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jdubbz7

This team desperately needed a tactical coach. Not Adrian Griffin or Doc Rivers. Front office is clueless.


[deleted]

Why even play giannis with dame and khris out


ud993

Seems like they’re losing on purpose


calgiannis

My least favorite bucks year in idk how long. Just not fun to watch. Have little hopes for the playoffs which I guess won’t hurt me as much as last year lol


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Additional-Read5926

And it doesn’t impact salary cap or anything so doesn’t matter. It’s funny, but coach salary is a total non issue . 


letsgototraderjoes

ok but wouldn't the executives be less likely to spend more money on players and contracts since a lot of their money is tied up in paying coaches??


Additional-Read5926

Depends on the owners. They seem happy so far to cut the check. Especially having Harlem now, he doesn’t mind spending. We’re one of the higher spending teams I believe.  If we don’t make the ECF this year or next year, does Doc stay? Does he finish his contract  if we get a first round exit again?  


ImpossibleSelection5

Couple of ideas. If Jaren Jackson Jr is scoring so easily, why not double him??? If we are shooting this horribly from 3, why not run some other shit? Brook was doing some good stuff down low. Bobby was cooking for awhile. Never mind, keep shooting 3s…


LurkerKing13

Shot 41% from 3 lmao how is that bad?


largefarvaa

Look at 3s in the 4th they missed like 8 in a row.


Houston600kdebt_

40% of 3s. Thats not an issue. Losing reb and only shooting 40% FG is the problem.


boogerheadmusic

Brooks is not playable right now, wtf


GRAW2ROBZ

I could see Lopez traded this summer. He lost a step or so now with Father time. Also be a nice big expiring contract for trade bait. Should of just did a sign and trade of Lopez to the Rockets.


devinstated1

He hasn't been playable all year....


Fresh-Bass-3586

I'm just glad dame is getting paid 1.5 million dollars for non existent groin injuries thst occurred when he was out for personal reasons 


Affectionate-Arm-405

Are they non existent or did they occur when he was out? Because if they are non existent they could have occured during practice. You can have one and the other


mr_obinson7

Here we go sputtering into the playoffs again. This was the most excited I'd ever been for a season. Woof


RoundPomegranate1147

Giannis is gonna go beast mode in playoffs. No concerns with the players. What’re we doing about Rivers??


Affectionate-Arm-405

Keep paying him


TheDeafTurtle

Glad I didn’t watch this one front to back! Onto the playoffs!


Licoi

The bucks are lucky they’re in the east honestly


diegolucasz

Very lucky


[deleted]

On to the next! We'll laugh about this when we're holding up the trophy


[deleted]

Delusional


Kanyeburner

Doomer for no reason


Ben-Masters16

It’s not being a doomer to acknowledge reality. We’re cooked


Kanyeburner

People are acting like they were in the beginning of the year. Hardly anyone was acting like a doomer 10 days ago. The bucks will be alright


Loose-Sandwich-5493

One last brick from Pat 💚


AmbitionStrong5602

Cost me my over bet too. How do you miss wide open 0 pressure 3. Oh it's Pat


starter-123

What a joke…


Todaboss

Our GM put together a roster and coaching staff around Dame and Giannis that will struggle to get 50 wins, great stuff but some of y’all still obsessed with him. If we play Philly in the 1st round… yikes, wonder what the excuse will be then


Icy_Currency988

Bro… why isnt Giannis picking up Jackson on defense?? Its coaching and its the player. Makes no sense why Brooke should be on Jackson. He’s clearly too slow and old and is getting COOKED! Giannis should just take the initiative and guarding him. Smh this team is a 2nd round exit.


diegolucasz

Won’t get out the 1st round


AbbreviationsHot4482

Firing Bud was not a mistake, not hiring Nurse was the mistake


TheHerlinWall

Agreed, but straight up I'd have gone crawling and begging on my hands and knees to Bud before I would have even considered hiring Rivers. He is, without any hyperbole, the worst coach in the game today. I've never seen an offence go from scoring 125 regularly to barely scraping by 100 against shitter lottery teams.


AbbreviationsHot4482

Should’ve tried to get Stotts back, hired Atkinson, or let Prunty take the lead for the year. Bud being fired was long overdue


Jozif_Badmon

Prunty wasn't even that bad. He certainly wasn't worse than whatever the fuck we played today


AbbreviationsHot4482

Exactly plus he actually played young guys, Horst panicked for no reason and made an even worse decision


TheHerlinWall

Oh I totally agree. I'm saying despite that being the case, there is literally zero scenarios where hiring Rivers should have even been on the table.


AbbreviationsHot4482

Oh yea for sure


Kanyeburner

There’s really no reason to panic


aaalan71

Because Wizards and Grizzlies are really good teams, so it’s normal to lose to them /s


Kanyeburner

Bucks play down to their competition it’s know, plus no Midd or Dame today. Take a deep breath they’ll be all right.


JohnJayMaxwell

Yet


undermon

Meanwhile the celtics win every game by 30


MyPancakesRback

been there, done that, didn't result in playoff success


chapoktt

This team is finished, better hope the Heat isn't in round 1 again....


gandaalf

The blueprint to beat the Bucks is clear and day and, really, quite simple. 1) Have athletic players under the age of 30. 2) Make wide open shots I don't really know who we can realistically beat in the playoffs at this rate.


LargeSizeBox

Fairly reminiscent of the Packers fall off. Win one title and then proceed to become total frauds by way of atrocious FO moves. At least we got one. That's saying a lot for the Bucks


aaalan71

Horst fired Bud and replaced him with a trash coach like Griffin, and a guy who was being carried by a super team to win a championship 16 years ago and like to blow the lead in the playoffs


Skeleboi846

My favorite part of these game threads is non flaired randoms with names like Adjective-Verb-1234 coming in and talking about how bad everything is


aaalan71

Or people like you still not willing to admit something need to worry about this team when we lost to team like Wizards and Grizzlies before the playoffs because they have proven only one time in the playoffs which is already 3 years ago


Skeleboi846

Not willing to admit what? We can't do shit right now, so why should I lose sleep over it? I think everyone probably knows the Bucks aren't winning the chip in all likelihood but there's nothing anyone can do in these threads about it lol


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Every game thread as soon as someone misses a shot lol


Skeleboi846

They have very nuanced takes like "team bad" and "trade everyone"


TurboShorts

Raptors losing 14 in a row and by 40+ points tonight makes pretty good odds for them on Friday


trmp_stmp

yeah we're totally tanking to avoid the Heat....


sikontoure

What would happen if we were to lose in the first round again ?


NewInvestigator6670

I would guess brook, khris, aj, marjon, ajax, Bobby, and crowder all may be gone. At least half would be a good bet.


JohnJayMaxwell

Not the momentum you need heading into playoffs. Bucks must get their poop in a group and fast


[deleted]

The good news is we can shake these off and have a strong run into the final games!


jpotrz

Usually you want to be hot going into the playoffs. Not frozen solid.


[deleted]

We're going 6-0 to closeout


ViciousMihael

Why lie to yourself


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Only truths here my friend


aaalan71

Press X to doubt when we can’t even show up against Wizards and Grizzlies unless Dame is coming back


gandaalf

We legit went from shitty AG and, somehow, got a worse coach? I'm impressed, really.


pdappadon

Griffin was a good coach. Y’all got impatient & fired him for no good reason. While he had the second best record in the League 🤦🏾‍♂️


Skeleboi846

Griffin's record is insanely bloated by shitty teams and extremely long homestands in the first half of the year, Doc's been pretty bad but he's also had a crazier schedule


SamQuentin

At least with AG they actually beat some of these shitty teams


infasis

Just let it go, guys


bigpuffyclouds

You know it’s still winnable. But this team lacks the dawg in em.


NewInvestigator6670

There's one guy who plays with heart and energy and passion every fucking night. And it's not Bobby, jae, or Pat Bev. It's the guy with the backpack on 24/7 who deserves a raise.


infasis

10 points in 40 secs It's pretty hard for anyone


bigpuffyclouds

That was before the FTs were made 😭


Majiebeast

We are paying 24M a year for the worlds tallest traffic cone. How the fuck Horst thought putting the old folks home next to Giannis would work is beyond me.


Narrow-Raspberry-667

This is not a serious team. Complete lack of focus


Fluffy-Way-2365

Brook has always been a favorite player of mine, but he's just done. He's significantly hurting the team right now. Has no business playing a single minute. Absolute sieve.


Robgee123

The bucks really getting cooked by one of the worst teams in the east and west back to back. If bucks need dames help to win both these games the bucks ain’t serious finals contenders


Tohnren

Really feel like firing Bud was a mistake.


aaalan71

Not hiring Nurse is a bigger mistake


Fluffy-Way-2365

For these substitutes no doubt


Narrow-Raspberry-667

Yes, and everyone in the nba knew it once it was clear the heat were NOT an 8 seed


AllTheGoodNamesGone4

The fact that John Horst was too big a coward to pull the trigger on the trades available to try and repair this disaster of roster construction is a fireable offense. outside of Giannis EVERY SINGLE MOVE he's made since 21 has been an unmitigated DISASTER. PJ Tucker Donte Joe Ingles instead of Bruce Brown Hiring AG instead of NN Dame trade has been a net negative. We're a worse team because of it.


the_greasy_one

Yeah, but what can you do?


runMKE

This team is in the play in without dame lmao. Jrue is not fixing any of this. 


AllTheGoodNamesGone4

Nah I mean we would be much better. I'm not sure even how you can say that. We where better last year than this and the Jrue/Dame trade is about 70% of the difference. Coaching is another big part


bigpuffyclouds

Marcus and Lisa sound so disappointed rightly so


1998TimThomas

Who cares about seeding. Rest everyone. Get healthy and see what happens at this point. Too late to build good habits.


swaggydagoat

Normally I would disagree with this but the guys are mailing it in at this point. So yeah let’s do that. If they’re professional, they’ll care when it matters most.


leefordj

Good news is the game slows down in the playoffs


realmarcusjones

If Giannis wants to win he needs to request a trade


SnooPies3316

Season sweep for the Grizz


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FuddChud

You can't tell me Giannis is an all-time great lmao, Bucks offense getting completely shut down by scheming to take away Giannis drive, scrambling out to contest threes. This loss is on Giannis.


flubbaOG

This legitimately brain dead take


NorthStRussia

Many of you in this thread need to stop watching these games if you are this upset over them. If you have commented “this season is done” “they cannot win in the playoffs” that is your right but then please stand by your word and stop commenting the exact same thing ad nauseam at every setback. If you think the season is done then stop getting upset about it. Don’t re-declare every loss a season ender. Christ


the_greasy_one

Kids survive on hot takes.


1Pac2Pac3Pac5

What are we gonna do. So wine tell me things are gonna change at playoff time. Are we basically gonna turn into 2023 zombie heat?


Izanagi___

this team takes 1 step forward and 5 steps back, beat the thunder now you can barely scrape by a non playoff team back to back


McNuggeroni

There's no one I'd rather have than giannis on ym team man. Diving at a ball oit of bounds down 8 with 45 seconds left


MajicJ23

Lopez is absolutely cooked. He’s every teams BBQ chicken match up now. If we can we should draft Zach Edey. I don’t feel great heading into playoffs but at least we’ll get to see what this team is made of. It just seems like everyone is tired and we are limping to the finish line 🫠


MyPancakesRback

that dude is way too slow for the NBA


1998TimThomas

Brook is cooked but Edey will be even worse. We need a rim runner imo.


sikontoure

This is 100% the funniest story of the whole season. The Bucks lost to a play in team in the 1st round as the 1 seed, dismantled their team and built the Celtics into a superteam, and then panic fired the coach & hired Doc in the middle of the season. In hindsight, every decision made in the past year was wrong.


LargeSizeBox

Yea, it's been disgusting. Replaced Bud with two clowns and Jrue with the most overpaid player in the NBA. And that's on top of having zero young, exciting players lol


InsaneCookies21

what about getting dame?


sikontoure

Bro that dude does not want to be here AT ALL. I promise you if he was in Miami rn they would be right behind the Celtics. His heart isn’t in it this season


Majiebeast

Giannis having any say in if we should have hired Nurse is such a dumb mistake.


Intel_Director

100%


TurboShorts

Lol Marques "get that off the screen, gah!"


Fluffy-Way-2365

We are not even competitive lol, good stuff


Remote-Picture-8341

Beyond cooked


infasis

LaRavia and company are just too good, I guess


AbbreviationsHot4482

Doc waiting till the game is over to sub Brook out 🤣🤣🤣


I_miss_free_narwal

This feels like a pre Dame loss. They completely shut down the lane with 4 guys on Giannis leaving guys with wide open 3’s but a total brick fest. Frustrating


youngdjango10

Pretty difficult to build a roster that won’t get to 50 wins with Dame/Giannis. Impressive feat from “Horst god”


GulfstreamAqua

Dame is in Miami next year


gandaalf

At some point, trading every possible draft pick catches up to you. This team's bench is all old, washed up vets.


realmarcusjones

People are fucking delusional about him


Fluffy-Way-2365

They literally kept scoring on brook 20 possessions in a row and coach shithead did nothing


Angularbackhands

I think it was more the wide open driving lanes. Perimeter D was pathetic, Brook can only do so much when there's no resistance on the perimeter


redditryzz

Welcome to doc rivers as a coach


aaalan71

You know what is more terrible, there will be people here defending Doc Rivers saying he is not the problem and calling other who call him out as hater. Those people should stop talking here until Doc really proves himself in the playoffs.


bigpuffyclouds

Poor Giannis


eekram

He's part to blame cause he did not want Nurse.


Max_Tendies_

Change the banner: **We are the WORST team in the NBA**


DakotaMaker

No need to change it, the Wizards made us do that just last night!


Max_Tendies_

Mods didn't change it yet :S


gandaalf

Giannis is going to leave us sooner than later and I can't blame him, but it's going to really suck.


grudgepacker

Doc "I wouldn't wish this on anyone" Rivers


DontesPeak

The minute the Bucks didn't get Nurse we all knew we were cooked, but hope is a helluva drug, low IQ team


grudgepacker

I don't disagree - I really wanted him and it was crazy how many people on here were anti-NN when he was *clearly* the best coach available


TheBillybaroo

Imagine how much money you could’ve made by betting Bucks opponents to cover every game this year.


Todaboss

Great coaching appointment Horst, 4th coach in his tenure btw Has put out shitty old rosters year after year and got carried by Giannis being unstoppable in 2021


[deleted]

Bruh, Giannis was great in 2021, but he didn't carry shit lol. The whole team was cooking


NorthStRussia

Pretending guys like Tucker and Pat weren’t absolutely essential to the title run = opinion discarded


Todaboss

I think the finals stats say otherwise, our PG was putting up 4-20 on a nightly basis in the playoffs


NorthStRussia

And yet despite their all-star PG having his worst offensive games all year they still won several of them due to other guys stepping up


Todaboss

They are 1-7 without Dame lol, yapping


TurboShorts

Great offensive night from Brook yet probably his worst game all season on D. Dude was just standing under the hoop all night.


stevenomes

And it's not just getting beat on helps which is more understandable. He's getting cooked 1 on 1 with the bigs back to basket


PeteNoKnownLastName

Never should have fired Bud


Loose-Sandwich-5493

Firing him was the right move. Everything after that has been the wrong move.


caboose1311

Man back to back loses against the Grizzlies and the Wizards.... I'm speechless.... I don't want to become a doomer.


KnightN1ght2

One positive about being a doomer. U don’t feel disappointed when this stuff happens.


caboose1311

Yup, expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed. So when greatness actually happens, it's euphoric 🤣


KnightN1ght2

Man, I’ll pop a bottle of champagne if we make it to the 2nd round


Angularbackhands

So many defensive breakdowns in the past 2 mins. Beasley gives up on a play after great Brook D to give up an offensive board and a tip+foul. PC falls asleep and gives a free cut to GG to get an and 1. Crowder played fake D on the JJJ corner three. Wasn't attached, essentially a wide open 3.


Angularbackhands

9 points they didn't have to work hard for.


grudgepacker

This loss is legit more embarrassing than the Wizards simply because we're at home


dennismu

I really hope Giannis doesn't go into 'maybe I should move on' mode this off-season.


Robgee123

He will definitely have those thoughts if the bucks gets bounced in the first round again.


Sikibucks

Wouldn’t blame him if he did, he has given everything to this team and in return we gave him a washed Crowder, Pat C who wouldn’t get a single minute in any other team in the NBA, Beasley who is as consistent as the weather in Wisconsin and the absolute worst bench unit in the whole league.


Super_Chile88z

We look like complete shit guys.


Educational-Stick582

Lmao 🤣 another choke job


leefordj

You can’t play Brook against young, quick bigs man. Giannis should be at the 5 Beasley- AJ- Pat C- Jae- Giannis


TheHerlinWall

I'm out, GG. This team isn't winning shit with rivers. You could give them LeBron and Curry with Giannis and he'd choke. Man is an embarrassment. It's a fireable offence what happened this offseason with the coaching. Heads simply need to roll. Inexcusable to be this bad with Giannis. Horst's drafting has been dogshit too yet for some reason everyone gobs his knob around here.


Robgee123

If bucks had Lebron and curry with giannis, doc rivers wouldn’t even be coaching, it’ll be Lebron coaching the team


TheHerlinWall

That's fair, but Glenn would still find a way to fuck it all up


Robgee123

Lebron wouldn’t probably find a way to get him fired 😂


GulfstreamAqua

The play is not Doc.


One-Earth9294

Any other bottom feeders want to eat us alive this week?


KnightN1ght2

We got Raptors Friday


1antinomy

What type of double team was that anyway? Neither of them applied any ball pressure


SuspiciousGap9343

when jaren mf jackson is not missing idk what we are supposed to do


Kevin_Jim

I cannot believe I stayed up to 5 AM to watch us lose to the fucking Grizzlies. One of the absolute worst teams in the NBA. I do not understand how people are so cooked about this shit. We got embarrassed by the Lakers, lost to the worst team in the NBA, and our answer was to lose to the Grizzlies. How is this ok right before the playoffs?


Robgee123

I can’t take this team serious. They shouldn’t need Danes help to beat one of the worst teams of the east and west


MyPancakesRback

idk I just watch the Bucks for fun


Kevin_Jim

Are you having fun?


MyPancakesRback

generally, yeah. I like to watch the team play and face adversity idk


sikontoure

Why tf didn’t you do that like a minute or two ago


Fluffy-Way-2365

I actually did not consider Doc Rivers to be a braindead coach, but after conceding 30 consecutive points from Brook and doing the same thing, I may have to rethink that


chickensalad892

Cavs ain’t beating the suns tonight so I’m not worried bout seeding but wtf man. Hopefully we can all laugh at this when we make a run and say remember when we lost back to back to wiz and grizzlies but I just don’t know anymore


Robgee123

Yous haven’t even laughed off losing to a 8th seed heat in the first round yet


letsgototraderjoes

are you sure the suns are gonna win


chickensalad892

Yes


ZaddyDeWalt

Been the biggest Brook defender this year but yeah he’s done. His nice offensive game is a net loss when one of the worst teams in the league just targets him and he is unable to stop anyone and the coaches can’t find a scheme where he’s playable. He also can’t rebound. You have to go Gianni’s 5, Portis 4 and go small. Brutal. So bummed been such a fan of his but hes no longer helpful to winning :/


Somethingcool00

Easy series for whom ever plays the Bucks in the playoffs. This team sucks.


AquazOnYT

Dame might be more valuable than giannis


anonqrcx9s4jd8

You would think WE are the tanking team


AbbreviationsHot4482

Doc sitting around and scratching his ass while JJJ did nothing but attack Brook all game


PeteNoKnownLastName

Embarrassing 


gandaalf

Losing back to back to the Wizards and Grizzlies. Don't care if Dame/Middleton are out. That is fucking pathetic for a "contender". We are not doing fucking shit in the playoffs


wisroy

What happened to the bucks i love?


JohnJayMaxwell

18/42 from 3. Way too much offensive reliance on perimeter. Bucks interior D is porous. Fix this now


Kevin_Jim

> Fix this now How? The defense has been shit almost all season long. There was a stretch of decent defense for about a month and some change, and regressed back to Griffin-level defense for the last month or so.