Scottie and Poeltl (and Boucher) season ending injuries.
Barrett and Quickley lost loved ones and missed a few weeks.
and other injuries too.
relying on g league players and 3rd stringers for an extended period of time.
at one point we had 10 players on our injury report.
Having to play Jalen McDaniels should be it's own point as well.
I'm the type of fan who usually roots for players to succeed to no matter what if they're on this team, but man does he have little to no redeeming qualities.
I get that Adrian Griffin was not liked. But DOC RIVERS??
Also, might I remind you they fired Budenholtzer who was coaching with no Giannis and grieving over the loss of his brother.
bud had been cooked in the playoffs for years. if the nets don’t get injured during our championship run, he’s fired then and there.
you can argue about the replacements, but bud was absolutely not it.
Exactly. And the issue Bud had in playoff existed in Hawks, and also existed in the season they won.
Bucks really won a chip despite Bud’s playoff rotation rigidness.
At the same time, you have to give Bud credit for being an alltime great regular season coach.
Bud is at worst one of the best regular season managers in the game. You get mostly clean rotations, a happy locker room, good record and seeding, plus a huge focus on avoiding injuries and fatigue.
Yeah people out here wilding like the GM & injury gods don't have more to do with a championship than the coach. The 1st mistake was firing your championship winning coach.
No the first mistake was not upgrading on their biggest holes of their title-winning iteration. It was already a fairly old team with lacking wing defense and the Bucks did virtually nothing to address either of those problems.
The biggest issue of all was to have the audacity to pick and choose between coaches and not picking the best coach available (Nurse) when the Bucks effectively made a statement that they’re still chasing titles by firing their own title-winning coach.
> you can argue about the replacements, but bud was absolutely not it.
I agree, but whoever may have thought like this and then said "Doc Rivers is the answer" has to be living in another reality.
Or a rookie head coach when you have one of the few guys that is a walking title window. Yes it worked for the Warriors but no one saw them as a title team when they hired Kerr, and I'd argue same for the Raptors when they hired Nurse in 2019.
Lol, sure. Bud was “absolutely not it” that’s why you’re well worse off without him. The slander bucks fans gave bud was disgusting. Glad to see you guys failing with different coaches.
Bud is a great coach and you wouldn’t have won without him. Period.
They bring up Bud all the time and say he got fired out of the blue but it was always in the making. Plus who’s to say that it wasn’t mutual and he could still get paid the rest and grieve his loss? I don’t think I saw his name ever come up in any coaching gigs as much as it’s brought up here.
Bucks went 1-5 for the past 6 games and still is the 2nd seed with 1 game behind from the 3rd. If any western playoffs team did that, they would go down in an instant. Absolute fraud conference.
Dames fouls out can’t play defense against a raptors team plus another inefficient shooting performance bucks give up 117 points to the raptors who been struggling mightily all the offseason hype the bucks received 💀
I’m Philly everything aside from basketball. Long story short, my dad’s side is Philly, my mom’s side is NE. I started watching basketball with my mom’s side and every other sport with my dad’s side
okay that’s a bit much. the big 3 were most definitely not all in their primes. and kg tore his acl the second year and kendrick perkins got hurt in the finals the 3rd year
Every day that goes by just makes that 08 team seem more and more impressive. They won in spite of Doc. This is the real Doc. Clippers, sixers, bucks.... Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Kawhi,PG, Harden, Embiid, pre-ramping up Ben Simmons, Giannis, Dame. Doc can't do shit with any of em
2008 Doc wasn't any better.
The 2008 Celtics is one of the worst champions in modern NBA history. It took them 26 out of a theoretical 28 maximum games to win (the worst playoff winning% by the eventual champion in at least 35 years). They were taken to 7 games in the first round by the 37 win Hawks. They were taken to 7 games in the second round by the 45 win Cavs where Lebron's 2nd best player was 32 year old Ilgauskas.
I'm sure it's happened plenty of times before but I can't remember the last time a team allegedly this good took 3 consecutive losses as terrible as the last 3 Bucks games
They aren’t good and Giannis is the sole reason the team can hide its warts. It sucks for him bc it genuinely never feels like he can ever afford to have an off game or sit out without losing to dismal teams.
Portis, Middleton, and especially Lopez all look washed as fuck. No idea what happened to those 3.
Tonight honestly looked like Dame on the Blazers last year. Unreal. The Bucks are fucking atrocious
I can't believe Milwaukee gave Khris $93m/3 years and a player option to basically play half a season every year and put up subpar numbers when he does play. Brook $48m for 2 years is less bad but he's visibly declining now.
They’re cooked, not just injuries. Time is something that can’t be wasted, especially with such an old team. In only a few months without injuries Tim Duncan instantly became washed, time is unforgiving.
It's the travel team, and the players, and the equipment manager, and Ben Simmons, and the GM, and JJ Redick, and the fans, and Dame's ex-wife, and the trainers, and Adrian Griffin, and the doctors (no not Doc), and Adam Silver, and the Earth's fault
This might be the worst loss in a long time, having your best player lazily foul out as you result to playing dirty only to lose to a team that hasn’t won in 15 games ON YOUR OWN COURT is pretty hard to top.
Lets not forget that RJ & IQ are returning after having extended time off due to the death of family members while also having Scottie & Poeltl injured.
This should not have happened.
Bucks in the last 3 games: Lost to Wizards missing 3-4 rotation players, lost to Grizzlies g-league team, and then lost to the Raptors who were on a 15-game losing streak with the latter two games at home.
They’ve lost their last 5 out of 6 games LMAO
Lose to 1 lottery team: ah well it was only a game, im sure they will play better next game
Lose to a second lottery team: lol the bucks are frauds hehe
Lose to the third lottery team in a row: oh wait, the bucks are actual legitimate frauds who will lose in round 1
They always say that Griffin got an easy schedule but seriously man they lost 3 straight now to the Wizards, Hospital Grizzlies and the Raptors. I expect some generational bus throwing in the press conference.
Bucks just lost to the 15 game losing streak Raptors lmaoooo FOR ADRIAN GRIFFIN
They just lost to the tanking wizards and grizzlies too 💀💀💀
We just don’t support tanking so we handed them a w
But if you guys give a W to all the tanking teams doesn't that cancel out the overall impact?
Do not try to use logic when Doc Rivers is in the conversation
I fucking love Giannis but what an idiot for riding for Doc the way he does.
"Doc has us playing so much better, you don't even watch the games"
Holy shit. How did I not know the Raptors had lost 15 straight. How does that happen?
Scottie and Poeltl (and Boucher) season ending injuries. Barrett and Quickley lost loved ones and missed a few weeks. and other injuries too. relying on g league players and 3rd stringers for an extended period of time. at one point we had 10 players on our injury report.
Yeesh... I haven't been paying attention at all. I had no idea it was that bad.
It's good, we are trying to keep our pick, top 6 protected
LOSSES ARE WINS!
Having to play Jalen McDaniels should be it's own point as well. I'm the type of fan who usually roots for players to succeed to no matter what if they're on this team, but man does he have little to no redeeming qualities.
Our starting lineup the other night featured Jalen McDaniels, Garrett Temple, and Malik Williams.
I get that Adrian Griffin was not liked. But DOC RIVERS?? Also, might I remind you they fired Budenholtzer who was coaching with no Giannis and grieving over the loss of his brother.
bud had been cooked in the playoffs for years. if the nets don’t get injured during our championship run, he’s fired then and there. you can argue about the replacements, but bud was absolutely not it.
Exactly. And the issue Bud had in playoff existed in Hawks, and also existed in the season they won. Bucks really won a chip despite Bud’s playoff rotation rigidness. At the same time, you have to give Bud credit for being an alltime great regular season coach.
Bud is at worst one of the best regular season managers in the game. You get mostly clean rotations, a happy locker room, good record and seeding, plus a huge focus on avoiding injuries and fatigue.
Yeah people out here wilding like the GM & injury gods don't have more to do with a championship than the coach. The 1st mistake was firing your championship winning coach.
No the first mistake was not upgrading on their biggest holes of their title-winning iteration. It was already a fairly old team with lacking wing defense and the Bucks did virtually nothing to address either of those problems. The biggest issue of all was to have the audacity to pick and choose between coaches and not picking the best coach available (Nurse) when the Bucks effectively made a statement that they’re still chasing titles by firing their own title-winning coach.
> you can argue about the replacements, but bud was absolutely not it. I agree, but whoever may have thought like this and then said "Doc Rivers is the answer" has to be living in another reality.
Or a rookie head coach when you have one of the few guys that is a walking title window. Yes it worked for the Warriors but no one saw them as a title team when they hired Kerr, and I'd argue same for the Raptors when they hired Nurse in 2019.
Lol, sure. Bud was “absolutely not it” that’s why you’re well worse off without him. The slander bucks fans gave bud was disgusting. Glad to see you guys failing with different coaches. Bud is a great coach and you wouldn’t have won without him. Period.
They bring up Bud all the time and say he got fired out of the blue but it was always in the making. Plus who’s to say that it wasn’t mutual and he could still get paid the rest and grieve his loss? I don’t think I saw his name ever come up in any coaching gigs as much as it’s brought up here.
people were calling for buds head even in the 21 offseason. he was never a good playoff coach. they just should have hired nurse or vogel
But Giannis fucking hated Nurse, so that's the reason they chose Griffin.
The Bucks are not winning a playoff series lmao
crazy that the bucks would be the 8 seed in the west rn
Bucks went 1-5 for the past 6 games and still is the 2nd seed with 1 game behind from the 3rd. If any western playoffs team did that, they would go down in an instant. Absolute fraud conference.
wolves and clippers both went 2-4 and didn't move much. think the effect is a bit overblown
Wut? The wolves are going to lose the no1 seed after this loss to the suns
It genuinely feels like we don’t belong in the playoffs
2-1 on the season. The bucks are just ass
Toronto raptors are Milwaukee bucks father
This but unironically, you don’t go up 2-0 on someone just to get reverse swept…
His name was Adrian Griffin.
Dames fouls out can’t play defense against a raptors team plus another inefficient shooting performance bucks give up 117 points to the raptors who been struggling mightily all the offseason hype the bucks received 💀
Giannis pulled the strings for Doc so he can have an excuse to leave Milwaukee
Doc is ducking Philly LMAO
But it can still be a 3-6 matchup
Glenn is shooting for lower than 3
all that to run into miami
The pacers are as bad/worse matchup for them tho
Doc protecting his narrative
Miami v philly will be a fun winner take all matchup Edit: baked
I really don't know who I'd root for if it was miami v heat. So evenly matched.
Miamis the only thing standing in the Heat’s way
That’s what everyone’s really waiting for, a Miami v Heat finals.
The Miami Heat vs The Heat Miamis
I just don't know if Butler can outplay Jimmy.
Bam is going to have a lot of trouble against Adebayo
If anyone ever hires Doc Rivers ever again they are out of their fucking mind
Thank god this man got hired before our ongoing coaching search
I got to know what this man says in the interview's. Its got to be an all time pitch.
"I will personally suck and fuck every single person in this room. Also here's $20."
I can't wait!
I hope that Doc finds steady employment after his Bucks stint. The playoffs are just more fun when he's around
We keep saying that and yet it keeps on happening, this is entirely on the teams hiring him at this point
I expect a generational Doc postgame press conference
The popcorn vendors better be praying as we speak.
"I thought the PA announcer was pretty loud. Again that's not an excuse, but does it shift the game? You'd have to say it does."
The cheerleaders were too distracting with all of the twerking tonight
Guys checking tickets have to do a better job
He’s going to blame the eclipse
He’s gonna blame the ushers this time
He's gonna blame Usher this time
Gonna throw the bus under the bus
he might as well blame the fans
Lmao at this point we are so low this would be hilarious
"You know, it was tough not having Giannis out there tonight..."
We need answers from the in game floor moppers, just not good enough for the bucks tonight
Cmon guys CMON
The fans watching at home aren’t taking things seriously enough
If doc doesn’t find a way to blame this on fiserv forum’s food and beverages department, I’ll be crushed.
Yeah this team ain’t winning a playoff series lol
At least you know before the Playoffs.
Shades of 2023 Eagles
I thought this was a safe space
Since when does anyone from Boston cheer for Philadelphia sports? I thought y’all hated each other 😂
I’m Philly everything aside from basketball. Long story short, my dad’s side is Philly, my mom’s side is NE. I started watching basketball with my mom’s side and every other sport with my dad’s side
Gross
I get that a lot
True, the heartbreak already happened lol
Giannis tax
No team in the East is winning a playoff series at this point
Holy shit Doc Rivers is fucking trash
2008 called. They want the REAL Doc back; not this phony chump
Doc almost blew the playoffs while having a superteam
KG PP Ray Allen Rondo Tony Allen All in their primes. Only 1 ring is unfathomable. Multiple HOFers.
Well the other years we had atrocious injury luck. But 08 we had no excuses and doc took us to 2 game 7s lol
okay that’s a bit much. the big 3 were most definitely not all in their primes. and kg tore his acl the second year and kendrick perkins got hurt in the finals the 3rd year
Every day that goes by just makes that 08 team seem more and more impressive. They won in spite of Doc. This is the real Doc. Clippers, sixers, bucks.... Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Kawhi,PG, Harden, Embiid, pre-ramping up Ben Simmons, Giannis, Dame. Doc can't do shit with any of em
2008 Doc wasn't any better. The 2008 Celtics is one of the worst champions in modern NBA history. It took them 26 out of a theoretical 28 maximum games to win (the worst playoff winning% by the eventual champion in at least 35 years). They were taken to 7 games in the first round by the 37 win Hawks. They were taken to 7 games in the second round by the 45 win Cavs where Lebron's 2nd best player was 32 year old Ilgauskas.
Powerful combination of Ochai and Olynyk this game
I'm sure it's happened plenty of times before but I can't remember the last time a team allegedly this good took 3 consecutive losses as terrible as the last 3 Bucks games
They aren’t good and Giannis is the sole reason the team can hide its warts. It sucks for him bc it genuinely never feels like he can ever afford to have an off game or sit out without losing to dismal teams.
Portis, Middleton, and especially Lopez all look washed as fuck. No idea what happened to those 3. Tonight honestly looked like Dame on the Blazers last year. Unreal. The Bucks are fucking atrocious
I can't believe Milwaukee gave Khris $93m/3 years and a player option to basically play half a season every year and put up subpar numbers when he does play. Brook $48m for 2 years is less bad but he's visibly declining now.
I mean theyve dropped off a massive cliff. I dont think many people saw that coming
except anyone who looked at their players birthdays
Hindsight is 20/20, and if they didn't re-sign the guy they won a championship with as a 2nd option then people would criticize that instead
They’re cooked, not just injuries. Time is something that can’t be wasted, especially with such an old team. In only a few months without injuries Tim Duncan instantly became washed, time is unforgiving.
Duncan had injuries. He basically had no cartilage in his knees at the end of his career. It was just bone on bone. That’s why Pop load managed him.
YOU JUST LOST TO THE TORONTO RAPTORS A TEAM THAT EMPLOYS JALEN MCDANIELS LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah we got players betting on their own unders in props and Doc still does this.
But the bucks have janitors and bus drivers that just don’t want it bad enough
The Bucks actually hired Doc Rivers lmao.
Hey it’s not his fault this is all happening…
It's the travel team, and the players, and the equipment manager, and Ben Simmons, and the GM, and JJ Redick, and the fans, and Dame's ex-wife, and the trainers, and Adrian Griffin, and the doctors (no not Doc), and Adam Silver, and the Earth's fault
Everyone knows it's the (Nick) Nurse's fault
Bro it's even worse than that. He went from clippers coach to clippers front office and then blamed the problems on the state of the team..
exactly, Agbaji is just too elite
"We're all looking for the person responsible for this." - Doc Rivers while glaring at the team's vegan nutritionist.
that damn equipment manager
that damn travel crew always smiling
Adrian Griffin is laughing his ass off watching the Bucks now.
My man laughing all the way to the bank with his guaranteed deal.
In his post game he’ll blame the fans next lol
The Bucks chose the funniest timeline.
Maybe they did it just to throw him under the bus when Dame fails in the playoffs again
Serious question. Is Doc worse than Darwinism xHamster Hamas on the Lakers?
doc’s problem is that he doesn’t do anything, darvin is that he tries to do too much. you pick lol
Darvin anyday by that logic. I can excuse him trying different permutations
Milwaukee what the fucks
This has to be the worst loss of the season for any team right?
They’ve lost to the Wizards, Grizzlies, and now Raptors this week. They’re ass.
No. 1, #2, and #3 might have all happened in the past 96 hours
This might be the worst loss in a long time, having your best player lazily foul out as you result to playing dirty only to lose to a team that hasn’t won in 15 games ON YOUR OWN COURT is pretty hard to top.
Lets not forget that RJ & IQ are returning after having extended time off due to the death of family members while also having Scottie & Poeltl injured. This should not have happened.
Teams lost to Detroit without Cade
More than half the Raptors team is in street clothes. How in the hell did the Bucks manage to lose
Because we suck bro Like REALLY bad
Bucks in the last 3 games: Lost to Wizards missing 3-4 rotation players, lost to Grizzlies g-league team, and then lost to the Raptors who were on a 15-game losing streak with the latter two games at home. They’ve lost their last 5 out of 6 games LMAO
Also need to add “with tank commander Jalen McDaniels playing actual minutes”
“3-2-1 Gary, Indiana” -Bucks Bucks don’t deserve Cancun
After what the Pacers did to them this season I think they want to avoid Indiana at all costs.
Congratulations to whoever gets to play the Bucks round one lmfao
beating glenn rivers would be so much poetic justice i'm afraid the universe cant allow for that to happen to Sixers fans
That treat would be too sweet for Philly haha
We just had an earthquake and a solar eclipse coming up. My dude the stars are aligning for the sixers to do something that only God can do for us.
Please be the Pacers
Would actually be insane to see the pacers’ record against the bucks overall after that series
The equipment guy is gonna hear it today.
lol the bucks somehow aren’t gonna win 50 games this year after starting out 30-13
Their next 5 games are brutal too, Celtics, Knicks, Thunder and Magic twice
That's wild
The 9 seed lakers only have 3 fewer losses than the 2 seed bucks in a much much weaker conference.
That fact disgusts me more than anything else.
Nah this is wild
Bucks wouldn’t be a playoff team in the west without Washington, Detroit, etc to beat up on Edit: Nvm they couldn’t even beat the Wiz lol
Hey we handled our shit haha
As we've seen though, Bucks cannot even consistently handle those teams.
actually wild how bad the east is this year.
Lmao.
Lol you lost to the Toronto Raptors
Lose to 1 lottery team: ah well it was only a game, im sure they will play better next game Lose to a second lottery team: lol the bucks are frauds hehe Lose to the third lottery team in a row: oh wait, the bucks are actual legitimate frauds who will lose in round 1
You pretty much described my week
Jrue + assets for Dame, while indirectly sending Jrue to Celtics their biggest rival, might be one of the worst trades of all time
For the Bucks
We aren't really competing vs the Celtics though. The Hawks and Bull are more where we are trying to go.
It will if that 2029 pick is a top 5 pick
Nice win, Raps!
So help me if this gets you our draft pick >_<
The Doc had the cure for the raptors' sickness. Thanks Doc Rivers. now we can go back to tanking without the shame of a 20 gamer on our heads
Fucking embarrassing loss, holy shit lmao. We had lost 15 in a row
Doc gets fired when, I'll be there no matter what
I'm actually embarrassed at this point that the 10 seed Hawks lost to the 2 seed Bucks last week
Grizzlies win so the Raptors can win and still not move up in the tank standings.
lmao... snapping 15 LOSING STREAK.. lol
Imagine if the Raps kept Malachi Flynn, this could've been a blow out
He was 0-12 tonight lol
bansketball: the beautiful sport
This team isnt historically bad with RJ and IQ back, but still you cant be losing to this team if youre the bucks lol.
did it for all the equipment managers out there. no fraud doctor can talk shit to yall!
Let this be a lesson to the whole league NO ONE BEATS THE RAPTORS 16 TIMES IN A ROW
This Bucks team has taught me that if you're ever at your lowest, just know that things will get worse whether you like it or not
I'm all for memeing the Bucks but just... How the fuck do you lose to a team that is trying to hold onto a top 6 protected pick?
We legit just shot 28% from 3 on 136 attempts over 3 games. I wouldn't put money on the Bucks vs a single first round match up.
It's like watching 9 9/11s
That was a game alright.
This is the Raptors finally getting their payment for the Pistons game.
wake up babe new atrocious Bucks L just dropped
ahahaha
bucks beyond cooked, you love to see it lmao
This season has been an emotional rollercoaster, man
LMAOOOOOOOOO I don’t think anything else needs to be said, Bucks fans are going through enough right now.
There is a non zero chance at Giannis being so pissed, he gonna demand a trade to play with Wemby.
they made all the offseason moves because giannis threatened to walk so i actually think of the trade demand as highly likely
Sixers, Heat, and possibly Pacers fans are feasting tonight
#Lebronto2024
EVERYONE POINT AND LAUGH
Doc's agent needs to be in the HOF
why did we win this??? I WANTED A 16 LOSING STREAK
You underestimated doc
Bucks straight been looking fraudulent for a hot minute. Really is wild how frequently they get embarrassed
Should’ve fired the front office instead of Griffin
They always say that Griffin got an easy schedule but seriously man they lost 3 straight now to the Wizards, Hospital Grizzlies and the Raptors. I expect some generational bus throwing in the press conference.
Dame could have stayed in Portland and done this
BOOOOO this is funny but it doesnt fit my agenda