{"id":637199,"date":"2026-03-03T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:19:12","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-survey-do-fans-even-want-to-make-the-play-in-or-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637199\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks Survey: Do fans even want to make the play-in or NBA playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Bucks fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/8SCRL8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Giannis returned to the Bucks\u2019 lineup last night, but it wasn\u2019t enough to take down the East\u2019s current second seed. Monday\u2019s defeat caps off a three-game losing streak that has them eight games under .500 with 22 games remaining, exactly where they were when Giannis\u2019 most recent injury occurred on January 23rd. They\u2019re 3.5 games back of Charlotte (with whom they hold a tiebreaker) for 10th and four games behind Atlanta (who the Bucks could gain the tiebreaker over with a victory tomorrow) for ninth. Orlando and Miami (season series with each is tied 1-1) are 5.5 games ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not impossible hills to climb, but ones that only get harder the further back they slip as the season gets closer to its conclusion. This all begs the question: do we, as fans, even want a play-in\/playoff spot at this point? Unfortunately, losing\/tanking doesn\u2019t really help Milwaukee, as they\u2019re pretty certain to finish no \u201dbetter\u201d than 10th in the lotto standings, especially with a healthy Giannis. Chicago, Memphis, and Dallas are \u201cahead\u201d of them because they leaned into tanking post-deadline while Giannis-less Milwaukee was surprisingly thriving. So\u2026 what are they playing for here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,42595,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-637199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks-polls","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116166863313571024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}