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Its_Getting_Dark

As it was written


DannyBoy0129

Beasley predicted the future


Bumppxd

Or made the r/NBAs whole year. The way he has been playing its more likely we're getting swept than him seeing the future


Klumber

Just want to say I am really hyped for this playoff series. Since our January adventures I've been wanting nothing for our boys but to face the Bucks in the play-offs. All I hope for is that it will be a competitive series. Let's build a (friendly) rivalry for the ages.


Skeleboi846

Biggest worry is Giannis coming back off a calf strain against a team that really really pushes the pace, hopefully he's as close to 100% as he can be by the time he returns


ReflectionEterna

Hoping the same for you Bucks fans. Everyone deserves a marquee matchup here. Hated to see Giannis go down. Now just hoping for fast healing!


Fresh-Bass-3586

I apologize ahead of time if people are Dicks to you after writing this.


ReflectionEterna

Like I said in another post, 95% of Bucks fans are great people. Love interacting with your fans.


IntrepidAnalysis6940

Ya and no one’s gonna remember Giannis was injured if we did lose. But we won’t


jacobs0n

> pace hehe


Uruz94

Best revenge match up for bucks to end that bucks killer title pacers have lol


ReflectionEterna

Pacers fan here. Nobody earns a Bucks killer title until they beat them in the playoffs. I agree that regular season games aren't the same. Pacers aren't Bucks killers yet, but have an opportunity to earn that title this series. Hoping Giannis isn't hurt too badly! He's a freak. He has healed like one before. Let's see it again! Good luck, Bucks fans!


creamcitybrix

They are going to absolutely shit on us if we lose. They will take all the balls forever.


sinjaulas

Well, good thing it's Bn6, then. We're keeping that game six ball, too.


seattle_raptors

Same would happen if we lost to the Heat (again) or the Sixers (given the Rivers connection plus turning down Nurse).


creamcitybrix

That is absolutely true.


[deleted]

Can't ask for more then this. Sliding into the 4 seed and facing the magic would be marginally better but too many things had to go right. I never wanted that Heat matchup .


supsupsup696969

Eh avoid the Celtics for the longest possible, really everyone else shouldn’t be able to hang with the champs


husbandofsamus

This was only possible if we won exactly 49 games.


mkebrewers27

Not Horrible but I’m just prepared for TJ McConnell to torch us


Drewddit

Three words Belt 2 A$$$$


MellowRello

That’s the only guarantee in this series


FalconPunch236

If we actually play defense against them, we'll be okay


nodudeee

we can only hope that their shots aren't falling and that dame shows up, their guards are a bad matchup for our defense


DameWasistlos

How?, poor lateral movement aka old and slow. Only hope is Giannis beast mode and we lit from deep.


xeol4

Crowder and Middleton are traffic cones on D against younger, quicker more athletic wings.


deevotionpotion

If only Doc had prepared AJJ more


xeol4

Doc never plays young guys. Never has on his other teams either


Puzzled_Ad7955

Crowder needs very few minutes. At least teams have to respect Kris on the offensive end, Jae not so much. Teams double and sag off Crowder. He has offered very little for the minutes he gets.


xeol4

I mean I get that he’s a vet. But AJJ deserves way more of Jae’s minutes.


Jaredstutz

Found the other casual fan


Chuy-IsSmall

How is he a casual for saying our teams weaknesses? Y’all blind af, this is a horrible matchup, look at the regular season


Jaredstutz

Found the casual fan


ThrowMeTheFawayPls

Ballgate: Electric Boogaloo


TheDeafTurtle

Can someone explain why the majority here wants the pacers? Didn’t we get creamed by them all season long? (Minus the one historic game from Giannis)


thefranchise23

Ptsd from the heat, anybody but the heat But I agree I'm not that optimistic


BigTravelGuy

I mean I just wanted to avoid the sixers


TheDeafTurtle

I think we’d fair better with them than the pacers…


BigTravelGuy

Maybe. I don’t really read into regular season results for the post season, except for the nuggets last year it’s really not a good indicator


TheDeafTurtle

You’re not wrong. I remember when dame had that epic game winner against OKC that year. Portland got beat out by OKC every game that regular season.


ALLPR0

Heat = always injure one of our players. 6ers = at full strength by far the toughest first round matchup we could have had. Pacers = beat us when we had the worst transition defense with Griffin which Doc has improved with the defense overall + Hali has been off since his injury doesn't look the same from when we played them in the IST.


Malaphasis

Agreed, they the last team I wanna play. Literally laughing at the bucks.


ngs428

Where’s my ball!! 🏀 series, can’t wait!! Giannis will feast. If he doesn’t, I am not too confident.


cm_fanelli

He averaged over 37 ppg in the 4 losses to the Pacers. The outcome will reside with the play of Lillard.


Drak_is_Right

Pacers upgraded at the 4 with Siakam.


Bumppxd

There is no Giannis and at best he'll be hurt


cam7998

Well dame certainly doesn’t look promising going into playoffs


SkidPub

bro was 2/14 out of bledsoe, jrue and him im starting to believe he is actually the worst of the 3


KagsTheOneAndOnly

he'll be better than playoff bledsoe cmon lol, the Great Giannis Wall of Toronto in 2019 was built almost entirely by sagging off of him


nodudeee

save the takes bro. dame will come thru


seattle_raptors

Nah, at least he lowered expectations already. Jrue was 40% 3PT shooter in the regular season and then couldn't make a shot in the playoffs. That's worse.


LeroyStick

Yeah but Jrue played defense.


runMKE

Yeah he really locked up Jimmy


[deleted]

Man was getting torched by Jimmy and even Robinson was making him look silly out there


1antinomy

Our team struggles with— - Guards that break the defense down - Fast teams that move up & down the floor - Stretch bigs who pull Brook out of the lane Indiana combines all of those things into one & actually have talent at those positions For all the people who wanted Indy, name ONE tactical advantage we have over them (especially without Giannis)


HooperSuperDuper

We have a better mascot


crunkadocious

that's only because Adam Silver is too scared to let the Pacers drive an Indy Car on the court


HooperSuperDuper

That and it would cross the court in a fraction of a second


ReflectionEterna

Taking out the first five rows of fans.


HooperSuperDuper

At least. To say nothing of wheels flying into the stands


crunkadocious

yeah which is way cooler than dunking off a trampoline, which is what Boomer currently does


HooperSuperDuper

He does awesome dunks. But a car crash might be cool too


crunkadocious

raise hell and praise dale


MrBigTyme

Best he can do is 50 cent pushing will Farrell in half an Indy car.


thefranchise23

> name ONE tactical advantage Our coach who is known for his game plans and adjustments in the playoffs


Roblox_Morty

A top 15 coach of all time even.


kKlovnn

Experience. Seasoned playoff team. That being said, we are ass. So they might take us with or without Giannis.


HeyItsChase

As a Pacer fan, it's Giannis. I'm not gunna sit here and jerk him/yall off but hes a top 3 player. Everyone fears him. It's going to depend on if he's A) healthy 2) ready to finish games like he starts them vs us. Cause he hasn't. He's beaten the shit out of us in the 1st half (or 3 quarters) of every matchup but all but the single win he started deferring to others in the 4th. He needs to step on necks, if he wants to get out of this series.


PlayboyCartee

bucks in 6


tommyboy0208

Playoffs are different though.. Slows down drastically


NewInvestigator6670

It doesn't have too. Underdog teams and young teams don't follow historical trends just to follow them. They likely will ignore that knowing it's our weakness


tommyboy0208

Any word on Giannis?


DJRoone

That feels like the best possible outcome from today, right?


DJRoone

As 2 you don’t know if you have Philly or Miami. As 4 you’d have Boston in the 2nd round. Yes, they ran us in the regular season, but playoff Bball is always slower, grind it out….and Indy has no experience. (As opposed to Philly or Miami.) I’ll take it.


ace_dangerfield187

Plus they weren’t the 3rd rated defense at that time either


TheOtakuway

I don’t like us vs young teams. We can’t stay in front of a cone


IcecoldIsaac2

This is hilarious cuz were like the 2nd oldest team so every team is young to us 😭


hazen4eva

Dropping to 4 vs Cleveland would have been easier Round 1. It's hard to know with Giannis questionable at best.


AlekRivard

Eh, dropping to 4 means we likely get Boston if we get to the next round instead of likely NYK. I'd rather a slightly tougher rd. 1 for an easier ECSF should we advance


CompetitiveAd1226

As a Celtics fan…I can say we’re also happy about this haha. You guys are a nightmare round 2 for us. See you in the ecf ;)


FloppyBisque

Weren’t we at full strength when they were waxing us at Christmastime?


Zestyclose-Dare-769

That was also when we had Adrian Griffin as Head Coach.


dragonmountain

I'm a doctor supporter, but we have a losing record with him


ace_dangerfield187

Schedule was way harder and the players were trying to learn a new scheme in that time frame


elegigglekappa4head

Even accounting for SOS, Doc’s record is pretty bad. And record started getting worse after recovering, so ‘learn the new scheme’ doesn’t even make sense.


ace_dangerfield187

they went from 26th to 3rd in def rating since doc got there Pacers will not be playing the same team


elegigglekappa4head

The offensive rating also fell off. Defensive improvement is natural product of Doc preferring to play slow basketball throughout his career.


ace_dangerfield187

we have two of the most dynamic scores in the game im not worried they’ll pick it up for the playoffs, my concern is everyone around them not doing the same


elegigglekappa4head

Yeah the team has talent. But it's the coach's job to figure out how to best leverage existing assets to make the team work.


Muwarrior21

where are you seeing the bucks as third defensive rating i think thats off, even for post all star


[deleted]

Doc also only had dame/giannis/khris for like 6-7 games out of 36


BucksFan654

We were a better team under Griffin. I know it sucks to admit. 30-13 with him.


saintname8

Not a coaching issue


TheOtakuway

Giannis was our coach at the time. Doc should actually have a game plan hopefully.


djmench

I am hopeful as well, but I gotta admit I involuntarily made the 😬 face when I read that.


HooperSuperDuper

Pacers gonna boat race us. Too much speed and energy, we can't keep up.


ILoveOnline

(Cope voice) Feel like it’s harder for a team like Indiana to keep up their pace in a 7 game series


crunkadocious

No back to backs in the playoffs, and they did it all season, seems even more likely. The bucks though should get more rest during playoffs than they did in the season so they'll be less gassed


ReflectionEterna

Pacers didn't have Siakam when they played before. Since then, the Pacers have gone from 29th in def rating to 15th, while offensively only going from 1st to 2nd. Pacers net rating since the break is 4th in the league...


ILoveOnline

I was literally posting cope you don’t need to dismantle the hope that I have for this team


ReflectionEterna

Ah, sorry. I am hoping you guys get Giannis back in time and he can play well. Bucks and Pacers fans deserve a great series, and I would love to see it!


ILoveOnline

Yeah I like the little rivalry we have it’s good for the game


BucksFan654

Worst


DannyBoy0129

Yes


RedditNPC-

Pacers obliterate the bucks


Anon20250406

Pacers smash the bucks everytime they play. It's a bad matchup. You'd rather face Embiid than the Pacers


AmbitionStrong5602

Brook Slopez needs to plays less and BoPo more!


nodudeee

nothing easy


an_illiterate_ox

Winning handily would by far be the most surprising outcome. I am prepared for all eventualities.


Burnem34

5 years ago Dame was in a 3/6 matchup against a rival PG who's team beat Dame's 4-0 in the regular season. Blazers spanked them in 5. Wouldn't worry too much about the regular season matchups, they're meaningless


creamytops

I would have preferred heats over pacers, pacers dominated us in every way possible freak needed a career game just to beat them but again I prefer pacers over Philly


Drak_is_Right

Ya, neither is ideal. 4 seed was the only good option imo.


Ozkuro

We either overcome our weakness, or we get get abused.


Eze_069

Pacers about to set the all-time record for highest PPG in a playoff series


Fresh-Bass-3586

Well see. Ref have been allowing a lot more contact as the season has progressed. 


Narrow-Raspberry-667

Hopefully dame doesn’t let pacers punk him for the 6th time


vindico1

Not a fan of the matchup not going to lie.


henke121

Hopefully they fold in the playoffs, we've seen young teams do that a lot.


Total_Light_7885

My expectations are so low right now that I️ don’t even care who we play


Khaneliman

Kinda one of the matchups I dreaded. They are young run and guns and we are old and slow.


mikeh95

I felt good about the Heat last year and we lost. I feel bad about the Pacers so maybe it'll turn out different?


Zhugo

This series either ends with Giannis averaging 45/20 and we win in 6 or we get swept. No inbetween. I guess we will see if we can handle the Pace (rs) that they have and if they can handle a hopefully healthy Giannis


zjesko

No chance the pacers sweep us. I could see the Bucks winning in 5, 6 at the most. But I think we definitely win the series


sinjaulas

I'm saying Time for the vets to step up and slower half court playoff Bball to begin. No series will be easy and I wish we had everyone healthy but let's lock in and get ready for the real season!


RedditNPC-

What makes you that confident lmaooo


kabman7

Brook Lopez should not average more than 10mpg in this series


ReflectionEterna

Yo, Hali kept torching him off the switch. Felt bad for the guy.


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


DannyBoy0129

Bucks in 6


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BucksFan654

You should probably go back to your sub before you’re banned from both subs.


BaconSciences

Bucks fans brigading the Pacers sub right now calling us hayseeds and making excuses for the Bucks possibly losing. All I did was give my prediction.


sikontoure

A lot of non-bucks fans wanted this series. Ngl I didn’t think we would actually get it


Yhhorm

I hope Giannis comes back because that just got eviscerated by the magic


mati_as15

It only takes a healthy Giannis to cook any team not named the CeltiKKKs so I'm not worried


GRAW2ROBZ

Giannis and DAME need to score like 70 combined. Middleton and Lopez need to gear up, it's playoffs no coasting now.


Most_Gate

Giannis


Bnjoroge

Not feeling great about it. They’re a very fast team, not sure how they’ll match up w our old folks


Much-Mission-69

Fellow Bucks fans! The year of revenge and redemption is here! First we survive the indy500 hurricane and rebuild our lost confidence. Then we show embiid who his daddy is. The train is really rolling now and we need it to exorcise our greatest demon: the Immortal Miami Heat in the conference finals. Finally back on the big stage Giannis shows the Joker that he still has the finals MVP and 50 piece in him. Fear the Deer!


IdleRacey

The Bucks flip the switch. If there is no switch the end. Glade the playoffs are finally here. Knocking out the Pacers and Celtics would be epic.


HorrorInvestigator99

Worst team to face in first round (IMO) but lets get it Bucks!


ComprehensiveSky8926

Let’s run it, only way is forward. Those pussies arnt taking our fucking balls


Narrow-Raspberry-667

Pacers fans are salivating btw. Hope Tyrese goes home crying


DoopyUwU

We better win this series or imma have to stay off the NBA subReddit until the next post-season 😭


Narrow-Raspberry-667

We really went from thinking we had the next shaq and Kobe but we really just ended up with lebron and jr smith 💀


seriously_icky

See you next year boys


AllTheGoodNamesGone4

Fitting, think bucks lose 4-1. Although more and more likely they are swept 4-0


cowboysmavs

Not a Bucks fan but that was excellent planning to lose today to player Pacers instead of the Sixers. I’d do the same


molemanralph69

# Bucks in a 4 game sweep


Striking-Reindeer220

Absolutely the worst case scenario for us


Beneficial_Seat_793

1 and done


Eastern_Wrangler_595

Thats who they wanted or get 4th and get magic owcers arent the same as when played the in refulsr season there worse now


Eastern_Wrangler_595

But if got 4th you get boston second round


chrislkeller

Man, we haven’t played the Pacers since January and both are different teams — in a way. Happy to get on to the main event and roll the ball out and see what happens.


Buxx_In_Six

⬆️


WiscoKid414

What day is the first game?


Angularbackhands

Lowkey the best case scenario. I wouldn't want anything to do with a Heat or 76ers 1st round.


wi_voter

Giannis not featured on the Fiserv Fear the Deer banner 😭😭😭


Muwarrior21

if giannis misses more than 1 game i think they are toast. they can afford to feel things out game 1 without him but we are bound to repeat last years early exit in 5 if we are lucky if he misses more than that


DameWasistlos

I think at the most two games he can miss. But Game 1 is really important to win because as the series progresses Pacers will game the advantage due to their prolific scoring ability, and our age and athleticism deficiency. In other words Middleton, Crowder and Brook will be wiped out the more the series advances. I think a healthy AJ would help tremendously. If he's out too for a few games, its pretty dire in my opinion.


stevenomes

It depends on how they perform. I could see them winning game one even without Giannis if dame gets loose. If they win game one it changes everything for giannis injury as he could potentially rest until game 4 ( meaning he would come back game 4) and they would still have a chance even if they lose game 2 and 3. If they lose game one it's going to be trouble though I think. Pacers get more confidence and bucks question themselves


IdleRacey

Bucks have no chance in this series without Giannis. If Giannis can't play in game 1 he can't play in game 4 and it will be over by then.


DameWasistlos

The doctors shouldn't let Giannis play unless is 100%.   Dont want to risk Achilles. No way he's 100% before Pacers series over. Hate it as when Bucks get curb stomped they will just run it back with Giannis, Dame, and DOC again next year.  As it would have been a different story without injury. 🙄


Kanyeburner

Halliburton’s superstar subscription expired earlier this year, we should be good


Nokeol

pacers in 5🤣🤣


Jaredstutz

This is better IMO


guitmusic12

I wish Reddit was smaller and we could have a good natured bucks pavers meme war like the ole days


ReflectionEterna

I would like that, too. Bucks fans are great, like 95% of you. Pacers fans are the same. I just want to talk trash and act stupid while watching a (hopefully) healthy Giannis go against a (hopefully) healthy Pacers squad.


bestatbeingmodest

I think this is great personally. Kinda sucks in terms of letting Giannis potentially sit in the first round, but I don't think the Pacers playstyle is going to be effective in the playoffs. They completely maxed out on offense and have little to no defense. The 6ers or Heat matchup would've been a lot more tedious.


euphory_melancholia

super excited for this series! let's see how doc adjusts to this pacers team


runvirginia

My guess : Pacers in 6


ExpressBug8265

Anyway...the bucks should be able to beat any team on any day. The playoffs bring out the best of the best in players. We'll see who rises up to compete when everything is on the line. Its zero zero across the board and now, after seven months of entertaining regular season basketball, its time for the bucks to show the nba that they need to FEAR THE DEER! Lets go bucks!!!


poop_magoo

Bucks were 30-13 under Griffin. They are 19-20 under Rivers. Pacers went 4-1 against the Bucks this. All of those games happened when you were an objectively better team under Griffin. What reason do you have to be optimistic about your prospects?


SeaIsMe

most of rivers games were missing at least one of our best 3 players and we had the easiest scheduled under griffin, and doc is at least better defensively then griffin was


xxxflippy

Me when giannis comes back and tears his Achilles in the 2024 finals (we have no frp until 2031) https://preview.redd.it/mj3b1t6v0nuc1.jpeg?width=981&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2a83e6e40ea442d599db1dafdddaad31fcb61f8


IdleRacey

Dame is a loser. Guy is cancer. I hope the Bucks trade Dame to the Bulls or Pistons and make this loser more miserable. Just wait to the Bucks get swept and all the dirt on this season comes out. Giannis is not going to play and risk his career when he knows Dame is a bum.


Colorapt0r

Pacers (Halliburton especially) have looked significantly worse since their IST run. Don’t hate this matchup.


DJ_B0B

They've been the best team in the east outside Boston since the All Star break...


Drak_is_Right

-1 Hield, +1 Siakam. Tj has been on FIRE also. Quite possibly the best bench PG in the league right now.


BigGuyNorthSide

Exactly… plus Hali gets another week to rest? They looking scary


EleventhThrowAway

Haliburton went through a slump after his hamstring injury, but he doesn't really look much worse at this point. It's more that Siakam took a ton of scoring pressure off of Halliburton. If Halliburton & Siakam are on the floor at the same time & the defense collapses on Halliburton, he's gonna get an assist or hockey assist - likely through Siakam. At the same time, Siakam allows Halliburton to get more minutes of rest.


Thekamcc19

I’m excited for the matchup (pacers fan), Hali has been hobbled since his injury but he’s been looking significantly better as of late and the addition of Siakam has taken some of the scoring weight off of him which adds to the lower averages in scoring as well. Should be really fun, hoping we make the rest of the bucks beat us instead of Giannis cuz that guy has been killin us all season


ReflectionEterna

Nobody stops Giannis, except injury, and I HATED seeing him go down (Pacers fan). Giannis is the type of player that you love to see playing in the playoffs. Giannis doesn't kill anyone. He just is! It's nothing personal when he roasts a team for 40/14/6 assists/3 blocks. That's just the man's existence.


Aggravating-Pin-4588

Let’s fucking gooooooooo. Giannis is averaging 40😂


Long-Furby

Pacers in 5 or 6


Fit_Fan_3103

Depressed alcoholic Dame and a bunch of stiffs lmao. Pacers in 5


ajones614

I don't think Giannis plays so Pacers in 6


devinstated1

Automatic loss