Bucks Routed Again Despite Ryan Rollins’ Career Night | Doc Rivers Rejects NBAPA Tanking Claims
Milwaukee Bucks suffer their sixth 30-point blowout of the season as locker room drama and injuries spark questions about the team’s future identity. With Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence raising eyebrows—amidst Players Association tension and Doc Rivers’ vehement denial of tanking—the Bucks’ season takes another bizarre twist. Could this year be the most disappointing in franchise history?
Justin Garcia and Camille Davis examine the ugly numbers from a road trip marred by chemistry issues, one-year contracts, and a fading winning culture. Highlights include Ryan Rollins’ career-high 36 points, Ousmane Dieng’s developmental strides, and concern over Milwaukee’s depleted draft assets. The duo spotlights the need for a concrete system and culture overhaul as the team faces a likely playoff elimination before April
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Just look at the old spurs Tim Duncan the best player allowed pop to coach him and everyone else fell in line. .the bucks have to start at the top and if giannis can't get with that get is ass out of milwaukee
Rollins had 5 turnovers and 26 shots, all garbage time points – Cam stats
Green -30 +- worst on team, there goes your last excuse to keep the no talent on team
Rebounding was beyond pathetic
Quack Rivers will have the team 9-73 next season
Doc is moron, but Giannis has to learn to play team ball. You just see the offense die when he's on the floor, it's four our while giannis does giannis stuff which is just not going to win us games. AJ Green is a disaster, I hope to god the rumors about Doc retiring is true.
Those players are overmatched with other NBA players. It’s YMCA v NBA, they can’t compete
If there’s one silver lining, this debacle of a season has made me ok with Giannis leaving. He clearly wants to leave, he’s clearly not the same humble guy he used to be, he’s clearly becoming injury prone, and this team clearly will never compete with him on the roster again.
Congrats on burning bridges, Giannis. You’re free to ring chase and we’re free to start the long rebuilding process.
Idk why people are surprised the bucks are this bad. They play people like Jericho sims and aj green starter minutes when both are the two most limited players in the entire nba
Look at the combined minutes and stats of AJ and GTJ. How could 2 guys run around for this long and accomplish nothing on offense?
I expect Giannis is gone so its time to embrace the rebuild. Keeping him no longer is feasible or prudent. If the Bucks keep him and pay him a quarter of a billion they may regret it.
Those of you need to understand . The opposing teams, have scouting reports on your team. And the top player , since Giannis and kpj are not playing , that teams are preparing for is Ryan Rollins . So these teams are all in the playoff hunt. So before they play the bucks , Ryan Rollins is the key player they prepare for. You can tell just by the way they pressure him. If Rollins was injured and not playing , this would get even uglier. If that's possible. This young man is the only bright spot on an awful horrible season.
masturbation makes it even worse
When Giannis is teaming up with true NBAers (e.g. Dame, Brook, Chris, Bobby) Bucks turn into contenders and winners (e.g. NBA Cup ‘24). Without Giannis Bucks look like YMCA Vs NBA teams (I liked this reference from below). No Giannis no fun or win out. Bucks have no defence, no rebounding, no ball movement, no plans. As for those targeting Giannis, I’d just remind the universal: no more ungrateful than the benefited. Giannis can no longer coexist with players like Rollins and Turner and should not spend energy for or carry players like GTJunior, AJ Green or Cole Anthony etc till recently… unfortunately that was it. For some, it’s fortunately that he’s leaving, time will tell. But let’s be respectful of what we had (and in what cost $) and what we lose, keeping players and coaches earning 20 mill annually playing for competitors, while we keep flatlinners…
if giannis does leave I hope he knows we are keeping thanasis and mariah sorry brutha😂
Good job Rollins. Flowers for you. You need to have a very active offseason
It's time to start over. Get rid of the coach, trade Giannis for as many picks as you can, and learn to suck for a couple of years. We have way too many contracts to pay for with people that are no longer on the team. our strategy obviously doesnt work. It was a nice run. but time to go back to mediocracy unfortunately.
I have gone from being a can’t miss a bucks game fan to a completely disinterested fan who forgot the Bucks were playing and watched a movie instead ! The NBA is a complete mess . Biased refs , horrible coaching , and CONSTANTLY injured star players ! The most common play the three point shot succeeds 1/4 of the time . On the Bucks it’s less . It’s just no fun to watch even the good teams! I am a fan since the Kareem days and this is by far the worst quality of play I have ever seen . Adious NBA you managed to turn me off completely!
It's funny watching Justin and Camille act like the Bucks are a serious organization. The Bucks have a bunch of people from the front office to the coaching staff and all the way down to the players with loser mentality, and that's not going to work for a competitive player like Giannis. I just think the Bucks stopped being a serious organization when Marc Lasry left, and Haslam and Doc Rivers showed up. Anyone could see that Doc wasn't truly invested in coaching this team. And not firing him after that Nets game will be one of the biggest mistakes this organization has ever made. Jon Horst and the owners have no idea the damage they've caused to this team by keeping Doc this long despite his atrocious records.
Sadly, I think they're going to trade Giannis in the summer (BIG MISTAKE). Wes Eden throwing that ultimatum at Giannis publicly before the season ended is short sighted on his part, but hey, what do i know? I'm just a fan who missed the good old days when the Bucks had a winning culture and everyone took their job seriously. The sad thing is it didn't have to come to this.
Giannis has been completely immature all year. Imagine showing up to your 9-5 and pulling this crap?
Agree on Rollins. Those who say trade him must be watching another team. 23, 40% 3p, score at all 3 levels, 2way, cheap contract …. I know lots of teams would get in line to get him.
Dieng has potential, happy Nance gets a chance. Sims great improvement. But overall things look grim unless we get a new GM and modern Coach with vision, a plan, some assets if Giannis goes …. I don’t see Horst as the right person for a rebuild.
Problem was not the roster last nite. Cannot expect second stringers to beat first stringers.
Problem is this team's normative starting unit- Miles, Kuzma, AJ and yes, Rollins and Dieng- are not really a good enough starting unit.
The problem throughout has been the first unit not being as good as the first units on other teams, esp with Giannis and KPJ always injured.
Rollins, Dieng, Sims and Nance (+ Bobby or Prince), however, do make a fine second unit.
Expectations must stay realistic to what is given and standard, not what we may think "should" be there just bc we lack or need it.
Who would of thought that AJ Green and GTJ would have regressed this bad this season. Im shocked! I remember people having the debate that GTJ might be the second leading scorer even some chatter for AJ in that conversation. Who knew Turner would be this in effective of a player this year. This season has been the worst season in the Giannis Era( since Giannis came into his own)
Hey I give you guys the next few games off. It’s been a rough 2026😢
Getting tired of the bucks choices! They get rid of good players but keeps Bobby, Green, and of course the cheerleader! Don't make sense! You paying a man to sit on the bench and cheer for 8yrs!! This is ridiculous!! I'm not a fan anymore!!!
And we had cam Thomas' replacement who didn't look too bad.
I'm sorry, but Ryan Rollins is an empty numbers guy. He sucked the first half when they went down by 20. Then he racks up numbers when the game isnt really in doubt and the other team lets their foot off the gas.
Whoop Deedoo Bazzle
Ngl if they do the Antetokounmpo bros sharing the court thing, Giannis is gonna get totally clowned for it and I won’t be defending it when it happens.