EXPECTATIONS for the Milwaukee Bucks this season 📈 | Numbers on the Board

EXPECTATIONS for the Milwaukee Bucks this season 📈 | Numbers on the Board

Milwaukee Bucks are 28 and 12 three games behind the Boston Celtics uh how how we feeling about the bucks right now uh game a B+ um I think the Damen little trade Yiannis trade it took a little minute to jail um but the defense is is has been very questionable um and that

For me is a big reason why I’m giving them a B+ if they if they were jelling defensively and it’s and it was all cooking looking sexy then I I’ll probably be more into the a A+ range but when you have like a 20th ranked defense

In the league is it’s kind of hard to look at you as a true Contender MH what what is uh and I don’t expect you to have the exact answer what’s the cut off like do they have do would you want them to see be top 15 or we talking they need

To get to top 10 defensively like top 15 top 12 I think you need to be able to get consistent stops and I feel like that backourt is just I know Malik Beasley sniping the hell out the ball he’s shooting at like 47% from three uh

You already know what Dame is doing like offensively that what is Dame doing he’s averaging about 27 already know what D doing cuz Dame ain’t can I say something to you for that answer of course we we talked about them I maybe on the last

One and yeah they have gone up in the rating on the rankings and things but when I watch this team with my own two eyes I see the same so in my mind I’m like did they go up because they played some not so maybe good teams you know

What I’m saying or they had some games where they really handled some teams but like when I’m watching the transition defense just just looks the same it’s horrible and so it’s like that’s what I’m necessarily looking for and still getting beat off the dribble I don’t

Want to be unfair to the Bucks yeah but I just knowing what they’re plan for knowing their aspirations I I I need to see them with my eyes versus ranking some other teams are getting away with hey the Thunder are top you know whatever but also the Thunder with my

Eyes I’ve seen certain things with the Timberwolves I’ve seen certain things I’m probably just going to have to see the Bucks make a change because like even if they stay right now they probably would like what did it say 19th right let’s just say they get to

16 if they doing the same I don’t care that they at 16 but if they get to 17 and I’m seeing you know maybe they haven’t gone up in the ratings but like your eye test tell you I see something different cuz that’s all they need all

You got to hit is that little stride in the playoffs and it’s a whole different conversation yeah cuz I was I was thinking about this earlier cuz I was looking at the Mavericks and they’re kind of like they’re moving up a little bit too I think they’re like 19 18 which

Is for the Mavericks that’s pretty you take that you want to take that I was like they can get it a couple higher it would probably look even better like for a team that’s a top five offensive team if you could just get stops you know a

Small percentage of the time you give your give yourself a good chance to win it every time and the Bucks gonna have that luxury too but you got to find out how can we stop people when we really need to yeah and you know I I hear what

You’re saying Pete but I want to give the numbers too when they’ve gone against a top 10 offense so we’re talking about the top 10 I don’t need to explain that um defensively they’re 11th better that’s good to hear yeah yeah um you know who’s number three when

They go against top 10 offensive teams the Bulls the Denver Nuggets oh just thought he was setting up a bulls one oh no they’re they just shutting down top 10 off they’re just shutting down top 10 offenses only only teams better is Minnesota who’s just the best defense in

The league and the young Orlando Magic have the best that is just weird to me because how are you shutting down a top 10 uh offensive team but then I watch you against the Spurs and you don’t have any defensive iing at cuz you remember early in the season they were like they

Had they probably just played to their level of competition on when they go against the bottom 10 offensive team they’re 17th that makes they’re worse yeah remember when they told Adrian Griffin like we want Brook Lopez to just stay back and guard that paint on those

Pick and rolls like that’s what I see when I watch them it’s like on defense especially with the guards I know they’re going to go off because Brook Lopez is going to stay back and they take advantage of the and they take advantage of the mid-range they didn’t

CU that’s why uh who was it I think was it jayb runson or like anybody that can get into that mid-range and just like get I was seeing Trey Jones do his thing TJ mcconell was you’re going to have you’re going to have a space it’s

Not like Dam Bey got that that Wings spanner like that defensive effort that they’re going to get all the way back in the playoff of like I thought the same thing I I was watching the they played the Spurs and I kept just like replay

Like re I just zoomed in on that game and um that was the thing I picked up like yeah they give he dropped so far back and teams are aware they’re not gonna papovich is not telling Trey Jones to go drive into his chest he’s a shot

Blocker yeah I was talking about jayl Brunson occupy no for sure no I meant to me D Fox the other day he was getting fox D Fox getting to the mid-range getting to the floater getting all that it’s just like at some point there’s there’s so many good players in the in

The league that is their shot to give them that all game Tyler her going to take that is crazy to give them that shot here another jar statistic now that we hear we said they were 17th against the bottom 10 they were 11th against the

Top 10 in that middle 10 they’re 28th oh my God so when they go against middle middle of the- pack offensive teams they’re awful that’s probably because they just like we don’t know like they don’t got no designated Scouting Report does that make sense so it’s just like

No that don’t because I guarantee they do yeah I gu that’s somebody’s job they have a Scouting Report Grifford got 12 assistants but one of them better be doing some type of damn scouting reports we not even giving them that that weak ass excuse this is I I didn’t even know

This the middle 10 you said yeah so this is the Pelicans this is the Suns this is the Kings the Golden State Warriors Toronto Utah Brooklyn Miami Minnesota Cleveland these are the teams that are in them problems yeah uh off this is same thing tangent though but they

Locking up the Hawks they locking up the hwks they they mess the had a bad shooting game uh going against the top 10 defenses can y’all guess the top five offenses going against top 10 defenses does that make sense the Mavericks the Mavericks are not top five the Phoenix

Suns sons are number two D the Celtics the cels are number one yeah okay the never nuggets as well uh the nuggets are not topac not to five the six the Thunder the Thunder are number four Clippers um are we just not the Sixers are I’m sorry

I’m sorry I’m sorry did y’all y’all said Indiana I said Indi and I said no I’m sorry Indiana is in there so right now y’all got Boston y’all got Phoenix y’all got Indie and I don’t remember what else yall said I said the Sixers Sixers are

Not them I said the Thunder the Thunder I got too um no I’m sorry they’re they’re six they’re right randomly in there hell no okay the Nuggets no I said uh the PS uh no magic no no the the Spurs no I just said I’m thinking of probably some random Tim

Wars no dog y’all might have said this team say it did y’all see Atlanta no okay well Atlanta’s there and then Milwaukee is there when they go against the top 10 defenses they they just scored a million points against the hell the what team is that the the

Celtics either way they did that to the Celtics there are oh my God one two three four five six between the the bottom six teams Detroit Washington Charlotte San Antonio Portland and Toronto they have five total wins against teams that are top 10 defensively and uh 24 36 4 two and 50

Losses is that crazy they can’t beat anyway anyway anyway two mons of a tangent we got a lot of teams to go [Applause] through NBA is

Kenny Beecham is joined by Pierre, Mike and Darrick on Numbers on the Board to grade the Milwaukee Bucks season so far at the midway point. They discuss expectations for Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo and discuss what is to come for the rest of the season.

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