The Milwaukee Bucks won’t make the NBA Finals | The Athletic NBA Show

The Milwaukee Bucks won’t make the NBA Finals | The Athletic NBA Show

Jay’s got a hot take for us okay Jay what is your hot take in the hot take safe Zone the Milwaukee Bucks are toast they are not going to do anything of significance this year they might make the Conference Finals but that’s the absolute Peak that this

Season could could present but all right I’m afraid hold on hold I’m afraid of saying this in in real life I will only say this in the hot take safe Zone really their their chances of a championship are gone okay okay so when you say toast you’re saying they can’t

Win a championship they will not you saying you saying them going to the Conference Finals sound successful to me I mean you know Giannis wouldn’t consider that a failure well the equipment manager’s got to step it up the equipment manager does have to step it up what a rent what a r

That is an insane thing to say I love um have you you seen the movie Knocked Up you know with Seth Rogan okay of course there’s a moment where he’s trying to tell Katherine Hegel that he’s doing the dice thing too much there’s a moment Katherine higel that um he hates

Her hormones right and he’s like bleep you hormones you’re a bleep hormones um because he’s he’s fed up with her it felt like Giannis kept inserting himself into we’ve got to be better we can’t die on screens I include myself it felt like this like way of getting around throwing his team under

The bus he’s saying I’m not throwing anybody under the bus here I’m including this as well but the whole time I was like okay so you’re just like was it a genuine I’m including myself as well it didn’t seem like it when you go after the equipment manager man like so I

Thought he brought in the equipment manager just to say we’re all in this together like he said the equip manager got a wash our J better do you think his jersey was so what what what setting on the washer do we think is happening because he’s not handwashing these jerseys

Right maybe he are the shorts cool shorts are shorts are cool right like the shorts have been washed perfectly it’s just the jerseys that or did he mean uniforms is he talking the whole thing Josh have you ever gotten your uniform like hung up in your locker and

You’re like what the hell has happened here dirty no and I don’t know I I I think it was a cop out don’t I don’t I think it’s a cheap shot at somebody who has literally nothing to do yeah with anything on the basket I’ll

Say I’ll say it this is not my hot take this is as bad as Blake punching that equipment manager sorry maybe not as bad forgot about that that was a fun little fun Little J that was wild times um okay so Jay you’re saying they their title hopes are

They’re toast and the most important part of that Giannis rant was not we’re dying on screens it was not throwing the equipment match under the bus as wild as that was it was his direct shot at Adrien Griffin and the coaching staff yeah now defensively we have to have a

Plan yanis said what is our strategy are we going to give up a lot of open threes are we going to let them get in the paint when they go in the post are we going to stay with ours and play one-on-one what is our strategy he

Literally does not know what they are trying to accomplish on defense he does not know what they want to take away and this goes back to Mike bher who was maybe the very best in the league at creating a defensive system to take away certain parts of the game to give up

Other parts of the game and jiannis is like I miss Mike buer Adrien Griffin is not doing this right they uh well maybe you should have got him fired uh then they are actually the second best team in the league at allowing three-point percentage they have the they allow the

Second lowest three-point percentage but they’re because I just looked these numbers up last night I think they’re 12th in wide open three-pointers um attempted allowed and the teams shoot the worst in the league on what their their three-point numbers in terms of Defense are completely smoking mirrors teams just literally aren’t hitting them

Against them they are getting very lucky they’re getting them up they’re they’re getting yeah they’re getting them up they’re just not they’re going in a 30 4% clip against the Bucks this year and that is going to rise and and you could you could look at their record you could

Look at a lot of stuff they’ve done they’re good team just Overlook all of these issues they’re 25 and 11 but Giannis sees all the problems here there there are underlying issues here that the team is just not good enough defensively he doesn’t think the coaching staff clearly is doing the

Right job defensively and that’s that’s the issue to me and what are the the answers here where where are the defensive minded Wings on this team who who who is that going to be is it going to be Maran Bo champ Jay Crowder like yeah is he that anymore I

Don’t know and so he someone who knows what to do I think there are Personnel issues Giannis thinks there are foundational issues and they needu issues and then I look at equip manager the bucks with Giannis and Dame both on the court both of them on the court have

A 6.7 net rating which is good which is good it’s really good but it’s not what you when you have your two superstars on the court you should be trouncing teams because most of their minutes let’s be honest are probably with Brook Lopez a lot of them are probably with Chris

Middleton they have their best players on the court with those guys yeah and they’re still like just just pretty good I just want to I just want to remind everyone listening or watching on YouTube it’s the hot Tak safe Zone you can’t now go and say oh Jay King doesn’t

Believe in the Bucks what a what a you have to accept it okay we just this is how this is how the hot Tak safe Zone works

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