Game 38: Celtics at Bucks - 1/11/24 - 6:30 - TNT - Dame Returns

[MickeyDavis]

Dame for Pat please!

If Griff has (fairly) lost all faith in Payne we need a backup point guard in the worst way.

He was cleared to play but isn't 100%. Given the big lead I think that's why he's sitting.

[Plossum]

This is just gonna be more depressing when we bottle big lead.

- depressed Bucks fan.

[Baddy Chuck]

Dame for Pat please!

If Griff has (fairly) lost all faith in Payne we need a backup point guard in the worst way.

Is he still in concussion protocols?

He's available but he was being sat before them.

[MickeyDavis]

I bet on the Celtics at +210 last night

hopefully we go down 3-0 at the start so I can hedge at +100

wire-to-wire blowout win it is

best $50 I've spent all year

Don't jinx. 31 minutes to play.

[ShootingtheJ]

If Jrue is better off over there, he should probably give his ring back.

why? to appease homers who are glum he went to a better team and were worse off for it?

his quote is the dead honest truth. we supposedly punted him for "an upgrade". cant imagine how that felt for him. with whats happened since i like his balls for saying what now looks obvious. why shouldnt he?

Jrue knew. I got the sense when he waved off other Bucks defenders to cover jimmy butler that he knew the alternative was worse, like he'd had enough of what was going on around him. Because Jrue doesn't seem like a guy who'd pull some bull out of the blue for no reason: he seems candid, clear, capable of being in the right place at the right time-- Compare Game 6 of the Nets series where Jrue & Middleton run the full length of the floor in transition without a single dribble just sweet passing back & forth. Need to watch it again but it'll be highlights i guess. Did we ask Jrue to do too many conflicting things vs miami w/o the kind of synced play that would allow him and the bucks to transcend. You're for more the expert, all I can do is speculate. BUT ! :: as you say,
1000% he's dead ass honest. He's got a defined role, the focus to reliably do a couple things well, and a system that seems to regularly roll out guys like pritchard and hauser for substantial contributions but no overreliance. Am I wrong, or did all that ball movement disorient bucks fans, because those two guys cleaned up against bud's system and the contrast looked sharp enough that it wasn't fun to watch and for Jrue, after the initial shock, it must've been a surprise Inverse-Dame-to-Heat move: he didn't ask to go anywhere and somehow ended up w/the Celtics

Jrue didn't know squat. He was a talented player, but never a high IQ player.

[Fotis St]

Fire Griffin ... where is Dame ?

[MickeyDavis]

Celtics fans getting a glimpse of playoff Jrue

[Baddy Chuck]

When Pritchard ran away from Bobby like a scared mouse and Porzingis came over that is when the Bobby post up should have been abandoned.

[MickeyDavis]

Fire Griffin ... where is Dame ?

He plays the entire first and third quarters. Then sits half the second and fourth. Dame requested that.

[JayMKE]

Saw this coming lol, strategic celtic tank

[Matches Malone]

You know your defense has been bad all year when your team can be up 30 and you're still nervous and expecting a complete meltdown in the second half.

[Wonka]

Dame has the prettiest jumphot in NBA history to me. Truly a work of art.

[Fotis St]

Nice shot Dame... freeze them out ...

[Siefer]

Transition layup off a made basket. Not great

[MiltownHawkeye]

At least if we blow this lead Griff will almost assuredly be gone

[SupremeHustle]

You guys know how I feel about Crowder but I'm actually looking forward to seeing if he is better in those Pat C minutes.

[blazza18]

Pat offers so little resistance.

[yannisk]

This game will be good for our morale but it will save coach Grief

[engelmartin]

Great now how am I supposed to talk about Griffin getting fired after the game?

[GoldenAntlers]

That closing shot, closeup of Dame and Giannis battle planning should become a meme