Game 29: Nets at Bucks - 12/26/24 - 7:00 - FDSWI

[MickeyDavis]

We have split the first 2 games, both in Brooklyn.

No idea who's healthy and playing.

Go Bucks.

[HKPackFan]

MUST WIN

Christmas flu trap game.

[KidA24]

MUST WIN

Christmas flu poo trap game.

FTFY.

[chonestown]

The Christmas tree, while festive, can easily be re-imagined as a lab with an arboral component. Cherish your loved ones, indulge in calorie-rich foods but get some posts up. Iron (posts) sharpens iron (posts). ET add: go Bucks

[Matches Malone]

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[Frank Nova]

Still no Cam Thomas for Brooklyn, I like our chances without Dame and Giannis.

[BUCKnation]

Still no Cam Thomas for Brooklyn, I like our chances without Dame and Giannis.

No Shroder too thankfully

[Baddy Chuck]

Beat the brakes off them for not getting a Christmas game.

[Frank Nova]

Still no Cam Thomas for Brooklyn, I like our chances without Dame and Giannis.

No Shroder too thankfully

Schroder is a Buck killer but not very good otherwise. As a die hard Bucks fan, I hate those types of players lol

[chonestown]

The Nets are the answer to the question "What if the whole team was made out of Who He Play For?"

[MickeyDavis]

Giannis went from questionable with back spasms to questionable with illness, same with Dame. I doubt either plays tonight.

We've won our last 2 without them and likely will win tonight without them but the trade deadline is 6 weeks from today. We need as many games as possible with the entire roster available in order to properly assess the team.

[raferfenix]

We need as many games as possible with the entire roster available in order to properly assess the team.

I don’t disagree but also maybe making Khris the clear #1 gets him going and Bobby has more space to shine too?

[drew881]

We need as many games as possible with the entire roster available in order to properly assess the team.

I don’t disagree but also maybe making Khris the clear #1 gets him going and Bobby has more space to shine too?

Pretty sure we've already evaluated that Delon is awful and that we probably need a rebounder big. We know how is and isn't playing at this point (Pat, Marjon out). Do we need to play everyone together to know more?

[Ron Swanson]

We're still a dead average team by every metric (record, SRS, net-rating) despite largely having our two best players available all season. They absolutely do need to have these guys all healthy at the same time to really evaluate where we stand in the contender pecking order right now. As encouraging as the last month and a half has been, I don't really believe everything's been magically fixed just because we've now got a few young role-players to be excited about. Even if I hate to admit it, nobody's rightfully putting us past any of Cleveland, Boston, or the Knicks right now based on the evidence.

[LUKE23]

We're still a dead average team by every metric (record, SRS, net-rating) despite largely having our two best players available all season. They absolutely do need to have these guys all healthy at the same time to really evaluate where we stand in the contender pecking order right now. As encouraging as the last month and a half has been, I don't really believe everything's been magically fixed just because we've now got a few young role-players to be excited about. Even if I hate to admit it, nobody's rightfully putting us past any of Cleveland, Boston, or the Knicks right now based on the evidence.

Yep. Only 47 minutes so far with the big 3 sharing the court. Need to see way more of those three together to assess.

[Packbuckman]

We're still a dead average team by every metric (record, SRS, net-rating) despite largely having our two best players available all season. They absolutely do need to have these guys all healthy at the same time to really evaluate where we stand in the contender pecking order right now. As encouraging as the last month and a half has been, I don't really believe everything's been magically fixed just because we've now got a few young role-players to be excited about. Even if I hate to admit it, nobody's rightfully putting us past any of Cleveland, Boston, or the Knicks right now based on the evidence.

Bucks were 2-8 since then are 14-4 they were also way below average in srs net rating when they were 2-8. Don’t underestimate young roll players that can stay in front of their guys and challenge shots. Plus having Middleton back makes this a very good team. But I do still want to see our two best players play tonite and going forward too. Packers are similar to bucks no one thinks they can beat the top 3 teams till they do but me I am glad their both are my teams because I think they can beat anyone.

[BigO]

If you could guarantee me that the Big 3 will be healthy throughout the playoffs, I've seen more than enough this year and last to pick the Bucks for the finals with the current roster; just as I picked them last year and they ended up injured.

Their biggest decision will be how to allocate minutes, because the rotation in the playoffs will get much shorter. That's what the rest of the regular season should be used for.

Every team has flaws. Not impressed with Boston's bench. Horford is fine, but Pritchard shoots almost 80% of his shots from three and that's one thing that can be shutdown fairly easily.

Would I like another big for when Lopez becomes unplayable in the playoffs, when teams start making him play out on the court? Yes, but not at the expense of creating another problem, like giving up a scorer.

[BigO]

We're still a dead average team by every metric (record, SRS, net-rating) despite largely having our two best players available all season. They absolutely do need to have these guys all healthy at the same time to really evaluate where we stand in the contender pecking order right now. As encouraging as the last month and a half has been, I don't really believe everything's been magically fixed just because we've now got a few young role-players to be excited about. Even if I hate to admit it, nobody's rightfully putting us past any of Cleveland, Boston, or the Knicks right now based on the evidence.

Bucks were 2-8 since then are 14-4 they were also way below average in srs net rating when they were 2-8. Don’t underestimate young roll players that can stay in front of their guys and challenge shots. Plus having Middleton back makes this a very good team. But I do still want to see our two best players play tonite and going forward too. Packers are similar to bucks no one thinks they can beat the top 3 teams till they do but me I am glad their both are my teams because I think they can beat anyone.

I disagree that the biggest need is to play the Big 3 together. It certainly would help, but the biggest need, other than to find who will be rotational players in the playoffs, is to make sure they are all healthy. I would limit Giannis's minutes and games.

I don't want Giannis injuring himself playing the likes of Chicago, the Nets and Detroit. The Bucks have failed more often because of injury rather than not being cohesive enough.

[Ron Swanson]

If you guys wanna throw out the first 10-games then fine, but come April and May, this current stretch of the last 15-20 games largely against a weak schedule becomes just as if not more irrelevant. I just see a lot of assumptions being made where we're already penciling in AJ/Andre/Rollins as playoff rotation guys, Brook and Bobby are BACK and won't be situational liabilities, Khris won't look like a traffic cone against teams that'll relentlessly switch elite scoring wings onto him, etc. We gotta also start seeing these guys play together and look dominant for large stretches against quality opponents.

[Magic Giannison]

Giannis will play, if not im gonna call Thanasis and tell him no more free kourabies (greek cookies) next Christmas.