major giannis legacy season tbh. questionable how well any of dame/khris/brook will play past this year. this could be it, and injuring kyrie won’t be enough to get him a chip this year.
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I don’t think Giannis needs to be initiating any offense when dame is in there. Giannis will be great with or without the ball. Dame needs the ball, and get get Giannis all of the looks he needs. Let me be coach, MIL.
Could be Dame wants Giannis initiating so he can play off-ball as a scorer. I know Dame has talked about how much he loves that dynamic between Draymond and Steph.
But Dame very clearly isn't Steph and even though I think he's a solid playmaker, Giannis clearly is not Draymond either.
Dame is much closer to steph than you think. The bucks don’t have the same motion offense that the warriors have, but dame can shoot like steph and can handle the rock just as well
I promise you that dame does not want to play off ball no matter what he says publicly
At the very worst, Giannis the the second best player on earth. He won a title with the ball often in his hands. Saying that Giannis shouldn’t initiate ANY offense is an insane statement.
lmao this is the earliest hot take i've seen. chill boys
Disagree, time to blow it up Milwaukee
It’s preseason and new teams need time to gel.
That said, I think people are really overstating the impact of adding Lillard. I have a lot of concerns about what the Bucks did and it falls on deaf ears amidst the hype. This team is going to be bad on defense, and as good as Lillard is on offense, they already had a guy to go to in crunch time when you needed a bucket so much of what Lillard brings to the table is redundant.
I’m not convinced Bucks even make it to the ECF for the much hyped series against Boston. That defense is going to cost them.
The best defensive team in the league last year started Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland. I think we’ll be ok.
Who lost to the lowly Knicks convincingly.
Their D rating in that series was 111.1, which still would have been good for second best defence in the league last year. 0.5 points behind the regular season Cavs.
Maybe this is profound basketball knowledge for you or something, but there’s actually two ends in a basketball game. A good defence doesn’t guarantee winning if the offence is shit. Lucky for us, we have Giannis and Dame Lillard. I hear those guys go alright offensively.
Please do not compare regular season stats to playoff stats. There are no Charlotte's or Washingtons in the playoffs so don't start with the "Knicks we're a juggernaut" foolishness.
Bro. This is not difficult. The best regular season defence had shit defensive guards. That defence continued being good in the playoffs, despite the loss because of a bad offensive and rebounding performance. Neither of which are likely to be issues for the Bucks. What are you not understanding here?
Knicks had the 3rd best offence in the league last year btw.
So your whole argument is based on what the Cavaliers and the Knicks did in regular season? How does that address changing out a very good two way player for an offensive only player to a team that was already getting handled defensively in its very last playoff series?
Hey quick, how is it that we were getting handled defensively? Explain what went wrong for us. In detail. See if you can add 2 and 2 together. It’ll be a challenge, but I believe in you.
The Bucks had problems with depth. They could not guard anyone past their starting 5. They lost their best perimeter defender and replaced him with a worst defender. Having the extra scoring will not matter if the other team scores more because of that. They lost in 5 to a less talented team with more depth. Now they have less defensive talent and less depth. There is your 2 + 2.
Omg it's preseason who cares. The bucks are still the overwhelming favorite to come out of the east and if they don't it would be a massive disappointment.
We are among the favorites. Definitely not overwhelming. We aren’t the LeBron-led Miami Heat or Jordan Bulls.
Respect NoTechBen. Bucks legend
They gonna watch some tape and figure it out. They are gonna get wins while playing stupid too
It's not like they've ever had solid offensive scheming from the coaching side either.
As Chuck said, they are the best dumb team he has ever seen.
They won a chip off a 7ft point forward demolishing teams and solid defensive players that very occasionally did not brick. Dame or Giannis alone will win games they have no right to, throughout the year.
Giannis needs to take less shots and play harder on defense, both he and Luka need to just stop taking any and all forced/bad shots and defer a lot more to Dame and Kyrie imo.
This isn’t some I need mine to get paid vs he wants his to get paid relationship. They’ll work it out no doubt. They’ve wanted to play together for bit. It’ll take some time tho.
This team just came together. Give it a few months IMO
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The switch up late season when Giannis is banned from the MVP because he's on a superteam is going to be special.
Dame has admitted to being out of shape.
Giannis was cleared for sprints after the surgery, just 20 days ago.
They will be rusty to begin with.
Giannis and Dame have played I believe it's now two games together? Two or three? Preseason games and not with the full compliment of starters until today? Let's slow down a bit. It's not gonna be a flick of the switch for either Dame or Giannis. It's all very new for both and it'll take a little time to adjust. Dame clearly remains a little rusty and doesn't completely have his legs under him since he admittedly wasn't doing a lot in the summer.
The coaching questions are fair since Griffin is a new coach, although I trust the principles Stotts instilled will work out in the long run....the defense questions are fair because they're playing a more aggressive scheme than the one that has worked so well over the years and doing it with Brook who's aging and Dame/Beas who are a pretty weak combo. Brook slides his feet OK on the perimeter and we know Giannis can but at their best the Bucks are a team that takes advantage of their twin towers in the paint and funnels offensive players into Giannis and Brook. That's been the name of the game and it's worked. We'll have to see how Griffin and his principles work for Milwaukee. The stakes are extremely high for him and he can't really afford to screw this up with the Bucks and their timeline being what it is.
Literally the preseason they’ve played all of zero games together relax lol
A team that got embarrassed defensively in the playoffs trades out its best defensive player for another guy that's never played defense is going to somehow have a better defense? How peculiar.
They lost because they couldn't execute their half court offence. The Dame trade fixes that issue nicely
No one should ever even give KOC the time of day on anything related to basketball, dude is a hack.