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Speaker 1: last night, like I promised, I didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to break down keat Bucks, and I wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of rewatch the film to see if there was anything
Speaker 1: specific that stood out to me that was problematic for
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Got a chance to do that this morning.
Speaker 1: So this morning, we're just gonna focus on the current
Speaker 1: predicament that the number one overall seed the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: find themselves in, as well as Jimmy Butler and yet
Speaker 1: another magnificent playoff performance, you guys know the Joe before
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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So you know I have these
Speaker 1: overarching basketball philosophies that I talked about a lot on
Speaker 1: the show and one of the big ones, and you
Speaker 1: guys have probably seen this in the way that I
Speaker 1: rank players. But generally speaking, when I've ranked players, like
Speaker 1: in our big player rankings that we did this summer,
Speaker 1: I've had centers pretty far down the list. Right Like,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of people mad at me because
Speaker 1: I had jokitchen Embiid at seven and eight on my
Speaker 1: list this summer, although I probably have both of them
Speaker 1: a little higher now, But there's a reason why I
Speaker 1: felt that way. Most of the guards around the league
Speaker 1: I have pretty far down my list, with exception of
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, who's literally the biggest guard anomaly in NBA history.
Speaker 1: When you're ranking all time great NBA players, it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of Fords and centers, and Steph Curry he's the
Speaker 1: outlier that kind of proves the rules, so to speak.
Speaker 1: But the guys that I typically have at the top
Speaker 1: of the list typically are bigger, stronger players that are
Speaker 1: either that either have a physical advantage in height or
Speaker 1: a physical advantage in strength, that can score from every
Speaker 1: spot on the floor, can do so on and off
Speaker 1: the ball, and can create shots for their teammates consistently.
Speaker 1: That's always the type of player that I have up there.
Speaker 1: That's why I've always thought very highly of Lebron James,
Speaker 1: That's why I've always thought very highly of Luka Doncic.
Speaker 1: That's why I've thought very highly of Kevin Durant over
Speaker 1: the years. That's why I've always thought very highly of
Speaker 1: Giannis and Tenna Komba. That specific archetype of player has
Speaker 1: always been the guy that I think is most valuable
Speaker 1: in the NBA, especially when you get to the postseason.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is an interesting kind of case study on
Speaker 1: that conversation because, for whatever reason, he's never been considered
Speaker 1: in that as schalon and it really just comes down
Speaker 1: to regular season production. Like Jimmy made a joke last night,
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, playoff Jimmy's not really a thing.
Speaker 1: I'd just be hooping. Well, yeah, but there's a gap.
Speaker 1: The reality is is Jimmy goes from being somewhere around
Speaker 1: the fifteenth best player in the league during the regular season,
Speaker 1: and then you put him in a playoff series and
Speaker 1: he can play just as well as the best players
Speaker 1: in the league. That was an unbelievable performance last night,
Speaker 1: one of the best playoff performances I have ever seen.
Speaker 1: I have to really think about it to rank that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Maybe that's something we could do over
Speaker 1: the summer. But for whatever reason, like that's just a
Speaker 1: level that he can reach at that stage that a
Speaker 1: lot of his peers can't. And like I said, it's
Speaker 1: not the first time. I think he had two forty
Speaker 1: point games in the twenty twenty NBA Finals last year
Speaker 1: against the Celtics and the Conference finals, had a bunch
Speaker 1: of big games surrounded by some bad games, but he
Speaker 1: was dealing with some injuries, but he had some big games,
Speaker 1: including having a three that could have sent them to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Now, if you ask me, Jason, why
Speaker 1: is it that you think that Jimmy is able to
Speaker 1: elevate his game on this stage in a way that
Speaker 1: some of his peers can't. I think generally speaking, that
Speaker 1: archetype of player has success elevating their game. I think
Speaker 1: you consistently see the Luka Doncic types, the Lebron James types,
Speaker 1: the Kevin Durant types, the Giannis types, the Kawhi Leonards,
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Butler's, those big forwards that have a great
Speaker 1: mix of offensive skill in playmaking and physical advantages. You
Speaker 1: see that player go up level because that is the
Speaker 1: most valuable. And there's bunch of specific reasons why. First
Speaker 1: of all, it is much more difficult to account for
Speaker 1: a star player from the standpoint of defensive attention with
Speaker 1: a live dribble twenty five feet from the basket than
Speaker 1: it is operating closer to the rim, where everything's generally
Speaker 1: more contested. Point being, it's easier to double a yokic
Speaker 1: or an embid effectively than it is to do so
Speaker 1: with a guy with a live dribble operating from the perimeter.
Speaker 1: And when you combine the act that he can hit
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots, and like, here's the deal, Like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler shot twenty eight percent on pull up threes
Speaker 1: this year, and generally speaking in his career, that's been
Speaker 1: a shot he's been super inefficient at. But like he
Speaker 1: just has the ability to I don't through sheer force
Speaker 1: of will. Maybe I don't know, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he just suddenly has the ability to knock that type
Speaker 1: of shot down when the stage is big as that
Speaker 1: specific jump shooting dynamic kind of reminds me of Dwayne Wade.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade was another guy that was a really inconsistent
Speaker 1: jump shooter, but man in big playoff games, he always
Speaker 1: just seemed to make some big ones. I think confidence
Speaker 1: is a huge part of jump shooting, and I think
Speaker 1: guys like that that are filled with an unwavering sense
Speaker 1: of confidence seem to be in a rhythm more frequently
Speaker 1: than other players do. And confidence is a big part
Speaker 1: of rhythm. But for whatever reason, they're just able to
Speaker 1: dig down and make those shots. And why that's important
Speaker 1: is again, like, what makes Jimmy Butler such a devastating
Speaker 1: playoff player, in my opinion, is a combination of a
Speaker 1: bunch of factors. One, he has legitimate three level scoring
Speaker 1: on that stage. Regardless of whether or not he has
Speaker 1: it in the regular season, he has it on this stage.
Speaker 1: He can hit pull up threes off the bounce. He
Speaker 1: can hit jab step threes when you play off of him,
Speaker 1: when he gets lower in pick and roll, he can
Speaker 1: hit pull up fifteen footers. He can hit floaters in
Speaker 1: the lane. He can finish in traffic at the rim.
Speaker 1: He can draw fouls effectively. You put a smaller defender
Speaker 1: on him, he can put Drew Holliday on his backside
Speaker 1: and back him down and hit post up fadeaways over
Speaker 1: both shoulders or hook shots over both shoulders. He's got
Speaker 1: great footwork. He can play off the ball in transition,
Speaker 1: ducins under the rim. He's got a lot of that.
Speaker 1: Lebron James like, oh, I got a smaller defender on me,
Speaker 1: let me just duck in real quick and call for
Speaker 1: the basketball. I'm gonna get a basket or a foul.
Speaker 1: And then when you combine that with his playmaking, which
Speaker 1: has always been a super underrated element of his skill set,
Speaker 1: it suddenly turns him into one of the most effective
Speaker 1: playoff players that we have in the league. He's also
Speaker 1: just a big, strong athlete. Generally speaking, players that thrive
Speaker 1: in physicality end up going up a level when we
Speaker 1: get to the postseason. I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 1: a coincidence that Austin Reeves, for instance, is succeeding in
Speaker 1: the postseason. He's a player that plays with a great
Speaker 1: deal of physicality in the regular season. Lebron James and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis big strong athletes, their skill sets have almost
Speaker 1: completely abandoned them in this playoff series. When it comes
Speaker 1: down to jump shooting and beating people off the dribble
Speaker 1: and things like that. But they're just big and strong
Speaker 1: and they can have a great deal of impact there.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is a player that thrives in physicality, so
Speaker 1: his impact goes up a level. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it is that it's not there in the regular season.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just and for the record,
Speaker 1: Jimmy's a great regular season player. He's just not you know,
Speaker 1: twenty seven to seven and seven, which is generally what
Speaker 1: you get from the other big ford superstars in the league.
Speaker 1: He's just a tier below that in the regular season,
Speaker 1: which is going to perpetually keep him in that ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen range. For the record, there's some legitimacy to
Speaker 1: that fact, like him being that type of kind of
Speaker 1: coast a little bit in the regular season type of
Speaker 1: player actually does lead to seating issues and you know,
Speaker 1: putting yourself in a predicament where you have to go
Speaker 1: on the road to Milwaukee in the first round to
Speaker 1: try to win a series. Now, mind you, there was
Speaker 1: a lot going on from a roster construct standpoint with Miami,
Speaker 1: but he's not the floor raising eighty two game MVP
Speaker 1: level superstar. But then you put him in a playoff
Speaker 1: series and he can play just as well as those guys.
Speaker 1: This is no longer just a coincidence. This is no
Speaker 1: longer oh, he got hot a couple of times. This
Speaker 1: is a career resume now from Jimmy Butler, of him
Speaker 1: going up a level and being one of the most
Speaker 1: devastating playoff players in the league. I had so much
Speaker 1: fun watching him last night. It kind of felt somewhat
Speaker 1: of a crowning achievement, so to speak, and the best
Speaker 1: way other than winning a championship. And he may never
Speaker 1: win a championship, especially if he can't find himself on
Speaker 1: a roster with a little bit more talent. But this
Speaker 1: is a big part of why, you know, as much
Speaker 1: as winning is the ultimate goal and it should be
Speaker 1: the framework with which we evaluate these guys. The at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Jimmy is a winner. He's
Speaker 1: every bit as much of a winner as some of
Speaker 1: the guys around the league that do have championships, and
Speaker 1: I hope he gets credit for that. Looking at the
Speaker 1: series in particular, you know, I said before Game four,
Speaker 1: I said that I didn't think there was any reason
Speaker 1: to worry for Milwaukee until Giannis, for whatever reason, had
Speaker 1: to miss a game, and then they announced he's gonna
Speaker 1: play in game four, and now they're legitimately is a
Speaker 1: reason to worry. Not because I don't think Milwaukee's the
Speaker 1: better team. I still think Milwaukee's a better team. It's
Speaker 1: just the reality of their predicament now that their margin
Speaker 1: for error is gone. This is what happened in this series.
Speaker 1: The Giannis goes down with an injury in Game one,
Speaker 1: Milwaukee kind of is flattened. As a result, they lose.
Speaker 1: Then without Yanis, they beat the shit out of the
Speaker 1: Heat in game two, Game three. Mike Budenholzer in the staff,
Speaker 1: I would imagine look around and they said, hey, we
Speaker 1: can beat them without Yannis. Let's buy him some extra rest,
Speaker 1: let's go play. But you end up losing. Okay whatever,
Speaker 1: Giannis comes back, They're up twelve with six minutes left
Speaker 1: on the road. The Bucks played more than well enough
Speaker 1: to win this game. Now here's the thing, and this
Speaker 1: is the reality of what happens when you make a
Speaker 1: decision like sitting Yannis in game three, you cut into
Speaker 1: your margin for air. Why is margin for air important?
Speaker 1: Because in basketball games, any sort of variance can happen.
Speaker 1: Right For instance, in that fourth quarter run, I watched
Speaker 1: it again this morning. They're up twelve. You know, Miami
Speaker 1: made a lot of characteristically difficult shots. The run started.
Speaker 1: Bam Adepayo hits a pull up jump shot. That's you know,
Speaker 1: Bam Aebio is not typically a guy that you expect
Speaker 1: to just dribble up the floor and beat you off
Speaker 1: the dribble and make a jump shot. But he did
Speaker 1: good for the band. Very next possession, another pull up
Speaker 1: jump shot from Jimmy Butler. Now, there was one tactical
Speaker 1: thing that was hurting Miami that will or that was
Speaker 1: hurting Milwaukee that will get to in a second, where
Speaker 1: they got a couple of really good looks on specifically
Speaker 1: an and one from Jimmy Butler. And then there was
Speaker 1: another play where he got downhill. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 1: what it was, but I think he finished at the
Speaker 1: rim twice during that stretch against this specific tactical issue
Speaker 1: for Milwaukee that we'll talk about in a second. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, it was all pull up jump shots.
Speaker 1: Jimmy pull up jump at the foul line, Bam pull
Speaker 1: up jumper at the foul line, Caleb Martin a contested
Speaker 1: jab step three in the corner with Giannis's hand in
Speaker 1: his face, and then Jimmy Butler, who shot twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent on pull up threes this year, makes back to
Speaker 1: back highly difficult pull up threes off the bounce. That's
Speaker 1: what look chances are, same shot diet, you probably win,
Speaker 1: right Like Jannis missed a short, little hook shot in
Speaker 1: the lane in the final minute when they were down
Speaker 1: one that would have given them the lead. Yan has
Speaker 1: just missed it. You know that shot missed, and Jimmy
Speaker 1: made pull up threes again. That's where the margin for
Speaker 1: error comes in. You have to account for the fact
Speaker 1: that on any given night, the other team can just
Speaker 1: make some shots that they don't normally make, and you
Speaker 1: can miss some shots that you normally make, and you
Speaker 1: can lose. I'm not trying to take credit away from Miami.
Speaker 1: They earned that win. My point is is like they
Speaker 1: also shot above their shot quality down the stretch. For
Speaker 1: forty two minutes. Milwaukee was clearly the better team in
Speaker 1: Miami's home arena, and they were up twelve, and normally,
Speaker 1: if you're up three to zero or you're up two
Speaker 1: to one. You drive home and you're like, nah, they
Speaker 1: got us. You know they beat us. Congratulations. You know,
Speaker 1: you build margin for error by having a lead in
Speaker 1: the series. My favorite example of this from last year
Speaker 1: was Bucke or Heat Celtics. If you guys remember the
Speaker 1: Celtics went into Miami beat the Heat in game five,
Speaker 1: so they bought themselves a three to two lead. Game
Speaker 1: six was this crazy bam ad a Bio game. Remember
Speaker 1: I think he had thirty something and bam Ade Bio like,
Speaker 1: say what you want about him. He's not the guy
Speaker 1: that goes and gets you thirty. He's just not. But
Speaker 1: he went and got thirty in game six, and the
Speaker 1: Heat stole a game. But because they had a lead,
Speaker 1: they bought themselves the margin for air to weather that storm,
Speaker 1: and then they went into Miami and beat them in
Speaker 1: game seven. That's kind of the way I see this
Speaker 1: sort of thing. You went down to one, and then
Speaker 1: you got the crazy pull up shooting Jimmy Butler game,
Speaker 1: which was always on the table, and now you're down
Speaker 1: three to one. Now as of right now, the Bucks
Speaker 1: are an eleven point favorite, I think in game five,
Speaker 1: so they're probably gonna win This is why I said,
Speaker 1: like last night, I was gonna be looking at FanDuel
Speaker 1: odds for when for whether or not Milwaukee can win
Speaker 1: the series, because like it really is as simple. You
Speaker 1: go home and you beat the Heat, which you're gonna
Speaker 1: be a double digit favit, you are a double digit favorite.
Speaker 1: You should win that game, right, So now it's three
Speaker 1: to two. Then you go back to Miami and you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a four or five point favorite in
Speaker 1: that game. That doesn't mean you can't win. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a difficult or that doesn't mean you're going to win.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a very difficult game. But if Milwaukee
Speaker 1: goes into Miami in Game six and plays Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: basket for forty eight minutes, they should win. They have
Speaker 1: more talent. Not only does this Miami team have is
Speaker 1: not only is this Miami team devoid of size, but
Speaker 1: they're down two additional shot creators in Tyler Harrow and
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo. Now, they've been getting a lot of contributions elsewhere.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Caleb Martin shot. Kyle Lowry was
Speaker 1: freaking outrageous defensively down the stretch of this game containing
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton switching on to Drew Holliday to get a
Speaker 1: key strip and stop at the end. Like, I didn't
Speaker 1: think Milwaukee's offense was that bad down the stretch. They
Speaker 1: really did get good looks. The only two plays I
Speaker 1: didn't like was the play where Drew Holliday isolated Kyle
Speaker 1: Lowry and got stripped, and then there was another play
Speaker 1: where they turned it over at the half court line
Speaker 1: when Jimmy got the dunk to put them up one.
Speaker 1: Other than that, Milwaukee ran pretty damn good offense down
Speaker 1: the stretch. But Chris Middleton missed two pull up jump
Speaker 1: shots that are like good looks for him, like higher
Speaker 1: percentage shots for him than some of the pull up
Speaker 1: jumpers that Miami made. There was a wide open three
Speaker 1: for Pat Connaton in the left corner on a kickout
Speaker 1: I believe from Giannis if I remember correctly, that was
Speaker 1: dead on and just rattled in and out. You know,
Speaker 1: Giannis misses the little hook shot in the lane. The
Speaker 1: Bucks played well. They just lost, which is something that
Speaker 1: can happen in any one game sample size. But I
Speaker 1: was looking at I was like, okay, if this is
Speaker 1: if they got If the Bucks become a significant underdog.
Speaker 1: I'd like to bet them, because it's just I would
Speaker 1: put the odds of this series at about a coin
Speaker 1: flip right now. I think there's about a fifty percent
Speaker 1: chance that Miami wins one of the next two games,
Speaker 1: and I think there's about a fifty percent chance that
Speaker 1: the Bucks just win three straight. So if I could
Speaker 1: find the odds to make that a worthwhile bet, I
Speaker 1: would take it. But it turns out I think Milwaukee's
Speaker 1: only like plus one twenty, which is pretty close to
Speaker 1: a coin flip anyway, and not really a good enough
Speaker 1: number in my opinion to bet. But it's not over
Speaker 1: for the Bucks, however. They are now at a point
Speaker 1: where they have absolutely zero margin for air. They absolutely
Speaker 1: have to play forty eight minutes forty eight minutes forty
Speaker 1: eight minutes of championship level Bucks basketball because now they
Speaker 1: cannot afford to be beaten by variants. They need to
Speaker 1: play ten to fifteen points better than the heat every
Speaker 1: night to avoid whatever could crazy could happen. One last
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about was the Jimmy Butler problem.
Speaker 1: So we did a show yesterday in the morning, our
Speaker 1: Chase three points segment where we talked about the key
Speaker 1: adjustments for a bunch of these series, and the main
Speaker 1: one that I talked about was for this series was
Speaker 1: Giannis has to guard Jimmy. He, like Drew Holliday, is
Speaker 1: simply not bothering him. They started running a Jimmy was
Speaker 1: really trying to attack Chris Middleton, and one of the
Speaker 1: tactical things that I didn't like was like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton is going to struggle a little bit in
Speaker 1: that matchup compared to Drew. Like There was a play
Speaker 1: where they got a switch down the stretch where Jimmy
Speaker 1: drove into Chris Middleton's chest and drew a foul and
Speaker 1: made it got an had one, but it was a
Speaker 1: tough shot and at least it was heavily contested and
Speaker 1: against their set defense. There were two additional plays down
Speaker 1: the stretch where they tried to hedge and recover and
Speaker 1: as a result they gave up driving lanes. There was
Speaker 1: one where on the left wing where Jimmy calls for
Speaker 1: the ball screen, gets Chris Middleton to hedge out, and
Speaker 1: then as Chris Middleton is recovering, he runs into Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday and Jimmy gets a clear driving lane to the
Speaker 1: left and makes a kickout pass to Caleb Martin on
Speaker 1: the right wing, who had just made a three, and
Speaker 1: he makes a three. It's a wide open three for
Speaker 1: a shooter that was in rhythm and hot, specifically because
Speaker 1: they tried to hedge and recover with Chris Middleton and
Speaker 1: instead of just switching and having Jimmy have to actually
Speaker 1: beat Chris Middleton off the dribble, he got a wide
Speaker 1: open driving lane because Chris botched the hedge and recover
Speaker 1: and Drew ran into it on the first pull up
Speaker 1: three that Jimmy Butler made, same thing Chris Middleton brought
Speaker 1: up into the screen. He hedges in that gap between
Speaker 1: when he's recovering and before Drew Holliday can come up.
Speaker 1: Jimmy steps into a pretty good look from three at
Speaker 1: the top of the key, so he's having plenty of
Speaker 1: success against Drew. Everything that he's doing with Drew to
Speaker 1: attack Chris is causing problems. Get Giannis involved. He's wasted elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Jimmy is not being bothered by Giannis and help at all.
Speaker 1: But maybe, just maybe, if you have Giannis just hawk
Speaker 1: him all game long, you can slow him down. The
Speaker 1: dude's shooting like sixty percent in the series, and nobody
Speaker 1: on your roster can guard him except for the guy
Speaker 1: that I think might be the best defensive player in
Speaker 1: the league, which is Yannis. You gotta try. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot to ask. Yeah, he's hurt, clearly heard. I
Speaker 1: had a lot of Heat fans in my comments yesterday, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you said, there's no chance the Heat can beat if
Speaker 1: Yannis plays every game in this series. They're up three
Speaker 1: to one right now. That's that's just a fact in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Like, Yah, Yannis when he's healthy on the
Speaker 1: Bucks in particular, makes them way better than the Heat.
Speaker 1: Credit to the Heat, credit to Jimmy. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to take away from it at all. In general, the
Speaker 1: playoffs are a war of attrition. It's about who survives it.
Speaker 1: Saw Nick Wright on Fox Sports the other day talking
Speaker 1: about how, you know, oh, the Warriors have been so
Speaker 1: lucky with injuries. I mean, yeah, they've had some luck.
Speaker 1: But like every NBA Finals is a war of attrition,
Speaker 1: it just simply is. The Celtics made it to the
Speaker 1: finals last year in large part because Chris Middleton was
Speaker 1: gone in the Milwaukee Bucks series, that's just what happened, Right,
Speaker 1: The Warriors got to play a Nuggets team down two
Speaker 1: of their top three players, Like it's it's part of
Speaker 1: the deal. The year before, in twenty twenty one, the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks got a lot of injury luck along the way.
Speaker 1: That's that's just what happened. They got to play a
Speaker 1: really flawed Suns team in the finals. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the Lakers Steph Curry, Kevin Durant on their couches not playing.
Speaker 1: Bam Adebayo hurts his shoulder. Goran Drodgits pulls his groin
Speaker 1: or whatever. I think it was plantar fasci itis. I
Speaker 1: can't remember exactly what it is, but he had an injury,
Speaker 1: like every year, twenty nineteen, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson get hurt,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Chris Paul gets hurt twenty seventeen, Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: gets hurt twenty sixteen. Like it's just it's a war
Speaker 1: of attrition. So I'm not trying to take away from
Speaker 1: what Miami did, but like, my prediction was based on
Speaker 1: the fact that Giannis would play the series and be healthy.
Speaker 1: But it's it's not over. I'd say, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's about a fifty to fifty shot right now.
Speaker 1: If I had to gun to my head pick, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick with the Bucks. But just because I haven't
Speaker 1: seen anything specifically skimly that leads me to believe that
Speaker 1: Miami's better, they just they just they wield themselves to
Speaker 1: a big win yesterday. It reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of the two thousand and six series between the Suns
Speaker 1: and the Lakers, where through four games, Kobe's clearly the
Speaker 1: best player, just like Jimmy's been clearly the best player
Speaker 1: through four games, and through heroics by Kobe Bryant in
Speaker 1: Game four and heroics by Jimmy Butler in Game four,
Speaker 1: they take a three to one lead. But you know
Speaker 1: what happened. The Sun's won game five, and then they
Speaker 1: won Game six, and then they won game seven, and
Speaker 1: that's certainly on the table for the Bucks. It's not
Speaker 1: a lot of Bucks fans like saying, ship everyone off.
Speaker 1: Only Giannis gets to stay. Time to mix up the roster,
Speaker 1: and this roster has some flaws. They're a little bit old,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit slow, but they're also huge, outstanding
Speaker 1: defensively and have a pretty decent amount of offensive skill,
Speaker 1: and there is no team around the league that is perfect,
Speaker 1: so the grass isn't always greener. On the other side,
Speaker 1: you might make a bunch of roster shifts and be
Speaker 1: a worst team next year. This is not over. The
Speaker 1: Bucks are still in this. But credit to Jimmy, credits
Speaker 1: to the heat. Like I said in that last playing game,
Speaker 1: was it against Chicago. I think I was rooting for
Speaker 1: Miami to win because I thought they would give a
Speaker 1: better fight till Milwaukee, and they certainly have lived up
Speaker 1: to that. All right, guys, that's all I have for today.
Speaker 1: We are all three games tonight are double digit favorites.
Speaker 1: I just actually placed a little moneyline parlay on all three.
Speaker 1: I think it pays out like one to two, So
Speaker 1: you know, you bet ten dollars, you get five back.
Speaker 1: I just did those games. I think I think you'll
Speaker 1: see Atlanta, in particular, will fold. The Clippers just simply
Speaker 1: don't have enough offensive skill. Minnesota. Denver's the one that's
Speaker 1: kind of up in the air because in the last
Speaker 1: in Game four and in Game two, Minnesota gave Denver
Speaker 1: a lot of issues, so they certainly have a chance.
Speaker 1: But this is a long grind, and we're trying to
Speaker 1: find handfuls of, you know, a night here, a night
Speaker 1: there where I can actually hang out with my wife
Speaker 1: a little bit. So we're going to take tonight off
Speaker 1: and then we will be back for just a wild
Speaker 1: slate of games on Wednesday night. As always, I sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, and I'll see you on Wednesday. The
Speaker 1: volume