Eric Nehm

Yeah. I was just trying to be nice. So you start there and then all of a sudden you go to the Cleveland Cavaliers playing maybe the best basketball in the entire league at the moment. You lose those two games. And again, a one in six start is disastrous. Like, let me be totally clear with that. One in six is disastrous.

Like, you know, I was talking to our colleague at The Athletic, Mike Vorkanoff, and, you know, Vork reminded me that last year the six seed Indiana Pacers won 47 games. So that means in the final 75 games to get to 47, the Milwaukee Bucks would need to go 46 and 29. That's roughly a 600 win percentage. So they need to win 60% of their games the rest of the way to stay out of the play-in.

Like, you know, I was talking to our colleague at The Athletic, Mike Vorkanoff, and, you know, Vork reminded me that last year the six seed Indiana Pacers won 47 games. So that means in the final 75 games to get to 47, the Milwaukee Bucks would need to go 46 and 29. That's roughly a 600 win percentage. So they need to win 60% of their games the rest of the way to stay out of the play-in.

Like, you know, I was talking to our colleague at The Athletic, Mike Vorkanoff, and, you know, Vork reminded me that last year the six seed Indiana Pacers won 47 games. So that means in the final 75 games to get to 47, the Milwaukee Bucks would need to go 46 and 29. That's roughly a 600 win percentage. So they need to win 60% of their games the rest of the way to stay out of the play-in.

That's based on last year. Maybe that number is 44 this year. Like we don't know. But yeah, they have to be damn near perfect the rest of the year because of this spot that they're in. And I think the part that's like,

That's based on last year. Maybe that number is 44 this year. Like we don't know. But yeah, they have to be damn near perfect the rest of the year because of this spot that they're in. And I think the part that's like,

That's based on last year. Maybe that number is 44 this year. Like we don't know. But yeah, they have to be damn near perfect the rest of the year because of this spot that they're in. And I think the part that's like,

difficult to kind of wrap your head around is like there's no getting around how bad the losses to the Bulls and the Nets are and I understand the Nets losses looking not as bad I mean they're a decent team undeniably okay so that looks a little bit better but like The way that they played in those games, they didn't give the effort that they needed to give. Those were disastrous.

difficult to kind of wrap your head around is like there's no getting around how bad the losses to the Bulls and the Nets are and I understand the Nets losses looking not as bad I mean they're a decent team undeniably okay so that looks a little bit better but like The way that they played in those games, they didn't give the effort that they needed to give. Those were disastrous.

difficult to kind of wrap your head around is like there's no getting around how bad the losses to the Bulls and the Nets are and I understand the Nets losses looking not as bad I mean they're a decent team undeniably okay so that looks a little bit better but like The way that they played in those games, they didn't give the effort that they needed to give. Those were disastrous.

And to me, that's the spot where it's like, you can't get those back. There's no restart button on an NBA season. If there was, the Bucs would have hit it already. That would have been great because then they could get those two games back. All of a sudden, you go into Boston, you're 3-0, and you lose four straight after that. No one's freaking out at that point. 3-4 to start the season, that's...

And to me, that's the spot where it's like, you can't get those back. There's no restart button on an NBA season. If there was, the Bucs would have hit it already. That would have been great because then they could get those two games back. All of a sudden, you go into Boston, you're 3-0, and you lose four straight after that. No one's freaking out at that point. 3-4 to start the season, that's...

And to me, that's the spot where it's like, you can't get those back. There's no restart button on an NBA season. If there was, the Bucs would have hit it already. That would have been great because then they could get those two games back. All of a sudden, you go into Boston, you're 3-0, and you lose four straight after that. No one's freaking out at that point. 3-4 to start the season, that's...

The entire Eastern Conference, I think the entire Eastern Conference has three wins right now other than the Bucks and the Celtics and the Cavs. Like everyone else is right in the middle. So that's where they would have been. But that didn't happen. They lost those two games. And now you're in this deep hole.

The entire Eastern Conference, I think the entire Eastern Conference has three wins right now other than the Bucks and the Celtics and the Cavs. Like everyone else is right in the middle. So that's where they would have been. But that didn't happen. They lost those two games. And now you're in this deep hole.

The entire Eastern Conference, I think the entire Eastern Conference has three wins right now other than the Bucks and the Celtics and the Cavs. Like everyone else is right in the middle. So that's where they would have been. But that didn't happen. They lost those two games. And now you're in this deep hole.

And speaking of our friend Vork, he had also kind of laid out the stat about how since 1970, 150 teams have started one in six. Only 12 of those teams have made the playoffs. And I shared that statistic with Doc Rivers after the game. And Doc's response before I could even phrase a question was, we'll make the playoffs. I'm not worried about that.

And speaking of our friend Vork, he had also kind of laid out the stat about how since 1970, 150 teams have started one in six. Only 12 of those teams have made the playoffs. And I shared that statistic with Doc Rivers after the game. And Doc's response before I could even phrase a question was, we'll make the playoffs. I'm not worried about that.

And speaking of our friend Vork, he had also kind of laid out the stat about how since 1970, 150 teams have started one in six. Only 12 of those teams have made the playoffs. And I shared that statistic with Doc Rivers after the game. And Doc's response before I could even phrase a question was, we'll make the playoffs. I'm not worried about that.

And I think that's like obviously what you want to hear. I don't know if Doc is the most trustworthy narrator of any journey that he has been on as an NBA coach. Like, I understand that. But I mean, when you're in the locker room, like I was talking to Dame Lillard tonight and Dame's kind of saying the same thing, like, hey, We have too many good players to be like this the rest of the season.