Post Mortem #17 - Milwaukee Bucks

[ANTETOKOUNBROS]

Bucks are the most draft capital stripped team since the Joe Smith tWolves.

[Pattycakes]

Bucks are the most draft capital stripped team since the Joe Smith tWolves.

They literally gave my Blazers the right to their entire window of complete mediocrity. I don’t know who they were competing with, but they took their shot that’s for sure.

[Dan Z]

Giannis is an absolute monster, but he's 31, and is owed a ton of money over the next three seasons. That's not a problem in and of itself, but he has played in more than 70 games in one of the past five seasons and missed three playoffs games over that period. That's a problem for the Bucks and a problem for any team that trades for him.

New Orleans has the right to swap picks next year with Milwaukee, but the Pelicans are probably going to suck too. So next season might be a good opportunity to tank.

I'd love to see him in San Antonio, but the Spurs front office can't ruin their opportunity to build a contender around Wemby to bring Giannis in now. So it has to be for the right price.

Why tank if you can't control it?

If the Bucks trade Giannis then they'll probably be bad even if they're trying not to be.

[Dan Z]

Should trade Giannis even if he doesn't ask out. He is getting up there in age and his trade value will only get worse. They should involve teams such as Portland who owns their future picks in a multi team trade to get their picks back. Houston gets Giannis, Portland gets Thompson, Milwaukee gets their picks and swaps back along with bunch of picks from Houston? Just an idea.

Milwaukee would be better off keeping Thompson if he's in a deal. He's potentially better than anyone they'll draft.

Milwaukee owes Portland their 2029 pick and then a swap in 2030. That's too far out to worry about it now. New Orleans owns a swap in 2026 and then owns their 2027 pick. That's the team to talk to.

[KGtabake]

Fire Rivers, get Jenkins or get Budenholzer back.

Resign Porter Jr and Trent.
Trade Portis, Connaughton.
Let Lopez walk.

Keep developing Rollins, Green, Sims.

If Giannis stays, a starting five of Porter, Trent, Green, Giannis plus a big is quite decent.

If they trade Giannis, everything changes and they'll get into rebuild mode with a galore of picks i guess.
Next season, Lillards contract will be an expiring of 60mil.

The Bucks can rebuild quickly if they decide to.
I don't think they will though.

[th87]

Glad it took Doc 4 games to play his best lineups.

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Insane he plays Kuzma that much all series. One bad game, ok… after another consecutive bad game… sit his ass. Giving him 4 games starting and big minutes is stupid. Doc is such a bad coach.

The Lopez/Kuzma/Prince minutes in the first four games torpedoed the series. Had Indiana won a hard fought 6-7 game series and we had played our most optimal lineups it'd be an easier pill to swallow. Rivers was actively sabotaging every game spotting them a 10-15 point lead with horrendous lineups that did not match up against Indy's guard-heavy rotation.

Doc is an ESPN/Silver mole.

[th87]

I am listening to the Bill Simmons podcast and they were talking about the Bucks draft picks...I took a look at their history of draft picks since 2000 and the picks were worse than I imagined.

2 All Stars since 2000? Giannis & Michael Redd (2000)

Look at how pathetic this draft record is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks_draft_history

The only impact player besides Giannis I can see is DiVincenzo in 2018 and then Norm Powell in 2015 but he was traded immediately to the Raptors.

What do Bucks fans think about this? How can a team be so bad at drafting?

Precisely why they shouldn't trade Giannis for picks.

[Hugi Mancura]

Lillard is most likely out next season, if he comes back ever. So it would be off season for whole team. Season after that Lillard is 36 and Giannis 32, so building a winning team around them would be almost impossible. Bucks really should try to trade Giannis to Spurs. Giannis most likely would be happy with Fox and Wemby, and Bucks could get back Castle and/or couple this years lottery picks, so it would be a great start for rebuild. Off course Spurs might say no, but even if that doesn't happen you would get couple great picks and/or some young players, so you might not need those picks that they lost to Portland.

[Zman80000]

Don’t worry bucks fans, raptors will get a top 3 pick this year and trade that pick with Barnes for gianass. Time for a rebuild, get the best package for picks and young players.

We will take Flagg + Barnes but anything less probably not

Bucks aren't in the driver's seat, they might have to settle for 50 cents on the dollar if / when Giannis asks out...

AS log as he doesn't tell the Bucks I will only go to (insert reaqlly short list of teams), I believe they can get a great haul back.

[Celts17Pride]

This Milwaukee team is going nowhere fast. Will be fascinating to see what happens with Milwaukee this off-season. It all starts with Giannis. If I am Milwaukee I'm having a conversation with Giannis as soon as possible to see where his head is at concerning where he wants to play.

[Karate Diop]

We will take Flagg + Barnes but anything less probably not

Bucks aren't in the driver's seat, they might have to settle for 50 cents on the dollar if / when Giannis asks out...

AS log as he doesn't tell the Bucks I will only go to (insert reaqlly short list of teams), I believe they can get a great haul back.

Yeah, it's just the sad state of affairs where they tends not to happen with stars anymore... They come up with their list and threaten to not resign and then teams have to accept less than they normally would.

[mediocrityrules]

The only positive from all of this is that Doc will never, ever coach again. This season proved just how bad he really is.

[xxSnEaKyPxx]

The only positive from all of this is that Doc will never, ever coach again. This season proved just how bad he really is.

I’m a bit shocked he hasn’t been fired yet.