PG Pacers - Bucks Down 2-0

[AussieBuck]

Play some **** guards dick head!

What an utterly predictable game.

[pifhluk23]

First 6 pages of the Nets thread:

I don't give a **** what idiots here were saying.

Bud was telling players how to succeed and putting them in positions to do so.

He did his best to make the team better.

Running plays for Kyle Kuzma and telling Taurean Prince to guard Haliburton isn't doing that.

Bro, Bud was telling dudes to play random and let it fly. It worked for a while and we won a Championship, but his message got stale and he lost the locker room. I was among the biggest advocates for hiring Bud AND for firing Bud.

Firing him needed to happen. Management has been a dumpster fire ever since. Hire the right guy and we might have been able to re-tool and remain contenders. Instead, we got Dumb and Dumber. I had too much faith in their ability to sign a basketball mind, and did not realize the magnitude of Giannis not wanting a micromanager type.

I've been wondering how much Giannis is just in coast mode, he's got so many kids and they are all young. He's definitely had influence on some poor decisions the Bucks have made but we won't know the whole story until the 30 for 30 comes out in 20 years.

[Coach Carter]

When sixers hired Doc, I knew they were no longer a threat. Back then I was like ''damn, sucks for them, glad that's not us''. Still can't believe Horst, picked this fraud. Okay this roster has it's flaws, but we're good enough to beat the pacers. We're mostly playing catch up, but when the game gets close, you know it comes down to the players, because they're not getting any help from the sidelines.

[soxperry]

Our biggest problem remains that we do not have a guard who is a solid poa defender except for Rollins..and Rollins at this stage is a borderline liability on offense in the playoffs

[MickeyDavis]

I don't give a **** what idiots here were saying.

Bud was telling players how to succeed and putting them in positions to do so.

He did his best to make the team better.

Running plays for Kyle Kuzma and telling Taurean Prince to guard Haliburton isn't doing that.

Bro, Bud was telling dudes to play random and let it fly. It worked for a while and we won a Championship, but his message got stale and he lost the locker room. I was among the biggest advocates for hiring Bud AND for firing Bud.

Firing him needed to happen. Management has been a dumpster fire ever since. Hire the right guy and we might have been able to re-tool and remain contenders. Instead, we got Dumb and Dumber. I had too much faith in their ability to sign a basketball mind, and did not realize the magnitude of Giannis not wanting a micromanager type.

I've been wondering how much Giannis is just in coast mode, he's got so many kids and they are all young. He's definitely had influence on some poor decisions the Bucks have made but we won't know the whole story until the 30 for 30 comes out in 20 years.

Giannis in "coast mode"? Come on now.

[BUCKnation]

TP/Kuz/Giannis/Brook 4 man lineup is -23 in 35 minutes. Impressive!

Just last night, got down 10 quickly to start the game, then down 8 at half, he put out the sane lineup and they stretched it to 15 immediately

[tydett]

In a game that got down to 2, I won't forget that Taurean Prince had Giannis, the best transition player in the league, with him twice on breakaways and neither time got the ball to him. That's 4 points given up and would've put the team up 2 instead of down 2. Yes, there's other opportunities for both teams to score, but that alone should get Prince blasted into the sun when the margin got so tight otherwise.

[German Athens]

I don’t know why late when we needed a 3, Doc didn’t put Dairy in for Kuz.

We then posted up Giannis, they doubled off Kuz, and the ball swung to him wide open up top.

[German Athens]

In a game that got down to 2, I won't forget that Taurean Prince had Giannis, the best transition player in the league, with him twice on breakaways and neither time got the ball to him. That's 4 points given up and would've put the team up 2 instead of down 2. Yes, there's other opportunities for both teams to score, but that alone should get Prince blasted into the sun when the margin got so tight otherwise.

Yeah, Prince has been doing that all year, but I still didn’t expect it to happen both times it did yesterday.

It’s infuriating.

[German Athens]

What did Ham see in Prince that he fell in love with in LA, and what the hell are Doc and Ham seeing now?

[BUCKnation]

Kuz gets lucky on some out of control layups in the third quarter so he gets to be in the closing lineup to kill the spacing, blow assignments on D, and get smoked on the drive by all of the Pacers guards.

I don’t think Doc understands why KPJ/AJG/GTJ/BP/GA works so well is the spacing around Giannis. With Dame back, you can use him in there as another option. Kuz is unplayable with Giannis because he can’t shoot and isn’t a lob threat. He’s Gadzuric with a slightly better dribbling skill and less dunking ability, that’s it.

AJ was about to come in and then doc called him back for some reason. Kuz is mostly good 1v1 but constantly is getting lost in the zone. He got lost on that siakam 3 when we had just cut it to 2. He should’ve been on his hip.

[German Athens]

Thought Giannis played a much more patient game yesterday, and looked to play-make much more. The stats back that up: 17 potential assists compared to 8 from the first game.

[BUCKnation]

In a game that got down to 2, I won't forget that Taurean Prince had Giannis, the best transition player in the league, with him twice on breakaways and neither time got the ball to him. That's 4 points given up and would've put the team up 2 instead of down 2. Yes, there's other opportunities for both teams to score, but that alone should get Prince blasted into the sun when the margin got so tight otherwise.

I think off the top of my head we had 4 or 5 turnovers/near turnovers in transition

[Wonka]

I don’t know why late when we needed a 3, Doc didn’t put Dairy in for Kuz.

We then posted up Giannis, they doubled off Kuz, and the ball swung to him wide open up top.

Nothing says clutch three like Kyle Kuzma.

[blazza18]

I don’t know why late when we needed a 3, Doc didn’t put Dairy in for Kuz.

We then posted up Giannis, they doubled off Kuz, and the ball swung to him wide open up top.

The game was pretty much out of hand but that really did show everything you need to know about Doc as coach. Absolute fraud.

[German Athens]

Don’t let Voodoo see this, but Kidd would have us at 1-1, right?

This is the worst playoff coaching I can ever remember for the bucks.

[randy84]

People just realizing Doc is a bad coach, especially during the playoffs?

[German Athens]

Shoutout to Bobby for an awesome game.

It wasn’t just his shooting, but he had some grown man moves. That quick rip through and-one against Siakam was awesome, and maybe my favorite play he’s had.

Brought the energy and physicality.

[LUKE23]

People just realizing Doc is a bad coach, especially during the playoffs?

Pretty much everyone has known it since the second he was hired.

[pifhluk23]

Would we have won one of these games if we had PBev or Tucker or anyone like that? This team has 0 fire 0 energy other than Bobby and sometimes KPJ. And this team has 0 communication and 0 comic relief. I don't think we have a single player who would stand up to Doc either...