Shorthanded Milwaukee Bucks lose to an even more shorthanded Memphis Grizzlies team, 111-101
What it do welcome to a new episode of Locked on bucks that’s all I can really do y’all is sigh at this point the Bucs lost to 10 lost by 10 to the Memphis Grizzlies I was gonna say Memphis Hustle but like I mean pretty much this was just an
Embarrassing game coming off the heels of another embarrassing loss to the Washington Wizards let’s not waste too much time on this cold intro and let’s just get into the the meat of this here You are locked on bucks your daily Milwaukee Bucks podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day you are locked on bucks part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day I’m Camille Davis you can catch me weekly on the technical file
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You guys can tell the disappointment that’s on my face disappointment that is in my voice this was just flat out embarrassing once again the bugs lost to the Wizards last night in Washington they lose today at home against the Memphis Grizzlies they are now one and
Four over the last five games the Bucks laid an egg tonight I don’t even really know where to begin with just how disappointing this particular loss was I think it’s even more so because what we just saw last night and we were looking for today as a time for the Bucs to get
Back yes yes they didn’t have Dame yes they did not have Chris there was no Pat Beth understood understood yet and still the short-handed bucks were outworked by an even more short-handed Memphis Grizzlies team and Yannis got hurt you know yeah um I mean I think that’s the to me the
Biggest headline from this Giannis was really bad offensively really from the start and hard to tell exactly when he aggravated the hamstring injury he took a heart he got blocked by Jake laravia and fell hard early in the game and then finally he was three out of 13 finally
Got to the basket and finished right before halftime and came down and grabbed at the back of his left leg which is the hamstring that he’s been on the injury report with for the past month or whatever and then basically just like didn’t try on the other end of
The Court you know like couldn’t box somebody out gave up a layup um to go into halftime and you know I was thinking like okay like is he gonna just do his Giannis thing and battle through this because it feels like he’s not playing Friday um the way that he was moving and
He came out and I mean the fact that he had like five blocks and like four of them were like incredibly impressive he had pretty crazy sequence in the third quarter where he had a block went end to end dunked had a couple of end to end
Dunks which is just like again the fact that he’s doing this on one leg practically speaks to just like what he’s able to do his pain threshold and you know again just that you he just can like will himself to do things that any normal person could
Never imagine um but he clearly wasn’t right and after the game Doc River said he wasn’t right he said Giannis kept saying he was fine medical people said he was fine supposedly but then Bach was saying like oh he wishes he took him out in the third
Quarter um so I mean again if you have tickets to Friday’s game against the Raptors who’ve lost what 15 in a row and have been outscored by 288 points I would sell those as fast as you can because I would not want to see the Bucks potentially lose to that team
Because it’s probably going to be without Giannis and who knows if Dame’s gonna come back at that point because he’s obviously coming back from the groin injury and they don’t want to risk him either and at this point you know I mean again like what I’ve been saying
About this team all year like when they’ve got their best players they’re awesome when anything is off you know anybody’s missing except Giannis for some reason they’ve won a bunch of games without Giannis playing somehow but when Dame’s out they’re horrendous obviously when Chris has was out for a long period
The offense went in the toilet um they’re just a super fragile team which speaks to the fact that you know they’ve had two coaches and don’t seem to have obviously a strong identity on offense at this point I mean they have Pat conon running point guard right which knew
That was coming yeah you know I mean it’s just it’s still one of these kind of things you look back that kind of baffling right I mean John horse went into like campaign wasn’t even on the roster until training camp and they only were able to sign campaign because of
The trade opening up a roster spot um with Dame with Dame coming in and and two players going out so I know it’s just very bizarre when you think about how little playmaking they’ve had all year we saw Tai Tai Washington randomly get minutes tonight we saw Andre Jackson
Get minutes tonight shockingly those guys were not the answer that you know solved all the Buc problems of course not they’re young players and they’ve barely played um but yeah I mean it’s it was just a crazy game buck shot 40% from three the the uh what were they the Bucks were 18
Of4 that’s what kept them in the game and then they went cold at the end missed their last 10 three-point attempts yeah bucks were like plus 30 or something from the three-point line they deserved to miss a bunch because they were unsustainably hot you knew there
Was a I mean I tweeted about it like I it scared the hell out of me that they’re 14 of 27 from three the Grizz were five of 17 team going into the fourth quarter and the Griz were winning by a point like that’s a bad sign cuz
Like you are just like riding unsustainable three-point shooting and lo and behold of course they missed a bunch of Threes in the fourth quarter because the game tends even yeah the game tends to even out a little bit so um so yeah I mean like the Bucks were
Not a very talented team especially when CIS was you know a shell of himself and yeah this team like right now is just like I don’t know I don’t know what’s going on in their heads but they’re in really bad place and I think most Bucks fans are too yeah can’t blame
Them really can’t blame him at this point given what this team has put on tape the last five games here you mentioned the Giannis injury which I think is a great place to start uh because even before he took that fall like he was missing just bunnies and I
Was wondering like I wonder how he’s feeling today second I of back toback uh coming in here and we know that he’s been dealing with that hamstring injury we heard Yannis talk about how that’s something that he doesn’t even want to play around with for the most part and
Hearing about Dame like okay he has his groin injury the team is looking to be cautious with him you know just don’t want to aggravate anything want to make sure he’s healthy for the playoffs cool get that Chris Middleton we didn’t expect him to play that’s not what he’s
Done all season he does not play the second night a back toback again the injury concern is just trying to get him to the playoffs as healthy as possible so to see honnest out there especially after he took that fall that you mentioned and seeing him grabbing at his
Hamstring I even saw him grabbing at it in the second half as well when he was looking better because as you mentioned he started off the game four4 from the field in the first half which is very un Yannis likee missing bunnies just missing shots that he
Normally will make and then in the second half he goes six of nine and you’re like okay well he’s coming out he’s dunking he’s getting Blocks he’s looking more Giannis likee okay but then yet and still you see him grabbing at his hamstring and to the quote that you
Were talking about with Doc Rivers uh I just want to read it all the way through because it’s the ending of it that really had me just be like okay D I thought jiannis did everything he could honestly I’m not kidding there were times in the
Beginning of the third where I talked to Scott three different times wanted to take him out the game I was thought he was running on fumes as a coach you got to make a judgment call sometimes and medical makes the call more they kept
Saying he was okay but I have eyes and I just didn’t like the way he was moving and that is why I took him out the one time early in the third quarter he kept asking to go back in and trainer said he was fine so we kind of stuck there but I
Wish I would have just said said no honestly and with that quote outside of what we talked about with him not just looking right like the hamstring like it was bothering him but also that fatigue factor of it right second back to back if he’s looking like he doesn’t have it
And he’s on fumes like we know those are times too when injuries can get more like they can get worse situations like that hopefully that’s not the case with Giannis but like you said I would expect that we don’t see Giannis on Friday to give him some time to try to get right
Ahead of the playoffs but we’re going to have to see once we get there and the injury report starts coming out tomorrow but in a game like this where as we mentioned no Dame no Chris no Pat Bev which again not using that as an excuse
As to why the bugs won they should have still won this game based on the talent on the floor but in a game like this knowing that this is a team that when they’re healthy you know they’re rolling as you mentioned it’s kind of a fragile ecosystem around this team when pieces
Are missing what do you take away from games like this and are there any like larger trends that we have seen that might indicate some problems forthcoming in the playoffs or some things where it’s like Ah that’s actually not that big of a thing we’re gon to dive more into that after
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Every day now before the break I just asked like what do you take away from games like this are there any trends that stand out so on and so forth and even with the bodies missing for me one thing that stood out to me was just the
Points in the paint that were given up like to give up 70 to Washington last night buck score 56 points in the paints thems against the Wizards to come back home today against the Grizzlies and give up 76 points in the paint it’s unacceptable the Bucs were only able to score 36
Points in the paint like Frank like you mentioned earlier when you saw the three-point discrepancy and you’re like okay this game is little close for the bucks to be shooting this well from three you look at the points in the paint and that’s an area where the Bucks
Just got thrashed like Brook Lopez has been a lightning rod of opinions throughout the season about people saying you know he’s washed he can’t defend so on and so forth and it wasn’t a great match up for him tonight with jiren Jackson Jr like there were just times especially in the second half
Where the Grizzlies are like just just ISO just give the ball to jiren clear out let him go one-on-one against Brooke and the Bucks were just beat straight line off the dribble a lot in these ISO situations it wasn’t just Brooke it was guards as well it just was not a clean
Game defensively for this team just the effort levels just haven’t been there and again I’m not sure if it’s towards the end of the season looking at the competition just not quite into the game but that in itself is disappointing to me because like I mentioned on yesterday’s episode of lock on bucks
This is not the time of the year where you want to see your team just taking it easy like I get it’s a long season 82 games everyone’s not going to be perfect but this is the time of the year where you really want to start to see teams
Put it together and what we’ve seen the last two games from the Bucs in particular haven’t been encouraging again one and four over their last five with the loss to the Lakers at home in the double overtime time the Pelicans lost they did beat the Hawks but then
You lose back to back against Washington and Memphis as well so again with the roster not having all the pieces you kind of look okay well there’s a hole here I mean we had again a lot of point guard Pat conon in this game we had Tai Tai we had some really interesting
Lineups tonight given the fact that there were some key bucks out but Frank when you’re looking at a game like this coming on the heels of what we’ve seen from the Bucks what are you taking away from the these games I mean you know like obviously the
This isn’t the roster and the lineups that you know you expect hope to see in the playoffs so I mean it’s it’s hard to take anything really away from like specific tactical combinations and things like that um you know it sucked with Brooke because I mean he finally
Had a big offensive game 25 points on 14 shots 10 rebounds um and you know the the lasting memory for most people this game is is Triple J just going to work on him and you know the second half just was able to attack him and you know get to pretty good
Spots and sometimes even when he didn’t get to great spots you know was able to use his touch to finish over him and you know I mean bucks didn’t send any help right bucks didn’t try to put Giannis on him I don’t think Giannis would have fared really any better because Giannis
Isn’t really a strong postup Defender um so I I think again it’s just too bad obviously you wish that bucks could have shown more help I mean Grizzlies weren’t exactly like hoisting tons of threes and putting lots of three-point Shooters around Triple J Triple J tonight like
You would have thought doc would have like tried to send some help or throw him a little bit of a curveball or something but not really um so you know again it just seems like everybody’s just kind of out of ideas right now for
The bucks and um I don’t know I mean you look at you look at the schedule coming up I mean they get the worst team in basketball at the moment on Friday I have no idea what’s going to happen honestly like I have no idea like
We’re going to get a shell of a buck team probably on Friday against a shell of a Raptor’s team on Friday like I I have no idea what to expect um I guess I’ll walk it watch it because I hate myself Camille um thank God I don’t have
To podcast about it um but uh anyway um so I have no idea but thereafter you get the Knicks at home I guess what is it Nicks Celtics and then Orlando you know basically all top four east teams so does that mean the Bucks are going to like actually show up because they’re
Actually playing good teams well that would be nice but who knows right at this point I just I just want this team to get healthy you know like I I was saying the other day when I was talking to Dan Devine from ball don’t lie like
Well you know the goal was get the two seed and get healthy going into the play offs that was really like pretty much like really what you wanted that in in that order well health and then then the two seed and you know clearly I jinxed
It because the Bucks are just trying to light that two- seat on fire right now although Cleveland’s getting blown out by the Suns right now at half time I mean Cleveland’s just playing like crap the Knicks have lost a bunch of games I mean all these teams in the East are
Just backing their way in like all the all the basically top four seeds in the East look like other than the Celtics you know look like playing teams in in the west right now um so thankfully we’re you know we’re rooting for a team in the East right um
So yeah I don’t know I mean obviously that Knicks game is massive because of the Swing Factor bucks can’t lose the home court or sorry the tiebreaker with uh with the Knicks either way because they already are up 3-1 in that series season series but um but I mean that’s a
Huge swing game obviously if they um lose that game and the Knicks win obviously it uh that’s that’s huge for the Knicks chances of of moving up but yeah I mean who knows right and and you get what the Thunder and Magic then again um to close the
Season who knows if those teams will have stuff to play for or not you know those teams could be resting a bunch of people those teams could be super incentivized to try to win because of playoff seating like we have no idea at this point um so I think if you’re the
Bucks like you know groin injury to Dame like when he had eventually had surgery two years ago and missed like a huge portion of the Season it started off as a groin injury that is going to assume that’s not another uh version of that but um obviously it’s worrying because
Those types of muscle injuries linger and as we’ve seen with Yannis this hamstring thing has been lingering for a month and now you know it looks like it was as worse you know as bad as it’s as it’s been um a night after looking physically awesome you know tonight
Obviously he just looked really compromised and just CU he jannis sort of played through it so yeah I don’t know well are we going to see a full version of the Bucks again before the end of the regular season I hope so but um I think all bets are off at this
Point with this team and um yeah you’re just hoping that you know they can come together and uh get a favorable match up in the first round I guess I I don’t know right um it’s uh it’s just a weird weird time with this team right now and I’m
Probably I mean the thing I’m probably most worried about is just other than the health is just where where is where are these guys heads at at this point like you know I don’t know maybe they maybe they don’t care that much because they’re not worried about
Seating and they just want to get to the playoffs I mean kind of seems like they just want to get to the playoffs way they’re playing um but I don’t know I mean are they all sitting around questioning WTF is going on like we are I don’t know right like
If if they’re all having doubts I mean I’m I’m sure the coaching staff is scratching their head saying what the heck is going on um because they clearly have not have not been able to dial up any answers here the the past 24 hours but you know you can go back obviously
Like really since the beginning of the doc tenure obviously it’s been been a pretty uh pretty up and down and overall you know very mediocre period in terms of results um overall yeah I believe was is it 15 and 15 now under under dock or something like that I believe there are
500 team right now under doc but can always go back to Joe pry Camille I thought you were gonna say Adrien Griffin so I’m happy you went with Joe pry here by the way this is like these people like in I was see on Twitter like like like apparently the
The like Adrian Griffin truther people or something like that like coming out like oh they never should have fired a griffin okay if you want to argue that they shouldn’t have fired Adrien Griffin because your only chance of winning next year is by basically just biting the bullet
Taking the L on this season and then firing Griff this you know this uh this summer and then you know having a proper coaching search in the summer and you know by hiring Doc and having to commit to him you’ve denied yourself that opportunity of having a real coaching
Search that I like I mean on the one hand it’s like I think you’re punting on this season which is you know one of maybe two seasons you’re going to have with this core to actually contend which it’s a pretty pretty hard pill to swallow which obviously John hor and the
Ownership was not willing to do um but I can at least entertain that theoretical argument but the idea that like Griff was Griff is was like the answer and now and they they gave up a guy that actually yeah like that again people like the mistakes with coaches are
Always The Hires so if you want to say that that doc was a bad hire hey you know you’re you’re probably going to be proven right because odds are we’re always at the Bucks we’re not going to win a championship making a change mid-season no matter who they hired um
But the mistake is not the original sin here was the hiring of Adrien Griffin right um I don’t even think it was the firing of Mike buher I love bud but I think again coaches have her expiration dates I think something had had to kind of give there um so again
The to me the when you kind of go back with with coaching stuff it’s always who you hired it’s never that you fired a guy too early or whatever right I mean so yeah if if you want to complain about the Bucks coaching hey complain about
Doc Doc Rivers who I mean let’s be honest like parachuting in to a team midseason is not difficult situation right um that that is kind of not not exactly a recipe for success but um but blame it on Doc don’t let’s not run around giving you know thinking that
Adrien Griffin was somehow now like uh you know legitimized and oh he was actually a good coach because basically what you’re saying is that that Adrien Griffin’s offensive you know tactics were brilliant because that’s why the Bucks were good the Bucks were much worse defensively but they were great
Offensively so the argument is like well Adrian Griffin was you know an offensive Mastermind so that’s why he clearly should have been kept around like come on guys like this none of this that that logic just doesn’t flow either so anyway guys like we can worry about a lot of
Things but firing AJ and Griffin like that that that ain’t on the list that wasn’t one but you know I think that’s actually a good place to just kind of take a look stop almost give up give up on the rest of this podcast yeah almost but no just
A look at the Bucks since the coaching switch and just I don’t want to say sound like an Eminem fan where it’s like will the real bucks please stand up but like what what is this team exactly and it’s really hard I think to really pinpoint on that because of the flux
That the roster has been in injury-wise since doc has really taken over at the helm of this team but we can dive into that a little bit deeper and then just take a look around the league and what’s coming up next for the bucks after this
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And 15 since January 23rd I believe that does not include tonight’s loss I think it actually is 17 and 16 at this point and coming out of All-Star with this team it was very encouraging you think about when doc took over we mentioned it’s not going to be a quick turnaround
For this team and when people point to the offense with Adrien Griffin what we have learned from just hearing what’s come out from the team it seems like the team was leing a lot on their own Talent not really running plays or running actions it was a big complaint of course
Of like there’s not enough twom man game between Giannis and Dane we want to see more of that doc comes in he’s trying to implement the offense get the player secure around that and he mentioned they’re going to be learning uh pains with that mentioned that hey as long as
We get the process right the results might not start coming but we’re working on getting the process and even in Doc’s press conference tonight he didn’t seem outwardly concerned about the prospects of this team going forward saying like the last two nights like there are
Things in there that we need to clean up Point paints for for an example of one of them transition defense another he’s like but like nothing that gives me really big pause about what this team can be in the playoffs for me personally it’s like what you mentioned Frank like
If this team is healthy what we’ve seen when they’re all healthy on the floor together the results speak for themselves they have been a better team when healthy they’ve been a better team when they’re playing against good competition it’s just these moments like tonight and last night when they’re
Against competition where you’re like hey this on the schedule this should be a game you circle like take care of business tonight this should be a good win for the bucks didn’t happen that way again for this team tonight and now we are just a handful of games outside of
The playoffs the Bucs have four more home games after kicking off this current five-game home stand with the loss they wrap up the regular season as we mentioned at home here uh with the Raptors up next and then the Knicks and then after that you have uh
Boston and Orlando then you head to the road and you go to Oklahoma City in Orlando and at the end of the year it’s always interesting as well because you don’t necessarily know what lineups you’re going to see because teams do tend to rest players if seating is not
Important or something that they can really change at that point point you see guys wrestling to be healthy heading into the playoffs and a lot of talk around this team has been the team under Dock and was this the right decision and you mentioned the original sin was
Probably in the hiring of Adrien Griffin and I’ve mentioned before in the past as well if you would have told me after Mike boser was fired that Doc Rivers was going to be the coach leading this team into the playoffs said we have Doc Rivers at home like I mean we have yeah
Like why are we doing this but I mean they interviewed they interviewed like every human being who had ever coached a basketball game right that was like the joke the Bucks interviewed every living person but not but not Doc Rivers right so that’s like the great irony of all
This is the guy that like was the only available head coach who was not interviewed last summer ended up getting the job so hey you know patience good patience for Doc Rivers right you know just waited and got 40 million bucks or whatever he’s this multi-year coaching
Deal uh that he has with the team now but again trying to shift through all of the noise around the season again long season but we’re getting towards the end of it there are only six games left at this point and The Vibes just don’t seem good around this team we’re starting to
See them have some of the lapses that you saw them having when doc was trying to implement things and at this point you don’t necessarily expect to see that but all that being said at this point in the season Frank I know we kind of talked about it last night which is like
I don’t know if I trust the Bucks heading into the playoffs at this point but no definitely not like this is the team that we have so we’re free of expectations Camille it’s a it’s a beautiful thing we we’ve got no expectations 100% you know can see the
Bucks losing in five to a seven seed whoever that might be so we’re expecting the worst the Bucks are perfectly positioned to uh you know overcome our minimal expectations and pleasantly surprise us right like hey you know bucks bucks when the Bucks have been awesome in the regular season they’ve
Always disappointed us so things are just working out perfectly Camille that’s my that’s my backward logic that I’m going to apply here so it seems like I mean at this point it’s one of those I mean we mentioned we brought back the throwback can’t trust the bucks but it
Does seem like the wide array of outcomes for this team where it’s like if they were put out in the first round you’re like that doesn’t surprise me Eastern Conference Finals I could see that too NBA Finals hey maybe if things break right for him but I don’t know
Frank it’s it’s been a the last few weeks in particular have been just a bit disheartening uh given how they came out of break initially and just seeing them kind of stumble now to the Finish Line it just it it it’s bringing my personal confidence down on what to expect with this
Team yeah the they didn’t really have to do a whole lot to make us feel like at least they have had a chance like literally just beat like tanking teams with like no NBA players but that alas has become too high a bar for them this version of the Milwaukee Buck
So oh well I’m just glad I don’t have to podcast the next two games so um I can go think about other things so Camille yeah I hope you have a great week listeners I hope you have a great week think about things that are not the
Milwaukee Buck that would be my re my recommendation hey that’s a good recommendation but we will be back with more locked on bucks for Friday Justin and I have some time you know this is this is fresh reactions after watching the the embarrassment of losing to you you’ve seen the have you seen
Temptations movie where it’s like I’m David Ruff and these are The Temptations like it was jiren Jackson and these are the rest of the Memphis Grizzly like that was the game today where it was just jiren Jackson Jr just doing what he wanted to do with the the Memphis Hustle
But we will be back with more locked on bucks a little bit more time after this game to reflect on what we’ve seen the last week and also preview what’s up forthcoming uh for the bucks that postgame show next week we might have scheduling notes about that but we can
Talk to you guys about that on Friday’s episode so for Frank and myself we’ll catch you later
The Milwaukee Bucks followed up a disappointing loss to the Washington Wizards with a baffling 10-point home loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
Even without Damian Lillard, Khris Middleton and Patrick Beverley, this was a matchup that the Bucks were expected to win.
What do you take away from a game like this? Camille and Frank discuss the biggest concerns from this game and attempt to decipher what to expect of this Bucks team down the stretch.
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Celtics in 5 and it ain’t even funny
The Milwaukee Bucks losing to the Grizz & the Wizards in back to back games is peak Doc Rivers 🤦♀️🤷♀️
There are some underlying issues with this team. Time will tell 🤔
Bucks getting into post season form.. here comes the heat
Giannis needs to take rest of season off till post season
No excuse it was the Grizzlies they were missing guys too
We suck rn! I hope everyone gets healthy!! We’re losing faith in our team! They have to prove themselves in this first round! Cuz as the looks at it we’re going home in the first round again! And i don’t even care who we see first Thts the bad part! 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I dont even care about the playoffs anymore at this point. This is a disgrace!!!! 1st round exit 😭
Sad SMH!!!😂😂😂
Bucks really lost their chance when they got rid of holiday and Allen. They have nobody on the perimeter to stop anyone. One top of that bucks are a team that guard the paint heavy and bad at guarding the 3. Now add that with nobody on the perimeter being able to keep a parked car in front of them, being big and slow running Giannis and Lopez along with portis will get torched by fast guards. Plus your bench is inconsistent. Tie that that you got a coach that hasn’t gotten past the second round since 08 with who?!,!? The Celtics lol. Bucks are getting exactly what they deserve with trying to give up core for superstars. Bucks also have such a good start because they had the second easiest strength of schedule to start the season! Bucks will get torched. Add that with injury prone dame Middleton pat Bev. And now add Giannis. Good luck guys
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We didn’t have the right roster from the start of season. Malik was there to play with Jrue, but once we got Dame, the team had to rethink about starting two guard position.
😂😂😂. While Jrue just won 60 games with Boston and clinched first in the league. He doesn’t even have to score and they blow out teams by 35! All Jrue has to do in Boston is focus on defense. We let players do what they’re good at, Bucks had him as a second scoring option. At 33 he’s just not that type of player. In Boston he just shoots open 3s, posts up smaller guards, plays PG and creates easy buckets, and lock down defense.
Y'all Buddy Eric and the rest of the Milwaukee media are letting Doc getting away with throwing people under the bus
We are old and slow.we have players that should not be playing. No bench its only Giannis trying for the team. It's not working.
Boy it's a good thing I couldn't find this stinker on TV. Lol seems like ESPN knew not to put the bucks on national TV
This has been a hard season to watch. Dame has been a major meh! I really miss Jrue. And how dumb was it to fire Bud when the list of replacements was a first time head Coach and known choker. This team is going nowhere. I think we should see what we could get for Dame this off-season. Unfortunately this season has shown that his stats dont translate to wins.
By nature, I don't swear,, this year I have used the F word about 100 times. 99 time were during this game. A G-League team, with only 1 NBA player, shooting 30% from 3 beat us by 10 !!! F F, We allowed this guy to build a 4 lane Highway to the Basket.
Its hard to watch this organization trending in the wrong direction.
Every team they ALMOST lost to with AG, they lost to with DOC.😂
There's a lot things with this team 1st it was Def and sure it's a problem but it's a no Def league and that is the problem I could write a book on this team and I tired of these homes making excuses they will be lucky to get out of the 1st round of the playoffs the roster is bad get real
These two past losses show just how important Dame is to the team. Even when he’s not shooting well, he’s at least running the team and drawing defenders towards him.
38 minutes for Malik Beasley is crazy. Why tf are we putting Tyty in the game when we could’ve actually spent time these past 20 games giving more reps to Marjon and Ajax. I know they are not gonna save this team but my God.. they are a better push off the bench than Danilo. We rely on Ballhog Bobby, Point guard Pat, Jogger Jae, and Porcelain Pat Bev to carry our bench?
Well only ten games left max with the playoffs . Giannis will be gone till the playoffs then we lose four straight and think about trading Dame for what we can get with his diminished value !
There's no excuses. I don't want to hear about the shorthanded bucks. I did not watch this game tonight. Cause I knew it was gonna happen before it happened. You can just get a feel for these things. So they fired AG with a 30-11 record just for this trash It's only 6 games left if I'm not mistaken.This is gonna take a Herculean effor to.Make anything out of the playoffs.I'm pretty confident.They can't beat the celtics that's for sure And they don't deserve the 2# seed.They might back into it though
Frank is so over this. I'm with him.
Bucks look lost…anyway Camille you are the cutest
I think they want the 3 seed to avoid philly or Miami.
Docjust now playing the young guys and of course they're not ready like the young guys on memphis who have been playing all season
Why isnt anybody speaking on why was Pat Connaughton playing 35 minutes at the point guard
Haha. Eff the Bucs
In can’t believe there are bucks fans that think this team can win anything. It’s embarrassing And mages the fan base look dumb. 1 st round exit.
This Milwaukee bucks are making betting companies rich😢😢, or better yet they're trying to avoid Miami heat in first round of the playoffs,
Last year they were old and slow against young teams like Miami and this year they are now older and slower. You can point at Doc, or Dame, or the role players not performing, but this whole team is a disaster. The Bucks are going to have to literally blow this roster up and convince Giannis to be part of a rebuild if he wants to have any shot at winning more chips with them. This to me was the case last year when they lost to Miami. The entire team was getting cooked on defense by undrafted guys and 3rd stringers, Jrue included.
Sad state no heart or desire from this bucks team
Well my hopes for a championship this year have evaporated. It’s over
Funny, all the people calling us haters for pointing out since the very beginning of the season that the Bucks are not a good team, let alone contenders, seem to have gone real quiet of late.
That's about the one thing that's funny in watching how a disgustingly poorly managed team goes in the blink of an eye from champion to (very soon) tanking-for-a-top-three-pick and 'remember back when we were good?' types of color commentary for NBA TV games no one watches.
Its not only one or two specific players, its the whole roster. For example, we watched last night Brook to have his best offensive game, and on the other side of the court he was literally destroyed in the paint. Beasley is not just good enough. PC, is not just good enough. Crowder is done. Players who other teams do not want. The bench is not just goood enough . Its the oldest , slowest roster in the league where they can play a game or two , but there is no way for to them to be consistent in a season or even in a playoff series…
i was at this game nd boiiii it’s bad hope for this team jackson jr cooked brook all night pat c is a chucker