Bucks News, Transactions and Trade Ideas - 2025 Off-season

rilamann · Post #881 » by **rilamann** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:29 pm

After these last 2 years, I am waiting for a report to come out that Giannis will stay in Milwaukee.

Provided the Bucks retain Doc Rivers.

Post #882 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:32 pm

The only way it matters if Doc is back is if the Bucks tear the roster down. Can't have him coaching a bunch of young guys.

If it's Giannis, the returning FAs, and some exception FAs? Who gives a ****.

Bucksmaniac · Post #883 » by **Bucksmaniac** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:36 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:The only way it matters if Doc is back is if the Bucks tear the roster down. Can't have him coaching a bunch of young guys.

If it's Giannis, the returning FAs, and some exception FAs? Who gives a ****.

It’s the opposite for me, Giannis continuing to be coached by an idiot hurts his legacy. He doesn’t have as much basketball savvy as the average 30 something superstar so he needs a quality coach to facilitate team success.

randy84 · Post #884 » by **randy84** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:49 pm

The fact that they haven't announced that Doc is fired is ridiculous.

rilamann · Post #885 » by **rilamann** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:51 pm

chonestown wrote:
rilamann wrote:Like I have been saying, it would be a massive curve ball to me if Doc isn't our coach next season.

If the Bucks were planning on firing Doc anytime soon, they would have already done it.

Wait YOU said it?1/?1/adafka/f/?

Credit where doo.

Thanks, Chones!!

Like I have been saying since the first week of last October, you da man!!!!

Post #886 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu May 1, 2025 10:57 pm

DingleJerry wrote: Lisa really isn't very good, was grating at times.

Feel like we now have the female version of Gus Johnson.

Baddy Chuck · Post #887 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:02 pm

paulpressey25 wrote:
DingleJerry wrote: Lisa really isn't very good, was grating at times.

Feel like we now have the female version of Gus Johnson.

Feels like Supreme really screwed her over coming up with Dairy Bird after all her work on AJ Automatic.

MikeIsGood · Post #888 » by **MikeIsGood** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:03 pm

Bucksmaniac wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:The only way it matters if Doc is back is if the Bucks tear the roster down. Can't have him coaching a bunch of young guys.

If it's Giannis, the returning FAs, and some exception FAs? Who gives a ****.

It’s the opposite for me, Giannis continuing to be coached by an idiot hurts his legacy. He doesn’t have as much basketball savvy as the average 30 something superstar so he needs a quality coach to facilitate team success.

Agree but for a different reason. Doc has actually proven to be a decent floor-raiser with young and/or less talented teams. It's the talented rosters with expectations that he's destroyed.

ETA: I want him fired yesterday either way, to be clear.

Plossum · Post #889 » by **Plossum** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:32 pm

Any Giannis trade has to be for a blue chipper like Flagg. We need a talent with big upside, plus buy ourselves some time to properly rebuild.

Amen Thompson is a nice player, but he’s not a franchise guy. This is a MVP candidate in his prime. We should be holding out for a top tier package.

blazza18 · Post #890 » by **blazza18** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:43 pm

Horst not winning a power struggle with Doc and it just being incompetence from the organisation would be the least shocking thing ever.

Post #891 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:56 pm

Plossum wrote:Any Giannis trade has to be for a blue chipper like Flagg. We need a talent with big upside, plus buy ourselves some time to properly rebuild.

Amen Thompson is a nice player, but he’s not a franchise guy. This is a MVP candidate in his prime. We should be holding out for a top tier package.

There are Rockets fans on the trade board who are adamant that Thompson can't be part of the package. I get being protective of your young guys and that's okay. But it means not getting Giannis.

drone3 · Post #892 » by **drone3** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:57 pm

Iheartfootball wrote:
Matches Malone wrote:
Bernman wrote:This guy has a decent track record.

Read on Twitter

Would you rather have Giannis & Doc OR Flagg, prospects, & just about any other coach? Go get the pitchforks...

If this is true, then I'd infer Horst has little latitude and the plan will be short-term in vision. Continued disconnect between coaching and the front office. Sucks, because I love watching Giannis play but this team will be wholly uninspiring for me next year (or years). Bummer.

Whole franchise feels stale and fragmented. Gross.

Doc in front office is better than doc as coach. But Ham is not the guy..

drone3 · Post #893 » by **drone3** » Thu May 1, 2025 11:59 pm

Is there any reality where we get the best shooting coach for Kuz and park him in the corner 3 spot... If we are stuck with him we gotta get him right

German Athens · Post #894 » by **German Athens** » Fri May 2, 2025 12:00 am

Doc in the front office just made one of the worst trades the bucks have ever done.

I don’t want him with the org in any capacity. Get rid of him.

GHOSTofSIKMA · Post #895 » by **GHOSTofSIKMA** » Fri May 2, 2025 12:23 am

the lineup we played our final game with makes me wonder....

if lopez/dame/kuzma can all be moved out or replaced for upgrades and we play the best we can with a modern style....new coach sure....and giannis trusts his teammates like he did that last game and at the end of the reg season.....we go smaller...faster....shooting..... moving the ball.....

i want to see that. i want to see what that looks like.

i think i sell him on that. if he bites we **** make this team better this summer. we dont abort. we make the team better.

pifhluk23 · Post #896 » by **pifhluk23** » Fri May 2, 2025 12:55 am

GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:the lineup we played our final game with makes me wonder....

if lopez/dame/kuzma can all be moved out or replaced for upgrades and we play the best we can with a modern style....new coach sure....and giannis trusts his teammates like he did that last game and at the end of the reg season.....we go smaller...faster....shooting..... moving the ball.....

i want to see that. i want to see what that looks like.

i think i sell him on that. if he bites we **** make this team better this summer. we dont abort. we make the team better.

Doc is still going to start Kuzmas and Princes if given the option.

Reddeye · Post #897 » by **Reddeye** » Fri May 2, 2025 1:01 am

Read on Twitter

machu46 · Post #898 » by **machu46** » Fri May 2, 2025 1:06 am

Reddeye wrote:

Read on Twitter

That's great and all, but man, if the best piece we get out of a Giannis trade is Stephon Castle, I might have to take a break from the NBA.

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German Athens · Post #899 » by **German Athens** » Fri May 2, 2025 1:09 am

GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:the lineup we played our final game with makes me wonder....

if lopez/dame/kuzma can all be moved out or replaced for upgrades and we play the best we can with a modern style....new coach sure....and giannis trusts his teammates like he did that last game and at the end of the reg season.....we go smaller...faster....shooting..... moving the ball.....

i want to see that. i want to see what that looks like.

i think i sell him on that. if he bites we **** make this team better this summer. we dont abort. we make the team better.

Now you see the picture. Giannis could absolutely drag that team to the playoffs.

They may be more or less a second round ceiling team, but who knows exactly how it’ll all come together. Then next off-season, we’ll have 3 1sts, a swap, and a 58m expiring.

And, for you more specifically, since I know this is a complaint you’ve had, they’d be a fun team to watch.

Frank Nova · Post #900 » by **Frank Nova** » Fri May 2, 2025 1:11 am

Bring Jrue back this off season. Pat opts in, Kuzma and Pat for Jrue. Would Boston bite to get out of Jrues contract? I’d do that in a New York minute. I’m sure Giannis would approve.