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It's an early sample size, but there's definitely some panic brewing in the Bucks community. And it's not even centered around the slow offensive start of Dame and Giannis, it's centered around our horrible defense so far. Adrian Griffin, a defensive coach, came to Milwaukee and completely overhauled our defense with his trademark "crash-in" defense, which, by the way, is very exploitable, and completely underutilizes our bigs Lopez and Giannis.

Lopez was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate last year and Giannis has won it in the past. One thing Milwaukee's former coach (Coach Bud) did was utilize those guys effectively on defense. Last night, Lopez and Giannis had just one defensive rebound each. Pathetic, really.

Outside of our defensive woes, it turns out we found out who can stop the Dame-Giannis pick and roll. The Bucks can. By not using it. Dame looks like a guy still looking for his role on this team and his poor shooting and lack of shooting is likely a result of that. Giannis is also acting a bit more reckless than usual to start off the season.

Thankfully, just a few games in, and maybe everything will mesh soon, but definitely some warning lights popping up. Good news is that Bucks are in full "win now" mode so if Griffin doesn't get it together, he'll be gone by season's end, or sooner.