paulpressey25 wrote:rilamann wrote:
This is by far the best team we've had in the Giannis era & This Bucks team is the deepest team in the league. I totally didn't read posts like that 2-3 times a day on this board over the past 6 months.
Oh, and the Heat are actually a top 2 team in the east, they were just masquerading as a play-in team for the first 84 games of the season because it was part of a big elaborate plan.
You're locked in some conflicts here as well on the roster. Read plenty of posts the past couple months about how our players are mentally weak frauds, and you don't trust any of them except for Giannis. Well, that played out. Jrue (every aspect) and Middleton (turnovers/defense) played that way in the Miami series, and zero other guys came to pick up the slack, save for Pat sort of playing his normal self.
There is a lot of hyperbole running here both ways.
Unfortunately it did play out just as I had warned, but a lot sooner than I had thought. I thought the Bucks were frauds, but I thought they were frauds in terms of having any chance vs Boston. I had the Bucks in the ECF, I just thought they'd get exposed and embarrassed by Boston once they got there.
I never thought by any stretch of the imagination that they would get exposed and embarrassed 4-1 by the #8 seeded Miami Heat without Tyler Herro.
But like I said for the past few months, I didn't think the Bucks were frauds because of a lack of talent. Actually, if I thought the Bucks lacked talent, I never would have called them frauds. I would have just said they're not a very good team. The fact that I thought the Bucks had the talent to win it it all, but wouldn't sniff a trip to the Finals for reasons outside of talent is why I labeled them frauds.
I thought the Bucks were frauds because their collective BBIQ was hilariously bad and we seen the same low IQ stuff all season game after game. They never learned from their mistakes and no corrections were ever made. The dumb stuff we were seeing in October, we were still seeing in April.
The only question is, how much of it is the players or the coach. I would lean extremely heavily towards the coach and now we're going to find out.
Plus, Bud's rotations and not ramping guys up for the playoffs was creating an absolute disaster just waiting to happen come playoff time, I also warned about that in early March. Not integrating Crowder into the rotation before the playoffs was criminal.
How many times did I say over the final 2 months of the regular season. You can't sit guys or play guys low minutes down the stretch of the regular season, then suddenly when the playoffs arrive be like, give us a bunch of super high intensity minutes.
At the end of the day, I think the Bucks aren't necessarily a super high IQ team, but that's all the more reason that this team needs a really high level head coach. Coach Bud wasn't it.
I think with a legitimate top level NBA head coach, this team as currently constructed can still at least compete for a championship. The only guy who makes me nervous about that is Holiday, he needs to be shown the door just as quick as Bud.
Replace Bud with an actual top level NBA head coach and this roster still has as good a chance as anyone to be playing June IMO.
I know I had got huge jolt of excitement and new enthusiasm the moment I saw the news of Bud being shown the door. And judging by the team's reaction or lack of reaction, the players probably did too.
