 to end bucks. I did one of those things where you sort of bet something in the middle of the game. I almost got it guys. I just wanted to share that. They didn't have Yanis and they still beat the Clippers didn't matter. Six straight for Milwaukee. Dame 41, four and four. Portis off that bench with 28 and 16. Harden and PG. Much better night this time. 29 points a piece. But the buck since the All-Star break are six and 0. And this is a good Clippers team and they didn't have Yanis. So Chandler, if you first, what is what has happened? What is the biggest difference now before we're sort of mocking Milwaukee? Well, I think when you have a team with this much talent, that's why people are rolling their eyes. Dr. Ever says this is the hardest job he's going to take over as no one I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. I'll take this job. This team is stacked. This team. What's funny is you keep saying no Yanis. There was also no Chris Middleton and they were very shorthanded and then it's Dame said before the game they were talking about it. They don't even talk about who's in who's out. They just talked about what they have to do this night to win the game. And Bobby Portis went bananas. He looked like the best part of the floor for most times. Dame Lillard we talked about how great of an All-Star weekend he had. That looks like it's carried over since then. This is one of those streaks for now all of a sudden instead of talking about how bad of a job Docs do and they shouldn't fire Griffin. Now we're talking about them possibly as contenders and real shots at knocking off the Celtics and getting to the finals. So it's funny how this happens. The league it's got it. You got to have a short term memory just like we have in the Clippers where they made the trade for James Harden and they lose a couple in a row. Everyone panics why they do it. Then they kind of took off. The Bucks are kind of in that phase right now where they're starting to figure it out. They made great adjustments. I will say Doc. It was Doc. It was Pat Beverly. They fell to a zone last night when the Clippers had a lead and they started settling for these long jump shots kind of broke their rhythm offensively and that's the type of adjustment that this team needs and because they know they have guys that can score. They have the Damian Blillers. Bobby Portas is giving you 28, 30 points scored inside out. Guys like Conalton Beasley and those guys are picking up to Slack not making big plays down when Chris Middleton's out, when Yanis is out. This team is loaded and they're deep and they do have the talent and the potential to defend. So I think they're just starting to kind of create their identity and figure out who they are and this team is a real threat. This team is a real threat. Obviously with Yanis and the lineup is a whole another level but this team just showed you they can beat one of the better teams without even being fully loaded. You talk about chemistry. Let's give Pat Beverly's flowers. I thought he was the MVP last night for that game, right? He was disruptive on defense. He was one of those guys that he was active. He was talkative. He was creating a lot of havoc on a defensive end and he made open shots and he was a threat on the offensive end and that's something that he's not really known for. That's not really his MO, but he was able to do it on both ends of the floor. So when we started talking about this team's identity and them trying to figure it out, I think now everybody is starting to settle in. Everybody's starting to settle in what needs to be done and they're putting it all on the table and they got a big win without two, you know, two of their all-star guys even though they still had an all-star in the game, you know, they played with just enough and everybody stepped up and played their roles. Guys, is it possible? I mean, I know we just sort of take some of these things that coaches do and I don't know how effective it all is, but Doc did sort of question the toughness of this team right when he got there, talking about summer there, summer in Cabo, all that good stuff. Do you guys take that to heart and react to it or nothing, Lou? And what did you think? Does this have something to do with it? No, that's not a thing. Chandler will tell you as well, listen, the coaches, before all-star break, every coach is going to blame a bad game on guys being checked out for all-star break or they'll probably even say before the game, hey, listen, I know you guys are ready to go on break for two and a half hours just lock in and you can go where and do whatever you want. So this is a normal thing. So him challenging them or saying that they were half of them were checked out, half of them were there, that's the norm. I think Doc has gotten an opportunity to start putting his pieces together. He's starting to find a rhythm with how he want to coach, how he thinks this team should play to give them the best opportunity to win games and I think that's what we're seeing, but I don't think that's that's a big thing. Yeah, every every coach that has a good team that plays a bad team before all-star break calls it a trap game because of that reason. They know they're they're figuring out plans, they know they have the next week off, they're they're booking hotels, flights, everything like that and it's just that that's what a coach does. They try and push you, they try and just basically reinforce like hey, 48 minutes and then go do what you gotta do and now it's hard, it's difficult. A lot of times you say you're gonna lock in, but that's that time where everything's kind of getting slower and you don't want to go to shoot around, the film session is pissing you off because it's so long. So that's to me, I don't think that's like this pivotal moment that Doc Rivers sparked the locker room by challenging their toughness. I just think they're extremely talented, they're extremely good, there was only a matter of time till they started figuring out now Doc making the adjustments and the ATOs and they're going to zone and when to play man and when to switch that is that's critical for them going forward. I know but you guys know as viewers we love a dramatic locker room speech, at least the idea of it. We live for it. They got the two-seed Chandler and you know Cavs are there but they've been a little bit wonky lately. How important is it Milwaukee? Stay there. Well I think it's important but also looking at the Eastern Conference, it's not like the West like the Eastern Conference, you get the two-seed to play and you're looking at the Miami Heat and the Pacers. So it's important I guess and it's hard to predict but again it's not like these are going to shuffle around so much but if I'd rather play the Magic than the Heat or the Pacers. So there's so much basketball left that teams are going to prepare to win as many games as possible and then maybe kind of do the more Cuban thing last year and sit and choose and kind of look at matchups but we can say that now he's not the owner anymore, he doesn't care, Michelle. It's a great point and they already paid the fine. Yeah, they already did. And they got the big. And they got the big. So they're good. It worked out. I do think there's so much basketball now and I do think the Milwaukee Bucks are better at basketball teams than the Cleveland Cavaliers. So I do think they're going to hold on to that two-seed but that might not be a great thing if the three-seed gets the Magic and they end up with the Heat in the first round. That'd be a real kick in the D. A kick in the D and D. That would suck. Shams, we saw Giannis out there. He was testing out the Achilles and then it was basically a no-go right before game time. Do you have any any the latest news? How's he looking? The Bucks aren't seeming overly worried about this situation. It's Achilles Soreness that they're describing it as he tried to warm up as we see there. Couldn't play, couldn't really manage that pain to be able to get out there and play but the Bucks have to take a cautious approach. They've already done so with Chris Middleton. He's missed the last month as Chandler just said with that ankle sprain the hope is that he's going to be back sooner than later but they're being safe with Chris Middleton. I'm not sure when he's going to be back hopefully over the next week or so and then Giannis and then Ducumpo obviously sat last night with that Achilles Soreness. We'll see if he'll be out there for the next game. That's such a weird movement. I wasn't worried till I saw that clip. Yeah that seems worrisome guys. That's just like a normal jumper and he's doing that. That's I think it's smart to sit him down again. This is a team that is a real contender with him and we're getting down in the nitty gritty to be here where they need him fully healthy but that doesn't look good. He can't even take a standstill jumper. There was no shot he was playing. Yeah maybe I'm silly but Lude I don't know that seems like the video is a little bit not great. It looks a little alarming but you know Chandler this is also fresh out of the car just now getting your body warmed up. Your adrenaline is not rolling yet. Did you say fresh out of the car? Yeah this is at like 4 p.m. Yeah this is the bus or his car yeah okay okay. So before you before you get going a lot of times you feel like I might not be able to go tonight but once you start getting a sway going your adrenaline is rolling a little bit. I can tough through this and I can fight through this pain so I think the Milwaukee Bucks they're just they're just ironing on the side of caution and just not making this worse. It might not be a big deal as it looked right there. That clip was kind of alarming but you know once you get growing once you get rolling and ready to go for a game you probably could have played if you really wanted to. Who knows? Shoms I think the whole time during the game. That is true and he did walk off and whatever but I feel like that's for like Shoms you and I and civilians like when you wake up in the morning the first thing you think of is ugh I can't face the day and I just want to go back to sleep but then you get up and the adrenaline starts flowing and you're like crush this. Okay okay I'm with you Lude we got you.