Bucks News, Trade Ideas, Transactions

engelmartin · Post #1321 » by **engelmartin** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:44 am

“Per Keith Smith, Dennis Smith Jr. hasn't played for the Herd because he didn't land where he initially wanted to end up. Rumors were floating that Smith wanted to join San Antonio's affiliate when he entered the G-League pool, so this does track. After plenty of initial hype surrounding the Herd acquiring the guard, it appears it may be all for nothing.”

Dick Tate · Post #1322 » by **Dick Tate** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:44 am

Profound23 wrote:I wish we kept Jrue and could somehow trade Khris for Jimmy.

Jrue, Butler, Giannis would be unstoppable

In a league where teams win games based on maximizing their 3-point variance?

ReddRum · Post #1323 » by **ReddRum** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:52 am

PG Graveyard wrote:
ShootingtheJ wrote:
Profound23 wrote:I wish we kept Jrue and could somehow trade Khris for Jimmy.

Jrue, Butler, Giannis would be unstoppable

That's a bad offensive team.

But they would win any 3 person nba fight

No chance. Butler is a pitbull and Giannis is strong but Giannis and Jrue are nice guys.

ShootingtheJ · Post #1324 » by **ShootingtheJ** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:55 am

ReddRum wrote:
PG Graveyard wrote:
ShootingtheJ wrote:

That's a bad offensive team.

But they would win any 3 person nba fight

No chance. Butler is a pitbull and Giannis is strong but Giannis and Jrue are nice guys.

Really? I got a feeling Giannis knows some violence, and I hope I'm wrong.

Baddy Chuck · Post #1325 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:57 am

ReddRum wrote:
PG Graveyard wrote:
ShootingtheJ wrote:

That's a bad offensive team.

But they would win any 3 person nba fight

No chance. Butler is a pitbull and Giannis is strong but Giannis and Jrue are nice guys.

ShootingtheJ · Post #1326 » by **ShootingtheJ** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 1:03 am

engelmartin wrote:“Per Keith Smith, Dennis Smith Jr. hasn't played for the Herd because he didn't land where he initially wanted to end up. Rumors were floating that Smith wanted to join San Antonio's affiliate when he entered the G-League pool, so this does track. After plenty of initial hype surrounding the Herd acquiring the guard, it appears it may be all for nothing.”

I can't believe this standoff hasn't ended in a simple G League trade. The Herd could use the help in any form, they're awful even with numerous Bucks playing on their team.

It's kind of hilarious that Horst can't even draft an NBA team good enough to win in the G League.

GoldenAntlers · Post #1327 » by **GoldenAntlers** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 1:44 am

paulpressey25 wrote:
ShootingtheJ wrote:
Yes, he might be gone before the deadline.

I’d say 10% chance Dame dealt at the deadline. 75% in the offseason.

That extra 15% hinges on, at worst, a Game 7 ECF

jakecronus8 · Post #1328 » by **jakecronus8** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 2:06 am

People used to reject trade ideas because you don’t want to make Giannis mad by trading his friends.

Maybe it’s time to break up that complacency.

ReddRum · Post #1329 » by **ReddRum** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 3:50 am

Baddy Chuck wrote:
ReddRum wrote:
PG Graveyard wrote:
But they would win any 3 person nba fight

No chance. Butler is a pitbull and Giannis is strong but Giannis and Jrue are nice guys.

Thank you for the reminder - ok replace Jrue and I could be swayed… Giannis is a beast. He would be hard to take down.

ShootingtheJ · Post #1330 » by **ShootingtheJ** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 4:02 am

ShootingtheJ wrote:Lakers in: Dame, GTJ, THT, Torrey Craig
Lakers out: Austin Reaves, Riu Hachimura, Gabe Vincent, Jarred Vanderbilt, 2- 1sts

Clippers in: Portis
Clippers out: Tucker, 1st

Bulls in: Hachimura, Vincent, Connaughton, Tucker, Clippers 1st, Bucks 2nd
Bulls out: White, Ball, THT, Craig

Nets in: Ball, 2- Lakers 1sts
Nets out: Cam Johnson

Bucks in: Reaves, Coby White, Cam Johnson, Jarred Vanderbilt
Bucks out: Dame, Portis, Connaughton, GTJ, 2nd

Bucks erredicate Damian Lillard's uncaring attitude while getting a true PG, a quick combo guard, a flamethrower combo forward, and a big defensive specialist. White and Johnson have flat and shrinking contracts. Reaves is awesome when allowed to play PG. He can't guard PGs, but we have others for that, and he's actually active as a help defender, unlike Dame.

Lopez, Vanderbilt
Giannis, Johnson
Middleton, Johnson
Reaves, White, Wright
White, Green, Ajax

Death lineup: Giannis, Johnson, Middleton, Reaves, White

Forget Jimmy, this is the way.

JEIS · Post #1331 » by **JEIS** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 4:40 am

Dame to Miami
Jimmy to Philly
George to Milwaukee

Playoffs.. Jimmy or Dame goes nuclear and whomps us.

pifhluk23 · Post #1332 » by **pifhluk23** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 4:54 am

64M tied up in 3 guys who are not even league average is killing this team. That's all on Horst. Of the 3 Lopez is the only one that's moveable because he's expiring...

theFireBlanket · Post #1333 » by **theFireBlanket** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 4:57 am

JEIS wrote:Dame to Miami
Jimmy to Philly
George to Milwaukee

Playoffs.. Jimmy or Dame goes nuclear and whomps us.

No way in hell would I do that. PG? Hard pass.

jschligs · Post #1334 » by **jschligs** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 5:50 am

theFireBlanket wrote:
JEIS wrote:Dame to Miami
Jimmy to Philly
George to Milwaukee

Playoffs.. Jimmy or Dame goes nuclear and whomps us.

No way in hell would I do that. PG? Hard pass.

If people think Dame is bad, boy, would this make us miss him.

Diggr14 · Post #1335 » by **Diggr14** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 6:26 am

Khris Middleton is dog water. Can we trade him for John Blackwell?

RiotPunch · Post #1336 » by **RiotPunch** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 9:59 am

The Jimmy deal (if we have to) is:

MKE: Jimmy
MIA: Lopez, Hardaway, MKE '31 1st
DET: Middleton

Plossum · Post #1337 » by **Plossum** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 10:45 am

Does Brook make sense for Miami though with Bam? They don’t seem too keen on a full blow up yet.

RiotPunch · Post #1338 » by **RiotPunch** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 11:11 am

Plossum wrote:Does Brook make sense for Miami though with Bam? They don’t seem too keen on a full blow up yet.

They just don't want bad money and Brook is expiring, they would likely flip Brook to the highest bidder.

Plossum · Post #1339 » by **Plossum** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 11:19 am

Why would we also give up Midds and the 31 first for a Jimmy rental? We’re not seriously going to extend him on big money?

I’m not trying to overly nitpick but I don’t look at our current team and think swapping Midds for Jimmy is going to come close to making this team relevant.

rilamann · Post #1340 » by **rilamann** » Sun Jan 5, 2025 12:11 pm

I get a kick out of how the same people who try to diminish the value of Jrue Holiday are the same people who scoff at the idea of trading for Jimmy Butler.

Jrue Holiday or Jimmy Butler have played in 4 of the last 5 NBA Finals. Almost 5 for 5 with the Heat losing game 7 of the ECF in 2002.

And Jrue Holiday & Jimmy Butler were a very large reason WHY those teams were in the NBA Finals.