Raptors at Bucks

They are in danger of losing this game. The Raptors have their number.

But the biggest reason is that DDV just sucks and Nwora is unplayable.

They are -11 in DDV's 16 minutes and -16 in Nwora's 5 minutes.

They need to ship those guys out for something. I don't want them paying DDV on an extension. He'll have one outstanding play where it looks like he's a potential star and then follow it up (sometimes within 10 seconds) with a terrible one.

Nwora is what he is. A guy who may average 20 in the league someday, but will usually cause you to fall behind while he's in.

It's amazing how teams with a reputation for good defense against Giannis get away with more physical play. If they let everyone play like this against Giannis the Bucks would be a 500 team.

If they called fouled on the Raptors and Heat they way they do on everyone else, the Bucks would win a lot more games against them

No one else watching?

Probably saved you some time watching the Bucks shit the bed against an average team after beating the Nets and Warriors.

End up losing big. Typical Heat/Raptors approach - foul so much you can't call them all.

Can't believe MC hasn't put in his two cents.

The Bucks got to the line 35 times and made 32 of those FT attempts.  Normally, you see that type of stat and it’s an easy victory.  Then you see they were -10 on the boards and the bench basically does nothing and that explains a lot.

Would have been nice to have Thanasis or Ojeleye available to help out on the glass but it is what it is.

As good as Matthews has played he’s not a 30 minute a guy type player anymore.  I know they are down Holiday, but they aren’t getting much of anything from DDV or Hood or Nwora.

I am so glad I did not watch 1 second of this game.  I hate the Raptors with a passion, and they seem to bring out the worst in the Bucks.

This season has been frustrating as a fan with all the injuries and illnesses.  I think we’re all hoping Brook Lopez could be some sort of savior, but there’s no guarantee he’ll ever get back to the level he played at towards the end of last year.

As MichiganPacker said, the bench has been massively disappointing this year and has definitely hurt them at times.  Jon Horst has his work cut out for him to figure out an appropriate acquisition to help, if that’s even possible with a lack of trade pieces.

Getting rid of Cousins hasn’t helped matters any.  He wasn’t going to be a savior, but it looked like he had enough left in the tank to give you more than some of the other guys can.

Cousins wasn't going to be on the court much during the post-season, but he really helped control the defensive boards. Cutting him may cost them a home game in a playoff series down the road, though. They won Game 7 in Brooklyn last year, but you'd rather have that at home if you can help it.

You live by corner 3s and you die by corner 3s. Yes, they are the easiest 3s in terms of distance, but if you miss them it's a quick 5 on 4 at the other end. It's also the fact that if you have DDV, Hood, Ojeleye, and George Hill all shooting poorly on open corner 3s, you can double Middleton and Giannis quickly if they are bringing the ball up and force those guys to make shots.

Finally, they are unbelievably lucky they got Portis on a discount. They'd have nothing behind Giannis to play at the 5 without him.

Portis has been fantastic for them this year but without Lopez and Cousins they are really thin in the frontcourt.  Horst needs to get another big no matter what.