A deep dive into the “Young Bucks” on the Milwaukee Bucks roster (Part 1 of 2)

A deep dive into the “Young Bucks” on the Milwaukee Bucks roster (Part 1 of 2)

hey what it do welcome to another new episode of Locked on bucks we have a special guest joining us today to discuss all thing Young Bucks and we’re not talking about wrestling let’s talk about some of the young guys on the Milwaukee Bucks and what we might expect from them next season right after this 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 podcast as well as Carrie the G and MK and the pack aay podcast joining me it’s Justin Garcia voice of the Bucks radio network and we also have Ty wendes joining us from the eurostep podcast in gspn we appreciate you for tuning in and making locked on bucks your first list in every single day we are free and available wherever you get your podcast as well as on YouTube and today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account and use the code locked on MBA for $20 off of your first purchase terms do apply now T once first and foremost thank you for joining us here this morning uh the off season started a bit earlier than any of us have hoped so before we get into some of the Young Bucks and things that you have noticed just overall what were your thoughts on this particular Milwaukee bug season uh with the roller coaster that it was throughout the year yeah thank you for having me first uh I really appreciate the the invite I I would say you know it’s funny I think given the circumstances that they lost in the first round again and we had to watch all those scary injuries like I think obviously the season as a whole is disappointing anytime you don’t want a title with jiannis and Dame you’re pretty disappointed but if you told me hey they overdo it doesn’t play a single playoff minute Dame is hurt half the time and isn’t able to play in half the games and they they have a I think a heart a a good heart showing they get to six games against the Pacers who are now in the Conference Finals somehow and nobody is seriously hurt exiting it which I really do think is a big deal I mean that last game I was like Dan please like let make sure you come out of this okay I me we don’t want anything carrying over I mean I think some guys are probably still rehabbing stuff but shouldn’t be anything that carries into next season for sure which was a concern with the kind of injuries Giannis and Dame both battled and I think like The Vibes are really good at at the exit interviews I think that’s a big part of it from Yannis from Dame doc the others so I think overall like given where they ended up I’m I’m actually pretty optimistic for next season and you just look at like the Wolves everyone’s made this example of like sometimes it takes a year when you make these big trades now they’re really good and you I don’t think the Bucs will automatically just be really good I think they’ve got work to do this summer but overall I think I’m in a pretty optimistic place of last season was a mess on so many fronts the late Dame trade when they built a roster for the opposite point guard they got the coach higher very wrong they had to switch coaches midseason all this other stuff the injuries Dame’s conditioning everything and now it’s just like you know what you never want to lose you never want to go out early I’m not saying it was great I’m not saying I had fun the whole year I am saying though I think they’re in a position they took their lumps where I’m pretty optimistic about next season and I I’ll take that at least I can cope successfully with this buck season I think the the t-wolf stuff that we started to hear certainly has some Merit I mean Rudy goar was acquired in what July and I think he was dealing with some knee issues and conditioning which were not the case this season it just takes time as any of us have experienced when you start a new job or something to kind of get in the swing of things um the challenge with all that as as we’ve discussed and I know you guys have talked about too is those are all valid reasons for why this team came up short but you’re kind of you’re running out of Runway here with the age and the contracts on this team yeah I think that is that’s certainly the other side I think you just have to hope basically like Dame being the insane competitor he is and NBA Medical Science seemingly being where it is that you know you got at least a few more shots with him and I think the interesting thing for me is you know you’ve got your core for so to speak and there’s a whole thing about should Brook Lopez be considered that or not either way I mean he’s under contract Bobby Portis some of these other guys you know this is not a summer thankfully for the bucks where oh we have to resign Chris and Brook Lopez I mean that again I think there’s work to be done but I think it’s almost more you know moving around some guys who are still under contract who maybe weren’t performing up to that level than a Mad Dash to retain players I think the biggest scariest retaining retention they had to do was okay are you honest to Dave still locked in are these guys shaky and I think both of them have put out the right things like we’re going to work together all summer that’s great so I think you’ve got your core and Chris Middleton looked great in the playoffs Dame look great in the playoffs those were two big questions given the seasons they had and their health concerns too um again I don’t I’m not trying to sit here and say it’s all you know sunshine and Roses but I think I think they’re in a good spot I think now it’s like whether it’s horse or someone else that’s still a huge question mark too maybe that’s the big retention of this summer um but it’s figuring out you know how do we look at every team in the playoffs how athletic they are how dynamic they are how can we get an old team closer to that um but I certainly agree like there there has to be and I was sick about it when they lost because it’s like you just don’t know how many more runs you have ever for any team but especially one this old yeah absolutely and your point about the horse piece which it seems now like horse is going to be staying in place based on reports coming out saying that you know the bugs did not allow him to interview uh for that Detroit Pistons position which when jannis did his extra interview he mentioned like stability is something that he was looking forward to this summer with all of the different change that they experienced over this past season and keeping horse in place is something that’s huge to continue that stability aspect for the team uh before we go into break and talk about some of the young guys I just have to ask you Ty as well uh your feelings on Doc Rivers and the the whole coaching change that happened through the season um there were some people early on thinking that Adrien Griffin should have been fired after only like five games and if I remember correctly I think you were also on the same side of like let’s wait a little bit before we really start saying all these things then we had the the surprise firing of Adrien Griffin the higher of Doc Rivers and now we go into this summer knowing that Doc Rivers will be coaching the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2024 2025 season and with Doc Rivers at the helm how are you feeling about the direction of the team under Doc and what he brings to the franchise as well yeah I feel good about it you know I don’t feel great about it I don’t they got next SPO but I I also kind of think that nexo doesn’t really exist I mean it’s like I think there’s so few coaches in the NBA where everyone is in unison of like oh yeah he is gonna make your team way better I just think one it’s such a player-driven sport and it’s so hard to do and I mean there’s coaches that are beloved one year that you know their fan base is ready to fire them the next year I think some Heat fans had that going around about SPO himself this year who I think is clearly the best coach so I I think I I was team Griffin like let’s see like I think there’s some good things and then after he gets fired the reports come out of like those good things on defense he wasn’t calling them the Bucks were just freelancing because they didn’t I was like okay he probably probably did have to go that I mean that’s basically a mutiny I mean it’s a bunch of nice guys so I don’t know if that word was said but that’s pretty much what happened um and that’s just untenable and I think that the the strength of Doc is almost just his gravitas right like that’s not going to happen to doc Doc is has been around so long has had so much experience so many opportunities to succeed and fail that people certainly hold against him but has been in the league a longtime former player seems like really commands that locker room uh certainly commands the interview room as well uh on you know postgame media various podcasts Etc um but I think overall he’s done a pretty good job on the court there’s certainly been things I disagreed with I hope first and foremost the minutes are rained in a little bit on the Yannis and Dame next season especially with what happened with the this season but I I like the the strategies that he’s leaned into I I like the defense they run the physical defense I mean I’ll still think about that Thunder game you know probably all summer where they were just they dominated the Oklahoma City Thunder a team that almost went to the Western Conference Finals the one seat out west with just a physical nasty defense that takes away the paint which is a thing Bucks fans are very much used to um and I think offensively the emphasis on Yannis and Dame is good we just obviously we we almost never saw it I mean six healthy games I think with the three guys that’s just unfortunate so I think some people were out against doc the whole time I wasn’t thrilled when they first brought him in but I I understood why and I do think he’s done a pretty good job and I’m excited about his first real season and a roster that is more in what he’s looking for not just you know the pat Bev Flex tape midseason when clearly they needed more than that on the perimeter defending uh for Doc team I mean the the Crux of the issue as you pointed to is just getting the initial hiring r and that’s the challenge of whether or not it was time to move on from Bud he was an established very good coach and I I think even Bucks fans accepted that even the ones that were I should say even the ones that were maybe I don’t know about Mike buen holes or or came up to the same issues every postseason you see there are worse options out there so getting that higher rung you see how much it can set you back and at that point of the change I don’t know if it’s indisputable but I don’t know who was a better op option that was out there than Doc Rivers was so I think that’s the big piece you touched on just the command and again Camille and I have kind of joked throughout the year that it was kind of like Doc was auditing a class with the Bucks this year and now is the first year that he’s enrolled in the class next year that you get to go through a full off season in training camp with him which as we’ll get to a little bit later is going to be huge for the young guys but I think the biggest piece not just Doc’s experience and Leadership and the way that stars are drawn to him and his ability to connect with players is his bench and we talked about earlier in the week the rumors of maybe Sam Cassel is joining this group but you think about all the guys that Doc Rivers has on his staff um I would assume at this point that Joe prunty is one of the new kids that’s going to be a part of the Doc Rivers family but you think about Rex camian and his experience and Dave jger who’s been a head coach those are just things that made it equally tough for that regime under Griffin that there wasn’t that experience I mean we were we were led to assume you were going to have Terry STS there that really should right that I mean that was really the canary in the coal mine I suppose potential issues down the road but you didn’t have that veteran staff and mean that counts for something when it’s not the coach doing everything you put some things in charge of your assistance whether it’s film session or things that you work on in practice and maybe some of those guys will get there it was just a very inexperienced group for that level of the bench that they were at and that’s certainly another big check mark that was against them early last year yeah I think camian I’m glad you shouted I me joerger too on I think more on the offensive side but I thought cian’s and and I don’t want to you know I think some people just shout him out to kind of take stuff away from Doc I think the the staff as a whole headlined by Doc Rivers and Rex camian did an excellent job defensively in the playoffs I mean I I just think without Giannis against against that particular Pacers team the options were so few just immediately from the jump it it was like you know when you get to a place late in the series when you’re running out of options things just aren’t working they pretty much started the series there and I’ll just never forget patchworking a defense with denila Gallinari and Bobby poris that won them a game in game five I mean that’s an incredible thing to have had happened and I also love that I think Gallow had like what two minutes in game six and was a minus 10 and they were immed like nope it’s not going to work again okay we we’re going to give up on that one but yeah I thought defensively the whole staff did a really good job again there were things I I didn’t agree with but not very many and just knowing the position they were in um it it was I thought a really good performance from a lot of the players and and from the coaching staff too and I I I think NBA coaches like I I don’t want to downplay what these guys do I think it’s great I think there’s a lot of them that make a relatively similar impact and the biggest thing is like just fit and again as you say Doc relating to these stars and kind of making sure everyone’s in the right role that’s a huge thing and I think the emphasis on Giannis and Dame this summer get getting sent plays all summer by doc these workouts I’m just very excited for the approach they’re taking I love that doc say he’s not only not taking any days off doc had got all the golfing in last year he’s good so yeah I’m I’m excited man yeah he he said it himself like normally I take some time off after a season I get my golf on but not this year like I am digging right back into work with his bugs team he talked so much about how happy he was to be in Milwaukee um outside of just the team itself which has Giannis and Dame and Chris so on and so forth but the city itself and his connection to Milwaukee and how meaningful that was to him so that’s always cool and maybe that can be part of the pitch for Sam Cassell if he doesn’t get that Lakers job of come back to Milwaukee you know uh there is some unfinished business for you here Sam in regards to trying to get a championship in the city of Milwaukee so you know that could be a pretty good fit so I think that’s enough talk about how this past season went because so much of the convers around the bus has been they need to get younger they need to get more athletic they need to add some guys to do X Y and Z here but you take a look at the roster and the Bucks actually have quite a few young guys just sitting on the bench and part of Doc Rivers coming in in the middle of the Season uh that was difficult was that he didn’t have any familiarity with these different Young Bucks on the roster from Maran to Andre Jackson Jr AJ Green And even Chris Livingston to a certain extent where he’s like I just don’t have tape at least for the bets on this team I’ve played against them I’ve game planned against them I understand exactly you know what they can do at least from the outside looking in so I have a little bit more comfort and familiarity with them so let’s roll them out and there wasn’t much time to practice during the season either so it’s not like he got chances to really uh take a look at these guys dig into what they can do and then say like hey we can run him in these situations but a lot of these Young Bucks got a lot of time playing with the Wisconsin herd and I know Ty that you covered the Wisconsin herd pretty closely so I cannot wait to hear some of your thoughts on these Young Bucks and what they might be able to bring to the table and what you saw from them with working for the herd so let’s get into that a bit after this break I’m not going to lie to y’all sometimes I have a bad habit of waiting until they’re very last minute to make a decision like there could be a game or an event 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the herd so just general overviews of the herd season what did you take away from the Bucks that had or the Young Bucks that were getting some playing time with the herd this past season yeah it was an interesting year for the herd you know I think they really had it it was almost like they they had such a roller coaster season which I think is pretty typical for the g-league right but there there’s so much player movement I think they’re bigs to find their season just like quickly on the team is a whole you know when they had marqueis Balden Maris Chris having to say both of those back toback has been so challenging for me and for all for all her staffers but like Drew Timmy before he got hurt uh Wan Gabriel of course who I still don’t know how has not been a regular NBA player more often when they had two of those guys I think they they had a lot of success when they had one or fewer I think the size is still like a huge advantage in the G league so I think that kind of colored the rest of the team to a certain extent just based on what was happening but I will say that the player I got to see the most uh in terms of like the Bucks young core if you’ll count him was taiar Washington Jr who I was really excited when they added him on the two-way contract just a player I really liked in the Maran Bo champ draft who was just available uh what was traded from uh Houston to Oklahoma City and then wave this past summer and at the time I was like that would be a really intriguing two-way the Bucs don’t have a roster spot because they never do by that time of year or if they do they’re not filling it um but would be a really intriguing two-way and and kind of backup point guard and I think got even more intriguing when Damen Lillard showed up and Tai Tai was one who specifically called out a few times kind of the mentorship of Dame and the fact that he and Giannis and the rest of these bucks will really take time to work with these young players which I think is is very cool and you know a big addition in why you can get a player like that on the Bucks that kind of atmosphere and that’s not new with Dame you know we heard great things in past Seasons from the two-way guys certainly Yannis and and Chris Brook Lopez Drew holiday when he was there I think that’s kind of the vibe the Bucks go for but Tai Tai I thought had a really nice season I think his biggest weakness when you look at the numbers last year was while he could score a lot he wasn’t the most efficient passer when you look at assist turnover ratio and his three-pointer didn’t fall very much and his NBA stats from this last year and very limited run uh weren’t awesome on on those fronts necessarily but in the g-league uh as a starter out outside of when he was injured a few times shot 42% from three on 6.5 attempts per game so really got that three-point shot down which you know we tal every player I talk to is like yeah we we know we need to shoot him now right like if if we’re playing at this level we probably need to get our three ball down if we want to play at the next level but also 21 points and eight assists to just 2.4 turnovers really shows you kind of that that true point guard and lastly I just really liked his mentality this season you know I asked him toward toward the end of the year he just brought up like yeah my goal is to be a backup point guard in the NBA next season and I just don’t know how many like pretty close to being a first round pick right not a first round pick 10 years ago first round pick like two years ago and he’s like I want to go to the next level and just back somebody up and I asked him at the end of the year you know would you want to do that in milwauke he said that’s my goal I I want to be the guy who comes and gets Damon relief next season so I just think what we’ve seen on the court and what what I’ve gotten to hear from Tai Tai postgame in those interviews I’ve just been very impressed all around and I do hope he at least has a shot obviously you know you can look at all these veteran defensive guards everything else to compete for that job next season pretty long player too I think there’s upside there defensively but that’s my Tai Tai shille to start maybe just because my name is Tai too I’m biased but I did like his season he’s he’s sneaky long um and the pedigree is there when you think about how highly touted he was going to Kentucky I think he had a 50-point game not with the herd but in the G League too so he has the ability to score and and what I was going to ask you is you know what do we think the ceiling is I know he pointed out being a backup point guard in the NBA next level but um especially with the shot where it’s at I I think that’s probably it but as as we’ve talked about you know you’re you’re kind of at the point where we’re so used to the Bucs having just one guy that you would say okay let’s see if this guy can develop this offseason or throughout the course of the year not that they’re blue chippers per se but you have a handful of them this year that if they stick around because he’s he was on a two-way deal last year if they’re still here you at least have a number of guys you can look at and say okay we need you to develop this we need you to develop that and maybe we can find rotational pieces here yeah I wish we I wish the Bucks was like Packers when like you reporters go to camp and like we get all these stories because I think bucks training camp is going to be awesome this year so I obviously there’s not going to be any surprise who starts at the one who starts at the three and the four but I think just like the battles for the spots below that I’m sure there’s going to be some new players thrown in the mix but these young players I think are really going to be able to put on a show if most of them are are back I mean Tai Tai is a bigger question on the two-way a lot of the guys we’ll talk about are under contract which is great um yeah I think I think backup point guard is a good goal and I could see uh realistically probably that or maybe maybe eventually like as a sixth man kind of player um or maybe just like if you wanted a two guard backourt I I don’t know if we’ve seen enough of the blowby driving dynamism from Tai Tai that’s probably my biggest concern and and I think that it’s it’s hard to start at the one at the NBA level if you’re not doing that and you’re not really locking up again we’re saying defensive upside I don’t think you know he didn’t make one I don’t think anyone was really making the campaign for Tai Tai to be like an all g-league defensive player I think he has a good defend he can hold up I think is how you’d put it and I think he could be a good defender on that level as he continues to get strong longer and just work on that part of his game but you know if you’re not an elite Defender if you’re not an elite driver I I think it’s a little tough but I I do see real NBA role player potential for sure I don’t think he’s gotten to show the best of his work at the NBA level and either of his stops so far um and I am hopeful that he can kind of you know I think I I think sometimes you struggle for a year or two and and some fans just they they wrote the book on you and that uh he can’t play I think a player is still that young I have his age right in front of me but very early 20s uh I I do think he can be a real NBA player and and I would think he’s 22 right now and I would expect the bench roll to be probably where he tops out but I mean if he comes back next season and suddenly is is driving at a high level then maybe there is more there but either way I think he’s already at a point where I’m pretty excited to to watch him next season whether it’s with the bucks or or not yeah that’s a great pull too because I wasn’t even thinking about Tai Tai because he is on that two-way contract or was last season but back point guard was an area for the bucks where they really had a need I mean they had that need even going into the season when they just had uh Damian Lillard and campaign on the roster and then as this season unfolded you saw at the end when we were seeing some point guard Pat con inton minutes uh and things of that sort especially in that Pacer series with how they were pressing every single ball handler uh the importance of having some additional ball handlers on the team how important that would be so Tai Tai is an interesting guy to keep an keep an eye on if he does come come back uh this upcoming season with the Milwaukee Bucks this next segment is brought To Us by our partner better help sometimes we all need the opportunity to get something off of our chest bigger small certain things can really start to get to you it’s important to let that out especially to someone who’s unbiased on your life therapy can be different for everyone a lot of us have bigger problems than what our favorite sports team is doing or not doing given the fact this off season for the 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then that kind of faded out with Doc here we didn’t see him too much but he was also dealing with some injuries at the end of this year as well which I do think impacted uh his spot in the rotation not saying it would have been a big spot but we might have seen Maran a little bit more uh throughout the season had it not been for injury but based on what you saw when he did get sent down to the herd what are some of your thoughts on Maran bamp um his game and how he might fit with the Bucs going forward yeah Maran led the herd in scoring among anyone who played for them this season and by a pretty wide margin Tai Tai Washington was second with 21 Mar nearly 25 points per game 45% from the field three ball wasn’t really falling at 29% but that’s not something I worry about because it was three games I mean anyone can have a poor three games you look at the NBA level even though he didn’t get a bunch of run this year shot 40% there uh and I think probably more of the shot diet that he’ll actually be taking not the kind of number one option chops that guys get at the herd level um but I thought maybe the most impressive part about him in the G League was the six rebounds and nearly six assists per game one of the things I didn’t love at the NBA level was I think he had a flat one toone assist to turnover ratio this year and it felt like it watching him with the Bucks I just I felt like he wasn’t often making clean reads did look like he was maybe forcing some shots at the NBA level which I get I mean you it’s easy to press when you know okay I’ve got five minutes now am I going to have five minutes for the rest of this month like it’s it’s difficult and you want to show what you can do out there I I love that doc when the young players kept getting brought up at the exit interview went out of his way to kind of shout out Maran he said maybe he’s the most skilled and people always leave him out of these conversations because of course we’re talking about two guys we’ll get to Andre Jackson Jr and AJ Green but I think maran’s right up there and as you mentioned Camille the injuries kept him out of practice I never saw what he could do so it seemed like Doc was basically just rolling with the young guys that were already playing because there was more familiarity there I I was not sure like he Maran in the dogghouse like it feels like he hasn’t gotten consistent minutes under a few coaches I thought it meant a lot that doc came out and said that um I’m really excited to see Maran this summer yaka is not that far relatively from Portland I would imagine that he will probably get in some of these team workouts that we’re hearing about with Giannis and Dame which always is good for young players I think he’s got so much talent as a scorer and as a Defender really I I just think for him it’s just connecting some of the dots like I think a lot of the skills are there it’s it’s just about play- to-play consistency and really about decision- making for him because you’ll see him execute some excellent plays and then you’ll see him turn down an open Corner three to pull up or to shoot a runner or to try a contested layup and it’s more about just refining and making the right play more often but if he can I I really I agree with Doc I I think he may be the most skilled right now in terms of what he can do on the court it’s just about you know making it more consistent so I I think for the bucks you keep them around you check them out a lot this summer and then try and get a feel for did he level up his game because if he I think he could easily be a contributor to the team next season and Beyond but I do think it’s a lot of pressure on him because of some of these guys we’re going to talk about who prove they can be more consistent on a play- to-play basis and kind of jumped him in the rotation this past season it’s uh it’s kind of like the new toy Theory where we I mean that was the guy that all of you know bucks Twitter and and everywhere was obsessed with and you think about how much the Bucks really gassed him up too when they drafted him and and what they put on for his introduction too um and then you got more young guys as we talked about you started to see them more I I do agree that I think of those three that I I think we tend to really focus in on Maran is the most talented and I’ve said before I think he probably has the best mixture of a two-way game between those three guys I mean the issues are obvious see they’re shooting the ball and scoring in general for Andre Jackson I think AJ Green surprised all of us with his ability to hold up defensively but it’s not obviously to the level of Maran it all kind of runs together too so I’m probably mixing up what was first and and what came second but I think one of the other issues maybe issues is the wrong word but when he was drafted there was the belief from this organization of this is a guy that we can switch with he can defend one through four and we kind of saw that in patches where um he he was holding up well on the perimeter but he was struggling against big guys he talked about putting on 15 pounds of weight this year and early in the season I think you really saw that with his physicality and some of the rebounding numbers at the NBA level um but that seemed to kind of hinder him on his ability to keep up with some guys on the perimeter so I’m sure that’s a big big challenge for him this off season but I’m guilty of it too he’s the guy that I think it’s left out of a lot of these conversations and I I don’t think the Bucks were just blowing smoke when they were as excited as they were to land him where they did in the draft and try to present him is this is going to be a big piece for us going forward so there’s clearly something there I think the challenge as we’ll get through throughout this discussion with the young guys is I mean there’s only so much room for young guys on a veteran team and that’s one of the challenges for Marjan of okay I’m not the only guys we’ve kind of joked has been the case when it was Dante or Malcolm Brogden um that you just had one guy now there’s multiple and it feels like the other two have passed me so how do I get my footing back here it’s really it’s really interesting and I think it’s organizationally the right move although I almost wonder like so they have 23 and 33 in this draft I mean I can’t imagine they draft two players and then keep all the other young guys because at a certain point it’s just like how can anyone stand up out right like it’s good to take shots like the NFL philosophy of like let’s load every position and you know we we don’t know we don’t know who’s going to pop I mean nobody nobody in the league knew AJ Green was going to be this good if they did he wouldn’t have gone undrafted that year right so you know we we never know for sure what’s going to happen I think there’s a lot of Executives right now that look at what Andre Jackson Jr did shoot from three even though it wasn’t always as pretty and go probably shouldn’t have let him fall to 36 huh like that if we knew he could have done that in year one that that totally changes the outlook on him uh I do think though if you have a young core of like six players on a team that’s a contender you just get into some uncomfortable spots of like we do we would like some veterans to rely on and you know to this point already it’s hard for players to stand out I I don’t know how anyone looks good if there’s six of them right it’s really just like and there’s going to be even more it feels like whoever’s not playing that’s that’s who the fans want to see play it’s like oh has to be that guy it’s like well you can’t just you can’t you know play one of them one week one of them the next week Bud kind of did that sometimes actually but uh it’s a difficult thing least they don’t have any in Phoenix so he doesn’t have to worry yeah no no and I don’t think they’ll have any for a long time in Phoenix um but I do think this summer is just so big like these workouts training camp preseason summer league we’ll see how many guys go to summer league from from this group but uh just to kind of show where everyone’s at as we go into next season um but yeah I think I I I was almost at a point at one point this season where I was like maybe just move from Maran here maybe the opportunity is just not right but the way way doc spoke about him Rohan and I on our show both came around of like keep him around let’s see what happens because this guy could pop like any of these guys could pop and you don’t want to be in this Dante situation again even though that’s more nuanced more complicated but you don’t want Maran to be looking incredible for the Knicks in the playoff six the conversation that we are having with Tai is so good and there’s too much to discuss to have this just be one episode so this is the first part of a two-parter uh covering all things young but with the Milwaukee Bucks so make sure that you tune in for tomorrow’s episode as we continue the conversation diving into Andre Jackson Jr more and death AJ Green as well as Chris Livingston so make sure you come back and check that out on tomorrow’s episode of lockdown bucks

Camille and Justin are joined by Ti Windisch of the Gyro Step Podcast to discuss the interesting young talent currently on the Milwaukee Bucks roster.

What are reasons for optimism going into the 2024-25 season? Could TyTy Washington be the Bucks backup point guard next season? Is there another level for MarJon Beauchamp to reach?

These are just some of the questions discussed during the today’s episode — with more to come on tomorrow’s episode!

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