2024-25 Season Outlooks: Milwaukee Bucks with Eric Nehm + Cleveland Cavaliers with Chris Fedor

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Bucks beatman Eric Nehm of the Athletic is our guest to break down Milwaukee’s quest to return to the league’s elite. What we can take away from last year, as injured as it was? How much do the 4 core players (Giannis, Dame, Lopez, and Middleton) have left to carry a limited roster? Why Gary Trent, Jr. is such an important piece Is Damian Lillard on the downside or can he bounce back with a better offseason? Whether the Bucks depth is improved over last year and if it can provide enough support for Milwaukee to contend The Bucks’ strengths and weaknesses and our predictions for the season. Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com lends his expertise as one of the best beat writers in the business to discuss a put up or shut up season for the Cavs. What can we take away from an injured season a year ago? Can Kenny Atkinson get this group to the next level? What changes is he making in their offense? The possible improvements in the games of Evan Mobley and Darius Garland that could increase this team’s ceiling. Whether this team is talented enough to compete for a championship How Atkinson’s rotation will play out, and how deeper bench options like Ty Jerome, Tristan Thompson, Jaylon Tyson, and Sam Merrill could fit in. Can Donovan Mitchell get even better? The Cavs’ strengths and weaknesses, and our predictions for the season.

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0:00.0	Let us now speak of the Milwaukee box with somehow
0:03.7	impro probably a first-time guest on Dunkin,
0:07.1	one Eric name of the Athletic.
0:08.7	How you doing, man?
0:09.7	I'm great.
0:10.7	I feel like for so long, my good friend Frank Madden has taken my, any conversation about the Bucks here with you and I'm honored to be here for the first time and somehow filling in for Frank because Frank is that's the best.
0:27.6	Well, I'll definitely try to have him on later in the season for sure.
0:31.3	But I wanted to switch things up a little bit especially
0:33.8	because we're doing this one a little later than we normally have but I know you've
0:37.0	been traveling with the team for the last 10 days or so and I mean I wouldn't go so far as to call it a quote-unquote failure that we haven't had you on yet but I got to say though I'm I'm asking the box if could they just like I mean they still have Agent
0:55.2	Griffin under contract could they just like to earn his contract forced him to
0:59.2	come in just to respond to press conference questions from you about Chris Middleton's readiness?
1:04.4	It was funny yesterday.
1:06.7	Doc had to take one from me about Chris Middleton and kind of what he's doing and what the plan is there and I mean it was it was
1:16.8	griffian griff-esque I don't I don't totally know how to describe it, but you know, I will say it was very professional because I asked, you know, if Chris Milton's going to play in the preseason and Doc said I think so but I don't know that I do
1:34.9	think maybe the last two games but there's no guarantee there and I said it was very
1:39.6	professional because last year that would have taken two minutes with grit to go through all of it and
1:45.1	Doc has been at this so long that he did that in 20 seconds so so I'm really
1:50.6	happy that the doc was around to speed up that process on being totally unclear about what's going to happen with Chris Middleton.
1:57.3	All right, let's dive into the meat of this here and it was an epic disappointment to me that we never saw this Milwaukee Bucks team remotely healthy.
2:07.7	I thought the Pacers, their competition in the first one actually made it to the East finals in the end benefiting
2:13.1	substantially from injuries in both rounds and I think the Bucks would have
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