Bucks at Warriors (No Giannis)

Boston wins. Lead down to 2. Bucks have two tough road games back to back coming up. Celtics have two virtually guaranteed wins against the Rockets and Wolves. Could be back to even in the standings very quickly.

Can't get much better than winning 19 of 21, but the two losses were games where they blew big leads in the last couple of minutes.

If you split up those 21 games into three seven game series... You get 7 and 0 6 and 1 and 6 and 1 or... 7 and 0 7 & 0 and 5 and 2

Either way I think the Bucks will be an extremely tough out in the playoffs in a seven game series

I think Giannis wants to get into Michael Jordan territory (GOAT)

@Boris posted:

If you split up those 21 games into three seven game series... You get 7 and 0 6 and 1 and 6 and 1 or... 7 and 0 7 & 0 and 5 and 2

Either way I think the Bucks will be an extremely tough out in the playoffs in a seven game series

I think Giannis wants to get into Michael Jordan territory (GOAT)

The other way to look at the two losses is that they happened late in games when two of the top 20 or so offensive players in history went off. Harden scored 17 points in the 4th quarter of the Sixers loss and Curry scored 20 in about a 4 minute span at the end of regulation and OT.

The Sixers are looking to be a tougher out than they were a couple of months ago, but my sense is Embiid is more worried about winning the MVP than winning a title. In terms of the Bucks title chances, Embiid winning MVP might help a lot.

The Celtics are really struggling right now and maybe it goes back the rumblings that were happening at the beginning of last year that Tatum and Brown aren't necessarily the best of buddies and there's some underlying tension that starts to come out at the first sign of problems.