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Janus made his return to the Bucks last night, but is it too little too late for him to help the Bucks make a push for the playoffs?

We'll talk about the path forward in Milwaukee.

Plus, do the rockets need to pivot into a youth movement and why Trey Young is already making waves in Washington?

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I'm Wes Goldberg, and today we're talking about Janus and the Bucks and their path forward

for the rest of this season as they make a push for the playoffs.

We'll also talk about a potential change to Houston's starting lineup and what we expect Trey Young to look like in Washington. We're doing with the help of lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best with me, as always, from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. Matt. I watched the Nuggets have to scrap out of wind versus the jazz last night.

And I will just say that my big takeaway from that. for the Action Network. It's Matt more. Matt. I watched the nuggets have to scrap out a win

versus the jazz last night. And I will just say that my big takeaway from that is like the jazz are going to be really good next year. They're just going to be really good. Get on board. Keontade George is going to be awesome. He's going to win most improved player next year, even though he should win it this year. 100% agree with the most improved take there from the locked on Bulls podcast, also a Bulls and Bears

creator for Bleach Report. It's Hayes.

I'm just ready to talk some basketball. There's a lot of things we got on the deck today. And I'm feeling extraordinarily petty today, so we'll see where it takes us. I'm excited to see. Let's jump right into the big story from last night. Janus makes his return to the Milwaukee Bucks after the longest injury absence of his career.

Good news.

Yonest looked pretty good. Let's jump right into the big story from last night. Janus makes his return to the Milwaukee Bucks after the longest injury absence of his career.

Good news. Yannis looked pretty good. Bad news. The Bucks got crushed by a Celtics team that was missing Jalen Brown, obviously no Jason Tatum, and playing on the second night of a back-to-back. Yannis has said that he wants to make the playoffs this season. And you can make the argument that nobody wants to see a Janus Ledled Bucks team in any playoff series, no matter what seed that they are. However, they're now three and a half games out of the tenth spot with a lot of hill to climb trying to catch teams like Charlotte at 10, which are probably not going to do as Charlotte keeps rising up the standings, Atlanta there, at 9. That begs the question about how they should handle the rest of this season.

They talked about it on Locked on Bucks.

Let's play that clip.

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