Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Coming up on the Monday edition of the Zach Lowe Show, we got Moe DeKeele here, the guy that if you want to know what happened in the game and what your team's up to, you got to follow him. And we got a lot to talk about, starting, unfortunately, with injuries. Has Giannis Attentacumpo played his last game as a Milwaukee Buck, whether that means this season, offseason, whatever it is?
What's the trade landscape for him now as we are 10 days away from the trade deadline? What should they do?
Chapter 2: What does Giannis's injury mean for the Bucks' season?
What will they do? It's rock bottom for the Bucs. That loss against Denver on Friday when Giannis got hurt was rock bottom. Is rock bottom. Still is rock bottom. I don't know. John Morant, he's injured.
Chapter 3: Why is waiting until the offseason the best option for a Giannis trade?
What does that mean? Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon's legs. Aaron Gordon's hamstrings. Most important variable in the championship race. We're going to talk about how the Nuggets are 9-5 without Jokic and a whole pile of other players. Kudos to the Nuggets, a juggernaut hiding in plain sight. Then we're going to talk about two teams that are up. The Clippers, are they doing it again?
Are you buying it, people?
Chapter 4: How have the Nuggets managed to succeed without Jokic?
The Hornets, Bill was right. And then two teams that are on the way down-ish, the Orlando Magic, funky, funky. And the Minnesota Timberwolves, who have lost five straight. We're going to talk about all that stuff. We're going to talk trades. We've got a lot to do with Moe DeKeele coming up now on the Zach Lowe Show. Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show. It's Monday.
Chapter 5: What factors contributed to the Clippers' dramatic turnaround?
There's a foot of snow at my house. And Moe DeKeele is here for Mondays with Moe from Seattle, where his beloved LA Rams lost the NFC Championship game. Too bad, Moe. You'll just have to live with the Dodgers stealing every great player in baseball. I hope you're okay and can recover from this devastating setback.
I think I will be able to survive this one, especially because we won a Super Bowl a few years ago in LA. You know, this would have just been gravy for me. I'm pretty happy. But yeah, I heard your Dodgers hate on your last Mets corner. You and Sean Fennessey. I heard both of you. I'm just saying, I noted it. I wrote your guys' name down on a list. Is that a threat? No, no, just noted it.
Just noted it.
Chapter 6: What improvements have been observed in the Charlotte Hornets?
Just, hey, I understand. Okay, Dodger hatred coming from them. I didn't expect it from you, Zach, personally. But hey, it's okay. Like... I get it.
Are you saying you're disappointed in me, Mo? A little bit. A little bit.
You know, you have a rich owner in Steve Cohen.
Chapter 7: Why should the Hornets maintain their current strategy at the trade deadline?
He splashed a ton of money around and it went nowhere. Don't be mad at us because we've splashed money around and it's gone somewhere.
But this isn't going well today, Mo. But you know who it's going, it's going better for us and it's going for the Milwaukee Bucks. And the story of the weekend in the NBA was unfortunately injuries.
Chapter 8: What challenges are the Orlando Magic currently facing?
And in particular injuries to players who were potentially on the move, wanted other teams wished they would be on the move. At the trade deadline, which is now like 10 days away, February 5th, whatever the math is, it's next Thursday. And that's John Moran elbow issue. He's out for a few weeks. That's Jonathan Kaminga. The brief Kaminga resurgence was brief. Again, another injury.
He's going to be out a little bit for the Warriors. Aaron Gordon, which we will get to not trade related, just Aaron Gordon related. And of course, Giannis, who. suffered another calf injury, diagnosed himself after the game as out four to six weeks. We will see the bucks as of it's 10 45 in the morning on Monday. No timetable yet on Giannis's injury.
And that game against Denver on Friday night was, was as close to rock bottom as I've ever seen any would be good team, good franchise get in the NBA bucks lose at home to a nuggets team missing almost everybody. I mean, literally almost everybody who's going to play any meaningful minutes for them. In fact, I don't know if that's true.
Cause I think like Jalen picket, Spencer Jones, those guys have earned meaningful minutes, but like everybody was out home game. It's the second time you've drawn the nuggets in this like Yoke, it's a little indirect numb that they're in. 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.
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