Game 43: Pistons vs Bucks 7PM EST

[NYPiston]

This is fun. Sasser needs more run, coach needs to stop dicking him around.

Edit: It WAS fun

[Piston Pete]

Sasser should be taking all of Killian’s minutes

[bstein14]

Sasser should be taking all of Killian’s minutes

Only 16 minutes for Killian tonight is more than I'd like but earlier this year he was getting big minutes even with Cade, Ivey and Burks all healthy so coach is at least learning slowly. Hopefully Killian is done for the night.

[vege]

Our 2nd unit is so good

Sasser + Burks + Amen + Stew + one of the new guys is a pretty solid bench.

Ausar and yes with Burks playing well again and no Wiseman/Bagley 2nd unit is no longer dysfunctional.

[mattao313]

Good game they are playing hard they'll win some games playing like this

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[vege]

Ivey can't play at the end of the game. He is so clueless on defense. He give up so many wide open 3's because he does dumb stuff.

[vege]

Stewart is the best defender against Giannis in the entire league. A team that's going to face them in the playoffs should trade for him.

[bstein14]

Ivey can't play at the end of the game. He is so clueless on defense. He give up so many wide open 3's because he does dumb stuff.

Monty should have put Bojan in for him at the 6 minute mark for sure. We were up slightly halfway thru the 4th we could have used the vet to help pull this one out.

[vege]

Ivey can't play at the end of the game. He is so clueless on defense. He give up so many wide open 3's because he does dumb stuff.

Monty should have put Bojan in for him at the 6 minute mark for sure. We were up slightly halfway thru the 4th we could have used the vet to help pull this one out.

We failed to rebound, they won all 50/50 balls and Ivey was sleeping a couple of plays on defense that ended up in wide open 3's.

Ivey have always been bad at the end of games, he shouldn't play late in the 4th quarter, but on the other hand, if we are keeping him, he got to learn.

He have the talent, I am losing faith on him tho, because of the dumb TOs and dumb defensive decisions that have been costing us games.

If we don't play Killian we probably win this game. Ausar and Bojan should've played more. Gallo also should've played more, he was good when he played, despite of being super slow.

[Neptune]

Bad lost! Shot way too many 3s at the end of the game when we were down 3. Should have continued to attack and kick until we found a good shot.

[MortSahlfan]

That was such a great game... until the end.

[Uncle Mxy]

Bench outperformed, starters underperformed, just like the last game.
Oh, and we lost but it was close.
At least there's some broad consistency.

[Snakebites]

On one hand it's great to see us playing in competitive games against good teams. On the other it really feels like we're proving we just can't hang in the fourth.

[Billl]

On one hand it's great to see us playing in competitive games against good teams. On the other it really feels like we're proving we just can't hang in the fourth.

Well duh. We aren't a good team and the bucks are contenders. We're a young team with 2 likely closers sitting in street clothes. However ,if we played like this against mediocre or bad teams , we'd have a lot more actual wins.

[whitehops]

Will coach stick with Sasser the rest of the way or will Killian be back that's the question.

my guess is with morris and cade coming back soon neither will be in the rotation. i wouldn't be surprised if the 10-man rotation was:

cade/morris/ivey/burks/bojan/ausar/stewart/duren/muscala and then one of gallo, knox or sasser being the 10th guy. ivey and sasser are being asked to be more lead ball handlers just because cade and morris are out, when they're back sasser is going to a more off-ball role which has a lot of competition with ivey and burks.

as much as i'd like to see sasser get some minutes i just don't want to see hayes play again. same with wiseman.

[MortSahlfan]

I re-watched the end of the game, and when Ivey and Duren came back we were only down 1.. On this watch, I focused on defense, and it's too bad Ivey still makes the same rookie mistakes. He is completely lost defensively off-the-ball. Duren needs to stop bringing the ball up - it slows the offense, and then he's not posting up, getting into some position, etc.

I've tried to give Monty a little leeway, especially since it seems his changes are due to the front office interfering, but it seems obvious to everyone except him. Sasser should be playing more. Hayes and Wiseman can't be in the rotation when Cade and Monte are back. And I don't even wanna hear about the front office figuring how much to pay a guy..

I never remembered Muscala, but he's better on both ends after 5 minutes.

[bstein14]

Damn Bucks fired Griffin after two close wins against Detroit.... haha just beating us wasn't enough they need to cover the spread.

[zeebneeb]

Damn Bucks fired Griffin after two close wins against Detroit.... haha just beating us wasn't enough they need to cover the spread.

its absolutely insane that he got fired for being 30-13, while captain numbnuts, who is 4-4,000, can't figure out basic rotations, improperly uses players, won't play high draft picks, still has a job.

The Pistons standards have fallen so low, i am unsure if they even technically qualify as a pro team.

[DetroitSho]

Damn Bucks fired Griffin after two close wins against Detroit.... haha just beating us wasn't enough they need to cover the spread.

I was thinking all night how checked out Dame looked. To be fair, I paid him a lil extra attention because he was apart of my parlay. But it was weird how unengaged he was to the point of pissing me off.

Then I noticed him having a convo on the court with Monty after the game almost like Monty noticed something wasn't right with him.

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[DBC10]

Will the Bucks FO take Monty?