The Milwaukee Bucks are broken; How can Doc Rivers fix them? Gyro Step Podcast
The Milwaukee Bucks sit at 1-3 and 14th in the Eastern Conference after losing their home opener to the Chicago Bulls, on the road to the Brooklyn Nets, and then also on the road in Boston on Monday night. Especially in the first two of those losses, the Bucks just looked broken.
So Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti dove into how Doc Rivers and the team can fix the myriad issues on display, including an unbalanced offense with Giannis Antetokounmpo not buying into ball movement, a lack of effort on defense needed to cover for Damian Lillard, Bobby Portis and Pat Connaughton turning any goodwill they still had with Bucks fans for 2021 into Trade Machine energy, finding shots for Gary Trent Jr., Andre Jackson Jr. and AJ Green deserving more minutes, and more.
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Same ole song and dance with Pat C and Bobby. Delon does not look good so far. On the bright side, I did like Brook posting more. I like GTJ effort on D way better than Beasley.
Doc spamming Bobby post touches when you have Giannis and Dame on the court is Insane. He single-handedly killed all their momentum in that awful 3rd quarter stretch. I’d sign Thanasis tomorrow if that meant Bobby played his last game in a Bucks jersey
GTJ will improve on the defense he puts an effort and plays hard🙏
Gary hasnt been bad on defense he didnt matchup w the players who went off
Play Beauchamp instead of Pat connaughton! Give the kid a chance, it can't be any worse than Pat.
i'm avoiding mainstream sport media.
we will need to beat the grizzlies. cause god knows we won't be beating the cavs in the mini 2-game series we have coming up
with them lmao
rohan lmao privilege 😂
saying gianni's is needed more on defense than offense is insane 😂
who's gonna score then? pat connaughton? 😂😂😂😂😂
Ti, i get it that y'all want Giannis to focus on defense…the quation is, would y'all also say Embiid, KD, LeBron, Steph, Lukw, Tatum or Kawhi to focus more on defense assuming they had the exact same roster and they play exactly like Giannis? Seriously.
Also, Giannis has been very, very involved in this offense. How bad was this offense BEFORE Dame? Does Giannis trust his teammates? Bc when things go wrong the entire media will blame Giannis. This is not even a question.
I think one of main reasons why the Bucks are struggling is bc they are too slow. They are letting the defensive settle, making it harder to score. Giannis needs that to run and catch the defenders off guard. I think he was second in transition scoring last yr. I hear Dame and Giannis need to do pick and roll all the time but y'all are forgetting that Giannis was actually the best when doing pick and roll and Giannis was the ball handler.
Does Giannis trust his teammates?
Good news this is my favorite bucks pod bad news we can’t win a game so I can’t be excited to listen to a big bucks win pod
Curious to know how many points yall expected Delon to average?
Pat, Bobby and Doc head to cancun
Giannis has become another Aaron Rodgers. Either let him kill another coach or trade him. You can tell he has given up on Dbnoc's defense already which means Doc is useless. This is what happens when players have too much power.
Trying to spread nothing but love and positivity for us bucks fan. Right now is it rough? Yes, but we also got to have faith. The year we won it all we started the season 1-2, and in 2021 at the beginning of the year we went on a 3 game losing streak and were 2 games under .500. That year we finished 51-31. I believe we will fix the problem and we will be FINE. Once we get Middleton back, Prince will be more effective off the bench. We got this. Go Bucks!!! #Fearthedeer
The only way to fix this team is to get that bum Dame off the team. Call Boston and BEG them to do Jrue for Dame.
They currently suck😢
Only bench guys who played were Bob n Pat
Bobby is very frustrating, because he has the offensive skill set to make up for some of his defensive limitations. He's been one of the best big man shooters the past few seasons. He has multiple seasons shooting nearly 40% from 3 on 3+ sometimes 4+ attempts a game. What would it look like if he focused on grabbing rebounds and shooting from 3? We've seen him have crazy heaters before, and while sure the game-to-game efficiency may not be there, it would provide him opportunities to find better post touches. Just frustrating to watch him take a tough turn around on back-to-back possessions and miss, when maybe he could run off a screen, or pick and pop to the wing.
Thats what Giannis gets. Im so tired of him acting like LeBron firing coaches and acting like a diva.
People think Trent is good on defense cause he gets steals. Besides the steals, he’s awful. Maybe even worse than Beasley
Why not just say trade giannis then make this a dame team. Lets see what happens.