PG Indy - Turn out the lights

[HKPackFan]

Depends. Would you have a custom made towel with Hali’s face on it, too?

If you ever come over, you will find nothing but custom made Riot towels in the bathrooms. Really high quality stuff you can get these days. Glad I had those shipped in before the tariffs.

Egyptian cotton, 800 GSM, and breathes like a goddamn pug. Oooooo baby. Now we’re talkin’

My nephew in Milwaukee has a pair of custom shorts with Bobby's crazy eyes face on them. They are hilarious and even Bobby cracked up when my nephew met him.

Gotta love that custom merch

[HKPackFan]

I actually don't mind half the league salivating and begging and hoping and praying for giannis to join their team, only to have their hopes amd dreams destroyed come the new season. Giannis isn't going anywhere, and idiot fans falling into the media trap deserve the bitter truth after wasting 6 months on false hope. (maybe they got a little taste of being a bucks fan minus 2021).

[aboveAverage]

I didn’t hear anything really concerning in Giannis’s postgame interview other than he loves working with Doc. But what else is he going to say about him there.

One confusing part: he mentioned that if he gets the opportunity to return next season that he would love to play more point forward. Not sure why he phrased it that way. Maybe he meant opportunity to return to the playoffs.

A lot of his usual stuff about overcoming adversity and being better next year. I thought he played fantastic today and about as good as you can be this entire season.

Anyways, didn’t seem like a guy who’s going to ask out.

[aboveAverage]

Also tons of respect to Giannis for his performance tonight. He was such a warrior.

[BUCKnation]

Ugh, I really thought Hali going like 1-6 from 3 in OT saved us then he went back to driving for easy layups, even got a sus and 1 when AJ was barely contesting.

Last plays just seemed like extremely tired, unfocused play after having it basically in the bag.

[AussieBuck]

Seems I got lucky accidentally seeing the score.

Won't watch a single game from here if they are dumb enough to keep Doc.

Shame there was post game nonsense and associated assumption that Giannis had caused it by the peanut gallery. See you all once the firings are done hopefully.

[machu46]

I didn’t hear anything really concerning in Giannis’s postgame interview other than he loves working with Doc. But what else is he going to say about him there.

One confusing part: he mentioned that if he gets the opportunity to return next season that he would love to play more point forward. Not sure why he phrased it that way. Maybe he meant opportunity to return to the playoffs.

A lot of his usual stuff about overcoming adversity and being better next year. I thought he played fantastic today and about as good as you can be this entire season.

Anyways, didn’t seem like a guy who’s going to ask out.

Pretty sure he phrased it this way in that interview where he said Milwaukee would have to kick him out too or one of those recent-ish interviews where the same topic came up.

If we're being real pessimistic, the concerning part of the post game presser is that he refused to talk about his future/if he thinks he can win a title here but he painstakingly explained that he didn't want to address that because every time he says anything about it, his words get twisted.

[aboveAverage]

To be fair though, he’s never talked about his future in press conferences. Not that I can recall in his previous two “decision” years.

[BigO]

Don’t blame me. I wanted Nick Nurse.

That isn't something to brag about.

[Daver]

Time to bring in malone i really like him as a coach

[trublu]

Wh.... What... I... see... did... WTF was that?!?!

That was 10 times worse than the Miami series two years ago. At least that was the Butler Ascension Series, and virtually without Giannis.

This series was just the basketball version of Keystone Cops. Poor defensive schemes, players running into each other, abysmal BBIQ in vital situations and the offensive execution just looked painful all series. Hats off to Giannis, GTJ and AJ for their efforts. Bobby and KPJ made watching fun as well.

Playoffs have very little margins for error. Better defence in the last two minutes of game 2 and we had that.

40 seconds of executing the basic basketball skills everyone has already mentioned in this one, and I think we were 2:40 from a 3-2 series lead. ****.

I'm tired. I couldn't watch the rest of the Finals two years ago. I think I'll take a break now. See you all next training camp, or if something seismic happens in the off-season. I'm not holding my breath though.

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[midranger]

True or false: Chris Livingston would’ve been more effective in our rotation than Kyle Kuzma?

[German Athens]

Yeah, Kuzma put up 6/2/1 on 34/20/50 splits for the series. That’s a guy we’re paying over 20m.

Any type of positive contribution out of him would have helped, clearly, but we actively got a terrible player the whole series.

Silver lining moving into the off-season is that the lineup that we should have been playing heavy minutes from the start of the series, who kept us in that game yesterday and had us in position to win, and probably could have kept us in this series, was paid a combined 19m outside Giannis.

Use your money wisely.

[midranger]

If only someone could’ve seen Kuzma’s playoff self immolation coming…

What a terrible trade deadline.

What is the point of going through the machinations of getting under the 2nd apron and then reaping none of the benefits that come from it? We traded our only young player with potential to gain flexibility and then we didn’t use the flexibility. Just insane stuff.

Additionally, maybe Mids gets hurt. Maybe not. Maybe Kuzma has a freak injury. Tough to predict these things. We do know that Khris is like 9 months removed from putting up 25/9/5 while hobbled looking like Billy Dafoe running through Nam in Platoon. Anyone who thinks trading him doesn’t “lower our playoff ceiling” is delusional. He played 200% better in the playoffs last year than Kyle Kuzma has in his life.

Add 3 younger athletic players who would thrive in transition, while holding on to plodding dinosaurs in the frontcourt and trading away the young PG who would also thrive in transition. While still being pretty much devoid of the big wing defender we’ve needed since PJ left. It’s all so incoherent. There pretty clearly is no plan.

You don’t do that Khris trade without the follow up lined up. Just ridiculous. GTFO Horst.

Kyle Kuzma has been to the playoffs twice in his career. 5 years ago, at the height of his athletic prime, with the Lakers between Lebron and AD.
His playoff averages are this:
9.1 ppg
3.3 rpg
0.9 apg
.401 FG
.283 3pt
.761 FT

9 months ago “broke down” Khris Middleton did this, while injured, and basically dragging a team of misfit toys to a couple wins.

24.7 ppg
9.2 rpg
4.7 apg

.482 FG
.355 3pt
.900 FT


Maybe in the last 9 months, his body truly degraded to truly useless. I don’t know that to be true, neither does anyone else here. But, Kyle Kuzma **** sucks guys. This trade would’ve been acceptable as the precursor to getting an actual good player. As is, it was terrible.

[Bucksmaniac]

True or false: Chris Livingston would’ve been more effective in our rotation than Kyle Kuzma?

I think Pat would have been a more effective small ball forward than having Kuzma out there.

[Siefer]

We're going to have to attach an asset to move Kuzma... after we attached an asset to trade for Kuzma.

[MikeIsGood]

Does anyone like Kuzma? I feel like we've all got pitchforks out about him, rightfully so, but looking around for someone to yell at. Who are we trying to convince on RGM? lol.

[emunney]

I kind of wish Giannis had just walked away from Hali's dad, but I also kind of wish he had sat on his face and farted. Something about the duality of man, sir. The Jungian thing, sir.

Overall, I think Giannis was entitled to check him without getting physical, and I hope Hali's dad doesn't get banned or suspended like some in the media are suggesting. He should get a warning, and if he does something like that again, sure, take the next step.

[MickeyDavis]

Does anyone like Kuzma? I feel like we've all got pitchforks out about him, rightfully so, but looking around for someone to yell at. Who are we trying to convince on RGM? lol.

Yup. He had several good games when he first joined the team and there was some optimism, rightfully so. Then it was all downhill after that and no one has been defending him.

[soboMP3]

My six year old really likes him and there isn’t much I’ve been able to do to talk him out of it, short of introducing swear words.