Giannis Thread - 6 Days To Go

ABucksFan · Post #61 » by **ABucksFan** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:46 pm

Matches Malone wrote:

Read on Twitter

Yeah, I think it's 50/50. No one really knows lol. If Giannis is signing, then Lasry has a decent poker face.

emunney · Post #62 » by **emunney** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:47 pm

ABucksFan wrote:
Matches Malone wrote:

Read on Twitter

Yeah, I think it's 50/50. No one really knows lol. If Giannis is signing, then Lasry has a decent poker face.

Isn't he a notorious high stakes poker player?

jschligs · Post #63 » by **jschligs** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:51 pm

That interview tells me nothing. He isn't going to speak on it in any way other than how he did.

MissKhriddleton · Post #64 » by **MissKhriddleton** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:51 pm

If you're not going to sign it, then why not just come out and say you're not going to sign it? Why keep torturing everyone?

I suppose it goes the other way too (if he is going to sign) but I could see them planning some sort of grand spectacle as that would be very Bucks. There's no way he's seriously still debating it though. He knows what he's going to do.

aboveAverage · Post #65 » by **aboveAverage** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:55 pm

Yeah, what do you expect Lasry to say there? He’s not gonna risk pissing Giannis off with another leak or hint after what happened with Bogdanovic. Everyone is keeping quiet about the decision out of respect for Giannis. I’m not worried about it.

mubucks00 · Post #66 » by **mubucks00** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:55 pm

I thought it was interesting he said, we will know in a week. There are post 1-week options available that don't seem to be on the table right now.
Also, I haven't been tuning in to CNBC lately, do they not require interview skills for those positions?

jute2003 · Post #67 » by **jute2003** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:59 pm

aboveAverage wrote:Yeah, what do you expect Lasry to say there? He’s not gonna risk pissing Giannis off with another leak or hint after what happened with Bogdanovic. Everyone is keeping quiet about the decision out of respect for Giannis. I’m not worried about it.

Is it out of respect for Giannis or did the whole organization get an ass chewing for the Bogdanovic fiasco and people are trying keep their jobs?

yannisk · Post #68 » by **yannisk** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:01 pm

I think we are mixing Giannis's contract extension and the flaws of his game. All this discussion would have a meaning if we were pondering if the Bucks should offer him an extension or if we were trying to find if we should offer him max money or an amount less than max and we were trying to find the fair value.

If the argument is that he has flaws in his game so he is not entitled to go to a better situation (in his mind) then this argument is very weak. If he thinks he will be better elsewhere and he knows that all teams would offer him max money does it matter if he is a bad shooter or he has bad bbiq?

if we believe that Bucks is the best situation for him, it's fine, but again it does not matter, does he think the same? can we convince him that this is the best situation for him? I think we tried to do that with the desperate Jrue signing and it had the opposite effect, the team was left with no assets so that is difficult to improve in the future. So is it good enough? the answer will come next playoffs

Gianstoppable · Post #69 » by **Gianstoppable** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:02 pm

I would be a lot more excited if the flight info dropped was Saratsis

dedned · Post #70 » by **dedned** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:02 pm

PG Graveyard wrote:
paulpressey25 wrote:
aboveAverage wrote:Any info you can share with us PP?

There is just a rumor running in the deep corners of the interwebs that the owners will be meeting and finalizing all of this over the next 24-48 hours. So, until something happens one way or the other, I’m going to choose to be optimistic.

What deep corners do you speak of?

The corner with lemon party and tub girl in it.

thrice123 · Post #71 » by **thrice123** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:05 pm

dedned wrote:
PG Graveyard wrote:
paulpressey25 wrote:
There is just a rumor running in the deep corners of the interwebs that the owners will be meeting and finalizing all of this over the next 24-48 hours. So, until something happens one way or the other, I’m going to choose to be optimistic.

What deep corners do you speak of?

The corner with lemon party and tub girl in it.

Yuck.......

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LUKE23 · Post #72 » by **LUKE23** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:06 pm

Between the barber tweet, Giannis' response to media questions and overall detachment (based on my perception of his body language in interviews), Lasry's comments, hard to be optimistic right now.

coolhandluke121 · Post #73 » by **coolhandluke121** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:10 pm

Every time someone posts to say don't worry, he's signing, all I hear is "Who wants ginger snaps?"

https://comb.io/1tZ2vg

Fotis St · Post #74 » by **Fotis St** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:14 pm

I think its smart for Giannis to NOT sign the supermax.
He can get the exact same contract in summer , why rush it ? So this incompetent Org feels '"safe" ?
Anyway I think Giannis not signing maybe benefits the Bucks this season. I mean teams that are planning to sing him will hesitate to do trades mid-season ... for the hope to nail Giannis , which means theoritically they will not improve their roster adding a contract that will make it harder to nail Giannis in case he becomes available in summer

Gianstoppable · Post #75 » by **Gianstoppable** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:19 pm

I know somebody that knows the Barber I am waiting to hear if he responds

crkone · Post #76 » by **crkone** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:19 pm

Fotis St wrote:I think its smart for Giannis to NOT sign the supermax.
He can get the exact same contract in summer , why rush it ? So this incompetent Org feels '"safe" ?
Anyway I think Giannis not signing maybe benefits the Bucks this season. I mean teams that are planning to sing him will hesitate to do trades mid-season ... for the hope to nail Giannis , which means theoritically they will not improve their roster adding a contract that will make it harder to nail Giannis in case he becomes available in summer

The reason to sign is Giannis HATES questions about contracts. He'll get those every time he's in front of a microphone/camera.

coolhandluke121 · Post #77 » by **coolhandluke121** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:21 pm

Who do you guys think is the most likely to go full Draymond on Giannis if he doesn't extend or even address it all year and they have to deal with questions about it every damn day? Portis? Alex Lasry?? That would go over well. :lol:

crkone · Post #78 » by **crkone** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:23 pm

coolhandluke121 wrote:Who do you guys think is the most likely to go full Draymond on Giannis if he doesn't extend or even address it all year and they have to deal with questions about it every damn day? Portis? Alex Lasry?? That would go over well.

I'll go big or go home with my money on Merrill. 8-)

SirChurros · Post #79 » by **SirChurros** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:27 pm

What's the deal with the barber? Like Giannis is no longer needing his services?

Maybe he just got tired of the barber giving him the same cut that every other guy in the league has.

GHOSTofSIKMA · Post #80 » by **GHOSTofSIKMA** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:29 pm

Fotis St wrote:I think its smart for Giannis to NOT sign the supermax.
He can get the exact same contract in summer , why rush it ? So this incompetent Org feels '"safe" ?
Anyway I think Giannis not signing maybe benefits the Bucks this season. I mean teams that are planning to sing him will hesitate to do trades mid-season ... for the hope to nail Giannis , which means theoritically they will not improve their roster adding a contract that will make it harder to nail Giannis in case he becomes available in summer

if giannis doesnt sign it very likely means he has his next spot picked out and that assumption would mean his next team already knows more than we do at this point. obviously that can change but the likelihood its back here is virtually nil.

so practically....giannis not signing means the end of his bucks era and that includes this season. not only does it mean our championship window is closed but it means we have to watch this seasons trainwreck in slow motion as a cherry on top of it

its why going all in with our sunk cost is moronic and playing out the season as his farewell tour being the most shortsighted painful memory i might ever have a bucks fan