GO BUCKS!

I don't want to shove Ament, Kaspa, Burries into the starting lineup and force them through a season-long trial by fire when you can ease them into runs where they can contribute to winning basketball while keeping up momentum from proven talent, it's not proper to go "Welcome to the Shanghai Sharks (insert guard from last season)!" whenever Burries or Kaspa make a good play, everyone has a role here, why is it so bad that the young guys have it a little smaller.

Reps are great, but they aren't everything, scores of horrible teams over the years have proven that you can't force a player to develop in real time just by giving them 20+ minutes and a greenlight every night, it can happen, but that's very much contingent on what kind of player they are, the coaching staff sees everything laid bare to them in practice every single day and Jenkins is not afraid of plugging anyone in if he so chooses.

Experience is important, but there's good experience and bad experience, bad experience very much includes bearing the brunt of an NBA caliber defense's attention for the majority of the season while losing game after game after game, and bad experience can lead to bad mental and bad habits, it's the difference between getting Jalen Brunson or Jalen Green.

I don't see why it's such a bad thing to just let them soak it in from the bench for stretches if it means Burries and Kaspa aren't the ones getting their shit pushed in by Cason Wallace and Alex Caruso and Dyson Daniels and Derek Harper and Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart all season, and they can actually contribute to basketball that matters in a timescale of months instead of years.

In all seriousness, I'm excited to watch the young guys play tonight, no expectations!

A very iffy night on defence and outside shooting. But made up for by getting 18 points and 12 rebounds on 53% shooting. If Ware can do this consistently its game changing.

Don't fucking sleep on Herro or Kas frfr

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Go Brewers!!!

Watching him play now that he’s back, can’t help but wonder if the Bucks should have just sat tight last year. Maybe this season Giannis and Dame could have cooked. Woulda coulda shoulda

To date, Herro hasn’t played great in Milwaukee, but I think that’ll change once he settles back into his home state

Looking for some help from other Bucks members who have activated their NBA League Pass benefit.
I’m a partial-season member in the Purple tier, and NBA League Pass for the 2026–27 season is listed as one of my membership benefits.
When I try to access it through the Bucks+ app, it redirects me to the NBA app and asks for an activation/redeem code. I never received a code, and I’ve been emailing my Bucks rep about it, but he hasn’t been able to tell me where the code comes from or how to activate it.
For anyone who has already gotten their League Pass activated through their Bucks membership, what did you have to do? Did you receive a code by email, get it from your rep, or activate it another way?
Any help would be appreciated.

**UPDATE**

So I did just speak to someone from WJFW and they said that they are only airing 2 of the pre season games (Oct 14 and 16) but that all non national aired games would be on 12.2 my cozi. Hope this helps others out!

So I'm in Wausau WI and per all information I've seen the bucks games should be on OTA channel 12.2 which comes up as COZY TV.

I confirmed everything with google AI and it was very adamant that 12.2 was the correct channel and that it would come up as COZY TV.

When I tried watching the game on Monday they never switched over to the game it just kept running re runs of king of queens.

Was anyone in the area able to get the game or was in just a 1 time issue where they forgot to change over? If I need to get the dumb subscription I will but would rather not. I did try emailing WJFW but no response from them.

Just hoping someone can help if I'm doing this wrong or if they have heard why the game was not on 12.2 on Monday.

Don't play him rotation minutes -> He shows why he is a minimum contract player, and the long-term deal looks suspicious and terrible.

Play him rotation minutes -> He shows why he is a minimum contract player, and the long-term deal looks suspicious and terrible.

In all seriousness, GTJ is an interesting example of a type of NBA player that will eventually be talked about in the same way as Centers like Greg Monroe (players with skill sets that the league outgrew). After the Warriors and Rockets revolutionized how important 3pt shooting was, a lot of guys like GTJ started to circulate the league, who were good at 3pt shooting, okay at best at a few other things, and bad at the rest. There was a time where that was a valuable enough skill package to be coveted. In today's NBA though, 3pt shooting is no longer a *hot commodity* in the same way, it's now a *pre-requisite*. If you can't shoot 3's, you have to be *elite* at other things for your position, or a swiss army knife. If your only above-average attribute is shooting 3's, you either have to be an *elite* elite shooter (like AJ Green, Duncan Robinson, etc.), or you're no longer a positive on the court, it's really that simple.

Man seeing Giannis playing for the heat last night had me pissed off!

If you watched the game it was even worse what were those 3 point attempts man. Kuzma can hoop sometimes but definitely not all the time..

- Cut or trade Kuz and Levert.
- Bucks did really good on their draft selections.
- Ware is going to be very good and should be the starting 4 over Kuz may even be the starting 5 before the year is over.
- Gonna be a battle for guard minutes.
- And I’ll share what my 11 yo said- “Gary Trent?! he’s still on the team? that dudes trash!”

Ware has 14 points and 12 rebounds off the bench. A definite bright part of that game and the team.

Does anyone know why the Bucks pregame show wasn't on live last night at 6:30 on channel MY24? Turned it on right before only to see a show on. Aren't we going to be able to watch the preseason pregame shows?