Game 10 - Bucks at Blazers - 9:00 - FSWI

[Chapter29]

This thread needs some Epicurious.

You didn't send the bat signal.

Terry Stotts sucks!

There.

[Ron Swanson]

Yeah, easy to only play your best guys 30 minutes a night when you're blowing teams out by 20+ regularly.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Since the Boston game, I'm worried any team with talent will be able to have a historic night from behind the 3 point line. I'm not too worried about the offense being stifled by anything but missed shots/TOs.

thats all pretty much dependent on the opposing center not being al horford. a 2 way threat on the block and from the line.

I think in the future if bigs are killing us from 3 we'll make the change to switching defense earlier than we did that night. remember once we made that move we reeled them right back in. if that game had been 5 qtrs. we would have won by 10-15 imo

[crkone]

Since the Boston game, I'm worried any team with talent will be able to have a historic night from behind the 3 point line. I'm not too worried about the offense being stifled by anything but missed shots/TOs.

Talented teams like Indiana, Toronto, Charlotte, philly?


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Relying on teams to miss open shots at historic rates doesn't seem favorable. Boston laid the groundwork that you just need to keep shooting the open shots and they didn't even shoot lights out, 37% on above the break 3s. That is unless you expect Toronto to shoot 14% on above the break 3s against us again.

[StickeeFingaz]

All the money coming in on the Bucks.


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[emunney]

Portland has two ballhandlers who can drill pull up 3s when we drop the big. This is not going to be an easy one. Like Charlotte, but they're better than Charlotte.

[BuckFan25226]

Do the Blazers get to 100? And do the Bucks get to 100 by the end of the 3rd?


That's the real mystery behind this game.

[crkone]

Since the Boston game, I'm worried any team with talent will be able to have a historic night from behind the 3 point line. I'm not too worried about the offense being stifled by anything but missed shots/TOs.

thats all pretty much dependent on the opposing center not being al horford. a 2 way threat on the block and from the line.

I think in the future if bigs are killing us from 3 we'll make the change to switching defense earlier than we did that night. remember once we made that move we reeled them right back in. if that game had been 5 qtrs. we would have won by 10-15 imo

Ehh Boston still got off 11 wide open and open 3 pointers even with the switching in the 4th, with only one of them coming from a non-shooter in Baynes. They just hit 27% of them and not 33%, 50%, and 60% like in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively. I think teams would be wise just letting Giannis run wild while starting 5 shooters who switch on defense. This propensity for Bud's teams to allow huge shooting nights over his career is interesting.

[Ron Swanson]

Boston laid the "groundwork" for beating them by coming up 1 make short of tying the all-time record for made 3's in a game. Sure, I guess.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

I think huge shooting nights all thru the league are going to be the norm as more and more teams switch to buds style which is basically the only way to play successfully over a larger sample these days. you play the math... give up one thing and try to take away another. the only real adjustments are the in game ones just to shake up a look.

the switching system still gave up open 3's but obviously the rhytym is going to change. that's really all you do when you call time out during another teams run. the same guys come out but the mojo can change.

[crkone]

Boston laid the "groundwork" for beating them by coming up 1 make short of tying the all-time record for made 3's in a game. Sure, I guess.

Honestly, this record doesn't mean squat anymore in today's NBA.

[Ron Swanson]

Boston laid the "groundwork" for beating them by coming up 1 make short of tying the all-time record for made 3's in a game. Sure, I guess.

Honestly, this record doesn't mean squat anymore in today's NBA.

Ok, but those are still the games you're going to lose. Even Golden State, as a team, has never made 24 threes in a game. You're talking about the most outlier of outliers here. Might as well just say, "teams having historic offensive nights" is the blueprint to beating any defense, which yeah, of course.

[SirChurros]

Honestly, if we're 8-1 and a team has to hit 24 threes against us to win by 4, I don't know why anyone is concerned.

As much as Celtics players said it felt like hitting warmup shots, they're not hitting 24 threes more than once in a seven game series.

[GB_Packers]

Neee something to complain about when it’s been a nearly flawless start to the season. Some people are still adjusting to the reality that the Bucks are finally really damn good.


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[emunney]

Blazers have played like a top 5 team so far. I'm not saying they shouldn't be more concerned about us, but they are no pushover.

[Ill-yasova]

You’ll be lucky to find a bar with the bartender actually knows who the Milwaukee Bucks are.

Best bet would be a bar with a bunch of TVs so they happen to have it on. I don’t know of any that are slanted towards Bucks. Try Hopcat

Hopcat gone. If you're going to the Kohl, I imagine the game would be on at either the Echo or Lucky's.

Hopcat is still open.

[DingleJerry]

I get that they're not going to make 24 most of the time. But the key thing to take from that Boston game is that a huge chunk of them were really really good looks and/or wide open. Sure, they still should have missed a few more but it's not like when Kemba lit them up hitting dribble pull up tough shots/3s. These guys were wide open taking the second best shot in the league. that's something other teams are going to try and copy.

[Shaffty]

You guys are all so worried about defending them.

But really how are they going to even remotely stop us on O?

who tf is checking Giannis?

[crkone]

I think huge shooting nights all thru the league are going to be the norm as more and more teams switch to buds style which is basically the only way to play successfully over a larger sample these days. you play the math... give up one thing and try to take away another. the only real adjustments are the in game ones just to shake up a look.

the switching system still gave up open 3's but obviously the rhytym is going to change. that's really all you do when you call time out during another teams run. the same guys come out but the mojo can change.

It is possible they also got tired from taking so many shots.

Boston laid the "groundwork" for beating them by coming up 1 make short of tying the all-time record for made 3's in a game. Sure, I guess.

Honestly, this record doesn't mean squat anymore in today's NBA.

Ok, but those are still the games you're going to lose. Even Golden State, as a team, has never made 24 threes in a game. You're talking about the most outlier of outliers here. Might as well just say, "teams having historic offensive nights" is the blueprint to beating any defense, which yeah, of course.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Teams with talent and coaching to let it fly are going to be an issue for this team. It's not a coincidence Bud's teams own the top two spots in games with most 3 pointers made against, and 4 times his teams have allowed over 50 3PAs a game (32 games total). I hope going forward he switches up the defense (pun intended) more frequently as the players get used to him. Let teams get into the paint for a few possessions and then clamp it down again.

Neee something to complain about when it’s been a nearly flawless start to the season. Some people are still adjusting to the reality that the Bucks are finally really damn good.


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Not complaining, more concerns moving forward.

[crkone]

You guys are all so worried about defending them.

But really how are they going to even remotely stop us on O?

who tf is checking Giannis?

I think a combination of letting Giannis get whatever he wants by switching, and also playing 5 out on offense is really the only way teams can stop the Bucks (besides the Bucks shooting themselves in the foot with fouls/TOs). It's more of an issue going forward as teams watch film, and really only against teams that can actually do that like Toronto/Boston/GS/etc. or teams that can abuse the PnR defense like Charlotte/Portland.