Woj: Bucks to Re-Sign Khris Middleton to a 5 year, $178M Contract

[Ron Swanson]

I swear, even while using pretty irrefutable objective data, something about uttering the name James Khristian Middleton in a positive light brings out the absolute worst in some people. What weird happenstance if/when Middleton becomes the most hated player to wear a Bucks jersey since Anthony Mason, all while being the 2nd best player to wear a Bucks jersey since Michael Redd.

Unless you think Khris Middleton is the reason we're a "betting" title favourite, then there was absolutely a way to be a contender and not give him $180 million.

He's part of the reason. Per PP's continued assertion, I don't believe had you swapped out Middleton for Brogdon/Bogdnovic, this team would be as strong a bet. It's why if I'm gonna blame the FO for anything, it's refusing to match the Brogdon offer sheet, not paying Middleton what was necessary. Because in this instance, these weren't mutually exclusive.

[Bucksfan28]

KD did call him one of the best players in the league so his presence must have some impact on those title odds

[DavidDunn21]

I wanna agree to stop posting after every bad game he has but then I'd only post after we play the Hawks and Hornets.

You can't spreadsheet your way out of this. He sucks and he's a coward. He takes no responsibility for winning and losing, whether it be the playoffs or a regular season game at the Suns, or the World Championships.

I wanted him gone after the Bulls series.
I wanted him gone after he choked away the Raptors series.
I really really wanted him gone after he went randomly hot and his value was super inflated after the Celtics series.
And now he's blown our championship year and otherwise intelligent posters are posting his analytical comps.

He can't play 4 quarters and he wouldn't take a reasonable discount to keep a championship caliber team together. We should've shown him the door.

And when Giannis leaves the accumulated filth of Khris' turnovers and pump fake airballs will foam up about your waists and all the podcasters and statisticians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper:



"No."

[Shaffty]

I wanna agree to stop posting after every bad game he has but then I'd only post after we play the Hawks and Hornets.

You can't spreadsheet your way out of this. He sucks and he's a coward. He takes no responsibility for winning and losing, whether it be the playoffs or a regular season game at the Suns, or the World Championships.

I wanted him gone after the Bulls series.
I wanted him gone after he choked away the Raptors series.
I really really wanted him gone after he went randomly hot and his value was super inflated after the Celtics series.
And now he's blown our championship year and otherwise intelligent posters are posting his analytical comps.

He can't play 4 quarters and he wouldn't take a reasonable discount to keep a championship caliber team together. We should've shown him the door.

And when Giannis leaves the accumulated filth of Khris' turnovers and pump fake airballs will foam up about your waists and all the podcasters and statisticians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper:



"No."

i am so glad you left twitter

to think khris is the reason we lost the raptors game and not giannis not being ready is hysterical

[emunney]

There's never one reason for losing a series, but if there was one for losing the Raptors series it was Fred VanVleet, believing anything else is insane. He was 14-17 from 3 in games 4-6. <BANGS GAVEL>

[Jimmmycrackcorn]

i am so glad you left twitter

to think khris is the reason we lost the raptors game and not giannis not being ready is hysterical

wut

[truly]

There's never one reason for losing a series, but if there was one for losing the Raptors series it was Fred VanVleet, believing anything else is insane. He was 14-17 from 3 in games 4-6. <BANGS GAVEL>

The game were Kawhi had 10 assists on 3 pointers was

[Jimmmycrackcorn]

for the record, Khris, Nikola, and Brook were pretty horrific overall in game 3.....and i'm certain if the Bucks win that one, the series is/was over.



Khris was 3 of 16 overall...and 1 of 6 from deep....and let Kawhi go off for nearly 40.

Nikola was a sieve, and went 3 of 11 overall, 1 of 7 from deep....and made Siakam look like the second coming of Mike Jordan.

At least Brook, who was awful defensively helped on the offensive end by going 5 of 10 overall, and 3 of 7 from deep.

[Jimmmycrackcorn]

fred van vleet shooting .824 in games 4, 5, and 6 will forever haunt me

forever

[MickeyDavis]

There was a whole lot of ineptitude in games 3-6. I'm not much of a Middleton fan, before or after his max deal, but to single him out against Toronto is absurd.

[TD75]

As people have said before, losing the series against the Raptors is not due to only one player or even only one factor.

That does not mean there are no individual responsibilities to players that underperformed. It's just that the whole team underperformed to a certain degree (some more than others) including the coaching staff.

[emunney]

Also let's not lose sight of the fact that it was in the Eastern Conference Finals, where 14 teams would have died to underperform.

[Jimmmycrackcorn]

Also let's not lose sight of the fact that it was in the Eastern Conference Finals, where 14 teams would have died to underperform.

true

however, there was a gift wrapped championship trophy waiting for the winner of the series...and that makes it sting even more

[paulpressey25]

There was a whole lot of ineptitude in games 3-6. I'm not much of a Middleton fan, before or after his max deal, but to single him out against Toronto is absurd.

True, but of all the guys in court in that series for both teams, only one walks away with $178mm guaranteed three weeks later

[blazza18]

i am so glad you left twitter

to think khris is the reason we lost the raptors game and not giannis not being ready is hysterical

wut

It's true. But Midds was also not good.

[DavidDunn21]

Khris is allegedly the second guy. I was reliably informed that he was a steal at his last contract and fair at this one. One and a half good games against the Raptors (and the Celtics, btw) just doesn't cut it. Being outplayed by Brogdon doesn't cut it if he's the second banana. The series wasn't decided by Toronto's fifth or sixth best player. The series was decided because we don't have a #2 guy.

We win this series and the NBA Championship with a Glenn Robinson level borderline All-Star. We probably win this series with a 2011 Jason Terry type guy or any version of Joe Johnson before 2016. We win this series with Jimmy Butler.

The postseason is a pass/fail proposition. Each player has their statistical slate wiped clean after every game. Accumulated stats in losses are meaningless.
We've got one of the 3 best players in the world, so the only questions are:
Who can win us a playoff game?
Who is talented enough to dominate a half regularly?
Who might just go supernova and have 3 hot games out of 7?

We lost FOUR. STRAIGHT. GAMES. If Khris would've simply manufactured a few buckets or trips to the line with his supposedly timeless old man game in the middle of that 26-3 Raptors run, we might've weathered the storm. That's his job. Fred Van Vleet didn't stop us from scoring. What FVV did do was believe in himself.

Hi, Shaffty. Hope you're doing well.

[BroncoBuck]

Khris is allegedly the second guy. I was reliably informed that he was a steal at his last contract and fair at this one. One and a half good games against the Raptors (and the Celtics, btw) just doesn't cut it. Being outplayed by Brogdon doesn't cut it if he's the second banana. The series wasn't decided by Toronto's fifth or sixth best player. The series was decided because we don't have a #2 guy.

We win this series and the NBA Championship with a Glenn Robinson level borderline All-Star. We probably win this series with a 2011 Jason Terry type guy or any version of Joe Johnson before 2016. We win this series with Jimmy Butler.

The postseason is a pass/fail proposition. Each player has their statistical slate wiped clean after every game. Accumulated stats in losses are meaningless.
We've got one of the 3 best players in the world, so the only questions are:
Who can win us a playoff game?
Who is talented enough to dominate a half regularly?
Who might just go supernova and have 3 hot games out of 7?

We lost FOUR. STRAIGHT. GAMES. If Khris would've simply manufactured a few buckets or trips to the line with his supposedly timeless old man game in the middle of that 26-3 Raptors run, we might've weathered the storm. That's his job. Fred Van Vleet didn't stop us from scoring. What FVV did do was believe in himself.

Hi, Shaffty. Hope you're doing well.

You must’ve skipped out on game 4 where he was the only guy on the team who could do anything. The Middleton game happened and nobody else (Giannis included after the first quarter) showed up and the Bucks were blown out. That was the game where the Raps bench dropped 50 or whatever.

[karson39]

Last year Midds was awesome against the Celtics in the playoffs.
This year, not so much. Scoring 13.7 with 41% FG in Conference finals is not what you expect from a max contract. He got outperformed by Brook, who was our second banana. I mean, Giannis was bad, but Khris, Bled and Brog should step up, and they didn't. Contractwise, Midds is the one you expect to do something extra when Giannis is triple teammed.
To put things into perspective, Norman Powell had 12.2 at 45 % in 12 minutes less.

[buckboy]

I wanna agree to stop posting after every bad game he has but then I'd only post after we play the Hawks and Hornets.

You can't spreadsheet your way out of this. He sucks and he's a coward. He takes no responsibility for winning and losing, whether it be the playoffs or a regular season game at the Suns, or the World Championships.

I wanted him gone after the Bulls series.
I wanted him gone after he choked away the Raptors series.
I really really wanted him gone after he went randomly hot and his value was super inflated after the Celtics series.
And now he's blown our championship year and otherwise intelligent posters are posting his analytical comps.

He can't play 4 quarters and he wouldn't take a reasonable discount to keep a championship caliber team together. We should've shown him the door.

And when Giannis leaves the accumulated filth of Khris' turnovers and pump fake airballs will foam up about your waists and all the podcasters and statisticians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper:



"No."

7 people and1'd this nonsense. I hope they were sarcastic and1s.

[emunney]

I wanna agree to stop posting after every bad game he has but then I'd only post after we play the Hawks and Hornets.

You can't spreadsheet your way out of this. He sucks and he's a coward. He takes no responsibility for winning and losing, whether it be the playoffs or a regular season game at the Suns, or the World Championships.

I wanted him gone after the Bulls series.
I wanted him gone after he choked away the Raptors series.
I really really wanted him gone after he went randomly hot and his value was super inflated after the Celtics series.
And now he's blown our championship year and otherwise intelligent posters are posting his analytical comps.

He can't play 4 quarters and he wouldn't take a reasonable discount to keep a championship caliber team together. We should've shown him the door.

And when Giannis leaves the accumulated filth of Khris' turnovers and pump fake airballs will foam up about your waists and all the podcasters and statisticians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper:



"No."

7 people and1'd this nonsense. I hope they were sarcastic and1s.

I routinely like posts for their craft even if I disagree with their content.