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  • #1240456
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    Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers
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    Sure, he is an excellent regular season coach who consistently seems to get the most out of his teams. But getting out coached and not making the proper adjustments in the playoffs is becoming an ongoing theme for him year after year. The bucks have developed a style that is built to overwhelm weaker opponents that don’t have the time to prepare for them. It maximizes Giannis strengths as a player and minimizes his weaknesses. The problem is that championships are won in the playoffs when the competition is stronger and teams have ample time to prepare and make adjustments. And Budenholzer has continually proved unwilling or unable to change it up when his game plan isn’t effective.
    If the bucks do fall in the second round (which seems like a virtual guarantee now) than someone is going to have to be the fall guy. The bucks will try to shake up their roster to add another playmaker but the truth is that the majority of their players outside of Middleton and Giannis are bud system guys and don’t have a ton of overall trade value. I’m not saying this is all bud’s fault either, as management has shown an unwillingness to go into the luxury tax to sign key players who could have been very useful in this series (brogdon). And for all of Giannis’ strengths as a player he still has several defined weaknesses that can be exploited by the right matchup and scheme. But the clock on Giannis’ free agency is ticking loudly, and bud just doesn’t appear to be the type of coach that can lead this team to a championship. Is that coach out there? Idk. But they are going to have to try something different for sure.

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  • #1240462
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    All they had to do was resign Malcolm Brogdon & this is a completely different series. Brogdon was the second best player for them in the 2019 postseason ahead of Khris Middleton, and they let him walk ( I’m aware it was a sign and trade and the got some assets back for but that’s besides the point)

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  • #1240465
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    He’ll be back. I predict few if any GMs are going to overreact to what happens in the “Bubble,” because so many unknown factors are in play. Was one team just rustier than another after the layoff? Was one team 100% focused on winning the 2020 championship while another team had guys distracted by outside events or missing family? Maybe the Bucks are just the kind of team that depends on the rhythm that comes from six consecutive months of playing basketball together.

    This is not a normal season or normal playoffs. It’s silly to make major changes to something that worked before the Bubble, because it did not work as well in the Bubble.

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  • #1240472
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    I think a change is coming in Milwaukee. I don’t know whether that’s going to be Coach Bud or Bledsoe or someone else. They should have resigned Brogdon and chose him over Bledsoe but whatever. I think DiVincenzo can develop into that role but we will see.

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  • #1240505
    armchairgmarmchairgm
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    I don’t think he is, but I think Giannis won’t be staying come free agency or he will force his way out like Anthony Davis and other stars have done in the past by making it known he won’t re-sign.

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  • #1240511
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    RUDEBOY-
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    With the popularity of Carbi B & Megan Stallion’s song…maybe Budenholzer will get a job on the committee that plans to help FETTY WAP Come up with a NEW LAST NAME!!!!

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