Have The Bucks Finally Found Their Missing Piece?
The Lead
Wondery
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Milwaukee Bucks have been one of the best regular season teams in the NBA over the past two seasons, but that success hasn't really translated to the playoffs. To try and improve their fortunes in the postseason the team acquired guard Jrue Holiday this offseason in a blockbuster trade. Today we're joined by The Athletic's Eric Nehm who fills us in on how the Holiday experiment has been working out and whether or not the move will help propel them past the likes of Brooklyn and Philadelphia and into the NBA Finals.
You can read Eric Nehm's Milwaukee Bucks coverage here: https://theathletic.com/author/eric-nehm/
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| 0:46.0 | For the past two seasons, the Milwaukee box have had the best regular season record in the NBA |
| 0:57.0 | and then been knocked out of the playoffs. And ever since, there's been a big question swirling around this team. |
| 1:03.0 | Who can be the third guy? Who can be the guy who's not scared to take and will hit the big shots |
| 1:10.0 | for the box to loosen things up for Yannis to give Yannis and Middleton some support? |
| 1:16.0 | Today, Eric Name, who covers the box for the athletic, on whether the team's big offseason acquisition, Drew Holiday is becoming that guy. |
| 1:25.0 | It's box fans have been wanting this, right? They've been wanting that next step, that next thing that's going to take them over yet. |
| 1:31.0 | Drew Holiday is that thing. From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:35.0 | It's Monday, May 10th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:42.0 | So Eric, we're speaking today on Sunday, which is Mother's Day, and we scheduled this interview around your family brunch there in Milwaukee. |
| 1:49.0 | So tell me, what was your contribution to the brunch spread? |
| 1:53.0 | So one of the things that I'm actually capable of cooking, and this is very limited, but she taught me years ago how to make banana chocolate chip muffins. |
| 2:03.0 | So I made some and brought them to the brunch and it was great. |
| 2:07.0 | So I hope I impressed her. I'm sure she's probably embarrassed and just was like nice, and they're like, yeah, they're good. |
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