Tied after one. Giannis gets two early fouls on weak calls. Portis 0 for 5. Ibaka picked up the slack with 9.
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Bucks playing terrible defense. Transition defense is embarrassing.
Down 9 at the half.
Portis and Middleton are 4 for 18. The bench wings, Matthews and Nwora, are 0 for 4.
Klay Thompson has 21 points.
We’re getting out rebounded 2 to 1. Really flat performance thus far. Shooting 54.5% at the line.
Giannis has been awful at the line, of late. After going 23 for 25 in two nights, he’s 38 for 63 (60.3%) the last 4.5 games. Great everywhere else, but that’s “let’s foul Giannis as a strategy” bad. You can’t give away 25 points like that.
Bucks now down 20 as the Warriors open up the second half on an 11-0 run.
The Bucks were due for one of these duds, but the rebounding disparity is almost unbelievable (44-22) and they've given up 9 offensive rebounds. Controlling Curry, but everyone else is going off.
Defense going under the screens is one of those Bud defensive scheme things that don't make sense.
The fact that Grayson Allen sucks on defense is also a general problem.
Without a big run here in the third, this is probably one the starters sit for the 4th in a blowout.
@lambeausouth posted:We’re getting out rebounded 2 to 1. Really flat performance thus far. Shooting 54.5% at the line.
Giannis has been awful at the line, of late. After going 23 for 25 in two nights, he’s 38 for 63 (60.3%) the last 4.5 games. Great everywhere else, but that’s “let’s foul Giannis as a strategy” bad. You can’t give away 25 points like that.
Giannis now 5 for 10 tonight and 37 for his last 65 from the line.
@MichiganPacker posted:Thompson, Wiggins, and Poole are 24 for 41 from the field.
Those 3 are 13 for 23 from three. That's combination of bad luck and poor defense.
Bembry with an out-of-control close-out that results in a foul on a three (and likely a season-ending injury for Bembry).
Bucks just can't rebound. Get it 12, force a miss, don't get the board, Warriors immediately go on a 7-0 run
GAME OVER. Down 19 going to the 4th.
You can't play Grayson Allen big minutes in a playoff game. He's been lit up like a Christmas tree tonight. He can't effectively guard guys on the perimeter. You certainly can't play Portis and him at the same time.
Horst moves generally work more than not. Getting Allen for almost nothing was a good move. Paying him 10 million a year starting next year was a terrible move.
Jrue Holiday has completely taken Steph Curry out of the game tonight, but when you have to play combinations of Allen, Portis, and Nwora at the same time things can go bad quickly on the defensive end.
On the plus side, J. Carter has been great again.
No surprise when you start a quarter with Allen and Portis with Giannis sitting that you get lit up again on defense.
Started watching this at a bar. I was concerned about GS going wild on 3's and it looks like that's just what they have done.
@MNPackman posted:Started watching this at a bar. I was concerned about GS going wild on 3's and it looks like that's just what they have done.
Grayson Allen and Portis are absolutely terrible matchups against the Warriors who've been playing 4 shooters most of the game (Curry, Klay, Poole, and Wiggins). Holiday has shut Curry down almost completely, but without Connaughton and Hill, the Bucks are outmatched on the wings.
Wes Matthews is 2 for his last 20 and 17 for his last 76 from the three point line.
He plays great defense, but he's turned into a black hole on offense.
Klay Thompson was 8 for 14 from three tonight.
He was 8 for his previous 30.
Golden State is the rare team that this Bucks team will have trouble with given their current roster.
When the Warriors spread the floor and feature multiple shooters and wings like they can it really makes life difficult for guys like Allen and Portis and the rest of the backups. Matthews can hold his own, but he’s like Allen on the other end of the ball. DDV and a healthy Pat C could have helped for sure.
@Tschmack posted:Golden State is the rare team that this Bucks team will have trouble with given their current roster.
When the Warriors spread the floor and feature multiple shooters and wings like they can it really makes life difficult for guys like Allen and Portis and the rest of the backups. Matthews can hold his own, but he’s like Allen on the other end of the ball. DDV and a healthy Pat C could have helped for sure.
The Warriors would have been easier to play with Draymond Green yesterday. When Wiggins, Poole, and Thompson are all hitting 3s like yesterday, they are going to beat almost everyone. They really had no one to guard Giannis so they just hacked him as much as possible. He shot 18 FTs, but it could have practically been 30.
Middleton played a C- minus game and Holiday was less aggressive than usual on offense (but completely took Curry out of the game).
Getting Allen for almost nothing in a trade was great move. But I just don't why they extended Allen for the money they did. I'd much rather have DDV because DDV does almost everything other than shoot from three better than Allen. The difference on defense is massive. Allen just isn't athletic enough to fight through the screens and their perimeter defense just gets torched with him out there because they have to scramble to cover for him.
Portis has the same problem, but he does offer some rim protection and is usually a very good rebounder. When Ibaka got hurt yesterday and Portis only playing 21 minutes because of poor shooting and defensive issues, they really had no rebounding other than Giannis.
It looks like they have have lucked into a great fit for them in Javon Carter. He will get posted up (Klay yesterday) but other than that he's an elite defensive player.
