I told my wife....watch Atl beat Miami then the heat will win vs Tor/Chi to face the Bucks.
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Let's see if the Heat can come back and win. I want them vs the Celtics - Celtics vs Atl is a friggin cakewalk for the Celts
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Miami cuts it to 6! That's better. Really want Miami winning this game
Every time Miami cuts it to 5 or 6, Hawks push it back to 11. Capela has been awesome on the offensive boards.
Celts vs Hawks is a 4 or 5 game series max. Unreal
I agree Boris. The Celtics are going to steamroll the Hawks.
The Heat or Raptors are going to are tough on whoever plays them. Even if you win the series, you are going to get beat up in the process.
FML 🤬
You just know the Heat are beating TOR/CHI
Bulls giving Toronto all they can handle. Hopefully they can pull it off. (I feel dirty for typing that).
I don't get the worry about Miami. Maybe PTSD from the Bubble? They look disjointed and old to me (Olidepo, Lowry?) We match up very well with them because they aren't a big 3 point team and we have plenty of bigs to battle Adebayo. Bring it!
@The Crusher posted:I don't get the worry about Miami. Maybe PTSD from the Bubble? They look disjointed and old to me (Olidepo, Lowry?) We match up very well with them because they aren't a big 3 point team and we have plenty of bigs to battle Adebayo. Bring it!
Adebayo can at least slow down Giannis as well as anyone in the league. The worry is if you slow down Giannis and the other guys don't hit the open 3s, the Bucks are beatable. If you get 2021 playoff Middleton, there's zero chance of that. The Celtics have multiple guys that play Giannis tough and, with no Middleton last year, that's how the Bucks got beat.
The Bulls have no one to guard Giannis. Even without Middleton in the playoffs last year, it was a gentleman's sweep.
From The Athletic
Use it lose it
"As the Bucks approach the three-minute mark in most games, Budenholzer often has three (or more) timeouts remaining. And because teams can only take two timeouts in the final three minutes of regulation, he is often left with a simple, binary choice.
Would he like to use the timeout before the three-minute mark or would he prefer to lose the timeout?
“Pretty much, the players know I want to use it,” Budenholzer told The Athletic. “I think the whole team pretty much knows I’m going to use it. I would say, almost habitually, that’s what we’re going to do.”
Budenholzer took a league-leading 47 timeouts during the 45th minute of the game this season with 10 of those timeouts taken in blowouts to get the regulars off the floor.
On the 37 plays that came after a timeout during the 45th minute and featured the Bucks’ rotation players, a true use-it-or-lose-it timeout, the Bucks scored 38 points, which means they scored 1.027 points per possession.
“And then, we get to make sure we get something good that we know and that we like that is simple for our guys to run on that next possession.”
As long as the results remain positive, when the 3-minute mark of the fourth quarter comes around, get ready for Budenholzer to use that timeout because, for now, he has no interest in losing it."
Are you guys confident that Middleton is 100% (or close to it) for the playoffs? I sure want him on the floor.
From the reports, Middleton and Pat C were full participants in practice on Thursday. That’s positive news.
Jimmy Butler wills the Heat to a fourth quarter comeback and the win.
Bucks-Heat Game 1 is Sunday, 5:30 ET on TNT.
@The Crusher posted:I don't get the worry about Miami. Maybe PTSD from the Bubble? They look disjointed and old to me (Olidepo, Lowry?) We match up very well with them because they aren't a big 3 point team and we have plenty of bigs to battle Adebayo. Bring it!
The Bucks will win unless something ridiculous happens.
The problem is Miami mucks up the game and makes you expend energy. Meanwhile the Celtics get the pansy-ass Hawks and as you can see they're getting destroyed.
Celts in 4 or 5 over the Hawks. THAT is exactly what I DID NOT WANT TO HAPPEN!
Instead, the Celts should be playing Miami and having to deal with them for 6 or 7 games.