The Milwaukee Bucks disappoint in Brooklyn against the Nets
The Milwaukee Bucks are grappling with some early season challenges. Recent losses to the Chicago Bulls and Brooklyn Nets have exposed defensive vulnerabilities, raising questions about roster construction and the team’s overall effort. Are these just early-season growing pains or signs of deeper issues?
This episode unpacks the Bucks’ recurring problems from last season rearing its head this season, such as inconsistent effort and playing down to competition. With a tough schedule ahead, including a matchup against the Boston Celtics, the stakes are high.
Join Camille Davis and Frank Madden for an insightful analysis of the Milwaukee Bucks’ current challenges and what it means for their season.
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0:00 Intro
2:06 Bucks’ Defensive Struggles
6:10 Concerns Over Team’s Performance
14:09 Predictive Nature of Early Season Games
18:30 Player Accountability and Effort
22:04 Game Time and FanDuel Promotions
27:08 Positives Amidst Disappointment
31:56 Expectations for Upcoming Boston Game
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23 Comments
Another 1st round exit
I am seeing a heavy amount of overreaction from Bucks fans to the extent of saying Giannis is the problem and need to get traded. What is going on??!!!!
Going against the Bucks D is like playing 2K on Semi-pro
Can Khris middleton get healthy like damn
Worse than depressed, the fans will be as apathetic as they play defense
Heres what to do. Ship Dame off to Atlanta for Trae Young. Send Middleton for Wiggins. Send Bobby Marjon the first round pick and AJ for Marcus Smart.
That will give you Brook Giannis Wiggins Smart Young. Suddenly, you can just kinda hide Young in a corner, use Wiggins and smart to go over screens switch let brook play zone drop. Still would have Prince and Delon off the bench. Gotta have perimiter and wing defense to cover up for Dame. It's really quite simple.
Bucks suck y'all gonna be 1-3 like they come out with energy and after that they are like f-it can't rebound can't make shots we in trouble
Said consistency was going to be the Buck's biggest problem. Even if your ceiling is incredibly high–let's say even if you had the best ceiling–you'd still need to win 4/7 in the playoffs.
Its not two games. They've looked like this for a while now
I'm not sure Giannis and Dame will ever be able to gel the way we all initially imagined they would. Dame needs an entire offense to revolve around him. Giannis needs an entire offense to revolve around him. It's two extremely ball dominant players that still look very uncomfortable together. You can't always just throw two superstar players on the same team and expect their styles to work well together and translate to wins. Factor in our age along with our two superstars inability to play together, and this team might be destined for failure. If they don't figure it out this season then it's surely time to blow it up in the offseason.
I’m so surprised. We don’t have an aging roster, we have an aged roster. A roster that was old 3 years ago. We have a GM that can’t find young talent if it smacked him in the face. We have a coach that doesn’t know how to utilize his players.
All offseason we heard that “they just needed a training camp together” “we needed free agents that complemented dame” “they just needed time to build chemistry”
We are 3 games into the season and not a single thing has changed from a year ago. Fortunately I never got my hopes up.
Sorry giannis that we wasted your career
Just accept that Dame sucks and let's move on, please. Otherwise, trade Giannis so we can watch him win again
The Giannis – Dame experiment didn't work out. And it will never be. Their mising a link wich is a play maker to set the team right. Oh, and a serious coach
It seems to me our issue largely is that we play to the level of our comp, combined with being vulnerable to younger hungrier players/teams. I think we all knew that from last year. What does that mean? IDK, probably not good though
But it's pre-season, let's give them another 50 games…. 😂
I've been saying this for a few years now, Jabari Parker really hurt this team, that was supposed to be Giannis running mate, they were supposed to grow together, Embid would have been a better pick, instead, Giannis didn't really grow as a player and no one taught him the game. Ultimately it was bad management and coaching, just like Democrat rung cities over decades, the cities get run down by the leadership, and no one realizes what the problem is
Every average player like a random cam thomas becomes Prime Kobe Bryant against us. We are so easy to beat, so bad in rebounding, so slow on defense. It's crazy really such a disappointment. We're not going anywhere with this team
Bucks been terrible the whole Giannis makes you a contender isn't true anymore.. the team do well to be a top 6 seed.. Dame will be gone and they gonna have to shake up the rooster meaning Kris and maybe Brook aswel.. Gonna be a humbling season
Hold Giannis accountable thank You!💯
Gianni’s doing his dad dance 🕺🏾 on his way out the door . Trade him and rebuild
Bucks are the worst team in the East.Pathetic coach and lazy old players.Tell the truth guys.
It's Doc & Dame's fault. Doc can't coach and Dame can't defend.
These guys are clueless on defense but that's on that supposed to be great defense coach Buckner. They kept getting beat same ol same way in transition defense. And Doc still hasn't adeed any offense. Yeah, Doc, you just keep waiting on Middleton. Is our defense any better than Griffins? Damn at least Griffin had our offense clicking.