rilamann wrote:sidney lanier wrote:rilamann wrote:
With Dame it really just comes down to which standard you are holding him to.
If you're holding Dame to the level of a really good all star type of player he's been great.
If you're holding him to the standard of a true superstar, he hasn't been that.
I've been pretty positive all season and I am not one to overreact over a single regular season game. But the game last night deff gives me some doubts about this Bucks team going forward.
His self-assessment was unusually candid in his postgame sound. He said (paraphrasing) that he was accustomed to a role in which he was the initiator and had the ball in his hand, and the transition to playing off the ball was a challenge for him in terms of getting in the flow and building a rhythm.
We're still in the test kitchen and far from ready to open the restaurant. The recipes with Giannis bringing the ball up are unlikely to make it to the final menu. Dame as initiator should be the house specialty, and I think eventually it will.
I will have to check out the Dame postgame sound.
I get that Dame needs time to adjust but we're approaching the midpoint of the season and there have been a few games (Like last night) where he just seems out of it. Giannis is a superstar and he has some bad games sometimes, but he almost never has games where he just seems out of it. We're only 33 games into the season and Dame has already had a few.
Again, I am not saying he's been bad, but I just don't think we are getting the level of consistency and commitment that you would expect from a superstar who claims to be hungry for a championship.
I've been saying for the past couple months that I would never bet against a team with Giannis & Dame.
If Dame has a couple more games like he had last night between now and mid-April, I might be changing my tune.
Everyone is adjusting to a new coach. Dame just sucked yesterday and his statement sounds like a lame excuse to me. Already ag gives in to Dame’s preference to play tbe full first quarter. Now he wants to have the ball always in his hand? When he had the ball yesterday he was just trying to chuck up one unsuccessful 3 pointer after another. Little attempt at creating anything from anywhere else on the court or creating for others as a pg.
As someone else said, his sole preference was to go to Miami, probably the championship was not the primary goal.