2025 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 2 - Bucks at Pacers - 4/22/25 - 6:00 - NBATV/FDSWI

[soboMP3]

Can someone help me find a source to watch the game?

Fan Duel network is blocked in my zip code because I live in Chicago (I think that’s horse sh**)

Are there any alternatives to a janky stream?

Bar/Restuarant with the games on?

[KidA24]

Can someone help me find a source to watch the game?

Fan Duel network is blocked in my zip code because I live in Chicago (I think that’s horse sh**)

Are there any alternatives to a janky stream?

I am pretty sure fubo.tv has a 7 day free trial and has NBA tv.

Sling also has nba tv, and I think has a free trial.

[Bucksmaniac]

If Doc still manages to run a 9 or 10 man rotation even after getting Dame back, then all is lost. There's no easier way to telegraph coaching stupidity than running "just throw **** at the wall" playoff lineups when your roster is 100% healthy.

9 man rotation is fine, but he doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of who should have the shortest leash of our rotation.

[Bernman]

Rollins must be out there to guard Hali. He's the only guy who can make him uncomfortable. I don't think he was the problem. He could shoot better w/ the added experience. But I think he was part guilt by associated w/ Prince, Kuz, & Brook. Now he complements Dame to boot.

All I'm asking is Kuz comes off the bench, minimum, to start. Use the thumby as an excuse if need be. Dame/Rollins/Prince/Giannis/Brook makes some sense spacing and d-wise. Then just take Brook & maybe Prince off a few minutes in if they're not getting it done, for Dairy & Bobby/Sims.

[German Athens]

If Doc still manages to run a 9 or 10 man rotation even after getting Dame back, then all is lost. There's no easier way to telegraph coaching stupidity than running "just throw **** at the wall" playoff lineups when your roster is 100% healthy.

It’s wild to me that you have 82 games prior to the playoffs, and you don’t have a clue yet what does and doesn’t work well together.

There’s criticism that can be leveled at Bud, and really any coach, about not running certain sets well (our zone always looked terrible under Bud), or not always trusting something that worked (like Jevon playing well early against Boston just to basically never see the court again), but he also had a baseline awareness of what would and wouldn’t conceptually work.

Doc truly doesn’t even know who to play, and that’s like step 1 of coaching.

[Ron Swanson]

Nah, Dame/KPJ/Trent/Green back court rotation. Giannis and only one of Kuzma or Prince forward rotation. Have a quick trigger on both Brook and Bobby. Tight 7-man rotation that only expands to 8 if the situation provides (Break glass for Jericho Sims). Rollins just doesn't look like he's ready for the bright lights. Haliburton had a bad shooting game but I don't really think it had anything to do with how Ryan was guarding him. They got whatever they wanted.

[neiLz]

Will check lineup 30 mins before game. That will determine whether or not i will be mentally prepared to watch this game. might be a game to dvr and fast forward the 1st quarter if the starting lineup still has 3 PFs and a plodding center in it.

[Serge28]

Can someone help me find a source to watch the game?

Fan Duel network is blocked in my zip code because I live in Chicago (I think that’s horse sh**)

Are there any alternatives to a janky stream?

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[Sigra]

Dame, SG1, Prince, Giannis, Portis starters.
Porter, SG2, Kuzma, Lopez bench.

I just dont know who is SG1 and who is SG2 between Trent and Green. Both played better from bench.

[GiannisAnte34]

Can someone help me find a source to watch the game?

Fan Duel network is blocked in my zip code because I live in Chicago (I think that’s horse sh**)

Are there any alternatives to a janky stream?

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Ty sir

[fansinceforever]

Legitimately, just play Bobby and Sims all of the center minutes unless you're going to play Giannis there some.

There's nothing else we need to see.

[Bernman]

Nah, Rollins was guarding Hali up the court, not letting him get into the offense quickly, and not giving him a straight line on drives. He definitely was effective on the defensive end. And offensively, he came out the gate well. Nice drive & 3 iirc. So he didn't look mentally broken, just a bad run.

If you play Dame/Trent in a backcourt, history shows you're giving up on d, v. a formidable O. You just hope you have an even stronger 1. It's a tenuous proposition. And as much I defend Green's d, you'd much rather see him against Nembhard/Nesmith/McConnell than Hali/Siakam.

[nagawicka]

Giannis with one assist is a guaranteed loss, no matter how much he scores. We have to play more like we have been during the 8 game win streak. Giannis moving the ball makes everyone better.

Also, please less Kuz and TP. For the love of god, please let us see less of them on the floor.

I mean Giannis was passing to open and wide open players almost all night and they were bricking everything... Again.
At some point they were so much in their heads, they were actually passing up wide open shots for way worse ones. If you move the ball but the team is shooting 12% from three.

Ball movement is pretty much the exact opposite of Giannis dribbling into traffic, getting all tangled up & throwing a last-second desperation 'pass' to the corner where no one has the time or space to get off a legit 3pt shot. That isn't ball movement. That's refusing to do ball movement until it's too late because you've already fckd it up. 'Playing' point guard, calling his own number, ignoring his guys til it's too late, then expecting everybody else to clean that sh|t up, even Doc's pointing out with no flow at all you can't expect to dump it on the players who aren't brought into that flow in the first place. Not prime 3pt % opportunities.

[Frank Nova]

Start Kuzma on Haliburton and have him shadow him 94’. Let him gain confidence by playing active defense and taking away their lead ball handler.

[ReasonablySober]

All I can say is thank god Andor is back and Oblivion got shadow dropped so I won't be too miserable once this game is over.

[GoldenAntlers]

All I can say is thank god Andor is back and Oblivion got shadow dropped so I won't be too miserable once this game is over.

Optimists win?

[MickeyDavis]

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[Bernman]

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On the bright side....but on the dark side Prince is guarding Hali, huh.

[AussieBuck]

I'll start watching on the train home later. If we're still starting one guard and the bigs I'll switch it off and come back to finish the game high as **** after the kids have gone to bed.
Shame none of the other 8 head coaches on the bench is willing to belt doc over the head with a clipboard and beat this lineup out of him.

[GrandAdmiralDan]

Last year in the playoffs, the home team won game 1, lost game 2, won game 3, won game 4, won game 5, and won game 6. The team with home court advantage lost in 6.

If that happens this year, it will be Bucks in 6.