drew holiday did is not being done so it’s not that Dame Dame just doesn’t do what he does it’s not like you’re taking Dame off the dribble killing him he’s just not giving the effort it’s not Dame’s Dame obviously I

Think was outspoken he wanted to go to the heat not necessarily Dame’s fault that he ended up going to the Bucks this is more a Buc issue where if you knew that was going to be a problem you should have [ __ ] addressed it and no but that’s they don’t know that’s a

Problem because they’re not they’re not understanding who he is right there’s certain players that do things naturally like markcus smart what defensive scheme has him picking up full court you shove him he holds you you shove him again he takes a charge right right he does the

Flop that’s not part of your defensive scheme that’s him individually right that’s what he does so when you get rid of those players you don’t realize how bad you are in defense when those guys go and even coaches don’t even realize when you’re doing that stuff like I’ve had a few coaches of

Mind tell me I don’t I don’t realize how much you save our defenses with your positioning like a helps side here a jab here just communicating but you don’t always see that in real time and then you never see it in stats mhm you don’t get a stat for

Being in a position defensively so I don’t even think that they were going to Miss Grayson and uh Drew this much defensively because there’s no way to analytics isn’t going to tell you what they do on defense cuz there’s no numbers what what it is to is okay so

Let’s say you let’s say you are um you trying to ISO the big right right you’re trying to ISO the big that’s what you want to do so when you come out the pick and roll right and we’re switching and then imagine just drew just running up there

Just naturally to get the ball out of here now you got to pass and then run and get it back and then we switch back what a great defensive player does is he T he takes you out of what you’re trying to do so the reason that you don’t

Know how to quantify his defense because whatever they’re trying to do he done already took you out of it like what made Kenyan good K because Kenyan played in our system he knew our plays M right so Kenyan knew where to be MH right all right okay for’s out fist okay an’s on

The opposite side oh hey they’re snapping back front it right so you know when he’s faking here to come back here he’s said hey no no no front him front already front just stay on that side now when come right back now when he tried

To snap back he doesn’t have that guy so Kean already did that play right you don’t know Kenyan did that right so you think the guy who’s guarding here or you think the guy who’s fronting stopped Antoine when the guy who knows the play stopped it right right that’s what the

Defense is the defense is not the player there’s no [ __ ] player in here who can stop someone it’s the concept of Defense right so if Spurs is a great defensive team back in the day right now let’s take the system out was jobi a great defensive

Player no no was Tony Parker a great defensive player no no was boner a great defensive player no so you know you got three guys who didn’t play defense but the team is number one in defense because what they did do is hey

My job is not to let you do this so when you get below this free throw line I supposed to push you that way yeah when you go that way that’s on the next person so they just made sure they made sure what they did was correct yeah I

Mean that was the best advice I got from a coach is defense isn’t always about stopping your man it’s about making them do something that they don’t want to do M and sometimes they going to make make it most times they’re not but if you just let them go get into their Rhythm

Shots or do whatever move that they want to do then you going to get 30 points dropped on your head and that’s like the concept of Defense summarized I think hey should the buck start uh Bobby Porters over who Lopez no no keep Lopez at the five Bobby Porters and Giannis at

The three and then um Malik Beasley at the two and and bring Chris Middleton off at this point with defense right he to be honest he’s dragging the leg what he’s skilled at is he’s trying to like use his body to post up but he don’t have the foot advantage over

Anybody anymore right if he’s hitting shots you know cool like last night he was hitting shots but you know at the end of day he still couldn’t get past this guy he’s just hitting shots um you can try it I’m saying just to play faster and like like you said they

Back it down like to play just to get more active on defense like I think I mean active on defense doesn’t it doesn’t help them because they all look bad right when you break down the tape right whoever’s guarding the ball there’s nobody in position to help right

You know I’m guarding you and this this is a driving lane he’s on the island you know no one’s tagging 2.9 none of them because none of them did it okay Grayson Grayson and Drew did it because I know right d Grayson and Drew was the

2.9 and get hey yo get over there they did that so that’s gone and then them two being on the same page they were also able to help each other on top of helping the rest of the team like me like when people say I was a bad

Defensive player I wasn’t a bad defensive player in areas manto man picking up full court I’m fine right stopping the ball from getting the lane I’m fine I hit picks me too screen anything above like guard 94 feet I’mma do all that when it come to all these

It’s hard to get over screens like getting over screens and putting my shoulder in there like or or down screens don’t get hit by the screen Gil it’s hard said come on bro like bro he’s targeting me bro like he’s targeting me bro like you know what I mean can’t why

Can’t we Swit like today why can’t I feel like out of all the things on defense the one of the main things that is a skill is navigating ball screens and down screens like like Patrick Mary that’s his job right you know get through ball screens and do [ __ ] like

That right me like I keep the ball like I used to say why you got to keep calling the screen take me off the dribble mhm because right past me I’m big I’m bigger and stronger and faster than the guards that are guard man I got

Eric snow I got you know um you know Mike James Biby you know Steve nasham right Tak me off the dribble huh weak ass oh y’all want to call pics get my big man involved knowing my big man can’t move right KN I’m about to die on

The pick right so you know what made me look better is having Larry H so Larry Hugh like yo he’s a ball Watcher he’s a ball Watcher he’s a net guy he’s going to follow the ball which means is as long as he’s tracking the ball what ends

Up happening he might lose sight of his man so I’mma follow his man knowing that he’s going to go for a steal on the weak side I’m going n his guy just in case his guy goes back door so Larry Hughes was a big net guy for me

I was a big nck guy for him so when he’s like yo when uh Kobe come off the pick and roll what I’m going to do is I’m going to keep trying to steal it from the back I want I want to try to steal

It from the back so he can shorten his dribble make him come back this way make sure when I go you’re there so the lane doesn’t look like it’s opening so what I’ll do is he’s going for the pick and roll I’ll just run in the lane ah right

And then come back so he can get back in front right so but that’s that’s people that has do with can’t teach that you know and coaches try and they waste a lot of time trying to teach players how to play like that you either have the IQ

To do it or you don’t that’s what I it’s all IQ man it’s all natural you can’t teach Kawai what kawhai has there’s nothing should they go my bad should they go uh try to go get PJ Tucker again I mean that I mean for for I’m

Just saying like for for for a net guy I mean for what they’re trying to do yes now that is a problem now the offense is a problem too because the simplest thing right the simplest thing is this you guys are shooting so many threes and

It’s so many long threes so many bad threes so many heat checked threes that you don’t realize that you guys can score 130 you guys play so fast that you can score 130 right cuz why you guys don’t play together like meaning like throw the ball in the

Giannis at the mid Post run off of Giannis try to get the ball back pick and roll dive hit pass it to Giannis flare screen dump Doom like that is basketball you guys don’t even have back you guys have all right uh I want to say

To pick with Giannis but [ __ ] they going to double me you know me and Giannis and I’m might have to pass the ball back to jannis then jannis have to go downhill and [ __ ] that here Lopez come on jannis go somewhere else Lopez Come O got a three like you you’re changing the

Offense because you individually which hurts the offensive team right and KD told me something cuz I asked KD how come you guys don’t play Star versus Star like I mean why the stars don’t play with each other right like what like car Malone like you knew what Jack car Malone and John Stockton

Stop us right how however you want to try to stop us you want to go under I’m going to make it lower huh you want a hard show we going to dump it in he go right you couldn’t stop them two right right why you don’t do that he said you

Know the game today is looking for a mismatch and exploiting the mismatch which now is pick and roll big man switch okay now let’s play one-onone yeah

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