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2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:07 pm
by MickeyDavis
Nice early start to get it over with.

Sure, we could have someone get hot like Trent did in game 3 and Indy is way too cocky for a franchise that has the same number of championships as the Pelicans but this team has checked out.

PLEASE keep the discussion on this game only. We have other threads discussing all of the off-season moves that will never happen 8-)

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:14 pm
by paulpressey25
Would be nice if Doc made adjustments for this game. But probably better he focuses on his tee times with Larry David and we end this season.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:19 pm
by neiLz
Must Lose. Get this off-season started.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:27 pm
by GiannisAnte34
Is there any hope to steal this one?

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:32 pm
by Wonka
Would love to see Giannis go nuclear. Still feels like we haven't seen him at his peak this series, which is insane given what he's done...BUT the Dame injury seemed to suck all life out of him last night. He didn't look nearly as engaged from that point on and I wouldn't be suprised to see that continue tomorrow.

You've gotta assume they don't continue to shoot the way they have been, but with the way Doc's lineups have looked and the confidence we give their shooters when we rely on Brook defensively… it doesn't inspire much hope.

Need a big, big game from somebody.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:34 pm
by CharityStripe34
GiannisAnte34 wrote:Is there any hope to steal this one?


With someone else steering the ship, yes, but I think Doc is counting down the hours to his golf vacation.

Would be sweet to steal a road game and show some pride.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:03 pm
by msiris
Go Bucks but not really feeling it. One game at a time. Bluh

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:11 pm
by Ron Swanson
Hard to have any sort of meaningful analysis from last game, but I'll just echo some previous sentiment and say that Giannis was indeed kinda trash despite the box score. Tunnel vision scoring and not even looking to get his shooters involved at various points. Mentally he looked checked out, and I can't even really blame him too much considering that Doc is just going through the motions at this point. With a better coach and engaged Giannis, who knows, we'd still probably have a shot. But Heliocentric Giannis and this bucket-of-ass offense/defense scheme and coaching staff ain't doing anything. It's over.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:13 pm
by ReasonablySober
Enjoy Giannis's last game in a Bucks jersey. I'll be shocked if he doesn't ask out this summer.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:28 pm
by Ryan5UW
ReasonablySober wrote:Enjoy Giannis's last game in a Bucks jersey. I'll be shocked if he doesn't ask out this summer.


There was a moment late in the game where they showed him on the bench looking around and that thought went through my head.

I hate being a Wisconsin sports fan sometimes.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:41 pm
by Thunder Muscle
Ryan5UW wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:Enjoy Giannis's last game in a Bucks jersey. I'll be shocked if he doesn't ask out this summer.


There was a moment late in the game where they showed him on the bench looking around and that thought went through my head.

I hate being a Wisconsin sports fan sometimes.


Which in that case, this could be our last playoff game in a long time.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:51 pm
by German Athens
Go Bucks!

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:58 pm
by Dick Tate
ReasonablySober wrote:Enjoy Giannis's last game in a Bucks jersey. I'll be shocked if he doesn't ask out this summer.

Sit him and take the fine so he doesn't get injured.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:20 pm
by sidney lanier
Ron Swanson wrote:But Heliocentric Giannis and this bucket-of-ass offense/defense scheme and coaching staff ain't doing anything. It's over.


Heliocentric Giannis? I love it.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.


It ended poorly for the sycophants of the sun of York, Richard the Third. Maybe Giannis the First fares better. Dum spiro spero.

The animal wounded is vicious
But our prospects are far from auspicious
I expect to see fight
If it's still a bad night
Time to hope for a rebuild ambitious

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:26 pm
by GoldenAntlers
Ryan5UW wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:Enjoy Giannis's last game in a Bucks jersey. I'll be shocked if he doesn't ask out this summer.


There was a moment late in the game where they showed him on the bench looking around and that thought went through my head.

I hate being a Wisconsin sports fan sometimes.
I was there too. Looked to me like he was realizing that might be his last home game in Milwaukee. Yes, I was emotionally despondent at the time of that analysis.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:31 pm
by BUCKnation
Ron Swanson wrote:Hard to have any sort of meaningful analysis from last game, but I'll just echo some previous sentiment and say that Giannis was indeed kinda trash despite the box score. Tunnel vision scoring and not even looking to get his shooters involved at various points. Mentally he looked checked out, and I can't even really blame him too much considering that Doc is just going through the motions at this point. With a better coach and engaged Giannis, who knows, we'd still probably have a shot. But Heliocentric Giannis and this bucket-of-ass offense/defense scheme and coaching staff ain't doing anything. It's over.

In the 3rd he was fine, but the 1st half was the worst ive seen from him probably since that Warriors game.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:59 pm
by slos
Just start Porter, Trent, Green, Bobby, Giannis. It's the only lineup that is working against the Pacers. Play Giannis 40ish minutes, the rest a bit less. Rollins and Sims should get the highest minutes from the bench. I wouldn't mind using Pat just not to use Prince, Kuzma, Brook at all.

Porter (36)/Rollins (12)
Trent (36)/Rollins (8)/Pat (4)
Green (32)/Pat (16)
Giannis (44)/Sims (4)
Portis (32)/Sims (16)

Let's bring it back to Milwaukee.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:53 pm
by soxperry
We won game 2 with almost nothing offensively from Dame. Insert Kpj, give him 40 min. We have a shot

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:09 pm
by blazza18
Expect to get blown out again. Not only do Indiana have us figured out but we’re not a team who handles themselves well when they’re down.

Re: 2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 5 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/29/25 - 5:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:23 pm
by jschligs
Giannis isn't leaving. I think all that chatter is hog wash. He's our Dirk. Dallas made it to 2 finals, lost one, and then had plenty of first round exits, semi exits, and conference finals exits. Sprinkle in a few years never making the playoffs too.

Edit: and the FO isn't trading him. We don't need to be the next Nico even if our trade made more sense.