Well that about does it for Dame’s relevant basketball career
Achilles at age 35
Tyrese on triple double watch but the bucks fans over here chanting overrated. Can’t make this stuff up 
It’s a major bummer. Dame was a super fun player, super loyal guy (I don’t think he wanted to leave to Portland at all), famously great leader. If he comes back, he’s going to be a reserve guard.
This also just absolutely nukes the Bucks future. He has 2 more years at $56 million per year, and I think he may literally be untradeable (like its not a matter of judgement, I don’t think it is possible to trade him no matter the return you accept). I never thought we’d get here but I think we’re REALLY close to considering Milwaukee trading Giannis?
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Giannis forcing his way out of Milwaukee is on the table. They don’t have a lot of tradeable assets if any at all. Dame, Kuz, and Giannis takes up the majority of the cap space. Brook is in his final year of contract so I’m guessing he’ll either retire or won’t be back with Milwaukee.
They’re cooked for the future. They probably need to do a reset.
Bucks are beyond cooked.
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Also, in a post-season with sporadic to “simply too much” physicality being allowed, there aren’t many better guys to have just physically beast guys than Randle. He had a few drives there that were probably charges, but in our world of YOLO refereeing, there aren’t many stronger guys.
I’m also radicalizing into “The Mavs were not wrong to trade Luka, it’s just that the return is laughable.”
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My podcasts confirm my complaints about the reffing in the Pistons game yesterday:
In the second half, the teams combined to shoot under 30% from the the paint, and under 40% at the rim after combining to be over 50% from both in the first half. The knicks were 1/14 in the paint in the third, and Duren only played 6 minutes in the 3rd!
The refs just went 90’s ball inside while both teams got whistled for hand-checks outside. Complete nonsense
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Going into the series I wanted to win a minimum of one game to break the drought. And hopefully two to get a third home game.
So while I’m upset at the non-call, part of me sees the potential upside of this team learning to value every possession (something I’m sure they’ve heard a million times, but some things you just have to learn the hard way.)
And I think a heartbreaking loss and some feelings of injustice can be good fuel for the off-season.
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That seems perfectly backward. I’m glad that I didn’t watch.
Can’t wait to see Ivey with an actual full roster next season.
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The Dame stuff is a serious serious bummer. It also means we have to do everything in our power to keep Giannis from joining OKC.
Let’s say Giannis wants out (seems likely at this point). Would love to be a fly on the wall in the OKC-MIL discussions.
Milwaukee has to insist on getting Chet or Jalen Williams. Then I think you’re adding in someone like Cason Wallace and a bunch of picks. Really interesting piece is how firm of a line OKC would draw on including their young guys vs pushing all their chips to the center of the table.
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The way these things work, the players going out would likely be more intended to balance salaries than provide value
I think, for instance, Hartenstein’s $28 million for next year basically HAS to be in there, and at that point you’re not dealing Chet as well. I think they have more than enough picks to sate Milwaukee’s desire to add future pieces. In their shoes, I think you see yourself as so far away from contending that I’m not even sure Williams has much value.
Anything can happen (see the Luka trade), but I don’t think you can trade a player of Giannis’ caliber and not get a cornerstone young player in return. Needs to be picks AND a guy that your coaching staff and fanbase can be excited about.
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Thunder needs to have Hartstein there at minimum in order to match salaries so a combo of Hartstein plus a combo Dort, Caruso, Chet, and Joe would make it work in addition to multiple 1st round picks.
Lowe being back is so sick
Listening to his Luka point right now and yea, I don’t disagree with you necessarily.
Personally I’d still give him more time to mature because if things click in his late 20’s, which is totally plausible, you’ll still have multiple rings.
I do think he’s a winner and he cares a ton about winning. He’s just really hard headed, which being that successful that young will do, and I think he probably also just really likes to eat/drink.
Listening to Tim McMahon on Bomani’s pod really breaks it all down so well to just how poor the approach was beyond the obvious of don’t trade the most valuable asset in the league for nothing. They mortgaged the future to build a winner around Luka. You already made your bed by giving up the picke. So you shortened your window to 3-4 years to maximize Luka years, just to trade him for an older less talented team in the same window. It makes an obviously horrible move just look that much dumber.
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Lol I just got to the part of Lowe - I generated my take in my own lizard brain!
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Last bit seems very likely. And I just don’t think he gets how hard you need to work on your body to make it through an incredibly long season and a much much longer career. I’m sure he works very hard compared to most of us but it’s just so next level.
Hopefully exposure to Lebron helps here.
Jalen Green & Jabari Smith Jr. + pics and cap-filler?
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Plus the expected amount of picks and I think that’s an offer that Milwaukee would at least have to think about.
Edit: read right past that you said picks