FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to Shaq gives Dame some advice on the Bucks struggles

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to Shaq gives Dame some advice on the Bucks struggles

Sounded the alarm for Dame and the Bucks who are 3 and seven since doc took over third place 8 and a half games behind the Celtics take a listen you and Yiannis you’re being too nice when it all said and done it don’t work out three people going to get

Blamed doc you and Y so you and y’s got to make sure the troops get it done there no reason but the do being y should be three and seven that right there’s on HT so y so when you get back you going to have to grab some people by

The necks and say hey this is what I need you to do so right that’s my advice to you young brother I just won the trophies uh your reaction brw it was good advice from Sha he’s absolutely right I mean Giannis Doc and Dame are

Going to take a hit if they don’t at least get to the finals we know Doc’s gonna be criticized right if they somehow got beat in the second round again Dame will be criticized because Dame was like he was safe in Portland we wer good enough to win right nobody

Cared that he wasn’t defending he could just go out there and get 30 and everybody gives him love and Yannis even though he’s got the one title we thought you know could this guy ever be get himself to the goat conversation now nobody’s really thinking that but he’s

Got rings to win and you got a great teammate in Dame I think though one of their challenges there I’ve said this about today’s players a lot of them they they work really hard but they work hard on what they want to work on and they work hard on what they’re already good

At in a lot of cases a lot of today’s players including Stars they don’t add stuff or they don’t work at what they don’t like or what they don’t want to do and when you watch the bus one we all thought the Yannis Dame pick and roll

Would be great they don’t run it that much all right that’s coaching right some of it’s coaching some of it’s Giannis has not been rolling as much sometimes on to the basket where obviously could do damage he pops even though he’s not a shooter so I think

They need to that’s what I’m talking about with him work on some of that interior scoring he was interior scoring when he had 64 and Dame what Shaq could have also said is look I know you never really been a Defender but Dame to win championships you got to defend and I

Think Dame’s gotta buckle down so he don’t really want to defend he got to buckle down on defense Giannis doesn’t really want to roll to the basket and stuff like that he got to start doing that they got to that’s how they lead lead by example and have these guys

Watch you then you can cuss them out or whatever Shaq said you need to do so wild I think the buck stock is too low right now oh I mean I think nine months ago this you were bringing a live deer to the set because you believed in them

That much before they got Dame after they got Dame I’m going to reveal something to the audience one of the reasons we were like you know what we’ll do our NBA picks once football’s over one of the reasons why was we talked about it and we were like I think we all

Like Milwaukee and that’s not you we we’re obviously not going to pick someone we don’t believe in and it wasn’t going to create a lot of intrigue if we all had the same team so we said let’s wait and see and now I think I know you would pick Denver and I think

You and I don’t think you’d pick Milwaukee to be playing them and I know you I mean my guess is Clippers like usual but um but not Milwaukee and I think that ultimately so you got Milwaukee that’s I think right now are a valuable stock I

Think right now they have been right I think right now America believes in for example the Clippers way more than they believe in Milwaukee I think right now obviously everyone believes in Boston More Than They believe in Milwaukee even though we haven’t seen Boston do it we

Have seen Giannis do it yeah and so I I’m not acting like it’s perfect and there haven’t been serious warning signs most notably their defensive rating has plummeted and we knew it would get worse when you go from Drew to Dame but I don’t know if we knew it would have this

Significant of a drop off but what they do have that they didn’t have last year is at the end of these playoff games someone who just go get a bucket in a way different than jannis can and Dame can still do that so I I don’t think

Doc’s the perfect coach and I don’t think they’re a perfect team but I think they are being kind of like ah it hasn’t looked exactly the way we wanted it to therefore and I still think they are as dangerous as anyone in the East there still the second best team in the East

With inbi out for sure you know what that was what remix of a Chief’s take what’s that that’s a remix of a Chiefs take what’s the re how so Midwestern team with an all-time great player who hasn’t doesn’t look right in the regular season but maybe later on it starts to

Coales and if that defense can get better you got an ultimate closer now like I mean it so it wasn’t intentional but as you’re describing it it now the Bucks aren’t the defending champs I don’t think Giannis has earned the difference that momes has but I do think

He might be the best player in the league and it yanis and at worst he is at worst third and you know what I mean at worst top three and so I I just think Milwaukee is if we get Milwaukee Boston in a playoff series I think I’d pick

Milwaukee do you think it’s at all analogous Brew to like when Harden showed up at the Clippers and we were like this doesn’t work and then they figured it out and ripped off the showing up yeah that that there’s a there’s a little bit of like weathering

Period and then it takes off well I definitely think they’ll adjust Doc and them will adjust and they’ll play much better under doc going forward no question about that with Harden look and we’ll get into this at some point there one thing that made that work Russell Westbrook’s humility in being willing to

Go to the bench the problem you guys know I’ve always said Harden is a great point guard when he wants to be he showed in Brooklyn in the brief time they had with Kyrie and KD they didn’t have enough time no they were all hurt

I’m just saying but he is a great point guard now he’s doing it with kg with uh PG and uh kawhai and Russ coming off the bench that was the problem four of them the four of them can’t be on the floor together but now yeah they might be I

Was asked this question a couple days ago will you kind of take the farewell tour or were you kind of just Tim dunking it I’m 5050 I’ve never been that great with um accepting like praise it’s it’s a weird feeling for me what are you guys laughing about what

Are you laughing about I’m just surprised that I’m surprised what are you surprised by that he doesn’t feel comfortable accepting PR you don’t have you don’t you feel that way you never like us to compliment you that’s true but I also don’t start the The Show by putting in an

Imaginary hi I’m Kevin Wilds that’s true okay I look LeBron I think he’s been great at accepting praise all right and here’s the thing and you you guys probably remember this LeBron is the one that made the MVP speech in for the NBA MVP award a thing like before that if you go

Back and remember guys would you know maybe be at their practice facility or before a game or something if they’re still playing I remember Duncan got one wearing like birken stocks and it wasn’t as big of a you know they the league would have their people there and they

Would give you the award you’d say a little something LeBron and he did a fantastic job but LeBron made it a production and then KD took the Baton and had his you know she’s the real MVP speech so that’s accepting praise and I’m not I think that was great for

LeBron because I think it should be that type of moment he had it at his High School

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to Shaq gives Dame some advice on the Bucks struggles