The Milwaukee Bucks disappoint in Brooklyn against the Nets
The Milwaukee Bucks are grappling with some early season challenges. Recent losses to the Chicago Bulls and Brooklyn Nets have exposed defensive vulnerabilities, raising questions about roster construction and the team’s overall effort. Are these just early-season growing pains or signs of deeper issues?
This episode unpacks the Bucks’ recurring problems from last season rearing its head this season, such as inconsistent effort and playing down to competition. With a tough schedule ahead, including a matchup against the Boston Celtics, the stakes are high.
Join Camille Davis and Frank Madden for an insightful analysis of the Milwaukee Bucks’ current challenges and what it means for their season.
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0:00 Intro
2:06 Bucks’ Defensive Struggles
6:10 Concerns Over Team’s Performance
14:09 Predictive Nature of Early Season Games
18:30 Player Accountability and Effort
22:04 Game Time and FanDuel Promotions
27:08 Positives Amidst Disappointment
31:56 Expectations for Upcoming Boston Game
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35 comments
Camille don't deserve this Dame Lillard smh
This team is cooked. We have no money, no assets, no youth that can play and contribute now.
Lazy and unmotivated
This team is awful.
Doc has no excuse. Gary Trent and Taurean Prince are good pickups.
But hey… once they get Thanasais that roster spot all should be good, right?
Pat C is the new Sasha Vujacic. Just make it look like you hustle lmao
Dame 25 pts = opposing guard 30 plus. Rinse and repeat
PG Giannis = try to drive for 19 seconds and bail out for out of rythym contested jumpers
Jrue or Grayson would still be the 3rd best player on this squad. Time to see what they can get for Giannis on the market. No sense keeping him
Camille, they are Washed, old and hopeless. Not an over reaction
And we get to re-do the whole Khris will he won’t he play drama throughout the entire season
How do you make it to the league WITHOUT KNOWING HOW TO SHOOT????
Andre is just a worse version of Mboute
It ain’t football Frank. You can’t have a separate lineup for offense or defense
So now the NBA gets what it has wanted since Giannis became a star . He will be traded to a big market . How dare the talent breeder small market team try and keep their star and build a contender . Odd No matter what stars the Bucks get on the team they forget how to play . Suddenly they cannot shoot , play D pass communicate they just become mediocre. The refs punish them by allowing the other team to pummel them under the boards and blow the whistle when the bucks play the same way . If the NBA was conspiring to get fans to lose interest in a team this is how it would go . Breeder teams cannot step out of their talent feeder roles and try and win with the big boys !
Accountability???? Take a shot every time Dame uses it on his pressers. I think he means everyone but him defensively
44 wins tops
Another 1st round exit
I am seeing a heavy amount of overreaction from Bucks fans to the extent of saying Giannis is the problem and need to get traded. What is going on??!!!!
Going against the Bucks D is like playing 2K on Semi-pro
Can Khris middleton get healthy like damn
Worse than depressed, the fans will be as apathetic as they play defense
Heres what to do. Ship Dame off to Atlanta for Trae Young. Send Middleton for Wiggins. Send Bobby Marjon the first round pick and AJ for Marcus Smart.
That will give you Brook Giannis Wiggins Smart Young. Suddenly, you can just kinda hide Young in a corner, use Wiggins and smart to go over screens switch let brook play zone drop. Still would have Prince and Delon off the bench. Gotta have perimiter and wing defense to cover up for Dame. It's really quite simple.
Bucks suck y'all gonna be 1-3 like they come out with energy and after that they are like f-it can't rebound can't make shots we in trouble
Said consistency was going to be the Buck's biggest problem. Even if your ceiling is incredibly high–let's say even if you had the best ceiling–you'd still need to win 4/7 in the playoffs.
Its not two games. They've looked like this for a while now
I'm not sure Giannis and Dame will ever be able to gel the way we all initially imagined they would. Dame needs an entire offense to revolve around him. Giannis needs an entire offense to revolve around him. It's two extremely ball dominant players that still look very uncomfortable together. You can't always just throw two superstar players on the same team and expect their styles to work well together and translate to wins. Factor in our age along with our two superstars inability to play together, and this team might be destined for failure. If they don't figure it out this season then it's surely time to blow it up in the offseason.
I’m so surprised. We don’t have an aging roster, we have an aged roster. A roster that was old 3 years ago. We have a GM that can’t find young talent if it smacked him in the face. We have a coach that doesn’t know how to utilize his players.
All offseason we heard that “they just needed a training camp together” “we needed free agents that complemented dame” “they just needed time to build chemistry”
We are 3 games into the season and not a single thing has changed from a year ago. Fortunately I never got my hopes up.
Sorry giannis that we wasted your career
Just accept that Dame sucks and let's move on, please. Otherwise, trade Giannis so we can watch him win again
The Giannis – Dame experiment didn't work out. And it will never be. Their mising a link wich is a play maker to set the team right. Oh, and a serious coach
It seems to me our issue largely is that we play to the level of our comp, combined with being vulnerable to younger hungrier players/teams. I think we all knew that from last year. What does that mean? IDK, probably not good though
But it's pre-season, let's give them another 50 games…. 😂
I've been saying this for a few years now, Jabari Parker really hurt this team, that was supposed to be Giannis running mate, they were supposed to grow together, Embid would have been a better pick, instead, Giannis didn't really grow as a player and no one taught him the game. Ultimately it was bad management and coaching, just like Democrat rung cities over decades, the cities get run down by the leadership, and no one realizes what the problem is
Every average player like a random cam thomas becomes Prime Kobe Bryant against us. We are so easy to beat, so bad in rebounding, so slow on defense. It's crazy really such a disappointment. We're not going anywhere with this team
Bucks been terrible the whole Giannis makes you a contender isn't true anymore.. the team do well to be a top 6 seed.. Dame will be gone and they gonna have to shake up the rooster meaning Kris and maybe Brook aswel.. Gonna be a humbling season