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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
On the other hand. You have a generational talent in Giannis and you would have expected more than one title out of them by now.
Bud has been inflexible with his lineups and unwilling to make adjustments in the playoffs before.
That being said, the Bucks have a lot of questions about the team around Giannis. They have an expensive team, they are on the older side they have trouble scoring efficiently.
I don't know what the answer is going forward.
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Honest question: Is it possible that the Bucks - and Giannis especially - are more built for the regular season than they are the playoffs? While and elite
scorer, consider that Giannis is not a particularly great
shooter. And when defensive rotations, commitment, and intensity picks up in the playoffs, that means that those easy regular season buckets that he was getting on his athleticism are a little harder to come by, and end up forcing lesser players (although Holiday, Middleton, and Lopez are no slouches) to make higher-pressure threes.
That, and the fact that the Bucks - pretty much alone among contenders in this respect - are the only team with a
single true star. The Bucks' supporting cast is very solid, but Middleton was never quite at that level and certainly isn't now. As good as Holiday is, nobody ever did or ever will consider him a 1A or a 1B. And that kind of depth but lack of a 2nd start is a recipe for regular season - but not post-season - success.