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Is he injured or something?

Feels like more effort could go into an opening post on this board. The Bucks SRS is held back by the defense. This is due to a number of reasons. Firstly the players, Lopez has a small radius from the basket he can defend in. This has been managed by having a strong point for attack defender and Giannis helping off a corner. The Bucks are currently doubling down on making that not work through the Dame/Jrue trade and pairing Dame with Malik Beasley who is a terrible defender being used explicitly as the designated perimeter stopper.

With Crowder injured and appearing very slow before that, the only other options are a rookie with a bad back and a second year player who makes a lot of fundamental defensive mistakes.
So we're already at personnel limitations and there are significant coaching issues. There isn't a plan B for bigs next to Giannis because the backup is Portis who has good foot speed and absolutely nothing else going for him defensively.

Griffin came in with a plan to play aggressive defense all over the court and has had to dial that back following complaints from the players but we're still sprinkling in very aggressive high attacks on D by slow and or bad defenders. This is not getting the turnovers desired and is also tanking what has been a great rebounding squad.

The offense is good and will improve once Lillard gets more comfortable with Giannis but it's not getting any help from an organisation point of view following Griffin chasing the O coordinator out of town before the season even started.

There's more to this but I'm at work and on my phone.