Bucks build out young core with exciting Tyler Smith pick in second round!

The Milwaukee Bucks grabbed another exciting young player in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft, selecting Tyler Smith out of the G League Ignite with the 33rd overall pick they had courtesy of the Portland Trail Blazers. Smith is a standout athlete with great size at 6'9" and a plus 7-foot wingspan who has a fluid jumper, and his tools pose a nice matchup in the frontcourt with Giannis Antetokounmpo. Ti Windisch and Jordan Treske recorded live, discussing their updated thoughts on the first round, the prospects they liked at the start of the second, the Smith pick itself and how it helps the overall appeal of the draft class, and more league-wide thoughts as the draft went on. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN Premium Founding Members get all other GSPN Premium benefits as well as a shoutout here! Thanks to South Loonier, Justin Saeian, and Ben Kolp for being Founding Members. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Milwaukee Bucks stunned the GSPN live stream crew by taking AJ Johnson, a raw young wing prospect who got scant minutes with the llawarra Hawks last season, with their first round pick (23 overall). Ti Windisch, Rohan Katti, Andrew Snyder and later Jordan Treske weighed in, sharing displeasure at Jon Horst selecting a player with virtually no chance of helping in the 2024-25 season and trying to figure out the logic of doing so while noting which players were picked soon after and which could be available Thursday afternoon when the Bucks pick again at 33 overall. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN Premium Founding Members get all other GSPN Premium benefits as well as a shoutout here! Thanks to South Loonier, Justin Saeian, and Ben Kolp for being Founding Members. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 NBA Draft is Wednesday, and free agency follows this weekend, so Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti of the Gyro Step took a quick break from draft prep to share their favorite somewhat realistic free agency targets ahead of tampering season opening up. There were a lot of players discussed, including: Kelly Oubre, Haywood Highsmith, Naji Marshall, Kris Dunn, Dennis Smith Jr., Lonnie Walker, Shake Milton, Gary Trent Jr., Taurean Prince, Gary Harris, Xavier Tillman, Andre Drummond, Nic Batum, Eric Gordon, Delon Wright, Cam Payne, Aaron Holiday, Justin Holiday, Josh Richardson, Precious Achiuwa, Lamar Stevens, Cam Reddish, Josh Okogie, Buddy Hield, and honestly even more. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN Premium Founding Members get all other GSPN Premium benefits as well as a shoutout here! Thanks to South Loonier, Justin Saeian, and Ben Kolp for being Founding Members. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 NBA Draft is barely a week away, so Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti of the Gyro Step podcast compiled and shared their full big boards of players who should be available at Milwaukee’s 23rd overall pick and discussed their rankings. For this exercise, Ti and Rohan only considered players who were available at 23 or below in at least one of three big boards: ESPN, The Ringer, and Bleacher Report. This meant the following players were discussed: Kel’el Ware, Tristan Da Silva, Kyshawn George, Bobi Klintman, Isaiah Collier, Tyler Smith, Jaylon Tyson, DaRon Holmes, Tyler Smith, Kevin McCullar Jr., Baylor Scheierman, Pacome Dadiet, Tyler Kolek, Justin Edwards, Ryan Dunn, A.J. Johnson, Kyle Filipowski, Johnny Furphy, Cam Christie, and K.J. Simpson. Ahead of the big board discussion, Ti and Rohan shared their thoughts on the Boston Celtics and old friend Jrue Holiday winning the 2024 NBA Championship, and on if the Bucks would come to terms with any of their own free agents given the rule change in the last CBA that means teams can negotiate with their own FAs starting the day after the Finals end. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN Premium Founding Members get all other GSPN Premium benefits as well as a shoutout here! Thanks to South Loonier, Justin Saeian, and Ben Kolp for being Founding Members. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step, Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gyro Step hosts Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti got ambitious on this week’s episode, as they covered Doc Rivers bringing in Darvin Ham as his new lead assistant, Jrue Holiday truly flourishing with the Boston Celtics, AND conducted their own NBA Mock Draft, making picks for each of the first 33 picks in the draft. The Bucks ended up with Rohan’s favorite prospect in the Mock Draft, and neither host was thrilled about their second round pick. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 NBA Draft is mere weeks away, and ahead of preparing and sharing their full Milwaukee Bucks big boards Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti discussed many first round prospects and shared their thoughts on them, including some enticing big men and big wings who could be on the board for Milwaukee at pick 23. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Given the Dallas Mavericks are up 3-0 in the Western Conference Finals, they instead of the Minnesota Timberwolves are now the squad to take team-building lessons from. The Dallas lesson is clear: athletic, rangy wing players around dynamic star ball-handlers. The good news for the Bucks is they have those ball-handlers in Damian Lillard and Khris Middleton, plus Giannis Antetokounmpo who checks boxes in both of those skill sets. The bad news is a lot of the Bucks roster around them is old and slow. Ahead of today’s Gyro Step, Ti Windisch compiled a list of players similar to Derrick Jones Jr. using three-point shooting, height, wingspan, and average speed and sorted a list of 17 players who are either feasibly obtainable for Milwaukee or actually already on the roster, and then he and Rohan Katti discussed each option. At the end their picked their favorites from the list and chose who they wanted the Bucks to acquire the most. Also, before the DJJ Matrix talk Ti and Rohan discussed the NBA Finals matchup (probably) of Boston vs Dallas and who they hated less out of the two teams, and the insane rumor that the Bucks are a James Harden landing spot option according to oddsmakers. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 NBA Playoffs are thrilling and always offer takeaways for the teams not lucky enough to still be battling for an NBA Championship, which unfortunately includes the Milwaukee Bucks right now. Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti discuss their biggest takeaways from the ongoing playoff action in both conference and how the lessons learned apply to the Bucks, including the importance of size, length, and athleticism, how hard it is for specialists to succeed, the importance of off-ball defense, and of course the major impact health makes in this setting. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Milwaukee Bucks have a big offseason coming up, and it seems Jon Horst will indeed be the one running the ship for it as according to multiple journalists the Bucks denied the Detroit Pistons the opportunity to interview Horst for their President of Basketball Operations job. Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti started off a packed Gyro Step podcast by digesting that news and sharing what it likely means for Horst and the Bucks moving forward, before covering other news including the NBA Draft Lottery happening on Sunday, Doc Rivers letting three assistant coaches go, and Mike Budenholzer and Charles Lee getting hired as head coaches. After ALL of that, Ti and Rohan go through the whole Bucks roster to decide if each player should stay or go, from Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard, and Khris Middleton to TyTy Washington Jr., Jaylin Galloway, and Ryan Rollins. Debates on Brook Lopez, Bobby Portis, and somehow Danilo Gallinari emerged during the conversation. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find links to the GSPN YouTube channel, Substack, the Bucks Stock Market, all our Bucks, Brewers, Packers, and pop culture podcasts, the link to gain entry to our Discord server, our Twitter links, and more! GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, Eugene, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to get us to read your review live at the end of an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Milwaukee Bucks short playoff run is over and the offseason has arrived, which brings a whole new set of talking points. On the first offseason edition of the Gyro Step, Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti discuss their final reflections on Milwaukee's first round loss to the Indiana Pacers before moving on to the big Bucks debate of the day: should Brook Lopez be a core player going forward? Or does Milwaukee just need to get younger and faster too badly to keep him around? Ti and Rohan also cover some news and notes including a report on Pat Bev's future and good quotes from exit interviews regarding Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard, and Doc Rivers. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy. Visit GSPN.info to find links to the GSPN YouTube channel, Substack, the Bucks Stock Market, all our Bucks, Brewers, Packers, and pop culture podcasts, the link to gain entry to our Discord server, our Twitter links, and more! GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti,  Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, Eugene, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to get us to read your review live at the end of an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices