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PG Graveyard wrote:Profound23 wrote:fan230 wrote:When he hurt his knee, it was an unpreventable injury.
This time the injury was highly preventable. That is the big difference. There were signs for 3 games in a row that he was having trouble with that leg as per the injury report. But the med team wrongly thought that he would be fine to play with that injury. And at least in one of those games, Doc wanted to pull him out but didn’t do it and verbally regretted his own decision.
Doc s record was poor in terms of win losses and he thought of that first.
This injury was just before the playoffs started which makes the blame directly on the med team and on Doc.
People can call it 20/20 hindsight...blah blah blah. But there were a bunch of us here posting saying give Giannis a bunch of games off. Even if it meant we ended up in the play-in, I did not care, his health was more important and still is. Losing this series actually might save his career in all honesty. He needs time off.
He’s probably going to play in the Olympics now. Time off. Lol
JimmyTheKid wrote:MiltownMadness wrote:Cursed season. Gotta start having some discussions about Giannis being injury prone and it taking away from his legacy
Sounds fun. When I'm old and gray, sitting in the stands with my grandson, pointing to Giannis' jersey in the rafters, right next to at least one championship banner, reminiscing about his discovery of basketball, his journey to America, Milwaukee, the NBA, his family, the MVP's, all the accolades, and the 50-piece in Game 6, I'll be damned if I forget to impart on little bright-eyed Timmy that Giannis was, in fact, "occasionally injured" and had a "frustrating free throw routine."
Giannis Antetokounmpo wrote:You're out here reffing like Marc Davis and ****
msiris wrote:If we would have beaten the likes of Wasington, Memphis and Toronto at home we could have rested people ( Um Giannis) and still had the 2nd seed.
Giannis Antetokounmpo wrote:You're out here reffing like Marc Davis and ****
But it's the season we needed him the most. (Aside from Championship season)KidA24 wrote:Khris Middleton has missed playoff games in 1 single season in his NBA career.
1 season. That's it.
I don't think we can count on Mids anymore. Its just the way it is Body is washed up.Neuromancer56 wrote:We need at least 2 of our Big 3 healthy to make it out of the first round, and we don't have that. If we beat the Pacers today, I have hope. If we lose, it's over.
Neuromancer56 wrote:We need at least 2 of our Big 3 healthy to make it out of the first round, and we don't have that. If we beat the Pacers today, I have hope. If we lose, it's over.
FrieAaron wrote:Neuromancer56 wrote:We need at least 2 of our Big 3 healthy to make it out of the first round, and we don't have that. If we beat the Pacers today, I have hope. If we lose, it's over.
I have hope if we win either of the next two. This is contingent on Giannis being able to come back and obviously you don't do that unless the medical team says there's minimal risk
Neuromancer56 wrote:We need at least 2 of our Big 3 healthy to make it out of the first round, and we don't have that. If we beat the Pacers today, I have hope. If we lose, it's over.
Neuromancer56 wrote:We need at least 2 of our Big 3 healthy to make it out of the first round, and we don't have that. If we beat the Pacers today, I have hope. If we lose, it's over.
Giannis Antetokounmpo wrote:You're out here reffing like Marc Davis and ****
rilamann wrote:Game 1 proved that the Bucks are still highly capable of winning this series without Giannis if they actually give a solid effort defensively.
But asking this Bucks team to give even just a solid effort defensively is a massive ask.
Especially when the guy who is supposed to lead us (Dame) is a guy who doesn't even try on defense. I get that Dame maybe doesn't have the skills to be a great defender, but the fact that he doesn't even give effort most of the time defensively is what infuriates me.
Dame is a classic example of one of those guys who is a great individual talent and can score the ball and can show out in all star situations.
But having watched Dame play basketball up close 2-3 times a week for almost 7 months now, I can say with great confidence that no team would ever come close to reaching an NBA Finals with Dame as one of their main guys, even if Giannis is your #1 guy.
Dame is a ball dominate volume shooter who has zero interest in playing defense.
The definition of overrated.