The Milwaukee Bucks are in a bad position amid a poor start to the new NBA season.
The Milwaukee Bucks have been among the most shocking storylines to begin the new NBA season — and it’s not for good reason. They are 1-6 through seven games played, despite having two of the brightest players in the NBA in Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard.
In hindsight, firing Adrian Griffin in favor of Doc Rivers was an awful move that has led to nothing but heartbreak. The team isn’t set up for the future, and it doesn’t seem they’re ready to compete for a title this season.
Evidently, big changes are needed in Milwaukee in some form or fashion, though Antetokounmpo can’t run from the mess, according to Kendrick Perkins as he explained on “First Take”.
Antetokounmpo is front and center of the Bucks as the team’s franchise player. He delivered a championship and won an MVP and Finals MVP along the way. That’s anything a club can ask from a superstar player.
However, according to Perkins, Antetokounmpo led the Bucks into their current mess and now has to face the consequences.
“Giannis is the one who made his bed, he’s the one who got to lay in it,” Perkins claimed. “It goes way before the firing of Adrian Griffin. Didn’t Mike Budenholzer get fired as well — a guy they won a championship with?
“You fire Adrian Griffin, you force the hand to trade for Damian Lillard and get Jrue Holiday out of there. Here’s the thing. Does Giannis have blood on his hands? Absolutely right, all over this.
“You gotta stick it out. You gotta ride it out. This is what you wanted, Giannis.
“You knew that you and Dame didn’t have the chemistry that you needed to have to play in the two man game and learn from one another.”
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Evidently, the only thing that could truly reverse the club’s struggles is to go back in time and not fire Griffin. They should have let the experiment with the head coach play out, rather than making a move so quickly. Winning cures all, and they had a 30-13 record before the move.
Antetokounmpo isn’t a rising star anymore. He’s a superstar. He’s not the future — he’s built to win now. The championship window will close before too long and Milwaukee might not have anything new to show for it.
Some big change is needed, whether it be trying to make another in-season head coaching change or breaking up their current core of star players and the roster that is supposed to be capable of contending for a championship.
It’s hard to imagine the Bucks can take a step forward without first taking a step backward, which might include a big-time trade involving their superstar player.
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