“Giannis is holding Damian Lillard and the Bucks back”

“Giannis is holding Damian Lillard and the Bucks back”

So one of the biggest conundrums in the NBA season so far is why is Dane been such a disappointment and why things aren’t working out for him and get what arena and friends are going to tell us it’s because of Yiannis bucks are 16-1 when Dame scores 30 points or more this

Season and they’re 9-3 in their last 12 games so G what is a win uh like this without Yannis due for the bucks confidence as they get ready for the playoffs get them Gil get him theck Killer this ain’t about the this ain’t about the Bucks confidence at all because

These are two different teams right these are two different completely like we’re not worried about this team what’s the record when Dame does what so Dame without Giannis I believe is three and one this season jannis without Dame the season is 0 and five yeah yeah so that’s

The issue the issue is are they going to realize that the offense needs to be for Dame not Giannis anymore ah yes the guy who’s been losing all his career who hasn’t want to change Championship the guy that was complaining about leaving a situation he

Was in to go join someone else the guy who joined somebody El’s team the the the guy who any postseason outside of really one Series against the Denver Nuggets has not looked that impressive at all the last time Dam has looked great in the postseason is against nicoa

Yic dropped that’s the last time he’s looked great in the postseason the offense needs to look for him we need to cater to the guy who when the offense was for him out in um in Portland and didn’t look that great not the guy who’s having literally one of the most

Efficient volume scoring seasons ever not the guy who was converting his two-pointers and finishing at the basket at a historic rate not the guy who was objectively speaking just a better basketball player we need to frame the offense for Dame I got it now I got thank you that is the problem the

Problem isn’t Dame and everybody else the problem is Dame and Yannis learning how to play together because right now all Dame’s EXP expion Yannis is gone them double teams don’t even matter right so you when Yannis is gone and you can focus on Dame he’s busting your ass

When Giannis is there he struggles yep but I think that’s a mental thing for Dane cuz he’s still getting like the shot attempts exactly it ain’t like Giannis is not giving him the ball jannis get his every way offensive rebound transition jannis sits for like eight straight minutes so Dan can do his

Thing it’s just like Dan got to It’s Like a Block like a mental block he has when he plays with jannis cuz jannis don’t limit him at all well if you think about is off the ball what is J doing off the ball slashing rebounding so when

He not in the game he actually got more shooters shooters in more space but he shoot three step backs anyway he a be way over only guy that’s not shooting on the floor when when he on the floor with Yannis jannis the only man is not so far

Away not even help they double off a Giannis man so when he does a pick and roll with giannis’s man they double him but a lot of time he ain’t doing picking rolls with jiannis no more they doing it with Brook Lopez now and jannis be

Standing way over there so jannis man is not even in the play crazy I want to get this straight Damon is on a team where there’s three-point three-point shooting at every position except for one and all of a sudden oh I can’t do it my shooting

Splits go down I can’t do it mind you cuz this right here is just a full of Dame has been on teams where there hasn’t been three-point shooting at every position this is by far the most floor spacing Dame has ever had at any point in his career even when

Giannis is on the floor so this idea like oh man giannis’s guy is he’s just leaving Giannis opening if he’s leaving Giannis open and you can’t find a way to get the ball to Giannis that’s still a Dame’s problem that’s not a Yannis problem but hey man it’s it’s easier to

Just blame Giannis for why this man is struggling Dame doesn’t want to do pick and roll with Giannis even though that’s the play that should be the most he wants to do pick and roll with uh Brooke because you can’t double off of Brooke right so I think so they’re playing two

Different offenses inside the same offense and it’s they not they notan is not an do house think about it if jannis is down in the dog house and you playing pick and pop with Brooke it’s a better opportunity for jannis to get it off the

Glass or to duck in if if he actually turned the corner on the double but he is rebounding getting off the glass but that’s not the pick and roll that they’re doing they’re doing pick and roll Yannis is popping he becomes a liability they stopped they’ve learned

Not to do it with him he not even but he’s not even doing Slow Roll he should slow roll it so he can Draymond it when he get the ball in the mid now he can make a decision but then there’s no dog house for him to make that extra pass

That’s in the corner and you got the you’re spreading let’s let’s let me let me stop for a second because there’s there’s some truth behind what they’re saying but also they’re they’re dragging it and I don’t know how Giannis is the blame for what Dame is doing so a yes I

I wholeheartly agree the part of problem with Giannis when he sets screams is that he always doesn’t roll hard to the basket sometimes he floats around too much he he doesn’t seem directed and guided as a sidebar that’s coaching for the people out there who trying to figure out why exactly Adrien Griffin

Got fired why exactly did Coach Bud get fired is because the nuances especially off ball with Giannis was completely missing was never actually addressed over the past couple of years that that is a a very real problem this year you’re seeing it Giannis sets a screen sometime he’s floating he’s floating

Near the three-point line when he should be diving to the basket also just as a sidebar as well Giannis isn’t the greatest screen Setter either so I believe a much bigger benefit when um Brook Lopez and Bobby poris are on the floor is that they are setting much

Better screens bigger body bigger frame wider frame and they set good screens and they can pop to the basket and then that’s that they can attack from there and Dame has a much better angle to the basket when it comes to Giannis he’s not getting a wider frame so Defenders are

Able to shoot through the screen or they’re still able to contain if they decided to um go over the screen or even ice sometimes because they’ll ice Dame on a screen and when they’re icing him they have to kick it back to um Giannis who’s at the three-point line and so

Then that makes the dynamic a bit more difficult for Dam to scoring all fair however like Norris Cole is trying to say they’ve actually gone away from the Yiannis pick and roll they have him more in a dunker and sometimes on a baseline in the corner three I don’t I don’t like

That position but they do have him in other spots on the floor and they start to run Brook Lopez and and Dame pick and rolls much more often now again to be fair when Yannis is in a corner three I don’t like that either I I just think

That’s terrible I I want to be preface all this by saying that’s all still coaching problems this is giannis’s third coach where they have blatantly put him in position off ball in wrong situations they put him in the corner they had him at the top of the three-point line they’re not directing

And coaching him to say hey when you set a screen you need to dive to the basket every single time because it’s not just to benefit you as a ball handle or somebody coming off the screen it’s also to benefit the shooters around you it’s also benefiting the ball handler coming

Off with the pick and roll if you dive to the basket it benefits everyone so Giannis has to be taught those those are things that Giannis just he struggles with he’s been struggling with however even when yanis does float around a little bit and he’s not aggressive as a

Diver bro the team is still giving him a cushion to attack and Giannis can attack in space with the best of him so even when you cushion off of Giannis when you’re dropping off him or you dropped off the pick and roll and you’re trying to recover back to Giannis and obviously

You’re not biting on a pump fake jannis is still going to attack and when he gets to the basket he can still finish so you still have a great player who’s running the pick and roll who’s still getting the space that he can eat up to attack the basket that Yannis normally

Does anyway so it’s still a really great option from a passing and playmaking standpoint from scoring I can’t understand but from passing and playmaking it’s it’s all fine how however and I cannot reiterate this enough if Damien Lillard still can’t figure it out especially with him being

Such a skill score oh my God if Dam can’t figure it out because there’s one non-floor spacer on the floor and even if hypothetically but this doesn’t happen even if hypothetically giannis’s man is helping off of Giannis when he’s in a weak side corner and Dame still

Can’t make the proper reads and he still can’t make the the reads quick enough before that help comes that’s still a Dame problem however that’s not what’s actually happening I yeah I highly doubt they’ll talk about what Dame is shooting on catch and shoot I highly doubt what

These are going to sit here and talk about what Dame does as a pass and playmaker because a lot of the reads that are needed and necessary out of the pick and roll Dame just can’t do and he struggled with that for the last like almost decade at this point I highly

Doubt their talk about that he got to adjust he has to adjust he never won a championship Yiannis didn’t won one D got to adjust a little bit to learn how to manipulate the pick and roll cuz it should be a deadly pick and roll with him in honest if he manipulated right

It’s just in his Playbook I’m going be honest though whole harly agree at the end of the day and and let’s be clear the whole thing of oh when when Dan plays by himself they and when jiannis plays by himself they’re like that’s irrelevant because at the end of the day

They got to figure out how to win together so what these players look like when they’re by themselves doesn’t even matter that that’s that is irrelevant when they going to postseason both of them need to be available and healthy to play it don’t matter if Dame is only

Putting up 25 points or 15 points and Yannis is putting up 60 or vice versa it don’t really matter but they got to figure it out but in terms of D being more dynamic in pick and roll settings that is 100% true because again just to be completely transparent I’m not saying

Giannis is without to blame again better screen Setter needs to dive to the basket a little bit better as well understand the short roll or or um can’t call it the Slow Roll similar to what Draymond does when he sets a screen and he kind of slow rolls or he kind of what

Slow or short roll depend on what you call it Draymond sets a screen he kind of meets it halfway near the elbow he kind of rolls into the elbow Curry dips it off and then after Draymond gets it at the elbow High elbow he dribbles a little little bit and then Iguodala or

Kaminga they’ll cut Baseline he’s throwing a lob or he’s making a read or whatever like though that situation that is what Yannis should be doing right but at the end of the day regard regardless of what they need to do they got to figure it out and as much as we can

Criticize jannis I believe a much bigger problem is Dame inability to be dynamic out of the pick and roll because a lot of what Dame does score score score score score Dame isn’t the greatest pocket passer he’s not making reads when he gets Blitz and double because he’s

Going to see those type of looks regardless regardless of who’s on the floor he’s going to see those type of coverages all the time so Dame has to also be better in that and that’s something that Dame has struggled with for years now they can get hurt in the

Playoffs because Giannis already gets stuck in his ways in the playoffs when they try to load up and if if Dame realizes oh y’all loading up on him let me do my thing the defense and Dame’s deciding to go pick and roll with jiannis could really I mean with a lope

Yeah but with Middleton back you also have another shooter yep that second unit when Yannis go sit down Dam Damon Middleton that could be nice hopefully Dame don’t do one of these it’s crazy that that this team is struggling the way that they are because I I remember I

Made a video on the main channnel a lot of this stuff I talked about on the main Channel as well I did a video not only on the main Channel but on my other channel is well low poost where I was talking about this Dynamic and you know

Of course Buck fans and I understand they’re Buck fans in the comment section they’re going a top five offense top five offense the concept of why they’re firing coaches why they’re making adjust why they brought in Damen Lillard isn’t because of regular season standings isn’t because of regular season

Efficiency it’s because they know when a postseason comes there’s a lack of depth there’s a lack of of of structure and complexity to their offense that made it easier for their top five or top whatever offense in Prior years to look like an average offense and that was the

Problem and so it’s crazy that you add someone who should be adding some complexity to it now it’s so many pieces that it’s a bit over complicated right again I think Giannis owns some responsibility in that but I think that as time progresses what’s going to end

Up happening is more and more people are going to be keened in to who Dame is as a player because a lot of these things that they’re struggling with does not surprise anyone who’s who actively watch Dame in playoff settings in Portland none of this should surprise you

Whatsoever it it is not coincidence that in the postseason Dame go back to that Pelican Series where he was getting defended by Rondo and Drew holiday and Anthony Davis roaming go look at how he how he was in pick and roll settings then go look at how Dame has always been

Defended in pick and roll set go look at how Draymond and then was defending him and pick and roles against the Golden State Warriors series in Conference Finals a few years ago go look at that and so what’s going to happen is you’re still going to see those problems this

Team is going to go up against the Boston Celtics and Drew holiday and Derek white is going to be a problem for D he gonna have to figure that out and I’m telling you right now it don’t matter if it’s Giannis it don’t matter if it’s Brook Lopez it don’t matter if

It’s it could be a brick wall standing out there if that cannot figure out how to pick I operate in pick and roll as a passer and playm maker it don’t matter who setting screens it’s going to be a problem cuz hey why did they trade coaches do you really want

That why you know why you tell me tell me why cuz jannis wasn’t getting the touches thatd he why you think jannis kept taking the clipboard hey man let’s do it just do this where I get it and then I let me and then you think that you really think you see this

Narratives Dame is the one who actually’s been on Rec record saying that the offense wasn’t ran the right way and what Giannis was actually complaining about more vocally was the execution on the defensive side Damen Lillard reportedly had Hard Times adjusting to Milwaukee’s offensive schemes along the way League sources say

Lillard has spent much of the Season struggling with the buck with the way the bucks functioned on the offensive end while he had remained patient with coaching with coaches and teammates there was an inevitable pressure on Griffin from an organization to make the most out of Lillard’s talent in the kind

Of way that would validate the choice the part ways with Drew holiday Grayson Allen and three first rounders to order to land him so on record there’s been reports saying that Dame is the one who had problems with the offense not Giannis but you see this is how

Narratives start my question no no I said who does that fall on right if Giannis isn’t rolling where do dot but where does Doc come in and that and that’s where the real problems are I’m not even going to sit here and listen to Rashard mcant give this bail

Because I’m the the last person on the Buc I’m going to start blaming is the that’s having the most efficient season of his career putting up 30 points getting to the free Throne line at a at a historic rate and also has to clean up all of this mess on the

Other side of the floor because these for whatever reason don’t want to talk about defense is is only so much better that this team can become offensively I’m not saying that they can’t see significant improvements because they can but at the end of the day the biggest problem that they having

Is that defensively they haven’t been that good throughout the entire season and when they actually match up against Great competent offensive players the opposing team always knows we can get off on this Dame anytime we want to I’m not going to blame Yannis Dame this season on catch and shoot threes is

Shooting 33% Dame when he’s receiving no dribbles of effectively catch and shootter pull up on zero dribbles 34% Dame when he’s left wide open 39% when he is slightly open sub 35% and that’s where most of his shots come from for comparison last year on catch and shoot

Threes 36% instead of 33 on those shots when he was left slightly open 38% instead of I think it was like 32 38% instead of 3435 so like Norris Cole said these are same effectively the same quality shots he’s just missing them more they ain’t got to do with

Yannis he’s just missing his shots but yo let me know your thoughts in the comments section below if you want a more deeper dive and my thoughts on the whole Milwaukee Bucks and Dame and Lillard situation check out my main Channel video I did a deep dive and we

Really talked about what Dame really is struggling with and not no n talk but if you want to do that make sure you hit to subscribe button notification Bell and until next time I’ll see you all later peace

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