Chiney Ogwumike says Bucks NEED HELP! ‘Damian Lillard is NOT ENOUGH!’ | NBA Today YouTube Exclusive

Chiney Ogwumike says Bucks NEED HELP! ‘Damian Lillard is NOT ENOUGH!’ | NBA Today YouTube Exclusive

Welcome inside our Los Angeles Studios Jana gum Kendrick Perkins Austin Rivers I’m Malika Andrews uh this is the NBA today on YouTube this is the extra bits the behind the scenes bits the stuff that we did not get to in our hour on ESPN and something that I want to get

Into a little bit more as a trade deadline creeps closer and closer is have you all seen the standings at the top of the East right now let me check again the Celtics they have a little little cushion but then right now the Cavaliers are in second the Bucks and

The Knicks have the same record in that third position buck then the next and then we have the 76ers and we can keep on going um the Milwaukee Bucks down the stretch of that game against the Phoenix Suns perk there were some glaring issues even though Dame L and Brook Lopez

Weren’t playing in that one what are you diagnosing what do they need to do here they’re Limited in terms of their assets they are but they need to make a make a big time trade and when I say a big time get a big time role player like a Bruce

Brown and maybe you have to give up a Bobby poris and some additional pieces you’d have to give up Bobby poris and Pat conon okay if you do then so what because now guess what you can actually play the way that doc probably wants to play in that small ball when you get

Back to Giannis playing the five right and I don’t want to take anything away from Brook Lopez but part of the reason that they that they have been struggling defensively is because you can’t like take him out of that drop coverage that’s what he’s been playing and so now

Guys are attacking him guys are too talented coming downhill and he’s getting older so if you move Giannis to the five you can switch everything you could bring in a Bruce Brown at the fourward position even though it’s a positionist game but I could see the Milwaukee bcks like trying to make a

Move to get a player to that nature because they have to uh you know step it up a little bit on the defensive side of things at the wing position not you ready you ready to go I damn sham for real they could use they could use your talents right now my comments

That the best thing okay I’m just saying no I I um they do need perimeter defense right we watched it last night Bradley Beal Devin Booker they really were just picking on a lot of the Milwaukee Defenders and I know they didn’t have Damen Lillard but Damen Lillard is also

An offensive player he’s an offensive asset that’s what they brought him in to do close games Drew holiday has never been more missed I mean this was a guy who really covered up a lot of different mistakes for them defensively he’s one of the best defensive perimeter guys in

The league and this is a perimeter League I know we have yage we have embiid well embiid’s down but when to go through that the East they’re going to have to beat guys like Jaylen Brunson they’re going to to go against top tier guards man they’re going to need guys

Who can keep the ball in front so that’s got to be a priority there I know there’s Bruce Brown and other guys on the market we’ll see what happens so is it going to be weird if I talk about a team that people aren’t talking about

Because I know the Bucks are like the headliner they need help to compete they made this big swing for Dame Lillard and now it’s not really working I want to know who the Atlanta Hawks okay oh the Atlanta Hawks look play some good the

Worst place to be in the NBA is no man’s land good news Trey young right into the allstar game yep right awesome replacement and and I think there just is not something that is working in the way that you thought that at this point in his career things should be building

Yeah Deonte Murray in conversations right his value if I’m someone in Austin you can speak this I would love to play with that guy yeah yeah just how he competes how he scores how he defends Trey is a talent Deon is a talent you would think that over the last few you

Know like how they say a year away from being a year away like we’ve been saying this about this squad for a little a little bit of some time if they made a move I’m not sure if it’s the Lakers pairing but I just feel like there has

To be some kind of Greater reset for both of these guys because it just doesn’t seem like it’s fitting at the at the way it should for them to be contenders for the next few years and the Hawks are in a little bit of a danger zone right because we talked

About the Bulls a little bit of Fool’s Gold that they strike without Zack LaVine winning a couple of games lately the Hawks they have beaten the Warriors they’ve beaten the Suns they beat the Lakers and then they beat the Raptors so they battled off four of those wins in a

Row obviously then they lost to the clippers but only by five and that’s one of the best teams if not the best team in the NBA right now so when you are then looking at the Hawks front office they might be tempted okay we paid a lot

For dejonte Murray we want to get a lot in return and we’ve heard wo say that there are way more uh buyers right now than sellers out there so potentially they want to hold on do you think that that would be a mistake perk well I

Think I do see this right I see the Quin Snider effect is like they’re finally starting to break Embrace that in the locker room right you see guys are playing their roles now so I mean they’re in a sticky situation but they have been playing some great basketball

Like the young fellas have been coming in providing great minutes I love what uh sadique B he’s been doing on the perimeter for them they have shooting they have playmaking they have athletic bigs that could go for lobs like you know one two three so I mean it’s all

About them sacrificing so I think what we saw over that stretch where they were winning those those like power for games we saw them starting to buy into the Quinn night of but remember when Quinn took over they gave him some time to evaluate red glasses it I will back

Right I’m going to do those my glasses um but now the time has come and I feel like the pressure is a little bit on because we I mean didn’t should we throw some shade around didn’t Zach like have the Hawks as a team this year in the

East yeah Zack low yeah the wildy successful low post podcast yes and sorry Zach to bring it back up but like at some point you’re looking at how do you take the next step he’s evaluated for a long time yep I think that it’s going to be interesting to see what they

Hold on here’s the thing about the trade deadline now though and and the Hawks are sort of in this situation the playin tournament the fact that that exists now that a 10 seed can get in that makes teams the Miami effect exactly that makes teams far less likely when they

Look and they think that they have a chance to sneak into the playoffs now that there is this play in not to mention you know when Now teams are looking at this this new second apron all of these other things the effect of the play in tournament makes teams more

Likely to want to hold on to their players and make just if we have just a chance then we can make a push I don’t ever think that Adam Silver thought that the Miami Heat would go from that run of the play in all the way into the finals

Like to me that was remarkable I don’t know if there is another team the Lakers flirted with it a little bit I’m sure they didn’t want it for the NBA business Celtics versus Lakers would have been but now that’s their Celtics even Denver like that’s that’s what you want right

You want the Lakers to win that series and everybody wanted Boston to win the series and everybody want you know we’ve seen them get into the playoffs through the play in too so it’s helped in that situation but it now gives hope to those teams to stick it through and with the

Trade deadline looming Atlanta is one of those teams that I’m like yeah that’s one of the factors and wge has mentioned this on the the his woe pod that another factor is the 2024 draft it’s not necessarily regarded as the strongest draft so in the future 2025 2026 those

Picks are a little bit more valuable teams are wanting to hold on to this because this isn’t necessarily a draft that en managers have their eye on it’s kind of this Confluence of factors that’s making a whole lot of teams say you know what we’re going to stamp Pat I

Still think atin I was going to say like yeah I still think we’re not trying to kick you off our set pH loud you [Laughter] know right now the show no that’s going to do it for us be to on YouTube that would be that would amazing almost as

Iconic as walking across walking across the middle of that’s going to do it for us we will see you on the NBA today deadline special we got to go Malik the boys the boys are boys we’ll see you then Jesus you always end just

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Chiney Ogwumike, Kendrick Perkins and Austin Rivers join me on NBA Today to discuss the top teams in the Eastern Conference, including the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks and debate what their best moves would be ahead of the NBA Trade Deadline. They also discuss the effect of the Play-In Tournament on the Trade Deadline.