Unc & Gil react to Bucks losing to Blazers in Damian Lillard’s return to Portland | Nightcap

Unc & Gil react to Bucks losing to Blazers in Damian Lillard’s return to Portland | Nightcap

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You Dame was Dame had 25 points he was nine of 23 three of 13 from the three-point line and they lose uh Anthony Simons uh hit a jumper and ends up winning the game by three they file they missed the three-point Brook Lopez missed the three-point shot uh they make both free

Throws they’re down by three they fou Yiannis he missed the first one so now he has to miss the second one and they end up losing the game uh what what do you make of Dave’s return um you know just as you know just as a a a player right you’re going back

To the the where you where you started your career where you know all your all stars or your all NBAs where your family is where you really had your ties the the the game for Dame was one when he landed and he got to pick his kids up it

Was his kids birthdays he got to be with them for their birthday he got to see all his family he left behind so um just for him personally that was a big thing for the bucks as a team right like you’re in yeah like you you do like what do you like

This is my thing with this with this team forget that you lost a game you lost to game to a a team that got 15 wins No Superstar on the team no game changer on the team and the funny part about this uh the last 20 minutes of the game

Starting in the third quarter the only free throws Portland shot was the last four seconds so that that means that they didn’t shoot a freee throw throughout the 9 Minute Mark all the way to the basically the 4 second Mark so that means they was getting nothing but

Buckets on your ass yeah because I saw Whata call him um what’s his name hold on let me see uh Jeremy grantant Jeremy Grant he got going in the fourth and seemed like everything that he put up he was getting to his spot Elevate boom knocking it

Down Simons did the the uh the Euro Step uh over M uh Beasley got it uh but I thought I thought and what you call him played well DeAndre aen played well tonight he got big buckets when he absolutely had to have him um yeah but I was surprised

I was expecting Milwaukee to win this game considering everybody was was a go tonight Giannis was a go D obviously D was gonna play because he’s going in his return um obviously it’s emotional going back like you said you spent the Lion Share of your career there um you’re probably

Going to be known for being in Portland some your best years now unless you win a championship your best years are going to come in Portland it’s hard to see me I don’t think he’s gonna play match the number of years that he played in Portland and match that playing in

Milwaukee now the only thing he can do because he’s been all NBA he’s been an Allstar all that other stuff now the only thing that he can do in Milwaukee is win a title and that’s why he got out of Portland was to give himself an

Opportunity to win a title but I thought the crowd was great towards him because he been great as a player he’s been great in the community he’s been nothing but a model citizen um but the uh the Blazers play Blazers played really well tonight and I think they wanted to

Because they had what uh DeAndre Aton was 10 of 17 Anthony Simon was 10 of 19 they got scoot Henderson was six of 11 got 15 Off the Bench they got another guy got 10 Off the Bench they play they played well Milwaukee really didn’t get a whole lot

Off their bench uh Crowder gave him six Bobby Porters who’s their main scoring option Off the Bench he normally gives them somewhere around 12 and eight 12 to 10 but he’s been known to give them 20 plus they got 17 points off the bench and and Portland got 1420 got 35 Off the

Bench so you’re plus 18 Off the Bench nine of nine I mean the free throws a Portland only shot nine free throws but they were 100% Milwaukee shot 18 they’re 13 of 15 13 of 18 72% Milwaukee was terrible from the three-point line they got 45 only made

13 and Portland was 12 of 28 they were 42% but Portland shot 53% from the floor so that tells me as you said okay they only shot nine free throws they’re jump shooting team yeah and you let them shoot 53% d That’s what I’m saying it’s like

Your your problem with Doc I mean your problem with uh Adrian Griffin was no defense but Doc’s history is he doesn’t have defense he don’t have def defensive schemes every team he went to had a great defensive team and then over the years they slipped under dock that is

His history right yeah he had Boston for that great year where they came in and Kevin Garden had a defensive player came in you got Ray Allen they had a a great group of defensive players and then from there you slid defensively who you were in Orlando horrible defensively when you

Finish with the Clippers when Clippers got great at defense who do they bring in Paul George defensive players Kaw defensive player so those two players automatically made the team a better defensive team you as a coach don’t have defensive schemes you’re not a defensive coach right when you went to uh

Um Philly Philly I’m sorry but your point guard that was 611 was all first team defense right right and beid was a defensive player so you didn’t you inherited def defense right so you going there with this defensive there’s nothing in your history that says you’re very great at defense I’m

Sorry to point it out there’s nothing in your history that says that yeah this doesn’t look well because I think they were what 30 and 13 30 and 12 fired 30 and 13 and you fire Adrian Griffin now this is what I know and and

And I could be totally off base you tell me what you want Jason kid was the coach he’s gone buen hos was there for five six years won a title he’s gone Adrian Griffith lasted 43 games he’s gone now Doc in that’s four coaches in about what six years

Yep so we not gonna say anything about y I mean Yannis is is above reproach no no no we’re gonna say exactly what most stars do when they feel they are bigger than the coach and then when the coach is bumping about something they use their power to get rid of the coach

Um and that is the instance in this right and they don’t realize that they’re going to have to adjust like Dame like what he has to adjust to is this he was used to playing under Adrien Griffin the whole 12 minutes right he’s used to playing the

Whole 12 minutes right and then he comes out at the beginning of the of the uh at the top of the second right right three well doc doc ain’t like that right doc going to sub you out at the three minute Mark and then he’s gonna hold you all

The way to the 9 Minute Mark which for a score it’s the dumbest thing in the world yeah yeah yeah he yeah he G get a rhythm he gotta play no no here’s why the last three minutes most of the time you’re in a penalty right this is

Like Red Zone you’re in a penalty and then imagine taking out your best running back and your best wide receiver wide receiver while you’re in the red zone right that’s what you that’s what this is when coaches take their best player out in those three minutes right

That is the most important time in the game because one you’re in the penalty most of the time other teams are subbing in right which means those players is cold so you can really push the tempo to try to get to the free throw line so

This is a chance where your best player can take free throws because they don’t want to foul anymore but when you take your best player out put some cold players in they use that three minutes to get in to get warm so they don’t take advantage of the three minutes anyway

Right so what’s the what’s the best case scenario for the bucks what I mean anything less than a championship is that is this season a disappointment yeah no the best because you the best thing for the bucks right now is like to go into the locker room and say hey hey

Doc listen we changed our mind right we gonna go with that uh that guy that gave us the win when you wasn’t here we fired the other dude the dude that had we we he wasn’t really a coach but we got a win right remember one of the wins is

When they didn’t have a coach wow yeah so doc pack your pack your and then we gonna go ahead and finish this season without you because at the end of the day we were good before you got here so they’re 0 and2 now with Doc right yeah

Mmhm and they they they they two and 0 without a without a coach so how surprised are you that a team makes a move 43 games into the season and it’s not somebody that’s on the staff that takes over they go completely outside yeah this is crazy this this is this is

Called This is called con can’t even be mad at Doc for this this is called connection you really have some pull because it doesn’t happen like this right as a coach you don’t want to be a coach that come in on some this is too much this is too much pressure for

Doc he can’t even handle the pressure when he got the the team for the whole year now you got to try to put in plays and learn their plays right here in real time you go though down 03 oh you best believe you’re getting killed in the

Media that’s why I this wasn’t a win-win for Doc because you know if you win the championship it was like well they were 30 and 13 before they got to you dude if you lose it’s your fault because it was 30 13 before 13 before you got there but

Help me understand this Gil I’m watching the game why the hell jiannis run get the ball you know damn well you can’t shoot no free throws you’re the last person that should get the ball if it if everybody should go to the end and that and Dame gotta get that basketball Damon

Lillard gotta get that basketball why the you down I get it you down a bucket no you down three at this point because they had just gone to the free throw line and made two shots so you’re down you’re down 116 119 why the hell you throw the ball to Yiannis because

Sometimes sometimes players can’t get it out of their own way right right and I said it I was I was crucial on be honest and say right you need to learn how to really play the game get into the post dominate from short distance right you

Dribbling the ball up Court trying to do the same right the left year row right we we can see it coming from a mile away like most of your buckets are you’re trying to come downhill right when you start slowing up when your game slows up

What do you have you won’t have you haven’t learned how to play back to the basket to really be dominant so like MJ MJ learned back to the basket when he still at all his right understood Evolution right he understood that I’mma slow up at some

Point in time when I do I won’t be effective by it right so he’s so used to grabbing the ball going full court does he doesn’t realize sir this is not your time of the game now that’s D who make free throws who can get it done right

Right this is like Shaq get the ball and say Hey you know I’m G try to do it myself and we gonna foul you go to the free throw like you have understand this game right you have to understand who’s on your team you got to understand a

Sacrifice yeah is it it was tough it was tough to watch because I’m looking I’m like why the hell and first of all why are you passing it to it I’m not F to pay I’m not F to give you the ball because I mean of all the

Players that were on the court Giannis would be the last guy for the buck that I would actually think would make both of those free throws now they foul and make them go down and make two more and then we got to throw the ball the length

Of the court and try to get it in but I’m not throwing Janis is the last guy that’s out there that I’m actually think is going to make both of these free throws yeah he is I mean I mean to be honest he is the last guy right that’s

Not your first option your first option is a guy who who shoots what 92% from the free throw line that’s the guy that you want to the ball but the problem with the Bucks is the really there’s nobody else you can throw the ball to because they don’t shoot free throws so

Most of the team right didn’t shoot free throws this game and that they don’t want those two to be the most exciting one like Middleton can’t get his ass to the free throw line no more right easily just shoot jump shots all day so for the

Most part only D they only had four guys shoot free throws night J Crow was one for two yeah Jay Crowder was one for two Dane was four for four uh Brook Lopez was one for one and Giannis was seven for 11 yeah they’re they’re jump shooting team they don’t have nobody to

Get to the basket when they need free throws so they don’t understand Hey listen if Giannis want to drives and get us in the penalty once he gets into the penalty that’s when you become Shay ah ah get you and steal you some free throws yeah they don’t really have

Anybody that I mean Brook Lopez 71 but he don’t play he doesn’t play with his back to the basket he’s hovering around the three-point line yep um Dame obviously Dame is as a as a guard he’s not playing with his back to the basket that’s not Beasley’s game Giannis that’s

Not his game as you said he’s looking to get ahead of steam and come downhill I’m a Euro Step you or I’m a side step you I’mma lay it up I’m a dunk on you that’s what I’m gonna do but as far as getting the block ball in the block and turning

Around over o over his shoulder that’s not what he does and he hasn’t developed that aspect of his game and I’m thinking that’s why he went down to Houston to try to work with elijahwan to get his footwork right because he’s wor alijan has worked with some of the greates as

Far as footwork and I don’t know how much of it connected with with Giannis but it doesn’t seem like he’s comfortable with it because he’s still doing I don’t see anything that with the some of the the cups that I saw that that Elijah Juan was showing him I mean

You see Kobe you see it in Kobe’s game you see LeBron shooting that F that that that fall away but I mean Yiannis I I mean I don’t know if he paid it maybe it was like okay but at the end of the day you’re gonna have to trust that what you

Learn you’re gonna have to put it into effect if you don’t use it what good did you what what good did you learn a trade if you won’t a trade if you don’t use it see I I I called that out early 50,000 I said 50,000 that’s a ripoff right um

It’s a ripoff you you you’re paying that much for a weekend you’re not going to learn anything on a weekend like it takes you months to learn a skill for it to be natural for you I said listen hakee is great at footwork the problem with hake’s footwork is he

Learned at playing soccer at 10 years old so that means he wasn’t a basketball player he just used what he had in his brain and basketball so when he does a move it’s instinct to him he don’t know how to give it to them so I said first

Before you go to hem you need footwork he can give you to move the matching footwork and I said with oo’s footwork I’ll rather you pay $50,000 to go learn the lad drill and the footwork drill from football players or soccer players then once you have independent foot and

You know how it works then take your happy ass down to hakee and learn to move that go with this footwork but he’s giving you a move with your footwork and it doesn’t work so what ends up happening is you tried this the first of the game you traveled I called

It out on you and then the rest of the season you went right back to what you know because that is not part of your game that you want to learn footwork soon as the season start is ending you go learn foot you start working on that

Today that’s before you get to the basketball court or if you go down to uh Elijah wantan to work on footwork okay let’s just say you’re going for the weekend now you have to implement that Gil so the whole summer while you’re doing it I’m doing this I’m working on

It it’s it’s a situation where sometimes you know we learn something and then we think well okay that’s what I learned I’m G wa to the game no you got to practice it before you get to the game because if you don’t it’s kind of like

The thing with TBO if you go if you look at TBO when he was going to Tom house and these throwing gurus he was fine until he got in a stressful situation yeah because the muscle the memory will revert back to what I feel most comfortable

Doing and so he felt as long as that he was not under stress he had a nice compact throw motion but the moment he got stressed he had that elongated throw emotion so Giannis as long as he’s comfortable okay he might try to footwork but if he get in a stressful

Situation he’s gonna go back I gotta get downhill got damn damn my feet let me let me get let me Euro Step or and a lot of times he charge yeah because he got a Char a charging file late in the ball game but you have to if whatever you

Learn you have to implement it away from the situation in which you learned it that’s the only way it’s G to stick Gil yeah and and I don’t know if people I don’t understand if people understand that the Celtics now lead the east by five game this is their largest

Conference lead since 2008 uh the Bucks of five game back the Knicks are six game back the Cavs got a monster night from Donovan Mitchell or six and a half and Philly is fadings slowly but surely uh with seven games back and with Joel embiid being out we’re gonna get to him

A little later they’re going to probably be woo might be later than That

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