PG Warriors - 10 Good Minutes, 38 Bad Minutes

[paulpressey25]

You guys starting to get a better understanding of why I never liked Dame?

Bucks brass and Giannis made a bad choice. It sounded so great on paper.

Sadly, Bill Simmons pod take the night of that deal ended up being accurate. Granted it was Celtics envy, but he was correct. Dame can’t play defense and he doesn’t elevate the game of others around him.

But let’s see if he has a 2nd playoff gear. Maybe he will.

[Siefer]

I think it's worth asking about what is going on with the baseline structure that leads to your guards being so easy to trap in space, tons of 3 out ISOs, an exhausted Giannis checking himself back in then having to come out after 3 awful minutes, guys constantly doubling off non-shooters, constantly fouling on 3 point shots, getting killed on screens every time your 30 year old journeyman forward is at the 2, and almost never calling timeout during runs.

I just think it's okay to ask about that stuff, you know?

[kanyon]

Everyone kept posting Jimmy Haslem and I thought it was some weird Jimmy Butler/Udonis Haslem joke that I didn't get from when Butler cooked us the other year... anyways... so disappointing. Bucks play so disjointed and like a team that barely practices with each other or something. Fire Doc. Wish we went with Kenny A. SO BAD. Trade Dame this off season.

[JayMKE]

idk where to even start with the team in the offseason honestly; they need to **** Horst then Rivers then once competent basketball people are hired ship Dame out ASAP

[Siefer]

We're running a starting lineup of Dame, Prince, Kuzma, Giannis, Brook! Your SF with no hips is at SG, two shaky shooting PFs, and a 37 year old C. That's wild as hell.

[Ron Swanson]

Even minus the mush brain coaching, Giannis and Dame being mega ass is gonna win you precisely zero games, and that’s the season in a nutshell.

Both those guys having to be Superman ever night for us to go anywhere. Team and coaching staff around them are just so bad, but it was so avoidable if we had the right infrastructure in place.

[blazza18]

Can't even single out one problem with this team because it's all bad. Coach, GM, franchise player, star player, role player, broadcast team. They all stink and deserve blame.

Going to take the owners hiring someone smart to sort out where we are moving forward and for Giannis to take a real long look in the mirror and sort out what kind of player he wants to be.

[fansinceforever]

With this team, it's all of it. Age, coaching, talent, bbiq, etc, etc. It's all of it.

[rilamann]

You guys starting to get a better understanding of why I never liked Dame?

Bucks brass and Giannis made a bad choice. It sounded so great on paper.

Sadly, Bill Simmons pod take the night of that deal ended up being accurate. Granted it was Celtics envy, but he was correct. Dame can’t play defense and he doesn’t elevate the game of others around him.

But let’s see if he has a 2nd playoff gear. Maybe he will.

I know I have said it a bunch of times.

Dame is a great individual offensive talent.

But Dame is a guy who I don't want on my team if I am trying to win anything of significance.

Giannis and Dame on paper did sound like it might have a chance to be fun and maybe even successful. The only thing the Dame trade did that was positive was it got Giannis to sign his extension.

Giannis wanted Dame, just like Giannis wanted Adrian Griffin.

[Turk Nowitzki]

It was also hilarious/sad how much we missed Jericho Sims tonight. That's where we're at as a team.

[Matches Malone]

idk where to even start with the team in the offseason honestly; they need to **** Horst then Rivers then once competent basketball people are hired ship Dame out ASAP

I fear the days of getting competent people back in the building are long gone with Haslem in the building. If it's true that he pushed for the Doc hire, imagine the damage he can do once it's his turn to be Govenor of the team.

[rilamann]

If you had told me back in 2019 (When the team was really fun and really good) that by 2025 the Bucks would be in this big of a mess I would have 100% said Giannis must have left by then.

[RiotPunch]

idk where to even start with the team in the offseason honestly; they need to **** Horst then Rivers then once competent basketball people are hired ship Dame out ASAP

I fear the days of getting competent people back in the building are long gone with Haslem in the building. If it's true that he pushed for the Doc hire, imagine the damage he can do once it's his turn to be Govenor of the team.

Selling your soul to the Devil certainly has consequences. But he's not governor yet, right? Edens needs to take the gloves off and right the ship.

[Matches Malone]

Read on Twitter

Haven't been able to figure out the offense for over a year now, Doc. But I'm sure you'll magically find it the last month or so of the season...

[blazza18]

The Dame trade was a no brainer and still is. Him and Giannis are still great building blocks but for a variety of reasons our GM has never put the right team around them.

[paulpressey25]

Selling your soul to the Devil certainly has consequences. But he's not governor yet, right? Edens needs to take the gloves off and right the ship.

It's convenient to blame everything on Haslam. But we have no clue who's running the show. If I had to guess Edens and Horst carry most of the responsibility here.

The single biggest problem the team has is Horst's inability to find young talent.

[rilamann]

idk where to even start with the team in the offseason honestly; they need to **** Horst then Rivers then once competent basketball people are hired ship Dame out ASAP

I fear the days of getting competent people back in the building are long gone with Haslem in the building. If it's true that he pushed for the Doc hire, imagine the damage he can do once it's his turn to be Govenor of the team.

Doc: Don't worry, Haslam. We're going to be really good once the playoffs start.

Haslam: Really? I can't wait! You want some more money, Doc?

[mediocrityrules]

That was one of the most depressing games this year to watch. Everything looked bad on both ends. Awful defense, awful offense.

There was no cohesion on the offensive end at all. And is usual we were smashed in rebounding and had ZERO second chance points. ZERO.

There is no intensity on this team at all, unless you put Ajax and Sims on the floor, everyone else looks like they're sleepwalking through games.

[RiotPunch]

Selling your soul to the Devil certainly has consequences. But he's not governor yet, right? Edens needs to take the gloves off and right the ship.

It's convenient to blame everything on Haslam. But we have no clue who's running the show. If I had to guess Edens and Horst carry most of the responsibility here.

The single biggest problem the team has is Horst's inability to find young talent.

It's also convenient that Griffin was fired shortly after Haslam watched the Bucks get their teeth kicked in live in Cleveland. You might be right, but Haslam has the most money and influence, and everything he touches goes to ****.

Horst can go, though. He's always been fighting above his weight in this position.

[Matches Malone]

Selling your soul to the Devil certainly has consequences. But he's not governor yet, right? Edens needs to take the gloves off and right the ship.

It's convenient to blame everything on Haslam. But we have no clue who's running the show. If I had to guess Edens and Horst carry most of the responsibility here.

The single biggest problem the team has is Horst's inability to find young talent.

I'm being a bit facetious laying it all on Haslem's lap, but you can't deny he's nothing but a sports black cloud. He's also golf buddies with Doc lol.

Maybe Lasry was the basketball mind after all.