The Nuggets are going down the same route as the Bucks. 1. Win a championship, 2. Lose a key player in the offseason, 3. Have 1 last good playoff run, 4. Injuries keep them from competing? Hopefully the last one doesn't come true but their trajectories look eerily similar.
It's really not that complicated to add key players. They just need to trade their younger guys for seasoned veterans. If they make those moves, I can easily see them staying competitive for the next 4-6 years.
Side effect of Jokic being so good is that their other core players look much better than they actually are , leading them to being overpaid and making it more difficult to build around him.
Not even a joke but a lot of players and offices like him as a person is how I’ve heard it. Back in the day he apparently did a lot behind the scenes to help certain folks and it’s paying off now keeping him paid unfortunately
@@Irrelevant66 i mean if he's a chill dude him being paid isn't really bad, but like, if teams are bringing him in for his motivation and people management rather than basketball coaching than they should just, hire him for a different position that isn't Head Coach
Not only could the Nuggets barely win against the Toronto raptors, but they are also an injured team. Immanuel quickly, Kelly olynyk, Bruce brown, jakobe Walter, and scottie Barnes at the end of the 4th quarter were all injured tonight. I believe if scottie hadn't have gotten injured that the raptors would've been able to close the game.
And if the Raptors hit those few free throws at the end of the game and if they called a timeout instead of jacking up a 3 in transition, yes, the Raptors would've won.
Dame and Giannis aren’t the issue… they’re both putting up 30,6,6 and 30,10,6 respectively on their usual efficiency. The issue is that brook lopez has fallen off and no one else can hit a shot
@@aroag428 As well as the god awful coaching staff, pretty much everything outside of dame and giannis is a nightmare on the Bucks. But just like last year, everyone's gonna blame it on Dame and the Jrue trade.
Jeff Teague recently said it I believe this morning, in lesser words Giannis is more so like a point guard (as far as handling the ball/need to have the ball to be effective). When dame has the ball, he’s more so sitting and not doing anything due to his limitations offensively. He also said a large part why Jrue was so great was because he’s more of a Swiss Army knife that can do all things and make up for what giannis can’t do like set screens. Vise versa for dame- dame isn’t someone who will do things more effective that fits giannis game (aside from shooting) that helps. And I can see it.
Giving up Jrue Holiday is the most egregious mistake the Bucks have made since they won the title, even worse than hiring Doc Jrue does everything that is required in winning basketball games, and they were like nah we want the guy shooting thirty-footers
Why can’t a versatile and talented player like Gianni’s set screens and be physical off ball he was a damn dpoy that’s inexcusable and Dame isn’t the worse perimeter defender on the team and that’s a huge problem 💀 he’s also streaky but he shouldn’t be expected to be a 30ppg player anymore
I 100% agree with that Giannis take. Off the ball he has no physicality and cant screen for nothing. BUT i do see why it'd be hard for him since (from what i remember) last season he was top 20-15 for personal fouls so i imagine trying/adding the physical screen to his bag while could be good but also hurt his time on court. I just think when it comes to the Bucks what theyre missing is the presence of Middleton & maybe its time they move on from him and start scouting for others.
They are missing a wing player who can actually be trusted on defense and does some dirty work with good iq unironically a guy like draymond green 💀or something idk herb jones
Bucks : FO completely lost after coach Bud left, they're wasting Giannis prime with Doc & Ham. Nuggets : Worst bench since Jokic became a superstar + Malone and FO obviously not on the same page. Not easy to solve at all
The issue with Denver's bench is that you don't just randomly become a good shooter. They essentially have Strawther who is still raw and Braun who can shoot but not as well as you'd need him to. I can definitely think of SOME players they could pick up that could help. Torrey Craig and Jevon Carter on the Bulls are both getting DNPs, and although they both weren't amazing last season you can almost guarantee they'd shoot at their best with Jokic feeding them - they're also both solid enough on defense. They're both affordable as well, so maybe that's a trade that could be made to bolster the bench with some more shooting without having to dump many assets (probably just a simple salary match would work). Outside of getting rid of one of the core 4, they need to do fringe trades because so much of their salary cap is taken up by 4 players.
@KyleLowryRaptorsGOAT nah I think it was the right move. That team needed better coaching, even looking past the 1st round loss to Miami this was noticeable. However, if you told me that they were firing Bud just to eventually hire Doc Rivers, man get the fuck outta here, yo asses would've been better off staying with Bud.
@@KyleLowryRaptorsGOATthe part that will always bother Milwaukee fans is it objectively was a good decision because the team was starting to become stagnant and although he wasn’t the biggest issue, he wasn’t helping and he’s the type of coach that doesn’t adjust much. The problem came when Bucks management have chosen the WORST possible replacements since then😂
I’m not really concerned about Denver. Worst comes to worse they’ll probably be .500 at the trade deadline and move MPJ and turn him into a couple of players that can fill some of their holes. Milwaukee on the other hand, they might be cooked. The team is old and the coaching sucks. I don’t know how they trust Doc Rivers and Darvin Ham to get the job done.
I think the Warriors and Denver should trade. The Warriors need a bigger veteran shooting guard next to Steph. And they have too many "depth" players that can shoot and play defense, but nothing top end.
@@ky6632nah. The only trade that needs to happen between the nuggets and warriors ( that would shake the league up) is to save Jokic and send him to the warriors 😂
I saw a bucks video overreacting to when they beat the sixers without pg or embiid and the top comment was "darvin ham was the missing piece" and people were unironically defending it
@@Fent- It's not that they won 1 game, it's how they're playing and who they beat. They forreal look like a competent basketball team. They were killing the nuggets last night. It had to go overtime, but of course the best player in the league had to put them down.
As much as I love giannis as a bucks fan he has similar problems to what people gripe on with dame. When he is not playing well offensively he is not gonna help very much, his defense is supposed to be stellar but it seems like he is really not trying all that hard at the moment. He also can for some reason not set a screen which means brook Lopez has to come up to set screens for dame which makes it harder for him to get rebounds. Giannis also had a BAD game last night, even thought the stats looked well his turnovers and offensive fouls were far to frequent (I think he had 11 combined) and it led to lots of opportunities for the Celtics to make a run which they very much did once Giannis started to turn the ball over a lot. This is not to say Giannis is the problem but there needs to be some accountibility from him and he needs to get better at these things or this team will go nowhere and this trade and era will forever get looked at as dame being washed where it more seems like they can’t figure out how to play to eachothers strengths.
As a Bucks fan, that defense is flat out atrocious. In transition, at the point of attack, and switching off pick and rolls, it's really painful to watch. I think another aspect (as corny as this is worded) is simply energy/effort levels, which yes you can partly attribute to age....but sometimes it doesn't even look like Giannis and Dame are giving effort. There was a play last night in transition against D. White in the 1st where I was like "This should be an easy Giannis chasedown." and he just jogged back, no urgency whatsoever. *Sigh*, I think they're cooked.
I think the Nuggets will most likely make a trade to remedy their shooting woes. We'll see one or some of the younger guys leave for a somewhat decent shooter but they most likely will try their best to keep Christian Braun because he's by far the best young player on that team.
Putting the Thunder on the same tier as the Celtics is disrespectfing towards the Celtics and the other teams that have done more than OKC in recent years.
Eh only really disrespectful to celtics. The only team in the league that has proven anything recently AND not seen a major decline is dallas, and even then okc has enough talent on paper to be right there with them if not better
They have the potential to be on the Celtics level but they need to prove they can get it done for multiple playoff series first so I'll have some doubts regardless of how the regular season goes till they prove they are fully ready to do that which again because of the potential they might.
When y’all got rid of Green and Brown I knew this would happen. They used to come in and have an immediate effect. Nuggets bench is garbage now. Strawther decent but everyone else can’t shoot. Braun ain’t it 😂
Keep in mind that the bucks beat the 76ers for their only win in the first 3 games. A 76ers team with no Joel, PG, or Reggie Jackson. The bucks are hot ass.
Everyone was so worried about how Braun would fit with the starters, just for him to look like our 2nd best player through our first 3 games. Jamal, MPJ and AG should be ashamed. And while Russ was rough for the first 3, he was phenomenal in the 4th. Saric has looked like the worst NBA player to ever touch a court though
I’m a huge Giannis fan and in turn bucks Loved dame in Portland But as soon as they signed doc and Ham I knew it was over and couldn’t cheer for them anymore those coaches are SO bad
@@aroag428 "Pritchard just made all his spot up 3s" Yeah from the damn logo.... Dame was 2-8 from three you so much as create a gust of wind in his direction he was getting to the line. He got bailed out by the whistle just foul-baiting all game I really hate that style of basketball. Its why I enjoy seeing James Harden never winning shit.
I don’t wanna play arm chair psychologist but the vibes in Milwaukee just look TERRIBLE the team does not look like they enjoy playing with Doc or each other. Of course this definitely comes from the top since dame and Giannis just look like they arent really friends in general
The bucks are weird. They’re getting 30 ppg from Dame and Giannis, so their stars are playing at a good level. So why is everything going to shit around them? Like, how is Doc Rivers managing to find ways to sabotage these teams?
Although, the nuggets issues are pretty obvious, they are the Jokic show and outside of him, they don’t have anyone who could hit the broad side of a barn
Not trading MPJ, missing draft picks, signing Jamal to max, not signing experience cheap players and bringing freaking Russell Westbrook as the solution for the bench is just to much for Joker to compensate with his greatness, they are 15 win team without him, even with him I'm not sure they're top 6 on the west. Calvin Booth is an idiot and Mike Malone is the type of coach who will say "we gotta be better on both ends" instead of real coaching. Sadly, Nuggets are done.
I’m open to the nuggets getting better, and honestly hope they do. My question is, what path can they even take to get better? What assets for a trade helps them?
Dame is 90% of milwaukees problems on defense, He is a horrible defender and goes out of his way to guard the least offensive threat on every possession.
@KyushaNeverKnowsBest All went downhill went Dame joined, Brook was a great defender and has suddenly been trash since they added dame, He has destroyed the teams defensive chemistry, His lack of effort is causing everybody to have to do more on that side of the ball rather than focusing on what they do best.
As a nuggets fan, shooting is the issue, it was a poorly covered up issue last year, and it is a gaping hole in this team now. Russ is a symptom, not the problem. Other teams leave Christian Braun, Peyton Watson, AG, and Russell Westbrook wide open on the 3 daring them to shoot and heavily guard jokic, Jamal, and MPJ. Jamal and MPJ can’t get a rhythm at any point cause they can’t get any easy looks when the jokic jamal two man game is getting guard by 3-4 guys and MPJ is getting face guarded. Shout out to AG, he’s been making team pay for leaving him wide open on the 3, Braun isn’t hitting the jumpers but he’s cutting well, so he’s hitting layups, Watson is not though, and Russ obviously isn’t hitting his shots but he can’t even do the things he’s good at because the paint is always too packed. Our backup big position is vacant and probably not gonna be filled, and we have no spacing. Shoutout Tim Connelly for buffoonish trades that sent tons of our young developing talent in the late 2010s out for nothing at all, and I do literally mean nothing at all, and shoutout Calvin Booth for falling for the fool’s gold “2 time line” team building, strategy and letting any and all vets go without replacing them with anyone that might take the young guys minutes to try and force coach Malone’s hand in giving young guys burn for the sake of giving them burn, even at the expense of winning.
nba fans overrate giannis and Brook defense so much is crazy... mavs have a way better defense end transition defense so you gon tell me lively/gafford and pj Washington are beter Defender than giannis and brook? apparently yes... and pj aint an all defensive player, i could name tens of players way better than him... brook is too old and giannis Simply does not care as much as he did before to lock up on d thats it
Nuggets look putrid.theyve got to trade mpj for 2 quality shooters.got to dump his salary.they should also try to dump Jamal’s contract but that’s gonna be next to impossible.booth shut down their championship window
as a nuggets fan i don't care if anyone says we can't contend. as long as jokic is on the court we are contenders for everything. that being said....wtf is going on with my team? ag, jamal, and mpj are without a doubt the streakiest trio in the nba, and our bench HAS to be the worst, or if not, at least the worst bench of a contending team. y'all better fear the joker, but holy shit russ you gotta stop taking pull up shots bro. YOU ARE THE WORST VOLUME SHOOTER OF ALL TIME STOP IT. I LOVE YOU MAN BUT WHEN ARE YOU GONNA LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND SAY "I AM WHAT I AM". PLAY THAT BALLER ASS DEFENSE, BRING THAT HIGH OCTANE ENERGY, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T EVER TAKE ANOTHER 3 POINTER IN YOUR LIFE.
“As long as Jokic is out there”. That’s not how basketball works, only football is like that where if you have a great QB you have a chance no matter what. Jokic can’t win with a bad roster, and he can’t be on the floor for 48 minutes. They’re actually terrible when he’s on the bench. Jokic is amazing but this team isn’t
I ghink its also just early to judge teams. I understand looking into it but its 3 or 4 games in. As a lakers fan im geeked but i ghink Milwaukee and Denver will figure it out
When you have a coaching combination of Doc Rivers and Darvin Ham, that's not a good sign if you're the Bucks and the same can be said for the Nuggets when you have a washed up Westbrick on their team and no shooters whatsoever because they locked in to their 4 main guys to long term extensions that will eventually cripple them years down the line because that would enable them to sign free agents that can help this team.
The nuggets bench/non Jokic line ups are completely new, and also with a couple unproven players. I feel like they should really start to be judged after 15-20 games when those line ups had more time to gel.
I love the bucks but there old and slow simple, we’re to old to try hang with the young guys in the league, Giannis can’t screen well and can’t play off ball well, when he gets wall up and he kicks it out most of the players brick and don’t get back on defence and doc with ham is blessing in disguise for other teams when there against us.
The Dame in Milwaukee thing was a predictable fail from the jump. No defense from Dame. Jrue is more useful to a TEAM even if his offensive bag isnt as good. At some point....scoring is kinda redundant in this league.
Except the bucks specifically showed after their playoff failures that they needed more offence, which Jrue wasn’t providing. And we’ve seen bad defensive point guards get hidden in good defences many times before, the issue here is just a combination of bad coaching, losing defensive role players and brook/Middleton aging
They really messed up on that one, they would have been better off moving on from Middleton but they overreacted after that sweep and put the pieces in play for Jrue Holiday to go to their rivals where he's honestly a better fit.
@@YouCanCallMeReTro Middleton wouldn’t have gotten them dame. They didn’t prefer him over Jrue, Jrue was just the piece they needed for the trade to happen
Jokic has the most overrated supporting cast ever. None of his 3 best teammates are the same with him off the floor. They owe him at least half their paycheck
As a life long C's fan I'm terrified the bucks will end up atrocious and have a losing record at the all star break. Leading to giannis being traded to the okc for jaylen williams and a million picks.
kenny if he actually wants to become a coach I would like to hear things from a coaching side for example today with the bucks and nuggets he should have added what he would do as a coach to help fix the problems and its like the thing jj redick did with the podcast.
If i remember correct, when they won the championship, Giannis was usually the help defender but i could be wrong. Doc Rivers cant coach in this era. Hes not a bad coach. Not the only issue though. Giannis needs to set screens with Dame. Lopez needs to be gone. Giannis had to play center. They need to get another defender as a starter.
The problem is pretty simple. Milwaukee needs 3 and D wings. They have no perimiter defenders. The Nuggets need more top 8 level rotational players. They have no depth. Neither one has the assetts to do much
the nuggets rely too heavily on Jokic dropping 40 points to win in tight games. if a rebuilding Toronto raptors team that has 2 of their best bench players and their starting pg out and still has a better bench than you, that's a HUGE problem.
Imo the bucks could turn it around. Continuity and coaching adjustments can still make good use of the roster especially if Dame is playing at an all nba level again. Denver's system is broken at this point with their shooting issues. And the roster needs to be better if they want to contend again
as someone who’s seen almost every bucks game for the last 5 years kenny isn’t wrong about middleton not being a fix it blanket. but middleton has always been one of our top 2 playmakers while also being able to get a bucket at all 3 levels with no assistance. the danger of the bucks is supposed to be in the dame and giannis duo while kmidd is doing his own thing on the side too
Markelle Fultz's agent should hit the Nuggets up, even with him being a health risk they've got so little offensive production off of their bench where it'd be worth a shot to get him on a minimum
I’m a Raps fan and so proud of my team. Punching above their weight so far. Shead (pronounced “shed) looks like Lowry 2.0. Mogbo (“Moh-Boh”) looking good too! Doesn’t hurt that he and Scottie are childhood friends
No man, the young Teams are making waves now. The magic, the thunder, the Cavs, I haven’t really watched too much of the West Orlando coming that’s for sure.
10:26 and this ladies and gentleman is the reason the big guy is winning his 4th mvp this year and cracking the top ten all time lists….. I’m a Sixers fan btw I’m not bias I’m just not blind either I don’t understand people who hate the joker tbh he just hoops and at an elite level at that
Doc Rivers has an outstanding skill in making every team he coaches worse.
I think the Celtics hired him to destroy the bucks.
And making excuses or passing blame for the struggles 😂
I can do that too. His outstanding skill is his ability to keep getting hired by contenders.
Darvin Scam and Doc “Cookie Monster” Rivers is a duo for the ages 🎉
He’s been coasting since tht Celtic Championship. It’s incredible how he keeps getting gigs.
Doc Rivers and Darvin Ham are on the same team. Let that sink in.
Greatest coaching staff of all time
Not even a 4-0 lead is safe 😂
U mean Darvin Scam
darvin ham was a major part for the bucks championship in 2021
The Shaq and Kobe of bad coaching
The Nuggets are going down the same route as the Bucks.
1. Win a championship, 2. Lose a key player in the offseason, 3. Have 1 last good playoff run, 4. Injuries keep them from competing?
Hopefully the last one doesn't come true but their trajectories look eerily similar.
Nah the nuggets just don’t have a goddamn shooter. Need more than 1. Their center is their best perimeter shooter rn.
Injuries took 2 season away from the nuggets early in their window
It's really not that complicated to add key players. They just need to trade their younger guys for seasoned veterans. If they make those moves, I can easily see them staying competitive for the next 4-6 years.
@@isho2xwhat a horrible take
@@isho2x😂this ain’t 2k bud
Side effect of Jokic being so good is that their other core players look much better than they actually are , leading them to being overpaid and making it more difficult to build around him.
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@@jojoprocess2820 Jokic is one of the only guys to have won a championship as the only active all star on the team. Give some respect to him.
@@jojoprocess2820it’s true tho Murray and MPJ are bums that are way overpaid because of inflated stats that they got by playing around jokic
So true I’ve been saying the same thing
This is true. We need to get Jokic an all star
How is Doc still getting paid based off of his 1 championship 16 years ago?
Not even a joke but a lot of players and offices like him as a person is how I’ve heard it. Back in the day he apparently did a lot behind the scenes to help certain folks and it’s paying off now keeping him paid unfortunately
@@Irrelevant66 i mean if he's a chill dude him being paid isn't really bad, but like, if teams are bringing him in for his motivation and people management rather than basketball coaching than they should just, hire him for a different position that isn't Head Coach
@@otavioferreira3405 Agreed, that’s why it’s an issue isn’t that he’s staying employed it’s that he gets the big boss seat
Not only could the Nuggets barely win against the Toronto raptors, but they are also an injured team. Immanuel quickly, Kelly olynyk, Bruce brown, jakobe Walter, and scottie Barnes at the end of the 4th quarter were all injured tonight. I believe if scottie hadn't have gotten injured that the raptors would've been able to close the game.
For sure plus RJ was in his first game back from injury
And if the Raptors hit those few free throws at the end of the game and if they called a timeout instead of jacking up a 3 in transition, yes, the Raptors would've won.
@@KyleLowryRaptorsGOATcool you can say “if these things happened we win” for any game. You lost
@@Fent-not the point of what he’s saying
@@Fent-okay so does that same logic apply to our finals run? 😂
Dame and Giannis really couldnt link up once during the off season bruh, its like they thought the last season wasnt a disappointment
Dame and Giannis aren’t the issue… they’re both putting up 30,6,6 and 30,10,6 respectively on their usual efficiency. The issue is that brook lopez has fallen off and no one else can hit a shot
@@aroag428 As well as the god awful coaching staff, pretty much everything outside of dame and giannis is a nightmare on the Bucks. But just like last year, everyone's gonna blame it on Dame and the Jrue trade.
Dame for some reason got even worse on defense
@@adriandantedanosos4146wrong the bucks as a whole got worst. Dame honestly hasn’t been as bad as he was the past couple years
@@aroag428 falling off is expected of a 36 year old center
11:43 W editing
Went to the comments right after I seen this shit hahahah
One good thing about Denver being ass is we finally get to see what a score first Nikola Jokic is..and its a sight to see as a basketball fan 😅
They gonna double team...a lot of bad shootets on the roster...
you saw it the first 2 MVP years when he was by himself
Bro gonna pass it to westbrook 3, only to miss the whole rim 🥶
@@euro51116 tbf they still had SOME shooting in those years, whereas now you've got a wing in his third year as ur second best shooter
He gon average 10 assists still
30/12/10
2:54 "Doesn't matter, it's Payton Pritchard" so nonchalantly had me absolutely dead
Put tears in my eyes man 😭
We just need nore consistency from him ,so glad he's locked in
It’s just Payton Pritchard, you can’t do anything about it
@@BAMTHEWAVEhow much more consistency do you need? Like what…lmfao
@@Fent- wym?
@@BAMTHEWAVEHe shot 38% from 3 and 47% from the field on 82 games his last real season
Jeff Teague recently said it I believe this morning, in lesser words Giannis is more so like a point guard (as far as handling the ball/need to have the ball to be effective). When dame has the ball, he’s more so sitting and not doing anything due to his limitations offensively. He also said a large part why Jrue was so great was because he’s more of a Swiss Army knife that can do all things and make up for what giannis can’t do like set screens. Vise versa for dame- dame isn’t someone who will do things more effective that fits giannis game (aside from shooting) that helps. And I can see it.
Giving up Jrue Holiday is the most egregious mistake the Bucks have made since they won the title, even worse than hiring Doc
Jrue does everything that is required in winning basketball games, and they were like nah we want the guy shooting thirty-footers
This is why giannis to the warriors
Why can’t a versatile and talented player like Gianni’s set screens and be physical off ball he was a damn dpoy that’s inexcusable and Dame isn’t the worse perimeter defender on the team and that’s a huge problem 💀 he’s also streaky but he shouldn’t be expected to be a 30ppg player anymore
I 100% agree with that Giannis take. Off the ball he has no physicality and cant screen for nothing. BUT i do see why it'd be hard for him since (from what i remember) last season he was top 20-15 for personal fouls so i imagine trying/adding the physical screen to his bag while could be good but also hurt his time on court. I just think when it comes to the Bucks what theyre missing is the presence of Middleton & maybe its time they move on from him and start scouting for others.
middleton is aging in dog years. he needs to go
@@cooperhayes1194they if any team wants him
I though I was tripping when I saw a Siege youtuber here lol. Love your vids.
@ Yessssirrr big ball fan! Thanks for the support as well🖤🤍
They are missing a wing player who can actually be trusted on defense and does some dirty work with good iq unironically a guy like draymond green 💀or something idk herb jones
You brought it up, but good luck becoming a coach. I hope you get to enjoy that side of the sport
Bucks : FO completely lost after coach Bud left, they're wasting Giannis prime with Doc & Ham.
Nuggets : Worst bench since Jokic became a superstar + Malone and FO obviously not on the same page.
Not easy to solve at all
Firing Bud might be the biggest sell of all time. Lmaoooo what a joke
The issue with Denver's bench is that you don't just randomly become a good shooter. They essentially have Strawther who is still raw and Braun who can shoot but not as well as you'd need him to. I can definitely think of SOME players they could pick up that could help. Torrey Craig and Jevon Carter on the Bulls are both getting DNPs, and although they both weren't amazing last season you can almost guarantee they'd shoot at their best with Jokic feeding them - they're also both solid enough on defense. They're both affordable as well, so maybe that's a trade that could be made to bolster the bench with some more shooting without having to dump many assets (probably just a simple salary match would work). Outside of getting rid of one of the core 4, they need to do fringe trades because so much of their salary cap is taken up by 4 players.
@@logan62097 They need to trade for a bench shooter with Nnaji's contract and drop Saric for a better back up big.
@KyleLowryRaptorsGOAT nah I think it was the right move. That team needed better coaching, even looking past the 1st round loss to Miami this was noticeable. However, if you told me that they were firing Bud just to eventually hire Doc Rivers, man get the fuck outta here, yo asses would've been better off staying with Bud.
@@KyleLowryRaptorsGOATthe part that will always bother Milwaukee fans is it objectively was a good decision because the team was starting to become stagnant and although he wasn’t the biggest issue, he wasn’t helping and he’s the type of coach that doesn’t adjust much. The problem came when Bucks management have chosen the WORST possible replacements since then😂
1:05 HIT IT FERGIE
That was funny😭😭😭
Lmao 😭
I’m not really concerned about Denver. Worst comes to worse they’ll probably be .500 at the trade deadline and move MPJ and turn him into a couple of players that can fill some of their holes. Milwaukee on the other hand, they might be cooked. The team is old and the coaching sucks. I don’t know how they trust Doc Rivers and Darvin Ham to get the job done.
I think the Warriors and Denver should trade. The Warriors need a bigger veteran shooting guard next to Steph. And they have too many "depth" players that can shoot and play defense, but nothing top end.
The issue is, would either team agree to make the other better when they're in the same conference.
I agree, if nuggets just move some pieces and add minimum vets that can score I see them competing for a championship easily.
@@ky6632 Exactly if the nuggets trade Peyton Watson, Christan Braun and Zeke naaji for moody and melton it can make both teams better for sure
@@ky6632nah. The only trade that needs to happen between the nuggets and warriors ( that would shake the league up) is to save Jokic and send him to the warriors 😂
I saw a bucks video overreacting to when they beat the sixers without pg or embiid and the top comment was "darvin ham was the missing piece" and people were unironically defending it
Literally 0 chance this happened unironically btw
@@Fent- go find it and read the comment then bud
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Dmills might be right about the nets winning more than 18 games lol
Why do you people overreact so much to the first few weeks of the season lol. They’ve won 1 game so far.
@@Fent-Issa joke…
Boy tried telling yall it was a 🔒
The Brooklyn Nets won 32 games last season and I don’t know why 18 is your limit.
@@Fent- It's not that they won 1 game, it's how they're playing and who they beat. They forreal look like a competent basketball team. They were killing the nuggets last night. It had to go overtime, but of course the best player in the league had to put them down.
Each time you post, it's a treat!
As much as I love giannis as a bucks fan he has similar problems to what people gripe on with dame. When he is not playing well offensively he is not gonna help very much, his defense is supposed to be stellar but it seems like he is really not trying all that hard at the moment. He also can for some reason not set a screen which means brook Lopez has to come up to set screens for dame which makes it harder for him to get rebounds. Giannis also had a BAD game last night, even thought the stats looked well his turnovers and offensive fouls were far to frequent (I think he had 11 combined) and it led to lots of opportunities for the Celtics to make a run which they very much did once Giannis started to turn the ball over a lot. This is not to say Giannis is the problem but there needs to be some accountibility from him and he needs to get better at these things or this team will go nowhere and this trade and era will forever get looked at as dame being washed where it more seems like they can’t figure out how to play to eachothers strengths.
As a Bucks fan, that defense is flat out atrocious. In transition, at the point of attack, and switching off pick and rolls, it's really painful to watch. I think another aspect (as corny as this is worded) is simply energy/effort levels, which yes you can partly attribute to age....but sometimes it doesn't even look like Giannis and Dame are giving effort. There was a play last night in transition against D. White in the 1st where I was like "This should be an easy Giannis chasedown." and he just jogged back, no urgency whatsoever. *Sigh*, I think they're cooked.
I know I noticed that too, 2019 giannis was such a try hard now giannis be settling
I think the Nuggets will most likely make a trade to remedy their shooting woes. We'll see one or some of the younger guys leave for a somewhat decent shooter but they most likely will try their best to keep Christian Braun because he's by far the best young player on that team.
Great point at 5:50. He is turrible at the PnR and he rarely if ever boxes out or goes searching for Offensive Rebounda that just dont fall his way.
Those Ben Simmons 2 points were the difference maker
Putting the Thunder on the same tier as the Celtics is disrespectfing towards the Celtics and the other teams that have done more than OKC in recent years.
Eh only really disrespectful to celtics. The only team in the league that has proven anything recently AND not seen a major decline is dallas, and even then okc has enough talent on paper to be right there with them if not better
@@jojoprocess2820 Exactly
They have the potential to be on the Celtics level but they need to prove they can get it done for multiple playoff series first so I'll have some doubts regardless of how the regular season goes till they prove they are fully ready to do that which again because of the potential they might.
2:00 yo Kenny gonna be an NBA coach in 3 years?
Kenny Beachaum as the head coach of the clippers let’s make it happen
at first i thought he was referencing coaching his kid’s basketball team or something, but the stakes aren’t that high that he has to start now 😂
What type of blackmail does Doc Rivers have on NBA teams for them to continue hiring them?
Man I LOVE this kind of videos analyzing games/teams, keep it coming Kenny 🫶🏼
Shead rhymes with head and dead, not read or lead (not to be confused with read and lead). And the "g" in Mogbo is silent. Just so you know.
Can't even get mad at everyone clowning my Denver Nuggets. We look bad. Baaaad.
When y’all got rid of Green and Brown I knew this would happen. They used to come in and have an immediate effect. Nuggets bench is garbage now. Strawther decent but everyone else can’t shoot. Braun ain’t it 😂
Keep in mind that the bucks beat the 76ers for their only win in the first 3 games. A 76ers team with no Joel, PG, or Reggie Jackson. The bucks are hot ass.
kenny looking like a young king in the thumbnail
Bald king
DWhite blocking Giannis yesterday was one of the coolest moments lol
The new rules with the 2nd apron makes it near impossible for there to be dynasties anymore unless your a team like OKC with 100 draft picks
Everyone was so worried about how Braun would fit with the starters, just for him to look like our 2nd best player through our first 3 games. Jamal, MPJ and AG should be ashamed. And while Russ was rough for the first 3, he was phenomenal in the 4th. Saric has looked like the worst NBA player to ever touch a court though
I’m a huge Giannis fan and in turn bucks
Loved dame in Portland
But as soon as they signed doc and Ham
I knew it was over and couldn’t cheer for them anymore those coaches are SO bad
People needs to start about the Cavs being Contenders starting 4-0
they played the pistons raptors n wizards
They have been very good. But they played the absolute worst of the worst the first 3 games.
@@arhamirfan8010 leaving out the knicks intentionally I see
@@GizmonoGameslmao, bro doesn’t wanna admit they looking nice. Gonna be a great game tmr between Lakers and Cavs
@@GizmonoGames yeah cause they only beat 1 good team
payton pritchard outplaying dame is crazy, I love it
thanks for jrue btw
We didn’t give you jrue
@@Wetbedsheet12I don’t think he pays enough attention to basketball to know that lol
@@Wetbedsheet12Happened indirectly
If all it takes to “outplay” someone is efficiency, I guess he did. Dame played a better game though. Pritchard just made all his spot up 3s
@@aroag428 "Pritchard just made all his spot up 3s" Yeah from the damn logo.... Dame was 2-8 from three you so much as create a gust of wind in his direction he was getting to the line. He got bailed out by the whistle just foul-baiting all game I really hate that style of basketball. Its why I enjoy seeing James Harden never winning shit.
One thing I’ve noticed about Milwaukee is they rarely get easy points. Bucks are top 5 worst teams to watch entertainment/flow of game wise.
Popped up on my break perfect timing.
I don’t wanna play arm chair psychologist but the vibes in Milwaukee just look TERRIBLE the team does not look like they enjoy playing with Doc or each other. Of course this definitely comes from the top since dame and Giannis just look like they arent really friends in general
The bucks are weird. They’re getting 30 ppg from Dame and Giannis, so their stars are playing at a good level. So why is everything going to shit around them? Like, how is Doc Rivers managing to find ways to sabotage these teams?
Although, the nuggets issues are pretty obvious, they are the Jokic show and outside of him, they don’t have anyone who could hit the broad side of a barn
Not trading MPJ, missing draft picks, signing Jamal to max, not signing experience cheap players and bringing freaking Russell Westbrook as the solution for the bench is just to much for Joker to compensate with his greatness, they are 15 win team without him, even with him I'm not sure they're top 6 on the west. Calvin Booth is an idiot and Mike Malone is the type of coach who will say "we gotta be better on both ends" instead of real coaching. Sadly, Nuggets are done.
its so cool to see how far youve come Kenny, been watching you for years and im so proud of everything youve achieved! Keep going hard
It literally been 3 games.🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s astounding seeing the post championship bill come due for Denver and Milwaukee.
I’m open to the nuggets getting better, and honestly hope they do. My question is, what path can they even take to get better? What assets for a trade helps them?
MPJ and a pick to Atlanta for Hunter and Bogdanovic. They need depth
Kenny PLS do more breakdowns! Love the vids man been watching since the NBA quizzes back in the day it's sweet to see how much you grew
Super articulate, knowledgeable, and entertaining. Excited to have found your channel.
Does anyone know what site he using here 1:56 ?
seconding this
fivethirtyeight
@@SuperShadowifythe site is called cleaningtheglass, they have some stats for free others are behind a paywall
1:41 just ruined my high
Dame is 90% of milwaukees problems on defense, He is a horrible defender and goes out of his way to guard the least offensive threat on every possession.
What about connaughton or brook
@KyushaNeverKnowsBest All went downhill went Dame joined, Brook was a great defender and has suddenly been trash since they added dame, He has destroyed the teams defensive chemistry, His lack of effort is causing everybody to have to do more on that side of the ball rather than focusing on what they do best.
@ well that’s what they get for breaking up the team to get a superstar
Kenny awesome job with this channel. Love the comprehensive NBA coverage and breakdowns my man.
Perfect timing to check up on the Kenny channel
As a nuggets fan, shooting is the issue, it was a poorly covered up issue last year, and it is a gaping hole in this team now. Russ is a symptom, not the problem. Other teams leave Christian Braun, Peyton Watson, AG, and Russell Westbrook wide open on the 3 daring them to shoot and heavily guard jokic, Jamal, and MPJ. Jamal and MPJ can’t get a rhythm at any point cause they can’t get any easy looks when the jokic jamal two man game is getting guard by 3-4 guys and MPJ is getting face guarded. Shout out to AG, he’s been making team pay for leaving him wide open on the 3, Braun isn’t hitting the jumpers but he’s cutting well, so he’s hitting layups, Watson is not though, and Russ obviously isn’t hitting his shots but he can’t even do the things he’s good at because the paint is always too packed. Our backup big position is vacant and probably not gonna be filled, and we have no spacing.
Shoutout Tim Connelly for buffoonish trades that sent tons of our young developing talent in the late 2010s out for nothing at all, and I do literally mean nothing at all, and shoutout Calvin Booth for falling for the fool’s gold “2 time line” team building, strategy and letting any and all vets go without replacing them with anyone that might take the young guys minutes to try and force coach Malone’s hand in giving young guys burn for the sake of giving them burn, even at the expense of winning.
nba fans overrate giannis and Brook defense so much is crazy... mavs have a way better defense end transition defense so you gon tell me lively/gafford and pj Washington are beter Defender than giannis and brook? apparently yes... and pj aint an all defensive player, i could name tens of players way better than him... brook is too old and giannis Simply does not care as much as he did before to lock up on d thats it
lets make It clear giannis Is still a top 3 player in the league but his defense Is not even close that what It was
Nuggets look putrid.theyve got to trade mpj for 2 quality shooters.got to dump his salary.they should also try to dump Jamal’s contract but that’s gonna be next to impossible.booth shut down their championship window
We need a update on Mike with Zubac
as a nuggets fan i don't care if anyone says we can't contend. as long as jokic is on the court we are contenders for everything. that being said....wtf is going on with my team? ag, jamal, and mpj are without a doubt the streakiest trio in the nba, and our bench HAS to be the worst, or if not, at least the worst bench of a contending team. y'all better fear the joker, but holy shit russ you gotta stop taking pull up shots bro. YOU ARE THE WORST VOLUME SHOOTER OF ALL TIME STOP IT. I LOVE YOU MAN BUT WHEN ARE YOU GONNA LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND SAY "I AM WHAT I AM". PLAY THAT BALLER ASS DEFENSE, BRING THAT HIGH OCTANE ENERGY, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T EVER TAKE ANOTHER 3 POINTER IN YOUR LIFE.
So far theyre not even close to contenders idk how u can be so biased but we’ll see after a few more games
“As long as Jokic is out there”. That’s not how basketball works, only football is like that where if you have a great QB you have a chance no matter what. Jokic can’t win with a bad roster, and he can’t be on the floor for 48 minutes. They’re actually terrible when he’s on the bench. Jokic is amazing but this team isn’t
And don't forget we can easily revamp our bench and bring in way better players if the FO do there job!!!
Please do a vid on Grizzlies in the first half vs second half
Kenny with the TD3 promo
I ghink its also just early to judge teams. I understand looking into it but its 3 or 4 games in. As a lakers fan im geeked but i ghink Milwaukee and Denver will figure it out
Kenny please don’t talk about my nuggets. It makes me upseti sphaghetti
Just wait a few months until the trade deadline. We’re definitely cutting and trading players to secure that first seed again-just watch.
MPJ has to go.
At least y'all won the game. My Raptors SOLD SO HARD 😭😭
hey man I've seen so many people get this wrong. but Jamal Shead is pronounced SHH-EDD
When you have a coaching combination of Doc Rivers and Darvin Ham, that's not a good sign if you're the Bucks and the same can be said for the Nuggets when you have a washed up Westbrick on their team and no shooters whatsoever because they locked in to their 4 main guys to long term extensions that will eventually cripple them years down the line because that would enable them to sign free agents that can help this team.
Kenny don’t hate the Denver nuggets challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) (we are 3 games into the season)
I’m loving this consistency ❤
The nuggets bench/non Jokic line ups are completely new, and also with a couple unproven players. I feel like they should really start to be judged after 15-20 games when those line ups had more time to gel.
As a Okc fan and an overall basketball fan, I appreciate these type of breakdowns videos from Kenny 🔥
It's a crazy world we live in when my Nets look a lot better than the 2021 and 2023 NBA champs.
Yall still ass lol
Imagine shutting down tatum just to get cooked by Payton Pritchard 😂
Head Coach Kenny gonna shake up the league 😰
I love the bucks but there old and slow simple, we’re to old to try hang with the young guys in the league, Giannis can’t screen well and can’t play off ball well, when he gets wall up and he kicks it out most of the players brick and don’t get back on defence and doc with ham is blessing in disguise for other teams when there against us.
I see the td3 merch Kenny💀
What’s the website kenny uses to see the stats? Not basketball reference but the one at the beginning of the video
Coach tier list ?
The Dame in Milwaukee thing was a predictable fail from the jump. No defense from Dame. Jrue is more useful to a TEAM even if his offensive bag isnt as good. At some point....scoring is kinda redundant in this league.
Except the bucks specifically showed after their playoff failures that they needed more offence, which Jrue wasn’t providing.
And we’ve seen bad defensive point guards get hidden in good defences many times before, the issue here is just a combination of bad coaching, losing defensive role players and brook/Middleton aging
Idk if jrue was on this team then their offense would instead be terrible. Its more about the coaching and talent around their top players
They really messed up on that one, they would have been better off moving on from Middleton but they overreacted after that sweep and put the pieces in play for Jrue Holiday to go to their rivals where he's honestly a better fit.
@@YouCanCallMeReTro Middleton wouldn’t have gotten them dame. They didn’t prefer him over Jrue, Jrue was just the piece they needed for the trade to happen
@@ztlabraptor211 Yeah but in their overreaction they were willing to part with him which was a terrible error, it wasn't worth the cost.
it’s outstanding how bad my bucks defense is considering we hired doc to “fix” our defense in midseason
Am I bugging or are the nets playing good basketball despite being a bottom team
Jokic has the most overrated supporting cast ever. None of his 3 best teammates are the same with him off the floor. They owe him at least half their paycheck
As a life long C's fan I'm terrified the bucks will end up atrocious and have a losing record at the all star break. Leading to giannis being traded to the okc for jaylen williams and a million picks.
kenny if he actually wants to become a coach I would like to hear things from a coaching side for example today with the bucks and nuggets he should have added what he would do as a coach to help fix the problems and its like the thing jj redick did with the podcast.
If i remember correct, when they won the championship, Giannis was usually the help defender but i could be wrong.
Doc Rivers cant coach in this era. Hes not a bad coach.
Not the only issue though. Giannis needs to set screens with Dame. Lopez needs to be gone. Giannis had to play center. They need to get another defender as a starter.
Kenny thumbnail WTF!!!
The problem is pretty simple. Milwaukee needs 3 and D wings. They have no perimiter defenders. The Nuggets need more top 8 level rotational players. They have no depth. Neither one has the assetts to do much
the nuggets rely too heavily on Jokic dropping 40 points to win in tight games. if a rebuilding Toronto raptors team that has 2 of their best bench players and their starting pg out and still has a better bench than you, that's a HUGE problem.
Imo the bucks could turn it around. Continuity and coaching adjustments can still make good use of the roster especially if Dame is playing at an all nba level again. Denver's system is broken at this point with their shooting issues. And the roster needs to be better if they want to contend again
Was waitin for this one 🔥
Seeing this while the Nets put 40 on Denver in the first quarter is insane...
As a Bucks fan the sec I heard we were getting Doc as the new head coach we were done until he's fired
Love form Scotland 🏴 i love your vids been watching every week since 2020 makes my day so much better
These last 2 off seasons for the Nugs have been dreadful. How have the FO bungled things so badly?
Crazy how much KCP mattered to Denver
Braun is playing better than him on both sides of the ball. This is a lazy take nuggets problems are jamal and mpj so far + backup center
as someone who’s seen almost every bucks game for the last 5 years kenny isn’t wrong about middleton not being a fix it blanket. but middleton has always been one of our top 2 playmakers while also being able to get a bucket at all 3 levels with no assistance. the danger of the bucks is supposed to be in the dame and giannis duo while kmidd is doing his own thing on the side too
also giannis CAN set screens he can just only seem to set them the way khris likes them and not dame😭
Markelle Fultz's agent should hit the Nuggets up, even with him being a health risk they've got so little offensive production off of their bench where it'd be worth a shot to get him on a minimum
He has the same faults as Russ though, and you’re obviously not playing those two together
I’m a Raps fan and so proud of my team. Punching above their weight so far. Shead (pronounced “shed) looks like Lowry 2.0. Mogbo (“Moh-Boh”) looking good too! Doesn’t hurt that he and Scottie are childhood friends
No man, the young Teams are making waves now. The magic, the thunder, the Cavs, I haven’t really watched too much of the West Orlando coming that’s for sure.
10:26 and this ladies and gentleman is the reason the big guy is winning his 4th mvp this year and cracking the top ten all time lists….. I’m a Sixers fan btw I’m not bias I’m just not blind either I don’t understand people who hate the joker tbh he just hoops and at an elite level at that
I really don't think we'll be seeing these teams in the finals again this decade
im gonna be so hype when I see Kenny on the sidelines of the nbc finals someday