Bucks up 11 with 3 minutes left in the first half.
Announcing crew really stressing that the Bucks need another shooter to come off the bench with the second unit.
The frustrating thing if you are a Bucks fan is that Jabari Parker would have been that perfect guy for that role had he even attempted to play even slightly below average defense.
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Up 9 at half. Giannis with 20-8-3. Giannis and Bledsoe are 10-17 from the field. The rest of the team is 7-31.
The only reason they are up is that the Nets are 1-18 from 3.
Why do they need another shooter off the bench? They have Snell, Hill, DJW, Ilyasova (though he’s in a slump right now), and Connaughton. Every listed guy can hit the open 3.
These guys say this shit and it’s just stock bullshit. DJW just had 16 points last week in a game. All of them can get hot and shoot. And all of them play defense, so...
Music City posted:Why do they need another shooter off the bench? They have Snell, Hill, DJW, Ilyasova (though he’s in a slump right now), and Connaughton. Every listed guy can hit the open 3.
These guys say this shit and it’s just stock bullshit. DJW just had 16 points last week in a game. All of them can get hot and shoot. And all of them play defense, so...
Being able to play defense is the key thing.
The announcers for NBA TV have done no homework on these teams. They were criticizing the Bucks for playing out of control for taking too many open 3s early in the shot clock. They clearly have not watched the Bucks enough this year.
Jason Kidd doing commentary on NBA.TV right now.
Every Buck played and scored tonight except for Thon Maker.
It’s gotta be awkward for Kidd to be commenting on the Bucks...
The level of dominance for this team is just hard to really comprehend. Giannis get 30-15-9 and 3 blocks in 32 min on 19 shots. Bledsoe 5 steals.
Candace Parker said it... at some point the league will notice.
Every Buck played and scored tonight except for Thon Maker.
Music City posted:The level of dominance for this team is just hard to really comprehend. Giannis get 30-15-9 and 3 blocks in 32 min on 19 shots. Bledsoe 5 steals.
Candace Parker said it... at some point the league will notice.
Bucks have won 21 of last 25. One of the 4 games Giannis sat out. Another was the back-to-back in Miami after they beat Boston and got to their hotel at about 4 AM. The third was to OKC when Paul George went 8-12 from 3 and the other was to Toronto. All on the road. All 4 games the Bucks got down big and came back and made it close in the last 2 minutes.
Music City posted:It’s gotta be awkward for Kidd to be commenting on the Bucks...
Sort of like Mark Jackson commenting on Steve Kerr coaching the Warriors (the year they won the title without Durant)
This team is winning at a 75% clip including almost 20 wins against really good teams. That’s incredible. To think Jason Kidd once coached this team to barely a .500 record is mind boggling to me.
You expect them to come back to reality but maybe this is the reality. This team is really ****ing good.
They’re getting better... that’s why they’re winning like this.
Music City posted:They’re getting better... that’s why they’re winning like this.
The defensive intensity will keep them in every game even when the offense struggles from 3. The one thing that could push them over the top is a guard that can consistently hit 3s and keep up the defense when Bledsoe or Brogdon rest. It's actually exactly what DiVincenzo may be able to give them. Sterling Brown is a great defensive guy but even though he's hitting 37% from 3, I think teams will give him (and Bledsoe) open 3s and live with it. Donte has shot poorly so far, but the potential is there to hit 45% on the wide open looks Brown and Bledsoe get.
One of the keys for this team is their chemistry. They are Giannis and a bunch of 2nd tier players but they play with a chip on their shoulder and play for each other. I really hope they can keep Brogdon as this kid's poise and efficiency is a huge part of our success. The way he gets to the hoop day in and day out amazes me. My only concern moving forward is the lack of an elite playmaker to create off the dribble during crunch time (ala Irving, Durant, Curry, Harden, etc).
2nd tier players? Middleton and Bledsoe and Brogdon aren’t 2nd tier players.
That’s the biggest misconception with this team. A 2nd tier player to me is a solid role player or marginal starter which are none of the players I mentioned above.
He isn't Curry or Harden or Irving....
****ing A
Land Davis = NBA champs
Brainwashed Boris posted:He isn't Curry or Harden or Irving....
You mean Davis is a superstar on defense and they are not?
I'm only half joking, but Harden and Irving go through long stretches where their "defense" is to loaf around to save themselves for the next possession on offense where they isolate and dribble around for 20 seconds and take a shot. Curry is actually a decent defender, gets a lot of steals and clearly puts in the effort.
Davis is a Defensive Player of the Year candidate.
Curry is a very average defender. Teams actually game plan to go at him. Klay Thompson, on the other hand, is their best on ball defender.
The Crusher posted:Curry is a very average defender. Teams actually game plan to go at him. Klay Thompson, on the other hand, is their best on ball defender.
If your choices in crunch time are the following defenders: Klay Thompson, Iguodala, Draymond Green, Durant, and Curry, who do you think you are going to target?
Curry is not a young Gary Payton on defense, but he did lead the league in steals twice in the last 5 years. Making him work on defense is almost as much to try to tire him out more so he's less effective on offense than it is to take advantage of a terrible defender.
