What to Expect from Doc, Dame, Giannis the NEW Milwaukee Bucks | Full Breakdown

What to Expect from Doc, Dame, Giannis the NEW Milwaukee Bucks | Full Breakdown

And of course we are going to talk about the Milwaukee Bucks who fired Adrien Griffin can’t say I was surpris Tommy no no what um so so they the Bucks are currently second offensive rating they’re 21st in defense 10th in net they were fourth in defense last year do you

Think that is the primary reason for the switch or is there more at play um well first of all I I I would say this early in the season I I had a game first inseason tournament game Nicks at bucks so doing my prep work I’m watching film going through games and it

Was striking to me literally striking I I remember just pausing it so many times and wanting to punch my laptop uh at their defensive schemes they finally got it was the first game that they put Lopez back in a drop but they finally got Lopez back in a drop I don’t want to

Speculate here I just can tell you from what I know uh the players never felt comfortable with the schemes and it wasn’t just defensively I think offensively they still haven’t maximized what they can be and I think there was a level of frustration with the players we

We know that like we we talked to enough people around the league there was a level of frustration what’s interesting to me the Bucks of course have a h 69.8 win percentage this is the third highest win percentage at the time of a midseason head coaching change in NBA

History the 2015 2016 Cavaliers fired David blat they had a 73.2 win percentage and the 1979 1980 Lakers with Jack McKenna had a 71.4 win percentage uh now interestingly enough mcken was injured in a bicycling accident which caused the change both those teams went on to win the NBA championship the 2016

Cavaliers and the 1980 Los Angeles Lakers this is a team that brought in Dame to win a championship and so that is the expectation and I get the feeling I get is certainly that they felt Adrien Griffin was not the right guy to help them win a championship this season yeah

When you look at the way the East is loaded up with Boston how they’ve played all year uh and then Miami and we’ll get into the Miami moves this week as well it just and Philly I mean we can’t we certainly can’t leave out Philly with

Those four it feels like they had to do this just to keep up yeah uh for sure I want to talk about Miami in a second you brought up some of the defensive stuff and and look uh this is not all on him there certainly has been some Personnel

Changes Jay Crowder’s been out the loss of Drew holiday um Damen Lillard is not a great point of attack Defender let’s be honest um but some of these numbers are are striking you brought up the defensive efficiency fourth last year 21st this year fast break points per

Game eighth last year in the league 23rd this year points per direct pick any pick third last year 25th this year points per Direct direct drive this is the Striking one considering they have Lopez and Giannis on their backline second in the League last year in points

Per direct drive 20th this year why they’ve got the seventh highest blowby rate on drives this season they gave up the lowest percentage last season and this has been discussed right Adrien Griffin coming from Toronto they’ve got the Personnel to pressure the ball create turnovers the Bucks have had this

Scheme for damn near the whole season now Lopez of course moved back into the drop like normal but they’ve had this scheme for the whole season they haven’t had there’s been no improvement on creating turnovers at some point they they they’ve been terrible defensively this month 125 points per game this

Month how much of this though I’m wondering whether there’s going to be more corresponding moves off of this is also just the Personnel when you look at like you mentioned D but even guys like campaign um Beasley beas had a great season but like they’re not these are

Not def defense first guards and so with who you’re who you’re going to have to face in the Eastern Conference playoffs you’re going to need to be fed up a little bit I know they don’t have much many assets to do that but well I think

I I mean I I said this recently about the Celtics too it’s like the teams that are trying to win they’re always looking to improve their roster the buyers are always looking to buy um I I would expect every team every front office to be on the phone calling people trying to

Figure out how do we fill out a roster we’ve now got a a large sample size over half the season now teams know what they need teams know where their weaknesses are uh the Milwaukee Bucks odds on DraftKings sports book to win a championship they opened at plus

650 they are currently at plus 475 third best so despite these defensive struggles their odds have improved conference being the representative for the Eastern Conference they opened at plus 250 they now are at plus 220 second second best to the Boston Celtics um and Giannis of course having another MVP

Like season he’s got the fifth best odds at plus 1100 I want to talk briefly about the offense it’s interesting because you know Dame hasn’t shot the ball well um and he’s also simultaneously been incredible in the clutch and I I saw this this uh interesting thing on

Twitter yesterday where it was like yes they have a 30 and 13 record but if you if you kind of look at how they’ve won some of these games it’s been Dame in the clutch they’re 30 and 13 they basically are playing like a 26 and 17 team like the New York Knicks

Right so I think we can all watch the game it’s not about the record we can watch the game and say oh there’s clearly some deficiencies there I I brought this up very early in the season when they were winning and I said look they’ve had an easy schedule they

Haven’t had a true West Coast trip that’s not till right around this time uh late in January where they have a true West Coast trip they’ve gone to Texas they’ve had a couple games against Western Conference teams at home they have not had the bulk the meaty part the

Tough part of their schedule yet and and you wonder I you wonder like these they struggled against the Pistons twice in the last week it’s like was that the impetus for this it it seems the timing always seems weird with these things when they happen in season uh but this

Seems particularly odd yeah the Cavs the Cavs even though Yan wasn’t playing the Cavs game was another one like that I mean I was going to ask about the offense you know what where this to look to air on the side of positivity for a second where the uptick has come from

Besides the three-point shooting Giannis is has uh has the highest twoo percentage in a 30 point per game season of anybody of all time right now at 64.2% uh is there other other things offensively that you’ve seen that you feel like Dame aside I mean I think we

Knew that the second the trade happened are there other things that we can look at and say hey if they can write this defense a little bit if they can figure out some of these schemes okay this is a team we can really talk about as a

Boston threat as a philly threat as a Miami threat well you know I think I think personnel-wise they have had a ton of success in in any really type of pick and roll so they run some inverted pick and rolls Giannis is the ball handler sometimes he runs it with Brook

Sometimes he gets a guard screen Dame of course has been really good operating out of pick and rolles uh number one in the league in terms of points per possession scoring as the pick and roll ball handler across everyone on their team right they they they their ball handlers in pick and

Roll are scoring more per possession that’s Giannis that’s Dame they have two of the best players offensive players in the NBA if they had a bad offense if they had a bad offense I would be shocked right um you know I I I I still think the Buy in on the Dame Giannis

Two-man game at times has been a little clunky uh I’d like to see more and more of that um just Spam the [ __ ] out of that all the all day long a lot of work to be done I think primarily on the defensive end and then of course you you

Start thinking about how are we going to score in the half court uh once the Playoff starts those are those are the two concerns for me yeah I was before we move to Miami I was just going to ask about playoff basketball and if that’s a thing where when we’re talking about

This road trip but also just like you need this def you need the defense to be tighter as we start to get post All-Star and so if you’re not if you’re not showing Improvement there I mean something had to be done yeah I know you wanted to talk about ter rier as well

Love that trade for Miami um he’s had individually fantastic season for the Charlotte Hornets really put up a ton of numbers when lamelo ball was out he’s a guy that can oscillate in and out of the starting lineup and there’s really no effect on on kind of what he does as a

Player um and I think he’ll be a good fit and I think that culture will be great for him so he’s shooting uh this year he’s shooting 48% on mid-range twos he’s shooting 39% on pullup threes 46% from the the field 36% from three with him and Bam in particular and maybe even

Him and hakz uh are there things you feel like this is going to unlock for that offense which has really been bad recently it’s amazing they’ve sort of won as much as they have with how bad it’s been again this is a move you’re thinking playoffs and I think shot

Creators in the half court in the playoffs are so valuable Terry Rosier is one of those guys um and whether it is a two-man game whether it is isolation whether it is end of shot right Terry Rosier can get a shot and you brought up the shooting numbers he’s shooting the

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Content for islands in the league our YouTube video series uh as we were finishing up recording uh news broke that Doc Rivers uh has reached an agreement to coach the Milwaukee Bucks so I wanted to just have a little reaction to that uh first of all this is [ __ ] insane what’s happening like

It’s insane it’s insane it’s insane Adrien Griffin we went over the numbers third winningest coach ever in terms of win percentage to be fired midseason in NBA history other two teams Lakers in 1980 Cavs in 16 go on to win a championship ultimately that’s why they’re bringing Doc Rivers in he did

Win a championship in 2008 and I want to be fair and I want to be unprejudice in in sort of my assessment of this move for the Milwaukee Bucks when you look at the landscape of sort of like who’s available who’s available who’s had head coaching experience we

Just brought in a rick rookie coach it clearly was not working out the players clearly were not responding to Adrien Griffin in a positive way they’re not going to then go hire an assistant coach or they’re not going to promote this is a team that wants to win

Now they want a proven coach so in that sense Doc Rivers to the Milwaukee Bucks makes a lot of sense he makes makes a lot of sense for sure to a certain faction of people to another faction of people uh we can feel a certain way

About him as a coach about him since 2008 and and what he’s done he’s certainly won a lot of games a lot of regular season games I don’t know I don’t think Doc Rivers is the coach that would get this team 2A Championship I don’t think that maybe based on perimeter Personnel all

That thing defensively they’re they’re not going to get there this year maybe they add someone at the deadline maybe they add someone in buyout which historically has not worked maybe they get there I don’t know I don’t know it’s just [ __ ] crazy

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