Round 1 Indy Lead Up

[MickeyDavis]

Game 1's start time has been changed from 6:30 pm CT to 6:00 pm CT.

It was always 6:00

[Matches Malone]

Possibly another 2-4 weeks.

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Wait, why another 2-4 weeks and not from the time he was injured?

Sounded like the overall timeline, just as you're asking. So pretty sure it's 2-4 weeks from the injury.

I must have misheard. Thought he was adding an additional timeline. Phew

[MickeyDavis]

It's been 8 days. Game 3 would be the earliest. Otherwise round 2 (and we WILL be in round 2)Or could be another Middleton situation from 2 years ago where they strung us along but he was never coming back.

[steger_3434]

This has been the optimal realist/optimist season. All season it was Dame starts slowly, we are just coasting, Giannis is an ironman, Giannis will surely be ready for game 1.

The bucks were 2 games from a play in, dame never got better, Giannis is now expected to miss the first round.

The season is way too damn long for it to end like this with the third year in a row done due to injuries to a star. Can’t be pat, or Marjon, Beasley, or he’ll even brook. It’s always got to be one of our top 2 guys.


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[Neuromancer56]

It's time for dame to cut the BS and play like the superstar that he is. The time for excuses is done.

[theFireBlanket]

This has been the optimal realist/optimist season. All season it was Dame starts slowly, we are just coasting, Giannis is an ironman, Giannis will surely be ready for game 1.

The bucks were 2 games from a play in, dame never got better, Giannis is now expected to miss the first round.

The season is way too damn long for it to end like this with the third year in a row done due to injuries to a star. Can’t be pat, or Marjon, Beasley, or he’ll even brook. It’s always got to be one of our top 2 guys.


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The Brook back injury was costly. For a season.

[Baddy Chuck]

Start Bev, start Bobby until Giannis is ready.

Limit the Dame/Beas lineups when Haliburton is on the court (forever).

If I see Brook on an island guarding Haliburton I'm losing my mind.

Keep Haliburton engaged defensively. For all the flack Dame gets there, Hali kinda sucks too. Don't let him hide in a corner. Screen the hell out of him and hope for switches. Same for McConnell.

If Myles Turner kills us from the perimeter so be it but don't let him do it inside.

It sucks but we're going to see a lot of Hali midrange I think. Bev is good at guarding these from behind maybe it won't be as bad (coping).

A Bobby/Siakam matchup scares me.

Get the **** back defensively. Quit bitching about calls, don't pout because you missed, give up rebounding chances if you have to, just get the **** back. This team is goign to try and run our old asses out of the gym.

[steger_3434]

With Giannis I think we win in 6/7. Without him we aren’t a better team. I’d love to think we’d get Portland dame and then we’d have a punchers chance but beyond blind faith nothing he’s done this entire season says we’ll see that player.

If Gianni’s is truly out we lose in 5.

I can’t imagine how Giannis is feeling. Two years in a row he misses the playoffs


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[jimmybones]

I hope they know internally that he's out until game 3 at minimum so they can be focused on getting it done without him. It would be a real emotional letdown if they all think there's a chance he plays and he's ruled out before the game.

Assuming he's out the first two games. We're at home, everyone is counting us out. You would think they would be up as you can get up to get that two game lead, keep homecourt, and take the pressure off of Giannis coming back before he's ready.

I'm pretty down on things but this is the best outcome and if Dame and Khris are Dame and Khris, it's certainly possible.

[steger_3434]

Md brought it up, but this seems eerily similar to mids 2 years ago when he got hurt against Chicago. We were told no structural damage and he’d be out a week. Then that week turned into day to day. Then if we made game 7 he could be ready. The truth was that he was never coming back even if he had a month off


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[BigO]

I'm not excited about any Siakam matchup without Giannis. He's a high efficiency shooter, excellent rebounder and very good passer.

I don't see a lot of edges the Bucks have over Pacers without Giannis (that pretty much goes for any opponent). Maybe experience, but that means the old three (Brook, Dame, KM) need to show out and play a lot of minutes.

The only possible wildcard is if PC and Crowder happen to show up.

[Plossum]

This feels like last year: Giannis injured, comes back too early from said injury after we struggle early, not close to his best and we go down in first round.

Expectations are at rock bottom

[drone3]

If only we had actually developed Beauchamp and Ajax into NBA players.

[LittleRooster]

I said that with a healthy starting 5, the Bucks beat the Pacers in 6.

I also said that without one of the Big 3, Bucks lose in 5 or 6. Hope I'm wrong, but I stand by that. To win, Dame and Khris need to play 40 minutes a game and I don't know if that's enough with the way Dame has been playing.

I agree


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[MickeyDavis]

If only we had actually developed Beauchamp and Ajax into NBA players.

MarJon will never be anything more than an end of bench guy. Ajax is a rookie. A second rounder. He may or may not become a contributing rotation player down the road.

The issue, which PP25 recently discussed, isn't that we didn't develop those 2 (one of whom will never develop). The issue is MarJon joins the ranks of Nwora, DJ Wilson, Thon, Vaughn, Jabari and on and on. The draft pick they hit on, DDV, was traded for a corpse (granted, at the time he was injury prone and looking for a 4/100 deal, which no one gave him)

[theFireBlanket]

Amped for game 1.

[rilamann]

The Bucks could still win this series without Giannis, but 2 things would have to happen.

1. Dame would actually have to be the player he is hyped up to be. And not just for a game or two, obviously. He would have to be the player he is hyped up to be for the entire series.

2. Doc will have to out-coach RC.

Either one of those things have pretty much zero chance of happening. Let alone both of them happening.

[MickeyDavis]

Hot take. Carlisle isn't a great coach and is not a better coach than Rivers.

[DanoMac]

We won the Eastern Conference Finals with Jeff Teague and Bryn Forbes being our 2nd and 3rd guys off the bench. Our roster now is much more talented. Have faith boys

[ReasonablySober]

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Haven't we suffered enough.