Perk on Bucks 🗣️ ‘NO ONE FEARS THE DEER’ 😳 + Is the Lakers’ homestand MAKE-OR-BREAK? | NBA Today

Perk on Bucks 🗣️ ‘NO ONE FEARS THE DEER’ 😳 + Is the Lakers’ homestand MAKE-OR-BREAK? | NBA Today

I don’t know I don’t know if I knew or we’ll fix it I don’t know we got to figure it out at the end day this makes us better you know we got to go watch the tapes figure out what they do well against us and try to stop it and if we

Cannot stop it probably lose again okay so I don’t I don’t want to press the full panic button here perk because the Bucks have still won eight of their last 10 why are you making the face what’s the issue what’s the biggest issue for the bucks right now

Well well first as you can see no one is fearing the deal matter of fact it’s it’s deal hunting season right now it just started about a month and a half ago so that’s the number one thing second thing I don’t want to hear about what the Bucks been doing of late

Because they haven’t played anyone yes they got a nice win against the uh New York Knicks and then the Knicks came back and returned the favor on Christmas day but they’re not measured up against the New York Knicks they are measured up against contenders and I don’t want to

Keep going back to this but I have to the Bucks have not got a signature win and if you have Elite perimeter play you’re going to beat the Milwaukee Bucks when you’re looking at facing at Damen Lillard Malik Beasley and uh Chris militon that’s your starting five who’s

Stopping someone on the perimeter nobody so at the end of the day until the Bucks figure it out I don’t know if they have to make another move I don’t know if Jay Crowder needs to get healthy whatever it needs to be right now the Bucks are not

A contending team they haven’t beat anyone and they haven’t show us that they able to elevate their level of Defense on the perimeter okay I’m taking this personally because I know you said that there’s not a signature win and I argued you right here on this set about

The New York Knicks their win over them as a signature win but I am still looking at the squad and I’m looking at them in the standings and right now it says Milwaukee is 24-9 and second in the East I think yeah they may not have had

That signature win in your point of view perk but what they do have is identity issues and it’s very rare that you see Yannis anmo just sit down and go I don’t know I don’t know to me that’s telling because what I do know is that Giannis

Is showing up he’s playing hard I mean what was it a triple double that he had 30 and 18 or so like to him what’s baffling is hey we made like we made this move why are things not working I know it’s a firsttime coach you have different pieces defense is struggling

They’re 20th in defense versus last year they were fourth they’re trying to adjust what I see here is that they put their chips in the center of the table based off of offense but a lot of other teams have done that as well right the Indiana Pacers I mean they shot what

Yeah the Suns they shot poor from three but they got 70 points off of their bench like they have the ability based off of Tyrese Halburn to empower everybody is that their new identity de I mean they average like 132 points in the month of December is their new

Identity we’re in offensive Juggernaut and they’re struggling to adjust to what that means for them yeah I I think their identity is that we’re leaning into Giannis and Dame and I think Zach is perfect to take it from here because if you lean into that why aren’t we getting

More of that the pick and roles and just configuring an offense around there totally so a lot of hand ringing a lot of fretting over a team who’s 24-9 and 11 and3 in its last 14 games I guess credit to the Bucks cuz we’re talking about them like they’re the Lakers like

They lose one game we have to have what’s wrong with the Bucks conversation this has been the best offensive team in the league for the last 6 weeks number one everyone’s like what’s wrong with Damen Lillard his shots not falling Damen Lillard is shooting 36.5% on threes you know what he shot

Last season 37.1 yeah career 37.2 his three-point shot is fine his two-point shot is dipped a little bit and I do think he and Giannis are kind of feeling out the right balance of power on offense but Chris Middleton is starting to play like Chris Middleton

Again the only question and it’s a big one is defense and perk nailed it right at the top perimeter defense because on the back line you get past the first line you got Giannis and Brook Lopez waiting for you that’s trouble but this team made its bones under Mike buher

With defense and rebounding they’re 20th in defense and 18th in defensive rebounding and they’ve either got to get Jay Crowder healthy and and have Marjan bamp and Andre Jackson Jr fortify the defense on the wing or they’ve got to go out and search under the couch cushions

For whatever they got left to trade and get one more guy that could be reliable on defense because if they go into the playoffs with this defense and this offense they can get far but man those top teams in the East are really really good but offense fine right well we’re

Nickel and diing because we’re holding up the measuring stick as the Boston Celtics we are expecting this team to be in the Eastern Conference Finals or further like that that’s why we’re talking about these teams so yeah I go ahead perk I I I’m just saying that’s why we’re talking about the Milwaukee

Bucks like this yeah and we should be because look after the after the Pacers sent them home in the n Season tournament I’m looking at it right now okay they beat the Bulls they beat the Pacers they beat the Pistons they beat the Rockets they beat the Spurs they

Beat the magic they beat the Nicks they beat the Nets they beat the C none none of those teams are contenders sure none of those team those are games they had but those are the little those are the little adjustments they need to make Dame didn’t take a shot in clutch time

Yesterday that can’t happen it’s one game but that’s that that’s why we’re looking at it like this Zach it’s because we are expecting something come the postseason against the Boston Celtics all right since you mentioned the Lakers just dragging them into this Zach let’s get into the Lakers on NBA

Today they entered January with a 500 record after dropping seven of their last nine games including both games since LeBron James turned 39 years old over the weekend we could rehash the foot on the line but you know ask Kevin Durant we’re not going to do that the

Lakers they open up a five-game home stand tomorrow against the Heat that starts a stretch of 10 of 12 games here at crypto.com Arena so if the Lakers are going to make a move in the west it seems like there’s no better time than right now to do it Kendrick Perkins as

You look at the schedule is this a make or break stretch for La hell yeah it is it’s an audition uh stretch as well for the rest of the guys outside of AD and BR because I’m going tell you this right now I know that group message the Lakers team got is

Quiet and when LeBron is not speaking in there you got to be looking over your shoulder I’ve been a part of those group messages when he go quiet he’s not happy so here’s an opportunity for ruy to step his game up here’s an opportunity for D’Angelo Russell to elevate his game

Along with Jared Vanderbilt and they will be tested they will be tested look I already think Rob palinka got plans on moving some people but right now this home stretch is so important for the others on the Los Angeles Lakers agreed nine games if you look at and you’re a

Professional player at the schedule this is so important especially considering it’s January this is make or break for the Lakers why can’t it make it when you have a home stand at this point you can make up for uncharacteristic losses that we’ve seen with Los Angeles but it can

Be a Breaking Point too because what are you approaching after this home stand you’re going to be close to February the trade deadline and so if things don’t go well the Lakers might be thinking hm we waited this long to see every healthy and out there this could break up as

Perk said the role player so I agree so let me ask you this better or worse do you think just better or worse than last year through 34 games for the Lakers I think that they are better because they started off so poorly right so they’re better than they were last year but

They’re only better by three games right than they were through 34 games last season and so when you think about a team that we all talked about as right perk like winning in the off season they made all these these team Friendly Deals they brought back the guys that they

Needed to bring back they have shoot shs we know that’s the the recipe around LeBron and then we get here and they’re only three games better than they were at this point last season with no huge Russell Westbrook deal to make it feels disappointing it feels like we need to

Get to January 15th which is this point is 12 days from now and we hope we want we expect them to make a move because Anthony Davis is playing out of his mind LeBron James is playing on another planet at 39 years old and everything else it feels like I

Don’t know about you Zach but that’s where I that’s where I get a little bit like all right come on come on we expected more from this team so they need to do something about that hey look not not only that they’ve been healthy LeBron and ad for the most

Part have been healthy the whole season if you had told me that and they’d be playing at this level I would have guessed before the season they’d be like 21 and 13 after 34 games not 17 and 17 and if you bring up that home stand

That’s coming up yeah those games are at home at crypto that’s cool those teams are no joke for the most part those are good teams they may catch Miami without Jimmy Butler that’s a break but those are good teams you don’t just walk in and win those games cuz they’re at home

They’re going to have to come out and play well and I will keep harping on this every time we talk about the Lakers they’re 23rd in offense their offense is bad it’s been bad it was bad last year was bad in the playoffs they got a nice

Favorable draw and they gutted it out in the playoffs they k not make any noise with the 23rd best offense in the NBA they cannot make any noise when their offensive efficiency rating is the same as the Washington Wizards who are not trying to win at least on an

Organizational level their offense is not good enough Jared vanderbel in the starting five is not the answer to that question even if he helps their defense even if he gets turnovers and they get to run out off misses no no no they have to find a formula that works around

LeBron and ad on offense or else as you pointed out we’re going to get toward the trade deadline and the pressure internally to make a move to boost their offense even if it’s at the expense of their defense is going to reach a Breaking Point and the worst thing any

Team can do is make a panic trade from a position of weakness so they’ve got to figure out their offense and until they do that they’re just not in the same conversations we thought they were going to be in with these other teams above them perk what do you want to see the

Lakers do what do they need to prove to you in this stretch for you not to say all right you know what I’m not so sure about ruy here I’m not so sure about DLo here Etc well well one is that uh you know they can’t like Lebron James playing the

Point guard that’s not going to be sustainable they got to like D’Angelo got to find it within to pick up the pace they play too slow no easy baskets for Braun or ad and that’s why they miss a guy like Dennis shter they for we forget what he brought to the table on

Both ends of the floor but those guys just got to play man they got to elevate their game and look let me say this I will not let dingham off the hook he got to elevate his game as well with his rotations with his set calling with

Everything across the board the way he stagger BR in ad minutes all across the board Darin ham got to elevate his game and I like dingham as a as aakers nation is let off the hook those games one thing that was brought up was the formula for success

With LeBron James we all know what that formula is that is perimeter shooting surrounded by LeBron James and a solid post player and I know perk has argued that you need backups that can go be in the bruisers I really think that number that we saw on that graphic 28th and

Three-point shooting that doesn’t work in the NBA especially now so if you’re not going to be a good three-point shooting team you can’t also be a slow team you got to be a fast team you have to be able to push the pace and transition and like perk said get easy

Buckets so it’s like they’re losing by multiple categories typically you just have to say this is our one weakness they have multiple 25 12 and two and a half blocks a game that’s what ad is putting up when he’s putting up those numbers and this is the result like that

That that was the piece that we thought we were going to be talking about it’s just a little bit disappointing all [Applause] Right is

Kendrick Perkins, Zach Lowe and Chiney Ogwumike join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss the biggest issue for the Milwaukee Bucks after a 122-113 loss to the Indiana Pacers and the Los Angeles Lakers upcoming schedule:

0:00 Giannis Antetokounmpo postgame
0:18 What is wrong with the Bucks?
5:40 Los Angeles Lakers drop to .500
6:02 Lakers’ upcoming schedule

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