Game 48: Bucks at Blazers - 1/31/24 - 9:00 - ESPN/BSWI

[Dick Tate]

(Rivers) emphasized like, go more to Dame," Antetokounmpo said Monday night. "When I have the ball, kick the ball ahead to Dame. Set more screens, roll out of the post, dribble handoffs -- he wants that more and we have to do it more. Because at the end of the day, when Dame has the ball in his hands and I'm being a threat as a roller, we can cause some damage."

Weird this seems like some sort of revelation for Giannis. Like, no ****

[Plossum]

In fairness to Giannis, he's a two time MVP and Finals MVP playing the way he has played. It's not easy to just switch that off all of a sudden and change how you play.

[HKPackFan]

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Worth a watch. So cool to see his character and his love for Portland. I respect him more just to hear how grateful and how important that city and team means to him.

Also it's encouraging or him to acknowledge that they need to get better as a bucks team and he's committed to making it work.

[sidney lanier]

I wonder if Stotts comes to the game. Or maybe just the shootaround.

Stotts lives in Florida now. Why would he fly to Portland for a game?

Thought he was still in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

[CharityStripe34]

In fairness to Giannis, he's a two time MVP and Finals MVP playing the way he has played. It's not easy to just switch that off all of a sudden and change how you play.

And he's by far the team's best player, but allowing Dame to get more comfortable by handling the ball more in the half court is a recipe for success in the long run.

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[woosah]

In fairness to Giannis, he's a two time MVP and Finals MVP playing the way he has played. It's not easy to just switch that off all of a sudden and change how you play.

The top 75 player who basically has been expected to do this can relate.

[HKPackFan]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39417736/after-unsettling-trade-damian-lillard-getting-comfortable-milwaukee-bucks

(Rivers) emphasized like, go more to Dame," Antetokounmpo said Monday night. "When I have the ball, kick the ball ahead to Dame. Set more screens, roll out of the post, dribble handoffs -- he wants that more and we have to do it more.

Last season, when Rivers was coaching the Philadelphia 76ers, James Harden and Joel Embiid ran 22.6 on-ball screens per game together, second most among all duos per Second Spectrum.

This is promising. So we know doc knows how to get an mvp all star big and mvp pg to work together.

Spamming dame and Giannis should probably double now. The article says it's being uses 9.9 times a game which is below 25th in the league for the top 2 NBA duos (under coach grief).

So let's see if in the next 5-10 games we start to see it happening more and more (like we all expected 4 months ago).

[Ayt]

Spam the **** out of the pick and roll.

[Profound23]

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Thanks for sharing. Very open and honest. Dame haters should give it a listen.

Also, Malika Andrews haters need to listen.

This Video proves a lot of what I thought. He misses his home, misses being on his team, and when he came here he was probably excited to play with Terry again.....then he watched Griff treat him like trash and Stotts quit. He probably really disliked Griff after that and you can kind of hear that when he speaks about him.

Mix that with adapting to a new team, coach, and his personal issues of a divorce and not being with his kids as much, this has to be hard for him.

I love how she asked some great questions, but didn't interrupt him...she let him talk and got great info. I really don't understand why anyone dislikes either of them.

[engelmartin]

Spam the **** out of the pick and roll.

[Chad34]

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Thanks for sharing. Very open and honest. Dame haters should give it a listen.

Also, Malika Andrews haters need to listen.

This Video proves a lot of what I thought. He misses his home, misses being on his team, and when he came here he was probably excited to play with Terry again.....then he watched Griff treat him like trash and Stotts quit. He probably really disliked Griff after that and you can kind of hear that when he speaks about him.

Mix that with adapting to a new team, coach, and his personal issues of a divorce and not being with his kids as much, this has to be hard for him.

I love how she asked some great questions, but didn't interrupt him...she let him talk and got great info. I really don't understand why anyone dislikes either of them.

I enjoyed that, and after watching I have to apologize to Dame, I have judged him a little too harshly at times

[randy84]

In fairness to Giannis, he's a two time MVP and Finals MVP playing the way he has played. It's not easy to just switch that off all of a sudden and change how you play.

True but he also wanted Dame so you think he would try to accommodate him.

[GoldenAntlers]

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Thanks for sharing. Very open and honest. Dame haters should give it a listen.

Also, Malika Andrews haters need to listen.

This Video proves a lot of what I thought. He misses his home, misses being on his team, and when he came here he was probably excited to play with Terry again.....then he watched Griff treat him like trash and Stotts quit. He probably really disliked Griff after that and you can kind of hear that when he speaks about him.

Mix that with adapting to a new team, coach, and his personal issues of a divorce and not being with his kids as much, this has to be hard for him.

I love how she asked some great questions, but didn't interrupt him...she let him talk and got great info. I really don't understand why anyone dislikes either of them.

Yeah, this has to be the best basketball In-Season interview I've ever seen. I didn't catch that Jimmy one though.

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[MrHoneycutt]

Back at home visiting the motherland, let's get a nice easy win here

[blazza18]

Dame Time

[woosah]

Billups said he wants to spoil the homecoming.

[ReasonablySober]

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[Turk Nowitzki]

Could be tough, they were shorthanded last time we played them.

[MissKhriddleton]

Must win for Doc.