2021-22 NBA Thread: The Bucks are Reigning Champs

[4everwarriors]

Figurin' Hardin's heavy wallet is slowin' him down, aina?

[Uncle Rico]

This game has been an objectively brutal watch so far.  Miami is beyond cold.

Sixers clearly spurred on by having Embiid back, but my god Harden just looks out of sorts.  For someone who used to be so deft getting to the lane and scoring, hes more than a step slow and kind of flails like a backup.  Age waits for nobody, but he's only 32.  Watching him compared to Durant and Curry who don't appear to have lost a step is kind of crazy.

Harden is a loser

[GB Warrior]

This game is not basketball

[tower912]

The score looks like a mid 90s Knicks playoff score.

[MU82]

Jimmy was the only one of the Hots who bothered showing up.

[Skatastrophy]

Ryan Ruocco and JJ Redick were a joy to listen to calling the Heat game tonight. It's the first time I've left the game sound on in a while.

[MuggsyB]

Wow.  Stunned Phoenix is down big to the Mavs.  CP3 with 7 turns??

[MuggsyB]

Jae has 5 trifectas. 

[wadesworld]

Basketball players rewarded for just falling over. If I wanted to watch acting in the athletic form I'd turn on soccer.

[MuggsyB]

The Bucks' offense is all over the place.  And a very strange challenge by Budenholzer on that last play.

[The Sultan]

Just a horrible use of a coaches challenge.

[The Sultan]

Bucks are getting good shots today but just not hitting them.

[MuggsyB]

Just a horrible use of a coaches challenge.

Terrible.  WTH was he thinking?  And apparently he's now lost his mind.

If you're the Bucks move the freaking basketball.  Establish Giannis in the wide post and create shots from there.

[wadesworld]

Lol at not calling Tatum for the offensive foul after you let Grant Williams just fall over and get the call.

Make defenders make a play on the basketball to call a charge. There's no consistency whatsoever.

[BM1090]

Just a horrible use of a coaches challenge.

Terrible call, clear block. The challenge was somehow even worse.

[tower912]

If you really want to restore offense/defense balance, call more. charges, more Euro-step travels.

[The Sultan]

Terrible.  WTH was he thinking?  And apparently he's now lost his mind.

If you're the Bucks move the freaking basketball.  Establish Giannis in the wide post and create shots from there.

I can tell you don't watch a lot of Bucks games because that's not how they use him.

[MuggsyB]

Really dumb play from Giannis there.   He's also lost confidence with his simple mid-range J.

[MuggsyB]

The Bucks really need to get the 3-Ball going or they're in serious trouble.

[wadesworld]

If you really want to restore offense/defense balance, call more. charges, more Euro-step travels.

More charges would be absolutely awful for basketball.

[BM1090]

More charges would be absolutely awful for basketball.

I'd be happy never seeing a charge called ever again.

[forgetful]

I'd like to see them call more T's for flopping. Tatum is diving all over the floor, and getting rewarded for flops.

[tower912]

Sometimes, it looks like team handball.  More charges, more travels, please.

[The Sultan]

Sometimes, it looks like team handball.  More charges, more travels, please.

Yuck.

[wadesworld]

I'd like to see them call more T's for flopping. Tatum is diving all over the floor, and getting rewarded for flops.

Agreed. I said coaches should be able to challenge as many flops as they want. If they're unsuccessful it's 1 shot and the result of the foul call (so that there's a decent risk and you aren't just challenging every call) for the team that got the call. If it's successful then the call is overturned. It's the only way to keep players from flopping. They're rewarded for falling over.

Sometimes, it looks like team handball.  More charges, more travels, please.

That'd be brutal. There's a reason the product is as healthy as it ever has been.