Swan Vox wrote:I think what we've also learned from the last few years is that the Bucks don't necessarily need a "big 3" comprised of superstars. With Giannis, you need excellent role players who know their position in the pecking order and will go to war with Giannis. Jrue & Brook were perfect; they just aged out. Khris's body broke down...none of them were superstars, but the pieces fit. Is Turner a superstar? No, but his fit is undeniable. KPJ has the potential to be another second-tier star role player. Now we just need one more.
Nope, no team necessarily needs a Big Three of media-approved superstars. We do need like every team needs four other players involved and scoring, not just one guy trying to do it all by himself, coming up short again and wondering why. Trying to believe the bad fit was on Dame is delusional; that GM fail-of-a-move was never ever gonna to work with Giannis' 'style' of play alone--but you can't foist the bad fit off on Horst either, there were four other guys on the floor before that, and we STILL have fans looking for that fringe vet minimum guy who'll put us over the TOP! SO CLOSE. So afterward, when that doesn't work because it never will, fans can say 'Well, ol' Malik Beasley's 3pt% is down 0.37%, some savior! All he had to do is stand in the corner and shoot, he's not even a true #3!' Anybody can find a scapegoat, even a laughable strawman, it's just not that hard; also not that hard: playing standard bbiq ball, moving the ball, not taking the driver's seat every single play, not assuming you're in the driver's seat every single play when you're sitting in the back, and not last: knowing what got you where you are today. Only trophy we earned was w/o a real pecking order. What's cost us games, series, & titles is rigid dogma that 'having a pecking order' helps the team overall, when it just locks the franchise into this dead-end broken strategy with its documented failed record.
