Game 35: Spurs at Bucks - 1/8/25 - 8:30 - ESPN/FDSWI

yannisk · Post #21 » by **yannisk** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 1:50 pm

the only thing that keeps this board (relatively) sane is that Suns are not even in the play-ins. Imagine if they were second in the west or something

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #22 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 2:31 pm

yannisk wrote:the only thing that keeps this board (relatively) sane is that Suns are not even in the play-ins. Imagine if they were second in the west or something

I was bragging so hard about the $300 bet I made for the sun's to win it all. last three weeks.

BigO · Post #23 » by **BigO** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 2:47 pm

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the last two weeks Giannis is not only not able to finish a lot of his drives, but he has had his shot blocked more than I can remember.

Maybe it's his illness, but he's not elevating like he did.

GoldenAntlers · Post #24 » by **GoldenAntlers** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 3:01 pm

BigO wrote:I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the last two weeks Giannis is not only not able to finish a lot of his drives, but he has had his shot blocked more than I can remember.

Maybe it's his illness, but he's not elevating like he did.

He's been falling down on drives often too.

Post #25 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 3:11 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
yannisk wrote:the only thing that keeps this board (relatively) sane is that Suns are not even in the play-ins. Imagine if they were second in the west or something

I was bragging so hard about the $300 bet I made for the sun's to win it all. last three weeks.

I have the Suns over 47.5 wins.

CharityStripe34 · Post #26 » by **CharityStripe34** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:22 pm

If everyone's available this should be a fun one. Hopefully it's competitive.

Bernman · Post #27 » by **Bernman** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:35 pm

Schedule win. Oh, & they're Beal'ing Khris.

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Post #28 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:53 pm

Makes sense. The reason is they want continuity with the starting lineup and Khris will get lots of load management the next 3 months. And he'll be in at crunch time in the 4th, which is more important anyway.

Matches Malone · Post #29 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:56 pm

I like the move. Prince seemed like he was better with the starters and Middleton can bring some stability to the second unit and he's still got great chemistry with Giannis, so getting those two some court time together as substitutions start wouldn't be the worst.

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tsamo · Post #30 » by **tsamo** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:58 pm

BigO wrote:I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the last two weeks Giannis is not only not able to finish a lot of his drives, but he has had his shot blocked more than I can remember.

Maybe it's his illness, but he's not elevating like he did.

Like 2 games back he said in an interview that he needs to build back his conditioning as it's almost completely gone after the illness. And it shows, especially on the missed bunnies.

jschligs · Post #31 » by **jschligs** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 6:48 pm

jschligs wrote:Bought 2 2nd level first row tickets. Last Spurs game I bought tickets for Giannis sat. Of course I woke up with the chills and a fever yesterday. Praying I feel better tomorrow.

I AM ALIVVVEE!! Can't wait to see these two freaks battle each other out. Not touching the spread. Bucks are way too hit or miss.

But that said, these are the games that are MUST WIN. Can't be losing to .500 and below teams at this point. Time to figure our **** out.

blazza18 · Post #32 » by **blazza18** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 7:49 pm

Giannis has lost a bit of explosiveness from a standstill and hasn’t adjusted to that yet. The illness hasn’t helped either.

Ia benching Midds admitting that having him, Dame and Brook out there together is not great defensively?

-Jragon- · Post #33 » by **-Jragon-** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 8:05 pm

Wait, what's the starting lineup then? It's AJax and Prince? 2nd unit with GTJ, Green, KM, Bobby would have decent offense.

KM going to the bench is likely to get more speed and chaos in with Dame and Giannis so they can run and gun. 2nd unit might be a 2nd coming of Big Dog and Allen taking turns 1 v 1

AussieBuck · Post #34 » by **AussieBuck** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 9:01 pm

Welcome to your Manu era, Khris

CharityStripe34 · Post #35 » by **CharityStripe34** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 9:41 pm

Also, Giannis plays a lot with the bench, so instead of having him with benchers, there'll be a solid number of minutes with Freak/Khris where they have great chemistry.

mediocrityrules · Post #36 » by **mediocrityrules** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 9:43 pm

If anyone can help Giannis get back some touch it's going to be Midds. More than happy to move Midds' minutes around, even if it's just to capitalise on when Giannis is also on the floor.

drone3 · Post #37 » by **drone3** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 10:04 pm

Does moving khris to the bench decrease his trade value?

Matches Malone · Post #38 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 10:18 pm

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Post #39 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed Jan 8, 2025 11:30 pm

Jones and Billas doing the game.

Post #40 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Jan 9, 2025 12:28 am

I didn't realize this was a 8:30pm start. When's the last time we played a non-playoff home weekday game that started that late? Let alone against another team which plays at CST?