Zach Lowe

And Giannis was not right from the beginning.

That was obvious.

He wasn't aggressive.

He couldn't just burst through the walls like he normally does.

And the rest of the team did zip to pick him up, which has been the theme of the whole season.

The bucks are great when he honest is on the floor, horrible when he honest is off the floor.

And now he's presumably going to be off the floor.

for a while, and if that's the case, and again, this is Giannis, he's had superhuman return timetables before.

I'm not sure that his self-diagnosis should be taken as injury scripture, but this is several calf injuries now, and a reality that even before this,

teams that might want to go super aggressively for him now at this middle stage of the season would have had to grapple with like this guy's missed significant periods of time with the same recurring leg injuries, including a whole bunch of playoff games in the last four years since the Bucks won the title.

And so here's where we are, Mo.

It's done.

Like, this is over.

The Bucs are 18 and 26.

They are 11th.

It's over if he misses a considerable amount of time.

They're 11th in the East.

Charlotte, who we're going to talk about, is poised to pass them and shove them down to 12th.

Their only hope, if Giannis is out for a significant period of time, the only team they can look up at in the standings and say, maybe we can pass them and sneak into the play-in are the Hawks, who are 22 and 25.

And by the way, control the rights to the Bucks draft pick potentially in the coming draft and are watching this like, oh, we've been rumored as a trade destination for Giannis.