[POSTGAME THREAD] Our Milwaukee Bucks (13-6) fall to the Chicago Bulls (6-14) in overtime – 120 – 113 – 11/30/2023

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1. Up 3 points with 5 seconds left, Vucevic is dribbling the ball not even looking at the basket. The Bulls have no timeouts.

   You HAVE to foul there. Allowing the Bulls to take a three is terrible coaching.

2. What is there to say? We need changes.

3. One of the worst Dame games I’ve seen

4. I think there needs to be a sense of realism between the “everything is fine, relax” fans and the “doomer” fans. Team is crazy talented. The defensive scheme has shown to not work and the players seem to be nowhere close to grasping it. It’s better to use the rest of the season to implement a more conservative approach in my opinion that fits the roster. Bad teams don’t build up a giant lead because bucks have more talent, but every single game is a dog fight. That’s an indication of a bad scheme/game plan…especially for a team with this much talent. Good teams will (and have) build up a giant lead against this scheme.

   The Bucks do not have good perimeter defenders. This aggressive closeout style allows g-league level guards to blow by their man because players like Dame, Payne, Khris, and Bobby are sprinting at the ball on the catch. The constant rotations causes breakdowns, usually on the roll man (because both guys are blitzing the ball) or weakside of a pick n roll. Simple ball movement or drive and kick absolutely kills this scheme. Unnecessary switching 95% of possessions as well.

5. No excuses tonight we played bad when we should have blown them out.

6. damn

   see yall saturday

7. Sad deer noises

   Giving up offensive boards seems to be a reoccurring issue

8. i love these 4th quarter comebacks, but we need to stop doing them come playoff time, we aren’t going to be able to do this against teams like the celtics

9. AG is a division 3 coach who is coaching a championship contender.

10. Ugly loss, on to the next one

11. That was a fun loss

    almost won despite pube games from dame and giannis

    onto the next one

12. Dame wasn’t aggressive enough tonight. Forced some passes that weren’t there. We’re undefeated when he drops like 25+ points or something. Honestly think all team was tired from playing like 37+ minutes over the past week. Should’ve just sat them tonight. Bench stunk it up again. We’re really hurting without Pat and Jae.

    Also don’t like Giannis having to go crazy every time the other team gets out in transition. He’s gonna get himself hurt. Need to fix that ASAP.

    Starting to think AG listens to Giannis a bit too much. Last game he wanted to draw some stuff up for Dame but Giannis said let’s go to Khris. Not a bad idea and I like that but weird. Again this game, near the end we let Giannis shoot FTs in the clutch and specifically drew up a play for him to be behind back court? We could’ve just gave it to Dame. Then we should’ve fouled the Bulls while we were up 3.

    TLDR: Team played tired and like shit all game. Malik’s heroics almost saved us but we made too many mistakes like turnovers and letting them get too many offensive rebounds and in transition which caused us to get into foul trouble.

13. Hopefully a wakeup call. Need to take the game seriously more than just the last half of the 4th quarter.

14. What a pathetic fucking loss. This team has a long way to go if they think they’re gonna do anything in the playoffs.

15. lost a november game this is my 13th reason

16. Well at some point the offence can’t compensate for bad defence. Every game a random role player is having a game of their life against bucks

17. If khris doesn’t brick 2 back to back free throws we wouldn’t even need to worry about OT

18. Dicking around in games against all these shitty teams was bound to bite us in the ass eventually. It’s gotta stop at some point.

19. Start the bus

20. Bucks really makes every team looks good, cant wait to face detroit

21. I feel like we became too dependent on our recent late-game heroics, and I hope this loss will serve as a reminder to the team that we’re not invincible and still need to make sure we play a full 48 minutes

22. Damian lillards turnovers this year have been truly awful to watch

23. Just bite the bullet on griffin

24. Sloppy, poorly coached game.

    Onto the next.

25. onto the next

26. “Why is that random players and teams have career offensive nights against us every game?’”, motherfucker our defense is PURE GARBAGE

27. Anyone defending Griffin because of our record is legitimately delusional. You could literally not have a coach and Giannis/Dame will have them at least around that same record.

    We have the dumbest coach in basketball who has implemented literally the dumbest possible defensive scheme for our roster, has no understanding of basic concepts like fouling when up 3 and the opponent has no timeouts remaining.

    We are entirely a product of Giannis/Dame going nuclear, because there is literally nothing to hang their hats on from an offensive/defensive scheme perspective.

    Dame had a bad night but the fact that this team is totally dependent on his late game heroics says it all.

    Griffin is the worst coach in the league and should be fired immediately but we’ll have idiots defending this moron for the rest of the season all because Giannis/Dame carry us to wins all season.

28. blow it up trade everyone

29. “Doomers we’re still winning” this is why that’s an issue. The winning masks all the flaws. Griffin needs to figure his shit out already.

30. We lost to the stupid Bulls, one of the worst teams in the NBA, without their two best players. Absolutely pathetic effort until the 4th.

    Positives:
    – Giannis
    – Brook
    – Beasley

    Negatives:
    – Dame: while he had a decent game, he murdered us in the 4th and OT with the turnovers and the misses
    – Marjon: he was bad. Just bad

    Holly fuck:
    – Bobby: What in the hell was that? The ball kept hitting his hands and he couldn’t grab a rebound, and still ended up with 9 boards. That how many more rebounds he should’ve had.
    – Khris: He was equally atrocious as Bobby, but at least he is recovering from injury.

31. No fucking excuse for Dame to have 1 point in 29 minutes of basketball.

32. The Milwaukee Bucks and playing down to their competition. Name a more iconic duo.

33. 7 turnovers from dame and a khris stinker sums it up bad loss

34. AG doing his best to get himself fired with a good record. While obviously not all on him he is stinking up the joint

35. Yeah this was horrible execution in the clutch. Forcing too many passes to get the “right play”, horrible turnovers.

    And what the hell were those inbound plays. That Dame-Giannis alley was nice but you can’t have the smallest guy on the team pass it inbounds, especially when you’re down and you need a 3.

    They certainly need to dial up some plays for Dame to move off the ball in those situations more because tonight was not it.

    And I know we’re trying to get the best shot but sometimes you gotta call iso man. Lillard is the best isolation scorer when it comes to creating his own shot from the 3. You have to force it a little bit on him in one on ones and trust him to make the shot. He has made a living out of this. When Vuc is guarding you on the perimeter you can easily generate space for yourself rather than throw right on his face for a TO.

36. Is Vooch on the same level of talent as Jokic? Real talk?

37. Man it hurts everytime.

38. Horrendous coaching. AG made the exact same mistake lately, i pointed out the exact same thing in our post game thread, you’ll find it there.

    When you are up 3 points with 5 seconds to go, YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE to foul for 2 FTs.

    This is super basic stuff. You never allow for a single shot that will draw the game. This is so elementary.

    I can imagine Euroleague teams screening coaches and watching AG do this, going like “HELL NO DA FUK ? Why is this tape even here”.

    Any subpar coach would have also noted that Bobby is playing like trash both ends of the floor, for way too many minutes now. Someone tell AG that if a player is playing like shit it’s ok to not let them play for 30 minutes.

    The Bobby minutes absolutely cost us the game (apart from the trash coaching). Right now he is not playing better than Thanasis, no joke.

39. We desperately need wing defenders. Trade for one of Thybulle or Avdija.

40. Dawgs chill out. We hold them to like 99 in regulation if they don’t hit 3 massive 3s at the end there and if dame plays even 10% better we win that game comfortably.

41. Going with Bobby in OT was a big ol mistake

42. This ain’t a champion coach idc what y’all say

43. We are such a weird team.

    Despite the questionable coaching, I think the doomers need to realize that our guys made some really boneheaded plays tonight. Dame had some really bad TOs, Khris had a bad game, Bobby was unplayable, and it seemed like no one had a grip on the ball.

    I just ask that we please wait until January to make any serious conclusions about this team.

44. #L O L

45. This is one of those losses where context determines how you feel about it. If this is a year where we had been cruising through teams and looking sharp every night, it’d just be a “it’s the nba, any given night- it happens” type of reaction. But with how this season is, it’s concerning. Not blowing it up, raging, and giving up on the coach at this point. But almost 20 games in there are glaring issues and holes that need to be fixed to meet the teams goals

46. I woulda stayed in the nutsack if i knew it was gon be days like this