Bucks and Heat start the third the same way they played in the first. Heat hit a contested 3, the Bucks missed a 3.
Bled shaking loose...
12 for 21 from 3.
Christ. 13 for 23.
Danger time. Down 7.
Cue the national media Bucks narrative.
That was a phantom travel call.
MichiganPacker2 posted:Danger time. Down 7.
Relax. A lot of game left.
Is this like the Bucks worst offensive third quarter of the year?
14 for 27 from 3 for the Heat. Unbelievable.
Bucks down 8.
Let's see if the Bucks can dig down and keep this close.
Miami is just cutting off every lane. The Bucks canât make a jump shot, so theyâre collapsing now. 3 games in 4 nights and youâd think these guys forgot how to shoot.
This one didnât feel good since the first quarter. No one has any answers on offense.
Just not their night.
No one can make a shot...
Good grief... Dragic makes that bullshit...
It's an 82 game season, you aren't going to win them all, but Miami going 17 for 33 from 3 and the Bucks 5 for 25 is unfricking believable.
phaedrus posted:MichiganPacker2 posted:Danger time. Down 7.
Relax. A lot of game left.
Not so relaxed now. Heat just can't miss. Sort of like the Nuggets and Spurs losses.
Getting perilously close to a blow out.
I don't understand continuing to post up Lopez. It puts you at a huge disadvantage on the break when he misses.
Itâs like watching Heat/Knicks circa 1995...
Or Knicks/Pacers...
5 for 28 from 3 versus the Heat going 17 for 35. It seems impossible they are only down 7.
It's pretty clear Bud needs to be better prepared for the Heat's scheme vs. Giannis. Of course, Middleton's 4 for 15 performance is not what Bud schemes for. Could it be that Middleton should have sat out another game?
How can that not be a foul on Giannis' drive?
This one's over. Get Giannis out.
Music City posted:Or Knicks/Pacers...
Or Ali-Frazier, anytime. Refs not calling any fouls on contact. Should have been a flagrant foul on Dragic kneeing Hill.
*sigh*
The Bucks have gotten no whistles at all in this game, but you don't deserve to win going 5 for 30 from 3.
MichiganPacker2 posted:How can that not be a foul on Giannis' drive?
That was ridiculous. Between bad refs calls and terrible shooting, the Bucks about to get their 9th loss of the year barring a miracle.
Dragic jumps into Hill, blatantly knees his in the balls- no whistle. The officials are letting the Heat turn back the clock to the fucking 90s tonight...
Why is Giannis helping Robinson up when he tried to cheap shot undercut him on that play?
Why have any of your starters in at this point, Bud?
Giannis shot 2 FTs tonight. That tells you a lot about how the officials let them play.
18 fouls called on the Bucks. 19 on Miami. Think about that, considering how bodies have been smashing into each other in this game.
Bucks need to remember how the Heat left in the starters to run up the score.
It was the third game in 4 nights and it showed.
Hopefully, George Hill doesn't miss significant time.
MichiganPacker2 posted:Bucks need to remember how the Heat left in the starters to run up the score.
They were terrified the Bucks bench could still beat them.
Rough night at the office. It happens.
21 games left.
If they go 8-13 I guarantee they'll still finish ahead of Miami because Miami isn't winning out.
I pulled this off Twitter:
The last 3 Bucks games officiated by Tony Brothers:
- Tonight: Giannis only had 2 free throw attempts in a total 90s style slug fest.
- December 25: Bucks only shot 8 free throws (76ers had 15)
- Game 5 of ECF: Bucks shot 18 free throws to Raptors' 31
All losses. The Bucks have lost 11 total out of a total of 63 played games, and heâs officiated 3 of them.
Live by the 3 and die by the 3
Miami made a lot of them and the Bucks did not. On top of that Milwaukee looked a bit lethargic which is understandable having played 3 games in 4 days
And yes the officiating was awful but having Brothers in there explains a lot
Music City posted:I pulled this off Twitter:
The last 3 Bucks games officiated by Tony Brothers:
- Tonight: Giannis only had 2 free throw attempts in a total 90s style slug fest.
- December 25: Bucks only shot 8 free throws (76ers had 15)
- Game 5 of ECF: Bucks shot 18 free throws to Raptors' 31
All losses. The Bucks have lost 11 total out of a total of 63 played games, and heâs officiated 3 of them.
This is truly pathetic.
Tschmack posted:Live by the 3 and die by the 3
Miami made a lot of them and the Bucks did not. On top of that Milwaukee looked a bit lethargic which is understandable having played 3 games in 4 days
And yes the officiating was awful but having Brothers in there explains a lot
Free throw shooting was also very poor. What really bothered me was the NBATV crew calling the game. The Bucks did not play well last night, but they are still in 1st place in the East. These announcers were talking about how the Bucks are not the same without Giannis and how the Bucks are going to lose more games, etc, etc. At the time, the Bucks were only down by a point, when they announcers were talking down to them. The first time the Bucks were down by eleven they kept talking about how they weren't going anywhere in the playoffs all the while the Bucks eliminated the eleven point deficit to tie the game. What game were thee announcers watching? Everyone's three point shooting was off and still it was a close game until the last 7 minutes, or so. The Bucks are getting zero respect from any of the talking heads, nation wide, and the pregame panel had the female member of that group talk about that very thing. Hill and Thompson agreed with her as the Bucks are not a team to do a lot of bragging. They let their play do the talking for them. Last night, though, there was not a lot of talking from their play.
The media is already pushing the narrative about the Heat being a threat because they beat the Bucks twice.
Give me a break. In the first game the Bucks should have won but fell apart in the 2nd half and in last nights game the Heat shot 49% from 3 while Milwaukee missed 27 bombs. Not to mention the refs swallowed their whistles and allowed Miami to play like it was Heat v Knicks in the mid 90s.
The Heat are .500 in their last 10 games including some really ugly road losses along the way. They have 13 more losses than the Bucks do. So Iâm not really worried about them.
The Bucks were playing their 3rd game in 4 nights and two back to back road games. The Heat had the previous night off and haven't had a road game since February 24th when they lost to the CAVALIERS.
Middleton clearly wasn't 100% and Bledsoe had been sick the night before. Giannis shot 2 FTs and was blatantly hacked at least 2-3 times with no call (there was also a phantom travel call (by Brothers?) in a momentum killing spot as well). The Heat shot 18 for 37 from 3 and the Bucks were 7 for 36. Adebayo (37) and Butler (35) played a lot more minutes that Giannis (30) and no one other Buck was over 28.
It was still an 8-10 point game well into the 4th quarter. The fact that this wasn't a 30 point blowout says a lot about the Bucks' interior defense and grit. In the Jason Kidd era (or last season even) this was a "sit your starters in the 4th" type of blowout.