Bucks at Spurs

Bucks give up 45 points in the first quarter as the Spurs go 6 for 8 from 3.

Bucks give up 45 points in the first as they try out a zone and Bud decides to stay with it. Great move, Bud. Now down 14 as the Spurs are on pace for 182 points.

Bucks down 23. Spurs 11 for 16 from 3.

Bucks give up the highest-scoring first half in Spurs history. 87 points.

Teams with title aspirations do not give up 87 point in a half to anybody, let alone non-playoff teams.

Spurs have 6 guys in double figures at the half.

87 points is fucking ridiculous...

Unreal. The east is there for the taking but this team is way too inconsistent to get it done I fear.

Just remember this game if the Bucks lose in 7 games to the Nets after a tough fought game in Brooklyn in the second round.

Of course, they may get lit up from 3 in the first round by the Heat and that will all be mute.

The Bucks are getting absolutely embarrassed in a game where Middleton, Giannis, and Holiday are 28 for 42 from the floor with 61 points in 3 quarters.

Down 20 after 3.

Bobby Portis now can’t defend the P&R... and gets two of his shots blocked. Every Bucks weakness being exposed like salt in a wound right now..

The difference between a well coached team and a not well coached team. Since when is Jacob fucking Poertl Hakeem Olajuwon? Embarassing...

Bucks bench has 11 points... Spurs bench 43

San Antonio 15 for 26 from 3.

Why is Giannis still in? If the whole team played like they didn't give a shit all game, why risk an injury down 23 with 10 minutes left at this point?

@Music City posted:

Bobby Portis now can’t defend the P&R... and gets two of his shots blocked. Every Bucks weakness being exposed like salt in a wound right now..

Pop is a coach who makes a difference. Like Spoelstra or sometimes Brad Stevens. The thing the Bucks may have going for them is that neither Steve Nash or Doc Rivers is probably going to outscheme Bud.

Well, do you really want the bench to play? They’re 3/18 from the floor.

On a night where Zion Williamson and Jaylen Brown are out for the year, you might want to get the starters...

And there- just fell on his wrist...

@Music City posted:

On a night where Zion Williamson and Jaylen Brown are out for the year, you might want to get the starters...

Get the starters out now.

Bud gives up with 6 and a half minutes left.

Bucks completely shit the bed the last two games in Texas in less than a couple of weeks.

Give up 143 points to a terrible Rockets team and on pace to give up more than that tonight.

The Bucks gave up 87 points in the first half? What the actual fuck?

With Jaylen Brown out of the year and the Celtics likely locked into the 7 seed, that 2 seed means a lot more. Nice that the Bucks played like they didn't care.

The Bucks will likely get Miami. The Nets will get a depleted Celtics team.

Bucks bench stunk up the joint tonight... big 3 did their part, but the Spurs seemed to target Forbes and Portis whenever they were on the floor, and they just let them get into a 3 point rhythm. 17-29 from 3? Sheesh...

5 games left. Bucks now a game back of Brooklyn, and the prize at the 3 seed? A now healthy Miami Heat squad. Spoelstra has to be licking his chops after watching tonight.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

With Jaylen Brown out of the year and the Celtics likely locked into the 7 seed, that 2 seed means a lot more. Nice that the Bucks played like they didn't care.

The Bucks will likely get Miami. The Nets will get a depleted Celtics team.

Celtics won’t get out of the play-in, now. Think they can get by Charlotte? I don’t.

Wizards  might be the most dangerous play in team now. They started 5-15, but are 27-21 since. They have the firepower to overwhelm the Pacers and if the Celtics lose to Charlotte they’d be in big trouble against the Wizards.

Bucks have given up 413 points in 3 games, no overtimes. Combined record? 81-124...

nice, fellas! Finish with a flurry!

First round exit- bye bye Bud

At least it only counts for one game

The zone defense bullshit needs to stop.  It doesn’t work.  

@Tschmack posted:

At least it only counts for one game

The zone defense bullshit needs to stop.  It doesn’t work.  

Especially if you go under the screens at the 3-point line. They were conceding 3 point shots like the uncontested ones guys take when they are warming up. Middleton would put up 50 a game if other teams played him like that.

@Music City posted:

Celtics won’t get out of the play-in, now. Think they can get by Charlotte? I don’t.

Wizards  might be the most dangerous play in team now. They started 5-15, but are 27-21 since. They have the firepower to overwhelm the Pacers and if the Celtics lose to Charlotte they’d be in big trouble against the Wizards.

The Celtics are toast. They were probably done even with Jaylen Brown, but the personnel moves Ainge made over the last 3 years were didn't work.

Two years ago they had Tatum, Brown, Irving, Horford, Hayward, Smart, and Rozier. They lost Hayward, Horford, Rozier, and Irving for almost nothing in return. They replaced Irving with Walker, whose injury problems make his contact one of the worst long-term ones in the league. Marcus Smart is essentially a little bit better version of Bledsoe. He's a great defender with terrible shot selection (and unlike Bledsoe, he's a dirty player, too). His contract is also an albatross.

Ainge has to make some big moves this offseason, but his only really good assets are Tatum and Brown.

Boston is a mess.  They are in a real quandary and that was before the Brown injury.  

The Kemba Walker contract is terrible and he’s basically on the hook the next two years for almost 40MM per year.   They get some cap relief after this year with Evan Fornier coming off the books but next season doesn’t look much better.

You have to think Toronto will improve and Miami has enough cap space to add one if not two stud players.   Philly and Milwaukee and Brooklyn aren’t going anywhere the next 2-3 years so if you are the Celtics you are all but guaranteed to finish in the 4-8 range which is not where you want to be.