No official word yet on Holiday, but he’s not expected to play tonight.
Hope the Bucks did some soul searching... especially Lopez.
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Just saw that Holiday is out tonight.
Anunoby is doubtful for the Raptors.
Bucks with just a horrendous start. Lopez with multiple turnovers leading to easy shots on the other end. Giannis goes 0 for 2 from the line.
Down 16-7. Raptors start 3 for 4 from 3 with every shot a wide-open corner 3.
Giannis starts 2 for 6 from the line
When do you stop giving Augustin minutes? He's giving you less than Thanasis would right now.
Officials letting Giannis get hacked several times with no calls and several easy shots on the resulting Toronto possessions and the lead is down to 1.
Do the Bucks try to give uncontested 3s? It seems like it sometimes.
Bucks give up 24 points in the first 6 minutes of the second half. Just pathetic defense and they are down 8 to a Raptors team now missing Kyle Kowry.
Lopez is -17 for +/- in 21 minutes. Missing short shots, getting lit up on defense.
Van Vliet gets more calls driving to the rim than Giannis does.
Down 3 going to the 4th.
I’ve only been watching 10 minutes and the officiating has been awfully Toronto... Van Vleet getting LeBron/Harden treatment and Middleton gets hammered and no call.
Bucks always seem to be swimming upstream...
That’s a flagrant 2... he really made no attempt at the ball.
Um... wow...
Well, this one is a total fuck job now...
Unfucking believable, just open 3 after open 3.
Wow... body language says it all now. Can’t keep putting the same guys out there if they don’t want to play hard. Gotta go deeper into the bench if that’s the case. Bench Forbes, bench Connaughton, bench Lopez...
I mean, is Bud a fucking idiot? Down 9 after another open 3.
Does Nick Nurse just giggle after every game he matches up with Bud. You understand losing to a team with Kawhi, Gasol, Ibaka, and Lowry along with FVV and Siakam. Right now, they are getting their asses handed to them by a team they should be beating by 20.
This is about coaching now... Budenholzer just refuses to raise the heat, and they aren’t playing hard enough to win.
Well, a little energy... but you need to get stops. Not one more open three. Play harder... just play harder.
The 🦌’s stink. 
DDV is 1 for 8 from 3. He just missed a wide open 3 that would have tied it.
The Raptors appear to be letting Giannis get his points and focus on not letting Middleton shoot. They are making the other guys shoot in the second half and they can't make them in a pressure situation.
Toronto timeout and the Bucks respond with three terrible possessions and back down 8 and Lopez gets abused on a drive again.
3 bad trips... bad shot, bad shot, turnover. Other way give up an open 3 and a putback. Not playing hard enough...
This is a really average team without Holiday. If Connaughton didn't play out of his mind in the first half, this would be a Raptor blowout.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:DDV is 1 for 8 from 3. He just missed a wide open 3 that would have tied it.
The Raptors appear to be letting Giannis get his points and focus on not letting Middleton shoot. They are making the other guys shoot in the second half and they can't make them in a pressure situation.
That’s when they’re really missing Holiday. That real deal third option is when you can’t be defended like that.
@Music City posted:3 bad trips... bad shot, bad shot, turnover. Other way give up an open 3 and a putback. Not playing hard enough...
Scheme and non-Giannis/Middleton personnel is the problem.
I mean, you call a timeout and set up a Connaughton 3?
Scoreless for 3 minutes.
Holy fuck... you can hammer a guy in the chest, hit his arm, and then get the foul reversed? Wow...
What a fucking joke. Lopez with a runner?
Down 10
Well... 4 Ls in a row... they deserve every one of them.
4 points in the last 5:36.
I know they are missing Holiday, but when does Bud's seat get hot?
AND MAY I SAY AGAIN????? The 🦌’s STINK.
@Music City posted:That’s when they’re really missing Holiday. That real deal third option is when you can’t be defended like that.
It also shows how weak they are at the guard position outside of Holiday.
DDV is 3 years in and hasn't improved much.
They had to bench Forbes tonight because of lack of defense.
Augustin was also unplayable in the second half.
Lopez is an anachronism in today's NBA.
They are stuck with this team. I just don't see them being a competitive team in the playoffs.
They have Giannis, Middleton, Holiday, and a good 6th man in Portis.
You would think that Budenholzer would get more out of these guys, but the one thing we know for a fact is that Budenholzer is COTY early with a team and then the message, for whatever reason, gets stale. Can’t help but notice that the pattern in Milwaukee is VERY similar to the pattern in ATL.
And it seems to be rooted in “let it fly”. It promotes an offensively undisciplined approach that encourages bad shots. When they fall, woo hoo! When they don’t? It’s piss poor. And combined with their obviously flawed defensive philosophy of dropping into the paint in the P&R, they succeed in losing to bad teams with undisciplined play on both ends (not to mention their inability to win close games against good ones). And without a floor general, it becomes chaos.
Both issues are indicting the coach. Playing undisciplined on one end, much less both, is on the coach. They guided Giannis to be a 3 point shooter instead of working on his shooting touch from the inside out (like the Spurs did with Kawhi)- they were wrong. And he’ll do what he’s told to a fault, so that’s on them too.
Time to bring in a coach that can take them from Doug Collins to Phil Jackson...
Last 4 games.
Giannis is 48-81 from the field (59%), 4 for 13 from 3 (31%), and 34 for 44 from the line (77%). He is averaging 33 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks.
Middleton is averaging 17-5-5 and shooting 40% from 3. He's not been bad. He hasn't seized the moment, but teams are taking him away and making the other guys hit shots. They can't do it consistently.
In those 4 games,
Augustin is 4 for 21 from the field, and Forbes is 17 for 39. Neither one of them can guard anybody effectively. DDV is inconsistent and isn't a starting guard on a great team, but at least he can play defense.
They have to upgrade from Augustin/Forbes even when Holiday comes back.
@Music City posted:You would think that Budenholzer would get more out of these guys, but the one thing we know for a fact is that Budenholzer is COTY early with a team and then the message, for whatever reason, gets stale. Can’t help but notice that the pattern in Milwaukee is VERY similar to the pattern in ATL.
And it seems to be rooted in “let it fly”. It promotes an offensively undisciplined approach that encourages bad shots. When they fall, woo hoo! When they don’t? It’s piss poor. And combined with their obviously flawed defensive philosophy of dropping into the paint in the P&R, they succeed in losing to bad teams with undisciplined play on both ends (not to mention their inability to win close games against good ones). And without a floor general, it becomes chaos.
Both issues are indicting the coach. Playing undisciplined on one end, much less both, is on the coach. They guided Giannis to be a 3 point shooter instead of working on his shooting touch from the inside out (like the Spurs did with Kawhi)- they were wrong. And he’ll do what he’s told to a fault, so that’s on them too.
Time to bring in a coach that can take them from Doug Collins to Phil Jackson...
Jeff Van Gundy?
