Should Giannis Be Criticized If They Lose To Boston?

[Johnny Bball]

I still think Celtics in seven. Not by me at least. The other 14 guys (or whichever number you want to pick) aren't his picks.

[3Diamantidis]

If he plays again like he did tonight you BET he must be criticized.
Awful. He was a complete no factor defensively under the rim.
Enough times that the ball sticked to his hands.
Keep the ball moving. That goes for the entire team and ofc it applies to him as well.
Hopefully a coach change will make him and middleton move it.

[karateo97]

If he plays again like he did tonight you BET he must be criticized.
Awful. He was a complete no factor defensively under the rim.
Enough times that the ball sticked to his hands.
Keep the ball moving. That goes for the entire team and ofc it applies to him as well.
Hopefully a coach change will make him and middleton move it.

Yeah i think the same, in addition to last year's playoffs, this year Giannis' defence isnt so good, basically he looks a little MIA in defence..

[Magic Giannison]

Giannis 27/7/5 with only 2 tunrovers and great on defense and SOME people think he played awful.

This is hilarious.

[karateo97]

Giannis 27/7/5 with only 2 tunrovers and great on defense and SOME people think he played awful.

This is hilarious.

He wasnt this good tonight man, 3Diamantidis is right, the positive in this is that in a B-C game for him he helped a lot his team...

[Magic Giannison]

Giannis 27/7/5 with only 2 tunrovers and great on defense and SOME people think he played awful.

This is hilarious.

He wasnt this good tonight man, 3Diamantidis is right, the positive in this is that in a B-C game for him he helped a lot his team...

No he isnt right and neither are you, watch the game, the guy had 2 people on him all night and still managed to score for 27 on 60% shooting.

On Defense he was guarding horford the majority and was great on switching.

Team helped for sure but thats how you win,not with 1 player but as a team.

[ISayshowmee]

Nope.

[Hugi Mancura]

Giannis has still hole's in his game; Mediocre shooting, low basketball IQ and court vision. Those improve naturally when you age, but like shooting or athleticism some players are naturally gifted (LeBron, Simmons, Rubio, Diaw). And to be honest low BB IQ and court vision seems to be problem to whole Bucks team. So if your whole team have low IQ then you need good coach more than ever and who would say Milwaukee right now has that coach?

Should he be criticized? Sure, as whole team should be. Are they favorite in mine mind before series begun? Nope, even without Irving I thought Boston will win because they have much better coach who will exploit of Bucks weaknesses. So I wouldn't blame him if they lose. Hard to blame someone if you think they wouldn't win anyway no matter what he would do. I never expected him to score 50 points and throw 10 assists per game, because he ain't just so good yet and most likely will never be. If people expected him to do those stats maybe the problem wasn't with Giannis, but it was in people expectations from him

[Xanadu]

Love how people seemed to think that you can evaluate talent in a vacuum. Just looking at the two teams yeah the bucks have more overall talent but that doesn't factor fit, coaching or chemistry. Which to me the Celtics blow the bucks out of the water in all of those categories. So no it's not as easy as saying Giannis is bad because he can't beat a team with inferior talent.

[AussieBuck]

OP is one of the original Giannis doubters! Can't remember his particular brand of fail but good on him for staying rooted to his 2014 judgement!

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[HornetsFan29]

this series has proved Brad Stevens is one hell of a coach cause not many coaches would fair this well missing your 2 best players.

[dlts20]

So what is the final verdict? He had a great series overall

[TheNewEra]

Be insane for him not to get any blame.

[floppymoose]

Can't we just all agree to criticize Westbrook instead?

[dballislife]

his attacking and driving game due to his body isnt just eite, its near GOAT...like if you got a special move, like shooting the 3, keep doing it...but his game really isnt as developed as some think, but he has one super move

[Lalouie]

If he is truly transcendent, should we expect him to win against Boston without Kyrie and Gordon? Not only that but the Bucks arguably have a better roster without Bostons big 2. I know that coaching matters but in the playoffs, superstars matter more

no you and the media shouldn't, even though that's what always happens, doesn't it.

the fact that the bucks couldn't beat the celts who were missing their two best players, and giannis playing as hard as he can, tells me it's a roster problem. not even a coaching problem because the bucks suck without giannis