Bucks/NBA 2023-24 Prediction Thread - Locks at 6:00 P.M. TONIGHT

[Shaffty]

as always Bucks fans overreact to the negative.

Bucks: overall 1st offense by a landslide, top 15 defense, elite clutch numbers. Defense shot distribution is worst in the NBA. Corner 3s everywhere. Slowish start maybe an embarssing loss to the Heat and Sixers to open the season

Griffin: Great rotations, good timeouts, gets alot of the blame early for the stars trying to find how they mesh.Eventually team clicks and its obvious how good he is in his flexibility and ingame adjustments.

Giannis: Gets a ton of flack and hate from a fanbase who should unconditionally support him. Has his best season ever in terms of touch around the basket but because he isn't giving Dame every possession people despise him 30/12/5/2/2 Wins DPOY because he finally has counting stats. Really locks up on the perimeter on defense.

Dame: The best PG season of our life times, Shoots like 48/38/90 the free throws he brings this team will be so impactful. Will take a bit to learn how to play off Giannis. Will compete on defense. Close tons of games, atleast 3 game winners. There will be a contingent of Bucks fans who do reverse #StephBetter stuff who think Giannis is holding him back.

Khris: Ho Hum 18/5/5 on 50/40/90 plays 70 games. All about how he competes on defensive end

Brook : Gets traded at the deadline

Jae : Starts in most of the playoff games

Beasley : Takes 10 3s a game shooting like 40% really rejuvinates his career. Cant defend a lick

Marjon : Finds his way into the rotation. 10/3/3 on 37% from 3. Good defender, starts in the ECF

PattyC: Traded at the deadline

Bobby : Shoots from 3 poorly but not having to play asmuch drop makes him more impactful for us

AJ Green: 3pt shooting contest at all star weekend.

AJAX: Cant keep him off the floor

Rolo: Cut by January

Cam Payne: Should be cut but wont be, we will hate every minute he plays

TyTy: Wont get enough minutes even tho he deserves them

Thanasis: Plays more then you'd think, is better then you'd expect. still bad

Livingston : Great shots of him cheering from the bench, has a random all bench game where he drops like 15

Win the ship going 16-4, Beat the Nuggets in the finals where Jokic just cannot do anything in the Dame/Giannis PNR. Celtics lose to the sixers in the 2nd round. Bucks crush Hawks in the 2nd round.

DPOY: Giannis
MVP : Anthony Davis
ROTY: Wemby
MIP : Jordan Poole
6th Man: Jrue Holiday lol

Finals MVP: DAMIAN LILLARD

[HKPackFan]

57 wins. And a chip. Media will be annoyed small market finals nuggets bucks, but bucks in 6.


Slow start, will take time for giannis to break old habits, he's had to Carry the load for so long it will be an adjustment to Break that instinct.

Overall take time to gel, new players, new coach.

Realgm will go full blown panic mode early when they hover only a couple games over .500 for a bit and lots of fans turning on AG.

The vets start to gel, the young guys start to blossom and the team gets into a dominant groove onto a chip.

For once bucks will be a popular casual fan to root for in the post season as casuals get behind Dame winning a chip.

See some of you in June at the parade.

[chonestown]

Wemby plays less than 50 games.

[Dick Tate]

Thanks to the influx of youth, pre-game threads will be much more tolerable when starters are listed as questionable.

[humanrefutation]

56-26. A bit of a slow start for Dame, as he and Giannis don't exactly mesh. Too much hero ball by Giannis. Too much passivity from Dame deferring to Giannis. A few close game, late game possessions where Giannis runs into a wall instead of letting Dame cook. AG's seat gets warm. Lots of criticism here that he shouldn't have pushed Stotts to the exit door.

Brook struggles with injuries and it becomes apparent that our center depth is poop behind him.

Middleton is anonymous at first as he works his way into the offensive scheme.

However, as the season goes on, Dame and Giannis finally begin to unlock each other. Giannis starts deferring to Dame more, especially in late game possessions. It becomes apparent that they're figuring it out when Dame hits a game winner off of a Giannis assist in Boston.

We finish as the 2 seed due to our slow start. But Boston gets upset by Cleveland in Round 2. We beat Cleveland in 5 and go to the finals against the Suns, who shock the Nuggets in Denver in Game 7 of the WCF behind a 55 point performance from Kevin Durant.

Bucks-Suns. Rematch.

Bucks In Six.

[SupremeHustle]

After a slow start Bucks trade Middleton for Josh Giddey.

[mediocrityrules]

56 wins, 2nd in the East. Giannis runner up in MVP and DPOY

We beat the Cavs in the ECF.

Win the 'Chip by beating the Nuggets in six.

[Milbucks96]

I’m usually conservative for record predictions but I’m guessing 63-19. I have plenty concerns about perimeter defense, health, young guys being good enough, Giannis and Dame not clicking, but I think we’re going to whoop teams.

Beating the nuggets in a hard fought 7 game series.
Wemby making an all nba team.

[JonHeist]

76-6

[drone3]

58 champs

[Packbuckman]

62-20 bucks don’t have a slow start like some believe and cruise to best record.
Bucks finally stay healthy and win title against Denver 4-2.

[blazza18]

Think we're going to have a borderline bottom 10 defence until at least the all star break/trade deadline. The offense will hang around the top 10 because of talent and Dame in the clutch but still will look clunky until Giannis is forced to give the ball up more. I'm betting on a story being written about this btw.

Griffin isn't a needle mover in the playoffs but we make it to the conference finals where we lose to the better team and don't have any embarrassing misshapes this time.

[GoldenAntlers]

60 wins
1 seed
Championship
Dame MVP
Giannis DPOY
Horst Executive of the Year.

[HKPackFan]

After a slow start Bucks trade Middleton for Josh Giddey.

Not sure if prediction or wet dream.

[Plossum]

Bill Simmons stole my OKC top 4 seed prediction so there goes that hot take.

Bucks 62-20. Champs over Denver.
AJ Green to become a core part of Bucks' success this year.
Blazza writes something positive about the Bucks at some point during the season.
Zion MVP and Pelicans top 4 seed.
Portland will be a lot better than people expect. The Utah of last year.
Morey will wave the white flag and trade Harden for peanuts.
Jrue will be really good for Boston and shoot above 55TS% in the Playoffs.

[ANTETOKOUNBROS]

44-48 wins

Giannis and Dame won't mesh as well offensively as we all thought. Pick and roll dominance we thought would happen, does not materialize because Giannis won't let Dame be Dame.

2nd round exit.

Dame requests out to Miami.

Giannis will not extend.

AG avoids any deserved scrutiny.

[HKPackFan]

Blazza writes something positive about the Bucks at some point during the season.

Woah woah woah. Slow down now, let's not get too crazy with these predictions.

[emunney]

44-48 wins

Giannis and Dame won't mesh as well offensively as we all thought. Pick and roll dominance we thought would happen, does not materialize because Giannis won't let Dame be Dame.

2nd round exit.

Dame requests out to Miami.

Giannis will not extend.

AG avoids any deserved scrutiny.

If we win 44-48 games it's not going to require scrutiny to fire AG. A failure visible from space.

[greekbuck34]

Ablolute **** show in the first 20-25 games of the season and then either Giannis or Dame will wake up and have a superstar month. When that happens we will break any type of defense we face and we will look like a superteam for a while. This is when our superstar duo will build their chemistry and after that we will roll until the playoffs as long as we remain healthy.

We will end up as the 2nd or 3rd seed because we will lose a lot of games in the beginning.

[worthlessBucks]

50ish wins, no title.