Giannis and Dame have played I believe it’s now two games together? Two or three? Preseason games and not with the full compliment of starters until today? Let’s slow down a bit. It’s not gonna be a flick of the switch for either Dame or Giannis. It’s all very new for both and it’ll take a little time to adjust. Dame clearly remains a little rusty and doesn’t completely have his legs under him since he admittedly wasn’t doing a lot in the summer.

The coaching questions are fair since Griffin is a new coach, although I trust the principles Stotts instilled will work out in the long run…the defense questions are fair because they’re playing a more aggressive scheme than the one that has worked so well over the years and doing it with Brook who’s aging and Dame/Beas who are a pretty weak combo. Brook slides his feet OK on the perimeter and we know Giannis can but at their best the Bucks are a team that takes advantage of their twin towers in the paint and funnels offensive players into Giannis and Brook. That’s been the name of the game and it’s worked. We’ll have to see how Griffin and his principles work for Milwaukee. The stakes are extremely high for him and he can’t really afford to screw this up with the Bucks and their timeline being what it is.