2017-2018 NBA Season Thread [Archived] Basketball • Page 246

he needs to go back to the bench or something - Kidd's rotations are awful and he's not using any of these players correctly

it won't even be worth it when this team squeaks into the east playoffs as a 7 or 8 seed and then get swept by Boston or Toronto

honestly it wouldn't matter what seed the Bucks are because there isn't one eastern playoff team they could beat in a 7 game series

blow up this team and start all over again Giannis is only 23

 

Mad Bucks Twitter (and this thread) is my favorite Twitter.

 

#NeverTrustTheBucks

it's crazy how this franchise is gonna squander the good fortune of lucking into that Giannis pick. the Bucks will probably never make the east finals with him

 

trade Middleton for Lou Williams

 

hopefully the Bucks are fun to watch again when Bari comes back - right now they suck to watch Jason Kidd has ruined the joy of watching Giannis play basketball

ugh fuck man all my teams fucking disappoint me in the end haha

 

middleton led the team in points and shot 50%. like, y’all know that, right? the problem is more Kidd playing him the second most MPG in the league, only behind giannis. he’s good, but he isn’t good enough to be that gassed and reliable at the end of the game.

 

the offense stalls and sputters when he is the focal point - he's way more effective when he defers to Giannis but he never does that - all these motherfuckers play hero ball in the fourth quarter and that's why we are a few games out of missing the playoffs in the east

the organization is a goddamn mess and the future is pretty bleak with all the huge contracts we gave to shit players and first round busts. hoping Bari can return to form

also the team was better when Snell was starting and Brogdon was coming off the bench but it's whatever it's all mainly Jason Kidd - an average coach would have this team where the heat is right now

 

and it'd be nice to get some consistency from Bledsoe but I think he's a bad fit with Middleton and would rather keep Bledsoe than Middleton.

 

anyways they have three more years to figure this out before Giannis contract runs out and I hope to god they do

right now our trio of Bledsoe Giannis and Middleton is a worse version of what OKC has but is still having the same problems - it's like they take turns on which possession is their's to have the ball and it's killing the team in the fourth quarter because it's so fucking easy to defend. Middleton shots Iso fadeaway jumpers Bledsoe dribbles around the perimeter for 20 seconds and Giannis barely touches the ball

that's every fourth quarter recently

 

Lol they’re talking about Billy Crystal at the DEN/LAC game and completely ignoring Jean Ralphio sitting right next to him!

 

is this true? Who said this? I guess it could make sense, if he's a rookie and most of the people who want a Harden jersey have already bought one, but also I don't believe it.

I'm just scrolling past big chunks of Drew whining in this thread now, it helps

 

I was going off something I saw on the broadcast, googling now it's this:

Stephen Curry and Golden State Warriors continue to lead NBA merchandise sales | NBA.com

1. Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
2. LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
3. Kevin Durant, Golden State Warriors
4. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
5. Kristaps Porzingis, New York Knicks
6. Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers
7. Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City Thunder
8. Ben Simmons, Philadelphia 76ers
9. Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs
10. James Harden, Houston Rockets
11. Lonzo Ball, Los Angeles Lakers
12. Kyrie Irving, Boston Celtics
13. Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors
14. Damian Lillard, Portland Trail Blazers
15. Jimmy Butler, Minnesota Timberwolves

Which is just October-December of 2017. So, not as cool as I thought it was.

 

He can come live in Portland if he'd like.

 

Interesting, not too unbelievable, but Philly definitely seems to have gotten a bump from no sucking, having their guys playing

 

Philly also hasn't had a jersey that appeals to non-hardcore fans since Iverson. Not many people were chomping at the bit to buy Andre Iguodala or Jrue Holiday jerseys

 

Kyrie being all the way down at 12 is a little surprising. I guess more people took Lebrons side after the divorce and people in Boston are too honed in on the Patriots lol

 

YOU DIDNT HAVE TO TELL ME TWICE THERES NO COACHING, JASON FUCKING KIDD

 

look at the video i just posted. i can’t in good conscience blame any of our players with this adult baby as our fucking “coach”

to his credit, middleton clapped back at Kidd and said you can’t use the same “kids” excuse for five years running

 

i disagree with this too. all three of our guys are so much better defenders than the three OKC guys. it shows in the last two times we’ve played them.

look at middleton’s numbers this year and compare them to PG13’s. there isn’t much difference. and yet, he’s a borderline star with a signature shoe and shit. perception clouds everything. they aren’t that much different as players.

 

Yeah, he slid eight spots from last year. That really is crazy.

Here Are The Top NBA Player Jersey And Merchandise Sales

 

I’d like to think some of that is due to his flat-earthing, too

Probably also still some attachment to IT

 

We need a Bucks/Brewers/Wisconsin basketball/Packers thread specifically for Drew to rant in. It's pretty entertaining

 

excuse me? how dare you

 

Mets Twitter is just as fun during baseball season. That team could win 100 games and the world series for the first time in 34 years and we'd still find something to bitch about lol

 

Didn’t OKC make the finals when their entire core were like 22 years-old? Kidd should probably stop leaning on youth so hard as an excuse for losing winnable games