Is Milwaukee tanking for 3rd to avoid Philly/Miami?

[Pointgod]

I know its probably a tin foil hat thing but NGL, you might have something there.

You cant explain all these losses.

[MrGoat]

There are reasons to want the 2 or 3 seed in the West even over the 1. But the Bucks are just coached by Doc Rivers

[QingJames]

No. They’re just bad.

[cupcakesnake]

Ya. They lost to a terrible Raptors team on a 20 game losing streak.

**ROLLs eyes heavily***


They fired Griffin for this??

Toronto all of a sudden had their team back for that game though. Quickley, Barrett, Trent, and Olynyk all played. All their starters except for Barnes. First time Toronto put out a real looking NBA lineup in a while.

Still a bad loss for the Bucks though. They have so many holes in their roster that they really need all their main guys to play like a playoff team.

[Homer38]

Ya. They lost to a terrible Raptors team on a 20 game losing streak.

**ROLLs eyes heavily***


They fired Griffin for this??

Toronto all of a sudden had their team back for that game though. Quickley, Barrett, Trent, and Olynyk all played. All their starters except for Barnes. First time Toronto put out a real looking NBA lineup in a while.

Still a bad loss for the Bucks though. They have so many holes in their roster that they really need all their main guys to play like a playoff team.

The Bucks also lost to the Wizards and Memphis this week!

[Woodsanity]

No doc rivers just sucks. Also no one is afraid of philly.

[stillgotgame]

Bucks are old and injured. Doc is molasses slow to make adjustments.
Are the Knicks tanking? They've lost 4 of there last 5 including losses to powerhouse Spurs and Bulls.

[NyKnicks1714]

No doc rivers just sucks. Also no one is afraid of philly.

I think Doc is pretty worried about a first round matchup with Philly.

[Johnny Bball]

I feel like if they brought in Bud they'd be fine. Pity it won't happen.

Fine to be an early exit.

Lol @ anyone saying they shoudn't have fired Bud. They should have fired Bud a long time ago, but he does make it a decent regular season if that's what you want.

Just because they shouldn't have hired Rivers, and maybe shouldn't have hired Griffin, doesn't mean keeping Bud was right either. They just can't get it right.

[jokeboy86]

No they're just a s*** show of the highest magnitude and barring an '01 Lakers like run or hell even a '04 Lakers run to the Finals they could be royally screwed.

The gm Jon Horst probably should be fired because since the season ended last year you would've thought he was working for the Nets with all of his knee jerk reactive moves. The problem is what sensible person would want to become a GM of a team where you can't choose your own coach and fire Doc because the owners probably don't want to pay 4 coaches(still paying Bud) in less than a year.

Not only that as long as Giannis has the entire organization shook with his passive aggressive "will he, won't he leave" or "is he happy" games its not like you'll be able to make any moves that could potentially piss him off.

And to top it off Lillard is probably never truly going to be happy while he's a Buck because this isn't where he really wants to be. He won't pout or be a malcontent but he obviously wont be happy.

[One_and_Done]

I feel like if they brought in Bud they'd be fine. Pity it won't happen.

Fine to be an early exit.

Lol @ anyone saying they shoudn't have fired Bud. They should have fired Bud a long time ago, but he does make it a decent regular season if that's what you want.

Just because they shouldn't have hired Rivers, and maybe shouldn't have hired Griffin, doesn't mean keeping Bud was right either. They just can't get it right.

They also won a title under bud

[TorontoBarneys]

Ya. They lost to a terrible Raptors team on a 20 game losing streak.

**ROLLs eyes heavily***


They fired Griffin for this??

Toronto all of a sudden had their team back for that game though. Quickley, Barrett, Trent, and Olynyk all played. All their starters except for Barnes. First time Toronto put out a real looking NBA lineup in a while.

Still a bad loss for the Bucks though. They have so many holes in their roster that they really need all their main guys to play like a playoff team.

Missing Poeltl, who's basically the 2nd most impactful player on the team behind Barnes.

[Woodsanity]

No doc rivers just sucks. Also no one is afraid of philly.

I think Doc is pretty worried about a first round matchup with Philly.

Will be a battle to see whether Doc or Embiid will choke harder I will give you that.

[Johnny Bball]

I feel like if they brought in Bud they'd be fine. Pity it won't happen.

Fine to be an early exit.

Lol @ anyone saying they shoudn't have fired Bud. They should have fired Bud a long time ago, but he does make it a decent regular season if that's what you want.

Just because they shouldn't have hired Rivers, and maybe shouldn't have hired Griffin, doesn't mean keeping Bud was right either. They just can't get it right.

They also won a title under bud

And they should have been playing for more than one while they could.

[Richard4444]

Bucks are old and injured. Doc is molasses slow to make adjustments.
Are the Knicks tanking? They've lost 4 of there last 5 including losses to powerhouse Spurs and Bulls.

No. Knicks are playing without Randle. OG played Chicago but he still not 100%. IHart and Mitchell are banged up.

The last games were very close and there were some questionable calls against the Knicks. Last game, Hart was ejected for kicking the head of an opponent by accident when he was unbalanced and falling.

Against the Spurt Wemby was superb and Vassel played great. Against the Bulls Ayo and Javonte Green were excellent.

[81Zees]

They should focus on winning and going into the playoffs with good rhythm.

[stillgotgame]

Bucks are old and injured. Doc is molasses slow to make adjustments.
Are the Knicks tanking? They've lost 4 of there last 5 including losses to powerhouse Spurs and Bulls.

No. Knicks are playing without Randle. OG played Chicago but he still not 100%. IHart and Mitchell are banged up.

The last games were very close and there were some questionable calls against the Knicks. Last game, Hart was ejected for kicking the head of an opponent by accident when he was unbalanced and falling.

Against the Spurt Wemby was superb and Vassel played great. Against the Bulls Ayo and Javonte Green were excellent.

Dame or Giannis has missed the last 5 Bucks games. Injuries go both ways. Bucks and Knicks play tomorrow night, will be interesting.

Cleveland is joining the tankathon, they have lost 7 of 10 games also. Looks like no one wants the #2 seed.

[EmperorLocky]

Tanking for 3rd theory is ridiculous considering how many factors outside Bucks control need to work to their favour.

[LLJ]

Milwaukee is vulnerable and is a flawed good team, this has been the case the entire season. The Raptors had lost 15 straight so they were eventually gonna break it sometime especially when they could not longer keep sitting out all their starters in service of the tank.

[81Zees]

Their defense is not great. Their offense is not good enough to make up for their subpar defense. Beas and Dame are bad combo on the defensive side.