Deer Diaries, Ep. 183: New Process, Same Result

Having pulled out all the stops to rally after the Milwaukee Bucks’s game five victory (including calls from Kyle in Vegas and a new intro produced by Adam, no less), there just wasn’t enough heart to do an autopsy on the season after the 98-120 trouncing to end the season.

But now we’re back! Kyle, Adam, and I got together last night to sift through the debris of the season to better understand what we learned along the way. Was the Pacers series just one final condemnation of a now-forgettable roster? Has the ground shifted too much under the Bucks feet as to make serious contention more of a thing of chance rather than something the team controls? Was the instability beginning last summer the new norm, or can the organization right the ship?

We cover all that, plus!

• A few more punches are thrown at Jae Crowder while he is down (please don’t come back!)
• Voting Bobby Portis, Pat Connaughton, and MarJon Beauchamp off the island
• Anticipating Thanasis Antetokounmpo’s return to the roster even post-Achilles
• Predictions about how large of a shakeup the team will aim for this summer (hint: not much of one)
• Apologies all around — from Adam to the listeners, from Bobby to all of us, from me to you on behalf of Bobby, etc.
• How much longer the team can remain in its “Giannis 1.5” build
• And more!

All of us at Deer Diaries want to thank you, our listeners and watchers, for sticking with us this season. We hope you enjoyed the podcast as much as we enjoy putting it together during the year. Our release schedule will dial back now that we’ve reached the summer, although we’ll be back whenever major news breaks (the NBA Draft, free agency, and, of course, Summer League roster reveals). Thanks again!

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