More than a minute ago, the Milwaukee Greenbacks had won their first game, albeit against a Philadelphia 76ers team without fangs and without the services of Joel Embiid and Paul George, and Damian Lillard had started the season with 30 Week of point efficiency connecting six of his 12 triples.
As of the closest, Lillard is 6-for-33 from 3 and the Greenbacks have lost four straight. Thursday night felt like something beautiful near rock bottom, as Lillard went 1-for-12 from the floor for four points in a surprising loss to the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies. Take a look at his miserable shot chart in this sport.
In some ways, the dollars actually looked worse than the 122-99 rating would indicate. Dead It doesn’t even seem like a strong enough volume guarantee, but I think it will be enough. This doesn’t look like a workforce that wants to fight. Hell, they don’t even seem like they want to. play games.
“It’s discipline, period,” Greenbacks head coach Document Rivers said after the loss to Memphis. “At some point there has to be consequences for it. A lot of times they ran after us today. Over and over again. I mean, the big guys ran after us to throw balloons. That just can’t happen. It’s not that we don’t do it “. We don’t work on it every day, but we’re not doing it well enough, because if we did, they wouldn’t do it. Once again, I keep telling myself there’s something they’re not hearing. them, and I have to do a better job.
There is no pleasure. I don’t agree with sharing the ball. The defense is a bottom-10 unit and top-ranked Brook Lopez even holds it together. They rank 26th in assists per game, with just 20 assists on Thursday, and some of them necessarily made no sense in the final minutes of what was already a blowout. The most effective thing is that the 76ers and Utah Jazz have a worse team in three-point shooting than Milwaukee’s 30.6% mark.
That’s nasty with a capital U, and we have to consider that every time Khris Middleton goes back for ankle surgery later, it’s just going to change the entire script when she’s obviously in person? Don’t bet on it. And don’t bet on Rivers being the solution either. The Greenbacks are 20-27 since Adrian Griffin (30-13) took over last season.
Sing as many songs as you want about how the Greenbacks “looked better” under Rivers than under Griffin, who admittedly used to do some strange things, specifically with protection, but 20-27 is what it is. CBS Sports NBA Insider Invoice Reiter reported Thursday that there is growing confidence across the league that Giannis Antetokounmpo could become available for business if this factor helps to continue south. If what we’ve seen so far is any indication, a surprising change doesn’t seem very likely.
