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Brewhoopfan · Post #401 » by **Brewhoopfan** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 6:58 pm

If the Bucks don't have their **** together, Giannis will leave for another team. This is not news, yet people are upset when he says it out loud? After ten years in Milwaukee? Sheesh.

emunney · Post #402 » by **emunney** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:19 pm

The fun *positive* conspiracy is that Giannis is causing other teams to store their powder for him while artificially inflating the value of our future picks.

chonestown · Post #403 » by **chonestown** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:28 pm

"So Giannis can't talk about possibly relocating if his championship goals are in peril, but Chones can openly threaten to go to a new board if the mods don't greet his trousers-centric talk with enough enthusiasm. Hypocrisy much?"

Post #404 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 9:21 pm

emunney wrote:The fun *positive* conspiracy is that Giannis is causing other teams to store their powder for him while artificially inflating the value of our future picks.

Post #405 » by **Prez** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 9:30 pm

emunney wrote:The fun *positive* conspiracy is that Giannis is causing other teams to store their powder for him while artificially inflating the value of our future picks.

I’ve thought about this as well. We have 3 tradable firsts next summer, that’s a monster trade package if there’s “uncertainty” about Giannis.

rilamann · Post #406 » by **rilamann** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:08 am

theFireBlanket wrote:Giannis may have shot poorly from the FT line bs. Miami. But he also had to be hooked up with fluids after game 4, thanks to playing through his back injury.

An injury that didn't go away for game 5.

I'd like him to make free throws. But I'm going to put things in perspective.

If your back feels good enough to get to the free throw line 23 times.

Your back should feel good enough to make more than 10 out of those 23 attempts.

Giannis wasn't 100%, but he's not getting the injury excuse when it comes to missing 13 free throws in a 2pt loss in overtime that ended the Buck's season.

Giannis probably needed fluids because Bud was still sitting him out of games down the stretch of the regular season and not ramping him (or the rest of the team) up for 30+ minutes of playoff intensity basketball.

You can't sit a guy out of games late in the season and not ramp up his minutes down the stretch of the regular season, and then suddenly be like Now go out there and give us big minutes at playoff level intensity.

All through the month of March I said it on here almost daily.

The way Bud was approaching the final stretch of the regular season, he was setting the Bucks up for absolute disaster in the playoffs.

And that is exactly what happened.

Bud approached the final month of the regular season like it was still November. So relieved that they showed Bud the door.

theFireBlanket · Post #407 » by **theFireBlanket** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:07 pm

rilamann wrote:
theFireBlanket wrote:Giannis may have shot poorly from the FT line bs. Miami. But he also had to be hooked up with fluids after game 4, thanks to playing through his back injury.

An injury that didn't go away for game 5.

I'd like him to make free throws. But I'm going to put things in perspective.

If your back feels good enough to get to the free throw line 23 times.

Your back should feel good enough to make more than 10 out of those 23 attempts.

We're talking about a guy who played with nothIng protecting his ACL. Doubt he was feeling all that good. But he puts his body on the line to win.

aboveAverage · Post #408 » by **aboveAverage** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:57 pm

Giannis has every right to say what he’s been saying given how much he’s given to this city and the franchise. Frankly, I think he knows we’re capped out and can’t do much roster wise, so this is more of a shot at Khris and Jrue to light a fire under them.

Daver · Post #409 » by **Daver** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:27 pm

rilamann wrote:
theFireBlanket wrote:Giannis may have shot poorly from the FT line bs. Miami. But he also had to be hooked up with fluids after game 4, thanks to playing through his back injury.

An injury that didn't go away for game 5.

I'd like him to make free throws. But I'm going to put things in perspective.

If your back feels good enough to get to the free throw line 23 times.

Your back should feel good enough to make more than 10 out of those 23 attempts.

Giannis wasn't 100%, but he's not getting the injury excuse when it comes to missing 13 free throws in a 2pt loss in overtime that ended the Buck's season.

Giannis probably needed fluids because Bud was still sitting him out of games down the stretch of the regular season and not ramping him (or the rest of the team) up for 30+ minutes of playoff intensity basketball.

You can't sit a guy out of games late in the season and not ramp up his minutes down the stretch of the regular season, and then suddenly be like Now go out there and give us big minutes at playoff level intensity.

All through the month of March I said it on here almost daily.

The way Bud was approaching the final stretch of the regular season, he was setting the Bucks up for absolute disaster in the playoffs.

And that is exactly what happened.

Bud approached the final month of the regular season like it was still November. So relieved that they showed Bud the door.

Absolutely spot on yes you did say it and i did to but posters defended bud for doung that until the very end.I thought it was extremely stupid that come last 2 weeks he was still resting players wtf starting 5 only played in like 5 games together b4 the POs started.This team looked tired already in gsme 1.
Bud gave them off the last 2 reg season games .I personally thought thry should of played just alittle anyway to keep in rhythm.

FrieAaron · Post #410 » by **FrieAaron** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:53 pm

I also am looking forward to all the championships we'll win now that Bud is gone. We'd have what, at least 3 if we never hired him? Easily.

theFireBlanket · Post #411 » by **theFireBlanket** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:54 am

FrieAaron wrote:I also am looking forward to all the championships we'll win now that Bud is gone. We'd have what, at least 3 if we never hired him? Easily.

Nurse would've anihilated Bud's Raptors, that's only the first one. [green, not sure how green]

TroyD92 · Post #412 » by **TroyD92** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:18 am

aboveAverage wrote:Giannis has every right to say what he’s been saying given how much he’s given to this city and the franchise. Frankly, I think he knows we’re capped out and can’t do much roster wise, so this is more of a shot at Khris and Jrue to light a fire under them.

It screams him trying to mend his ego. Describing himself as a “winner” and people needing to “sacrifice like him”

Which is fine by the way high level athletes need to have a certain level of delusion. He’s probably not even totally wrong either.

rilamann · Post #413 » by **rilamann** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:42 am

Over the past 2 seasons under coach Bud, the Bucks were averaging 4 playoff wins per season with a 27 & 28 year old Giannis.

And don't forget that coach Bud needed overtime in a game 7 to beat a Steve Nash coached Nets team that had 2 hall of fame players injured.

rilamann · Post #414 » by **rilamann** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:47 am

FrieAaron wrote:I also am looking forward to all the championships we'll win now that Bud is gone. We'd have what, at least 3 if we never hired him? Easily.

Did you know that if Adrian Griffin leads the Bucks to 2 playoff wins this season, he will have doubled up all of coach Bud's 2023 playoff success.

MVP2110 · Post #415 » by **MVP2110** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:04 pm

rilamann wrote:
FrieAaron wrote:I also am looking forward to all the championships we'll win now that Bud is gone. We'd have what, at least 3 if we never hired him? Easily.

Did you know that if Adrian Griffin leads the Bucks to 2 playoff wins this season, he will have doubled up all of coach Bud's 2023 playoff success.

Did you know if Adrian Griffin doesn't win a championship he won't have made it as far as Bud did with this team

theFireBlanket · Post #416 » by **theFireBlanket** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 4:10 pm

MVP2110 wrote:
rilamann wrote:
FrieAaron wrote:I also am looking forward to all the championships we'll win now that Bud is gone. We'd have what, at least 3 if we never hired him? Easily.

Did you know that if Adrian Griffin leads the Bucks to 2 playoff wins this season, he will have doubled up all of coach Bud's 2023 playoff success.

Did you know if Adrian Griffin doesn't win a championship he won't have made it as far as Bud did with this team

Don't worry, penciled in 98-0 for year one.

Plossum · Post #417 » by **Plossum** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:39 am

Brewhoopfan wrote:If the Bucks don't have their **** together, Giannis will leave for another team. This is not news, yet people are upset when he says it out loud? After ten years in Milwaukee? Sheesh.

The reality of the modern NBA unfortunately. Bucks made a series of good moves to build a contender but now the team is old(er) and they don't have the luxury of time to try build a second era contender around Giannis.

Bucknado · Post #418 » by **Bucknado** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:36 pm

Didn’t Giannis say something similar before his last extension to get the team to trade our draft capital for Jrue? And aren’t we coming up on a bunch of draft capital right before his extension again? Worked last time. Gotta be sure we don’t Dame him. That’s fair.

emunney · Post #419 » by **emunney** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:18 pm

Is Giannis nervous about the roster turnover? (Age this coming season in parentheses)

Out:
Jevon (28)
Ingles (36)
Wes (37)
Leonard (31)
Dragic (37)

In:
Beasley (27)
RoLo (35)
Green (24)
Dre (22)
Livingston (20)

Does he see our extremely low-key/low investment youth movement as anti-competitive?

PG Graveyard · Post #420 » by **PG Graveyard** » Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:48 pm

Glad to see Bontemps and McMahon call out the Gianni’s’ hypocrisy on the hoop collective. Finally someone remembered the end of the season being not a failure and now he’s throwing the org and his teammates under the bus.

If this isn’t a ruse that everyone is in on he needs to mend some fences.