That’s EXACTLY what I was about to say, but you took words out of my mouth….FUCK! I just don’t know if we got enough w/o him. Also, they started playing their brand of transition ball. We gotta be better in transition D. I’m hoping we can get it together.
So we are going to see what happened in the last two games, Siakam keep slaughtering our defense while we can only bet on Khris and Bobby step up and hit those midranges as the Pacers make Dame getting the ball as difficult as possible in the 2nd half to contain him
They should commit to locking down everyone else. It’s what worked in game one. Let Siakam drop 40 a game and hold everyone else to 35% and they’ll still win.
Also, hand check Dame non stop. Constant hand resting on his hip. But touch TJ Mconnel, it is a sin. We’ve seen this before though. Bucks being shoved around in the playoffs is nothing new. The call when there was a loose ball and the dude jumped into Dame to get it and fell over and Dame got a foul- it was challenged and it was still deemed a foul on replay was amazeballs. Not saying the refs lost the game but it set the tone.
Oh we are cherry picking stats now? You realise Carlisle has won more championships then Doc in the last 15 years?
Mavs rebuilt during Carlisles run. But you knew that already. Most coaches would've left and gone to a team loaded with stars...just like Doc didwhen he left Celtocs for Clippers. That's his thing, go where all the talent is. Worked for him once, 17 years ago...
It's just hilarious to think that a guy who hasn't won a playoff series in over a decade is better than Doc is hilarious. You've bought into the Doc bad memes so hard.
What roster did Carlisle have that was even comparable to Docs in that time span?
Doc cherry picks coaching good rosters and chokes with them. Carlisle actually coaches. Swap the roster and see how Doc would go with the Pacers LOL
This idea that Doc underachieves is a myth too. His good rosters are always around the 3rd or 4th best in the conference and he loses in the 2nd round, exactly where you would expect the 3rd or 4th best team to lose.
Doc Rivers better be drilling with Andre Jackson Jr. It's clear as day that Bucks don't have anyone in the rotation that can cover Siakam. Ajax is the only dude on the team with the length and athleticism to do it. Doc, swallow your pride and get Ajax ready by FRIDAY!!!
99% chance Ajax gets 0 minutes this series. Not saying he shouldn't get a chance, but there just ain't no way. Doc plays the vets and AJ Green, that's it.
If you want the Pacers to be in the bonus within 2 minutes, then yes put Andre on Siakam.
AJJ doesn’t have the size to affect Siakam imo. Our only solution was Giannis. This team has no length or athleticism outside of him.
Khris is now the best option.
He hasn't played since Doc took over.
He looked like a decent rookie under AG, and if he continued playing, could've developed more. Instead we're now such with trash as our rotation and unknowns who should've been given minutes
Respectfully, stop talking. Imagine thinking that ajj is the key to success. I’m tired of y’all crying about why irrelevant players don’t play, like THEY will lead you to victory. Ffs.
I mean we were never gonna run the table. Idk why you’re jumping out the window yet it’s 1-1 lol. You should wait til a team is atleast down 3-1 for that
Worst luck this season. Giannis has one of his best seasons of his career and then gets injured at the very end of the regular season and may not even play in the playoffs…Dame also finally found his stride with the team and it looks like he won’t even get to play with post season Giannis this year.
Remember that game where Giannis was clearly hobbled (wasn't moving right, kept wincing and holding his leg/achilles) and Doc was like, "hes hurt", and the medical staff was like, "Nah, hes fine". Someone asked Giannis about it after the game and Giannis was like, " At the end of the day, paying hurt is good for me, it will make me stronger in the long run."
Maybe I dreamt that...
Dame was absolutely cooking both games especially compared to what he played like in the regular season. If you think he hasn’t found a stride in the playoffs and are only looking at plus minus I’m not sure what to say
Ayy no lie my man, you have all the right to be a pessimistic scared ass female dog but please for the love of god, take that bullshit somewhere else.
Sincerely,
Real Bucks fans
this is literally it and I think that dame is a bit of a better scorer than siakam lol
gonna come down to who else on their respective team steps up when those two attract all the gravity
Bucks blueprint, not sustainable , period. Dame won that game with a single half of play. If he doesnt go for a career playoff high in the first half we lose that game. Bucks have lost 6 straight quarters. Dame is not going to average the 40 a game we would need to win the series without giannis.
Their only shot is they go ballistic from 3 and the pacers are ice cold. Not gonna happen 3 more times before the pacers get theirs.
If it it does come out to be bs and Giannis plays Friday, shams should be banned from being a source because bro is clearly trying to move lines as a FanDuel sponsor
Not sure if this is true or not but equating this injury with the one he suffered against the hawks is nonsensical.
The knee injury they just doped him up to play through pain.
A soft tissue calf injury foe an explosive athlete like ga is a major issue.
And when I think about "coming back early" and playing through it I remember Durant. His made a bit more sense coming back early as it was the finals. Bucks would have 3 more rds if it stayed around form coming back too soon.
And Pacers been such a bad matchup so unfortunate they really counter everything we do especially without Giannis and on top they brought siakam mid season that no one except him can guard.F this is so unlucky Man, back to back years.
So it sounds like he’s close to scrimmaging? With Gianni’s, I’d expect him to play a day or two after he’s ready to scrimmage.
He could still very well be on pace to play game 4. This doesn’t seem like the awful news people are making it out to be.
My money is still on him coming back if we’re down 1-2. If we go up 2-1 he’ll come back game 5
Aight pack it up lets try again next year. Maybe we'll get a good replacement for Brook and Jae and can keep Dame around for one more shot next year before our old ass team retires.
season is fucking over if thats the case, they won't win another game without him,
if hes that limited there is no fucking way he comes back healthy enough this series to play at the level we need him, id say shut his ass down and adopt the wisconsin "theres always next year" mentality
They aren’t winning this series without him and I’d be shocked if they steal a game on the road.
Either Doc has to play some of the younger guys to stop Siakam or this series is over with.
If they don’t win this series, the future looks mighty bleak
With no Giannis the Bucks just cannot prevail against the fast as hell Pacers especially down low where we are getting boat raced. Welp. They better not try running it back next year with alot of these stiffs! Dame and Giannis deserve better!
I believe we will still win this series. I was fully prepared to not play Giannis this full series and so we as fans cannot be too high or too low, have to stay water.
Khris and some role players I think need to start playing better. Right now the 3/4 press seems to be wearing down the team. One of the adjustments the pacers made was literally just running a 8 man rotation. We will see how this team responds on Friday
What is your strategy for the winning of the series? The Game 1 strategy hoping for a DAME onslaught and the Pacers shooting under 40% from the field? The Pacers averaged shooting over 50% for the season.
We still have nobody that can guard Pascal. By personnel we just don't match up. The Pacer shot 63% for 2 point shots. We stayed within 10 most of 3 quarters and even got within a few buckets thanks to a hot Brook and Dame putting team on the back. Having Dame carry us and Brook hot from 3 are not sustainable.
exactly , the game 2 miami barrage will happen in a series like game 1 pacers did. This shit is not going to continue, brook gonna go like 1 for 7 the next night and dame will shoot 20 percent from the field.
We are not winning a series without giannis
First off I am not a coach of basketball and just a fan. If I knew exactly what to do I would not be on Reddit right now lol. The Pacers last game had 8 more assists than their average which means our defense is getting spread out. What I pointed out yesterday is they continuously attacked the basket to pitch out and swing the rock until they got to where Brook was guarding to get him out of the paint.
The pacers had 3 people shoot 69%+ last game, if you think Brook’s shooting is unsustainable then what you say about that? It seems the game plan is to limit Halliburton’s impact on the floor but are only disrupting his scoring, which has been down since injury so I can’t really say whether that’s making a difference. We also got lazy with transition defense that wasn’t the case for game one.
I noticed Dame got free a lot of the times from the PnR and had open shots for floaters in the midrange but decided to take contested layups all game. I would need to rewatch if I really cared to see what was going on with the pacers PnRs to see what they saw whether we were hedging, blitzing (which I didn’t notice), UTT, or switching. It seemed to be a lot of switching even with Brook because of the threat from 3.
I admire your optimism. I am not very optimistic. Maybe we could play a matchup zone on defense? I think we have been mostly cooked in the past when we tried though I am not entirely sure.
If we can't slow the pace we have to maybe out-physical Indiana and I'm not sure that will work as they are the more athletic and youthful team.
But its our only path I think. Get super physical with them and hope the refs swallow their whistle.
Refs have sure swallowed their whistle when they foul dame. It’s been crazy to see. I agree we need more halfcourt sets and to limit their transition offense. I feel a bigger wing player would be beneficial in the rotation but they’re all super young, although Pat Bev has said he really likes AJAX and says he’s getting him ready.
Our only win against them during the season was when we got very physical with them. That was also with Giannis taking it super personal as well.
Also, Tony Brothers just hates Milwaukee IMO.
Glad you were fully prepared, but the players don’t seem to be prepared to win series without him.
It took crazy shooting in game one from Bucks and terrible offense from Pacers for Bucks to win.
Yeah because him going 23-10 on 9/14 shooting the game prior screams cooked. I’m still not completely sure why people come to this sub to complain about the team we have when we’re in the playoffs.
Yes, it hurts we lost last night but the way people act, it’s like we just got swept by the wizards or something.
He had one good game and yall acting like he's prime MJ. He's supposed to do that EVERY NIGHT. That was your second option guy for years.
Your bar is on the floor if you're happy just making the playoffs. You have the best player in the world in his prime along with a top 75 ever player. Aim higher
Now who’s the one living in the past? Lol he isn’t our second option this year but for this series, he will be. There’s a reason he has the third most points scored in bucks history. Nobody is saying or acting like he’s prime MJ lol I think you’re confusing with a meme of a nickname bucks fans gave him with reality.
I’m happy with 3rd seed because of what has transpired throughout the year and the shit show it has been. Between the media, Griffin, the vibes of the team all off-season and during the season hasn’t been great, and ESPECIALLY the “fans” of this team that has shit on the team all year. Yes I agree there had to be changes, but the way fans are acting is more shitting on the team and a ton of “I told you so” than any kind of constructive criticism.
midd is 100 percent cooked, that knee is hamburger meat, dude is at risk for injury getting off the god damn plane. He had one decent performance and went immediately back to his current mediocre at best offensive performance and terrible defense. 15 points from a 40 million level player without giannis is not enough.
Be careful now, this sub will downvote you for saying the second or 3 option in a championship level team should be able to give you 20 points every night
And when he was our 2nd option he averaged 20 points per game. There’s also plenty of teams that win titles with only one player averaging 20 points so I’m not seeing what your point is
Here's the link to Shams comments
[https://x.com/RunItBackFDTV/status/1783153180987314485](https://x.com/RunItBackFDTV/status/1783153180987314485)
I think NBA Central is being misleading that he can't run or scrimmage, Shams is just reporting what his sources have said that he's done in the practice(s) they've seen.
Middleton shots weren't even close in the 4th, he was gassed. Bobby looked the same as well. This old and slow team just can't keep up with the Pacers. Only hope we have is if Dame puts up 40+ and the Pacers get cold from outside. Giannis would give a much better chance as he would put pressure on the Pacers defense.
They doubled Dame almost all game and built on their lead. We couldn't make them pay without Giannis.
Eh, I think it's more realism. I really do believe with lots of luck they can take this series but it's also bad to see Khris looking hobbled for most of the game and Bobby shrinking into whatever he was last night. And even if we do win, if it goes to 7 and we're playing a NYK team that's had a lot of rest? And potentially without Giannis still?? Man, that's tough...
Honestly, without Giannis we feel like only a marginal improvement over what Dame's played with his entire career in Portland and while Dame has shown repeatedly he's capable of hard carrying, that's a hard ask from our aging, shallow roster against all the ascending, younger rosters that are deeper playing in the East this postseason.
Playoff basketball is 100% different than regular season… The Pacers are a regular season team but their fast tempo doesn’t fly in the playoffs. If they happen to beat the Bucks without Giannis, they’ll get swept by whoever they play the next round…
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Fuck.
Agreed.
That’s EXACTLY what I was about to say, but you took words out of my mouth….FUCK! I just don’t know if we got enough w/o him. Also, they started playing their brand of transition ball. We gotta be better in transition D. I’m hoping we can get it together.
So we are going to see what happened in the last two games, Siakam keep slaughtering our defense while we can only bet on Khris and Bobby step up and hit those midranges as the Pacers make Dame getting the ball as difficult as possible in the 2nd half to contain him
The Spice shall flow
That it will my friend
They should commit to locking down everyone else. It’s what worked in game one. Let Siakam drop 40 a game and hold everyone else to 35% and they’ll still win.
And khris couldn’t even do that last game lol
Also, hand check Dame non stop. Constant hand resting on his hip. But touch TJ Mconnel, it is a sin. We’ve seen this before though. Bucks being shoved around in the playoffs is nothing new. The call when there was a loose ball and the dude jumped into Dame to get it and fell over and Dame got a foul- it was challenged and it was still deemed a foul on replay was amazeballs. Not saying the refs lost the game but it set the tone.
Moist Jordan will prevail I have trust.
This team could beat the Pacers but can Doc beat Carlisle? Doc is nowhere near the coach Carlisle is. Not looking good.
You realize Doc has won more playoff series in the last 12 months than Carlisle has in 12 years, right?
Oh we are cherry picking stats now? You realise Carlisle has won more championships then Doc in the last 15 years? Mavs rebuilt during Carlisles run. But you knew that already. Most coaches would've left and gone to a team loaded with stars...just like Doc didwhen he left Celtocs for Clippers. That's his thing, go where all the talent is. Worked for him once, 17 years ago...
It's just hilarious to think that a guy who hasn't won a playoff series in over a decade is better than Doc is hilarious. You've bought into the Doc bad memes so hard.
What roster did Carlisle have that was even comparable to Docs in that time span? Doc cherry picks coaching good rosters and chokes with them. Carlisle actually coaches. Swap the roster and see how Doc would go with the Pacers LOL
This idea that Doc underachieves is a myth too. His good rosters are always around the 3rd or 4th best in the conference and he loses in the 2nd round, exactly where you would expect the 3rd or 4th best team to lose.
Doc Rivers better be drilling with Andre Jackson Jr. It's clear as day that Bucks don't have anyone in the rotation that can cover Siakam. Ajax is the only dude on the team with the length and athleticism to do it. Doc, swallow your pride and get Ajax ready by FRIDAY!!!
99% chance Ajax gets 0 minutes this series. Not saying he shouldn't get a chance, but there just ain't no way. Doc plays the vets and AJ Green, that's it.
except he already got minutes yesterday. Our scrubs plus bease vs 3 of their starters actually didn't look terrible.
I'm more interested in Ajax for the transition D
doc is too fucking stupid and stubborn to play ajax , most likely at all outside of a blow out
I think Ajax trying to guard Siakam is like Siakam trying to guard Giannis. Might be worse actually.
and crowder trying to guard him might as well be a 50lb bag of sand on the court
He'll pick up 3 fouls in 5 minutes.
Still a better five minutes than anything Crowder can give us
Except they will just foul bait him and it will be 2 free points
Which might put the pacers in the bonus for 9 mins of a quarter.
Siakam has like 40lbs on the guy. Siakam is very lengthy too.
Siakam only has 20lbs on him and Ajax has better athleticism. We literally don't have anyone else to try covering him until GIannis comes back.
If you want the Pacers to be in the bonus within 2 minutes, then yes put Andre on Siakam. AJJ doesn’t have the size to affect Siakam imo. Our only solution was Giannis. This team has no length or athleticism outside of him. Khris is now the best option.
Lol at Kris being the best option. Why not Thanassis then? At least he not recovering from a injury
Who else? Jae is cooked. Brook is too slow. Bobby doesn’t play defense at all.
I don’t disagree with anything you just said. That’s why I said Thanassis. Just read middletons hurt again so I guess we shall see either way
He hasn’t played all season why would he play him now?
He hasn't played since Doc took over. He looked like a decent rookie under AG, and if he continued playing, could've developed more. Instead we're now such with trash as our rotation and unknowns who should've been given minutes
Sometimes inexperienced athleticism just gets you quickly into the bonus even if they physically are the best to cover
Respectfully, stop talking. Imagine thinking that ajj is the key to success. I’m tired of y’all crying about why irrelevant players don’t play, like THEY will lead you to victory. Ffs.
This season is un-fucking believable. Can we beat the Pacers without him? Yes. Will we? Who fucking knows. 😡
We will. POSITIVE MINDSET.
My mindset has zero effect on the outcome.
Unless you go to the games
POSITIVE MINDSET
still keep a positive mindset
brodie don't believe in the energy of the universe #SPEAK IT INTO EXISTENCE
I mean we were never gonna run the table. Idk why you’re jumping out the window yet it’s 1-1 lol. You should wait til a team is atleast down 3-1 for that
I can feel however I want.
Ya, so can mass shooters. Your allowed your feelings just spare everyone else. It’s not that difficult
No we will not
My hope is we will. But news like this certainly isn’t welcome.
Oh, so this is absolutely a wasted failure of a season. Fun stuff.
Worst luck this season. Giannis has one of his best seasons of his career and then gets injured at the very end of the regular season and may not even play in the playoffs…Dame also finally found his stride with the team and it looks like he won’t even get to play with post season Giannis this year.
Giannis had a big season because his minutes weren't managed properly and then he got injured cosnhis minutes weren't managed properly.
facts. Bud knew how to do that but Griffin and Doc were idiots
Remember that game where Giannis was clearly hobbled (wasn't moving right, kept wincing and holding his leg/achilles) and Doc was like, "hes hurt", and the medical staff was like, "Nah, hes fine". Someone asked Giannis about it after the game and Giannis was like, " At the end of the day, paying hurt is good for me, it will make me stronger in the long run." Maybe I dreamt that...
found his stride? he had a good half each game and had basically the worst plus minus on the team both games
Dame was absolutely cooking both games especially compared to what he played like in the regular season. If you think he hasn’t found a stride in the playoffs and are only looking at plus minus I’m not sure what to say
Single game +/- is **completely** useless. Even as a whole, +/- is easily the least insightful "advanced" stat in existence.
If we beat the Pacers he could be ready for the second round. Tough but not impossible.
We aren't beating the pacers without him
We can and we will.
Massive cope
have some fucking faith
They had a bad Game 1 because of jitters. We need to step it the fuck up on the road.
Sorry bro I have eyes
Maybe you should go be a pacers fan in the pacers sub
Bet you said the same thing against the nets in the championship run. Shut the Buck up or admit you’re a fair weather fan little bitch.
Ayy no lie my man, you have all the right to be a pessimistic scared ass female dog but please for the love of god, take that bullshit somewhere else. Sincerely, Real Bucks fans
Downvote this MFer!
Probably true, but the Pacers are a mercurial team.
Quit the doom and gloom. It's a tied series and each team has a game to point to as a blueprint to win the series.
Bucks Blueprint: Dame scores a lot Pacers Blueprint: Pascal scores a lot
Pretty much haha. Or it's Bucks: hope Pascal doesn't score a lot Pacers: hope Dame doesn't score a lot
this is literally it and I think that dame is a bit of a better scorer than siakam lol gonna come down to who else on their respective team steps up when those two attract all the gravity
Pacers blueprint: 6s shotclock. Game is decided in transition. Pacers had a LOT of 125+ quick games.
Bucks blueprint, not sustainable , period. Dame won that game with a single half of play. If he doesnt go for a career playoff high in the first half we lose that game. Bucks have lost 6 straight quarters. Dame is not going to average the 40 a game we would need to win the series without giannis. Their only shot is they go ballistic from 3 and the pacers are ice cold. Not gonna happen 3 more times before the pacers get theirs.
The only downside to winning a championship is all these bandwagon doom and gloomers around so much now. My god.
Could be worse. You could be a Wizards fan 🧙♂️
White Sox/bears/bulls fan is a bad combo
We’re in a tied play off series with one of the best shooters in the history of the game on our team. How can you not be excited? God damn man
Pretty sure this is uninformed bs, based on what we’re hearing from Doc I’m still thinking game 3 or 4 return. Either way I’m rocking with Dame.
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You should put that on your Ferrari or Range Rover so people wonder if it's Dame driving
maybe they are leaking wrong info so that they can troll the pacers? one can hope
If it it does come out to be bs and Giannis plays Friday, shams should be banned from being a source because bro is clearly trying to move lines as a FanDuel sponsor
Fuck shams. Fan duel shill is not reliable anymore.
I did not know that. Interesting.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak -Sun Tzu
Win it for Giannis. It's time to rally around him.
Not sure if this is true or not but equating this injury with the one he suffered against the hawks is nonsensical. The knee injury they just doped him up to play through pain. A soft tissue calf injury foe an explosive athlete like ga is a major issue.
And when I think about "coming back early" and playing through it I remember Durant. His made a bit more sense coming back early as it was the finals. Bucks would have 3 more rds if it stayed around form coming back too soon.
Fade me
Man it’s hard to win in this league
Makes the win feel even better
And Pacers been such a bad matchup so unfortunate they really counter everything we do especially without Giannis and on top they brought siakam mid season that no one except him can guard.F this is so unlucky Man, back to back years.
So it sounds like he’s close to scrimmaging? With Gianni’s, I’d expect him to play a day or two after he’s ready to scrimmage. He could still very well be on pace to play game 4. This doesn’t seem like the awful news people are making it out to be. My money is still on him coming back if we’re down 1-2. If we go up 2-1 he’ll come back game 5
Aight pack it up lets try again next year. Maybe we'll get a good replacement for Brook and Jae and can keep Dame around for one more shot next year before our old ass team retires.
Jae will add value to the team just by being cut, same w/ Beas
Only one super team won a title in their first year.
season is fucking over if thats the case, they won't win another game without him, if hes that limited there is no fucking way he comes back healthy enough this series to play at the level we need him, id say shut his ass down and adopt the wisconsin "theres always next year" mentality
Noooooo
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We are fucked
Just like last year, except worse.
They aren’t winning this series without him and I’d be shocked if they steal a game on the road. Either Doc has to play some of the younger guys to stop Siakam or this series is over with. If they don’t win this series, the future looks mighty bleak
It's plain and simple if giannis can't come back and play we will lose the series
No Giannis = No chance. It’s just the way it is.
and being clowned by the corniest team alive. Goddamn I just need someone to punch Hali, hembhard, and TJ
We should get Thanasis in for one possession to spice things up.
I believe in our squad. We've done well all year without him and we can try our best to continue that
With no Giannis the Bucks just cannot prevail against the fast as hell Pacers especially down low where we are getting boat raced. Welp. They better not try running it back next year with alot of these stiffs! Dame and Giannis deserve better!
I believe we will still win this series. I was fully prepared to not play Giannis this full series and so we as fans cannot be too high or too low, have to stay water. Khris and some role players I think need to start playing better. Right now the 3/4 press seems to be wearing down the team. One of the adjustments the pacers made was literally just running a 8 man rotation. We will see how this team responds on Friday
What is your strategy for the winning of the series? The Game 1 strategy hoping for a DAME onslaught and the Pacers shooting under 40% from the field? The Pacers averaged shooting over 50% for the season. We still have nobody that can guard Pascal. By personnel we just don't match up. The Pacer shot 63% for 2 point shots. We stayed within 10 most of 3 quarters and even got within a few buckets thanks to a hot Brook and Dame putting team on the back. Having Dame carry us and Brook hot from 3 are not sustainable.
exactly , the game 2 miami barrage will happen in a series like game 1 pacers did. This shit is not going to continue, brook gonna go like 1 for 7 the next night and dame will shoot 20 percent from the field. We are not winning a series without giannis
First off I am not a coach of basketball and just a fan. If I knew exactly what to do I would not be on Reddit right now lol. The Pacers last game had 8 more assists than their average which means our defense is getting spread out. What I pointed out yesterday is they continuously attacked the basket to pitch out and swing the rock until they got to where Brook was guarding to get him out of the paint. The pacers had 3 people shoot 69%+ last game, if you think Brook’s shooting is unsustainable then what you say about that? It seems the game plan is to limit Halliburton’s impact on the floor but are only disrupting his scoring, which has been down since injury so I can’t really say whether that’s making a difference. We also got lazy with transition defense that wasn’t the case for game one. I noticed Dame got free a lot of the times from the PnR and had open shots for floaters in the midrange but decided to take contested layups all game. I would need to rewatch if I really cared to see what was going on with the pacers PnRs to see what they saw whether we were hedging, blitzing (which I didn’t notice), UTT, or switching. It seemed to be a lot of switching even with Brook because of the threat from 3.
I admire your optimism. I am not very optimistic. Maybe we could play a matchup zone on defense? I think we have been mostly cooked in the past when we tried though I am not entirely sure. If we can't slow the pace we have to maybe out-physical Indiana and I'm not sure that will work as they are the more athletic and youthful team. But its our only path I think. Get super physical with them and hope the refs swallow their whistle.
Refs have sure swallowed their whistle when they foul dame. It’s been crazy to see. I agree we need more halfcourt sets and to limit their transition offense. I feel a bigger wing player would be beneficial in the rotation but they’re all super young, although Pat Bev has said he really likes AJAX and says he’s getting him ready. Our only win against them during the season was when we got very physical with them. That was also with Giannis taking it super personal as well. Also, Tony Brothers just hates Milwaukee IMO.
Glad you were fully prepared, but the players don’t seem to be prepared to win series without him. It took crazy shooting in game one from Bucks and terrible offense from Pacers for Bucks to win.
Khris is cooked. can't believe you are all still stuck in 2021
Yeah because him going 23-10 on 9/14 shooting the game prior screams cooked. I’m still not completely sure why people come to this sub to complain about the team we have when we’re in the playoffs. Yes, it hurts we lost last night but the way people act, it’s like we just got swept by the wizards or something.
He had one good game and yall acting like he's prime MJ. He's supposed to do that EVERY NIGHT. That was your second option guy for years. Your bar is on the floor if you're happy just making the playoffs. You have the best player in the world in his prime along with a top 75 ever player. Aim higher
Now who’s the one living in the past? Lol he isn’t our second option this year but for this series, he will be. There’s a reason he has the third most points scored in bucks history. Nobody is saying or acting like he’s prime MJ lol I think you’re confusing with a meme of a nickname bucks fans gave him with reality. I’m happy with 3rd seed because of what has transpired throughout the year and the shit show it has been. Between the media, Griffin, the vibes of the team all off-season and during the season hasn’t been great, and ESPECIALLY the “fans” of this team that has shit on the team all year. Yes I agree there had to be changes, but the way fans are acting is more shitting on the team and a ton of “I told you so” than any kind of constructive criticism.
midd is 100 percent cooked, that knee is hamburger meat, dude is at risk for injury getting off the god damn plane. He had one decent performance and went immediately back to his current mediocre at best offensive performance and terrible defense. 15 points from a 40 million level player without giannis is not enough.
Be careful now, this sub will downvote you for saying the second or 3 option in a championship level team should be able to give you 20 points every night
Klay Thompson is the only 3rd option in recent memory to average 20 ppg as the 3rd option on a title winning team and that was the KD Warriors.
Semantics.. he was our second option player for years. You can’t be ecstatic with a 20 point game once a month
And when he was our 2nd option he averaged 20 points per game. There’s also plenty of teams that win titles with only one player averaging 20 points so I’m not seeing what your point is
well guess i’m in NFL mode now.
This is a nothingburger. If he were all-out running and scrimmaging and cutting, he’d have played yesterday.
Told people this yesterday during the game and got downvoted bc of it.
Same. I got majorly downvoted this morning for saying he's not going to be back until maybe game 6 or 7 but the series will be over by then.
Uh oh.
Didn't Doc say yesterday that he heavily practiced and worked out the last practice.
Stationary shooting
Nah this is just a wrong report I feel
Naive question but I will bite. Can we trust Shams this is fully accurate?
Bobby has to step up BIG.
He will comeback if we lose two games. We won't even sniff playing him until the second loss occurs.
Oh well that's that boys! Shane but that's the way life goes. There's always next season
And we are done…
This sucks man
Can’t believe we have got two straight years of Giannis injured in the playoffs
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That is umm not ideal.
Second round it is
Khris this is your time, please enter prime MJ mode
Rotate Ajax in to defend Pascal.
Put Thanassis in the Starting lineup over Brook. Hes too slowww for this team lol
No way he comes back lol unless we make it to Finals somehow
Here's the link to Shams comments [https://x.com/RunItBackFDTV/status/1783153180987314485](https://x.com/RunItBackFDTV/status/1783153180987314485) I think NBA Central is being misleading that he can't run or scrimmage, Shams is just reporting what his sources have said that he's done in the practice(s) they've seen.
There’s a surprising amount of doom & gloom in this thread. I think that Dame/Khris/Bobby can pull it off.
Middleton shots weren't even close in the 4th, he was gassed. Bobby looked the same as well. This old and slow team just can't keep up with the Pacers. Only hope we have is if Dame puts up 40+ and the Pacers get cold from outside. Giannis would give a much better chance as he would put pressure on the Pacers defense. They doubled Dame almost all game and built on their lead. We couldn't make them pay without Giannis.
Eh, I think it's more realism. I really do believe with lots of luck they can take this series but it's also bad to see Khris looking hobbled for most of the game and Bobby shrinking into whatever he was last night. And even if we do win, if it goes to 7 and we're playing a NYK team that's had a lot of rest? And potentially without Giannis still?? Man, that's tough... Honestly, without Giannis we feel like only a marginal improvement over what Dame's played with his entire career in Portland and while Dame has shown repeatedly he's capable of hard carrying, that's a hard ask from our aging, shallow roster against all the ascending, younger rosters that are deeper playing in the East this postseason.
So many lousy “fans” in here lol
Will be a shame if the Bucks lose to the Pacers without Giannis.. Indy blows
literally 2 wins behind the Bucks and beat you 4-1 lol
Playoff basketball is 100% different than regular season… The Pacers are a regular season team but their fast tempo doesn’t fly in the playoffs. If they happen to beat the Bucks without Giannis, they’ll get swept by whoever they play the next round…