Speaker 1: Moving forward, What the fuck is up with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little, I don't know, concerned. I might
Speaker 1: not quite ready to pull the fire alarm yet, but
Speaker 1: I am a little stressed about it. The Bucks are
Speaker 1: like a girl who or a guy who looks amazing
Speaker 1: on paper. They got everything going for him, right. They
Speaker 1: got the job, they've got the looks, they've got a
Speaker 1: good family. They seem like everything is in order. But
Speaker 1: then you start dating them, and then things come up
Speaker 1: where you think, hmm, something's off. These are red flags,
Speaker 1: like maybe she lives with their ex boyfriend. Still you think,
Speaker 1: like you think the house that she says she owns
Speaker 1: maybe actually her ex boyfriend's family's house and it's in
Speaker 1: his name. And then then she tells you, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, we share a dog. Still I know
Speaker 1: it was like a really good relationship. We parted as friends.
Speaker 1: Just wasn't working. But when I go out of town,
Speaker 1: he comes over and he watches the dog. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: does he bring a bag? He just comes over and
Speaker 1: he houseits and dog sits. When you're out of town.
Speaker 1: Oh no, He's left a couple of things, like a
Speaker 1: couple of pairs of shoes, some sweats. Wait, does he
Speaker 1: still live there? Like? Does this guy still fucking low
Speaker 1: key live with you? So you start asking more questions
Speaker 1: and things start getting more and more murky. That's kind
Speaker 1: of like the Bucks with me. The more you ask,
Speaker 1: the more it starts to unravel. Great on paper, you
Speaker 1: peel back the onion and you're like, Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can date this guy or girl. What
Speaker 1: are these red flags? With the Bucks? Let's start with
Speaker 1: the big one. Adrian Griffin's the big one. I don't
Speaker 1: trust him. Where did he come from? Who is he?
Speaker 1: Why is he here? Like, I don't know on a
Speaker 1: night to night basis. I'm not sure why Adrian grim
Speaker 1: was hired. I think it was because Giannis wanted him
Speaker 1: and he hadn't signed an extension yet. But he's a problem.
Speaker 1: And it's not really because he's a first time head coach.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. Really, you can be good.
Speaker 1: Imy Udoka, first time head coach. I immediately thought, this
Speaker 1: guy's got his stuff together. He's he's not playing around.
Speaker 1: He's got these young men playing like dogs. Before the
Speaker 1: season even began, Adrian Griffin had already gotten into a
Speaker 1: scuffle with a long time beloved eleven year head coach
Speaker 1: that his new superstar had as his coach for the
Speaker 1: first eleven years of his career. There and that guy
Speaker 1: who was reunited with his prodigal son after being fired
Speaker 1: said yeah, no, I'm not gonna deal with this bullshit.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. You can go ahead and go
Speaker 1: on your own. Dames head coach Terry Starks ran the
Speaker 1: best offense in the NBA for many many years. He's
Speaker 1: not the best defensive coach. We know that. That's why
Speaker 1: he got fired. But he up and quit because you
Speaker 1: yelled at him in the middle of practice. You wanted
Speaker 1: to dress him down. Secondly, the defense has fallen from
Speaker 1: number one, number two in the league to bottom five.
Speaker 1: And it's not because Drew Holliday's gone. They still have
Speaker 1: three All NBA players All NBA defensive players on this team.
Speaker 1: You got Jiannis Defensive Player of the Year, you got
Speaker 1: Brook Lopez finalist for Defensive Player of the Year, and
Speaker 1: then you've got Bobby Portis who's also on the All
Speaker 1: Team defense. Get miss me with the fact that, like
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday leaves and you just fall off a cliff defensively,
Speaker 1: no shots There's been multiple coups staged on this team already.
Speaker 1: You had one. I think maybe it was a weekend
Speaker 1: where they became the worst defense in the NBA and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, brook Lops is like, no, you're
Speaker 1: not about to have me on the floor where I am.
Speaker 1: We're giving up too many baskets. At the rim, Adrian
Speaker 1: Griffin had to come out and say, my players took
Speaker 1: control of the defense. They changed it on me on
Speaker 1: the fly, and I have complied they that is a coup.
Speaker 1: They have staged a straight coup, and now they're kind
Speaker 1: of running like the last offense that their last defense
Speaker 1: that Boodenholder ran. But Bootenholder is no longer there, so
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what's going on. The second red
Speaker 1: flag is they have no idea what to do. In
Speaker 1: the last two minutes of the game, they were up
Speaker 1: on the Indiana Pacers. It was a tight back and forth,
Speaker 1: and then they decided that even though they had gotten
Speaker 1: a guy whose nickname is based upon his clutch play,
Speaker 1: Dame Time, that guy doesn't deserve to have the ball anymore.
Speaker 1: Dame Time. That's first quarter game. Sorry. No, Instead, Chris Middleton,
Speaker 1: instead of giving day the ball. He decides to give
Speaker 1: the ball to Malik Beasley. He decides no, no, I
Speaker 1: got this and proceeds to not got this. He turns
Speaker 1: the ball over and at that point that was night Night,
Speaker 1: Sleep Mask. They have a very competitive game. Then they
Speaker 1: lose by ten. The Bucks offense fell completely apart in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Pacers outscored them thirty seven twenty five
Speaker 1: in the fourth. It is so bad right now that
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis, Bobby Portis is going in and going ape
Speaker 1: shit on Adrian Griffin to quote unquote passionately let him
Speaker 1: know we need some more offensive structure late in games.
Speaker 1: How do we know this Well, it was reported by
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes, who is Chris Haynes's best friend Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: So Dame's not happy with the way the offense is running, obviously,
Speaker 1: or if he felt differently, he probably wouldn't have leaked
Speaker 1: that story out. You got leaks coming out. You got
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis mad at Adrian Griffin. You got Dame telling
Speaker 1: Giannis at the end of the game, it's me and
Speaker 1: you and Jannis walking away. What is happening with the
Speaker 1: Yannis Dame pick and roll that we thought was going
Speaker 1: to be ran like Baraka in Mortal Kombat with the
Speaker 1: uppercut sweep. Uppercut sweep. We thought that was gonna be
Speaker 1: the most potent combination in the league. It's not really
Speaker 1: even being run. Here's the depth. You have to roll
Speaker 1: with aj Green, a man from Iowa, Northern Iowa, out
Speaker 1: here chasing threes. Your biggest hope is that he turns
Speaker 1: into Grayson Allen. This team is kind of fucked. I
Speaker 1: am getting a little concerned. We're a quarterway through the
Speaker 1: season and I'm not really ready to panic yet because
Speaker 1: You've got a team that's second in the East. They
Speaker 1: got I think, one of the best offenses in the league.
Speaker 1: But if you if you told me you could either
Speaker 1: have Joe Missula or Adrian Griffin, I would probably take
Speaker 1: Joe Missula. And if you're podcast listener, a longtime podcast listener,
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about Joe Missula. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I don't like Adriene Griffin and I don't
Speaker 1: think Dame does either. All that to say, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is up with the Milwaukee