PG Pacers - Bucks Drop Game 1

[Chad34]

I wonder what happened to the posters that told me adamantly that Kuzma was good? The NBAs worst regular season player is now the worst postseason player. Stay hot Horst

I had blind optimism his first few games, but know he just makes you want to be blind whenever he’s on the court

[msiris]

Pat hit more threes than Bobby, TP and Kuzma combined

4 points for all 3 in over 60 minutes of play. Barf.

[tydett]

Can't believe two playoff teams in a far more competitive conference fired their coaches within one month of the start of the playoffs, and Glendon Rivers somehow kept his job.

[Ron Swanson]

Series is still very winnable as long as Dame comes back but man, so many people here were so overconfident heading into this series without our 2nd best player and mush brain Doc coaching this team. It’s almost as if March/April basketball is meaningless and the playoffs are a completely different animal…

[blazza18]

Not going to win too many games when Giannis has more attempts from three than he does assists.

Not a serious organisation if you trade for Kyle Kuzma.

[Matches Malone]

Hope the beat writers and journalist have the balls to ask Doc the obvious **** questions and grill him about his stupid **** line ups he refuses to change up

It'll just be Nehm rehashing individual plays and Jim O stumbling to ask a simple question.

[MickeyDavis]

Rough afternoon for the Relax, the bucks are going to beat these clowns 5 crowd.

Always look forward to your "told you so!" posts after a loss. And disappearing act after wins. It's one **** game.

[Wonka]

Pat hit more threes than Bobby, TP and Kuzma combined

4 points for all 3 in over 60 minutes of play. Barf.

And somehow Bobby was the only guy who played real minutes, other than Sims, who was a positive +/- He was at least active on D and on the boards for our comeback unit.

[FrieAaron]

A whole lot went wrong today, a good portion of which was self-inflicted. Will lineups and minutes change at all?

[ReasonablySober]

We still have the Mudcats.

[pifhluk23]

Well we all know the bad so I'll point out the good:

KPJ didn't shrink, he played his game. He should be starting without Dame and 6th man when Dame is back + in the closing linuep.

AJG played solid defense and wasn't afraid to shoot.

GTJ was playable

Giannis is unstoppable and they have 0 answers for him

Series is winnable if Doc pulls his head out of his ass and we get Dame back

[RiotPunch]

I had been lying to myself, hoping that Doc was saving starting KPJ for the playoffs and instead played him 10 minutes in the 1st half.

He doubled down on his horrendous starting 5 by extending their first stint minutes. It is absolutely, mindnumbingly unsensical. Especially considering that the answers to the test are in plain sight, but he chooses to ignore them.

I hope someone gets on his ass in the presser.

[Ron Swanson]

And **** it, more Jericho and Pat at PF minutes. This ain’t a Prince/Bobby series.

[FrieAaron]

Obviously Kuz did literally nothing today, but all three of the Pacers highlights they just showed were TP being a complete sieve on defense. Still think he's probably the better fit with Giannis on the floor, with Kuz off the bench.

[Prez]

The Dame news was a fun little distraction from it the past several days but the reality that Doc Rivers is still getting paid millions of dollars to torpedo this team just hit all of us today lol.

I'm not getting my hopes up that Dame miraculously saves this thing. The dumbest coach in basketball is going to make sure this thing ends in round 1.

[msiris]

I wonder what happened to the posters that told me adamantly that Kuzma was good? The NBAs worst regular season player is now the worst postseason player. Stay hot Horst

Very few people said it was a good trade. sure we tried to be optimistic because we are Bucks fans.

[Bucksmaniac]

I wonder what happened to the posters that told me adamantly that Kuzma was good? The NBAs worst regular season player is now the worst postseason player. Stay hot Horst

Maybe focus on why some of your takes like the one on Doc are not on point. I see only one poster who likes Kuzma. Unfortunately people who wanted to keep Khris longer than necessary are not in the right either because holding onto him so long is how we ended up with Kuzma just to get out of the Khris conundrum.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Nah, let's get swept and make the necessary changes.

this. so this.

kpj, green, and sims are untouchable depending on what their contracts look like

kuzma we can hopefully buy out. my god what a wreck. last gasp trade for realz.

doc needs to get fired and we need a young modern coach who can develop talent. we have a long way to go.

gm i have mixed feelings about but probably a fresh approach there too.

hopefully giannis and dame can get a young guy each with some picks coming back.

gonna be a tough 3-5 years but if we get lucky we can duplicate the product we have now....with more upside...and more pride to watch..... sooner.

[randy84]

[yannisk]

With him so many games missing, I had almost forgotten why I don't trust Portis

With Dame coming back we have a chance to win the series, probably we won't but even if we do this team is not good.