Bucks a little uneven defensively and Giannis barely draws iron on a pair of threes, but up 6 after 1 quarter.
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Middleton ice cold now and a couple of bad turnovers tonight. Bucks offense has not produced a basket in about 4 minutes...
Middleton ends the drought with an and-1. Still Bucks are disjointed offensively.
Memphis answers with an 8-2 run on an no-call illegal screen and back to back triples. Middleton another turnover, 3rd in the quarter.
Bucks falling apart in the second quarter...
Hill buries a 35 footer to give the Bucks the lead at the half!!!
Horrific second quarter on both ends. Bucks 5-14 from three, Memphis 10-26, which has carried them since they are shooting 38% overall. 11 Bucks turnovers really an issue. That and the 6 offensive rebounds they allowed.
Sloppy first half...
Bucks open up a 10 point lead... Matthews and Bledsoe just banged into each other hard... Matthews got up, Bledsoe down. Not good...
CANNOT afford to lose Bledsoe.
Officials call offensive fouls on Giannis on 2 of 3 Bucks possessions. Giannis has 4 fouls, Bledsoe banged knees with so he might be out.
Offense needs to start doing something. 14 threes by Memphis, 12-0 run.
Giannis snd Middleton 8 turnovers, 4 a piece.
Jaren Jackson has outscored the Bucks in the 3rd quarter 24-19...
Jaren Jackson 26, Bucks 26 in the 3rd quarter. Heâs 8/14 from 3. Memphis has outshot the Bucks 18-7 from three as a team, hitting 18/40.
No word on Bled yet, but I donât think heâs coming back tonight.
Update on Bled- shin contusion. Out tonight, probably out tomorrow too. Havenât seen Matthews since the collision either, but no report.
Memphis 19 threes...
Leon Wood calls a T on Giannis... heâs been calling BULLSHIT on Milwaukee all night. He must have money on the game.
Still up by 9
Fuck Leon Wood & fuck the NBA
I go take a shower, the Bucks are up by 1. I come back, theyâre up by 12.
Yikes!
Giannis taking over. Going right at Jackson. No call after getting hammered before the timeout. This officiating crew has been completely biased- they want Memphis to end the streak.
Giannis just took over, pair of 3s, a layup and a handful of free throws.
At this point, under 3 to play, why take him out? Why risk it? Heâs 25. He can go longer. Donât risk a run by the Grizz.
Leon Wood has called fouls on the Bucks 3 straight Memphis possessions.
I just have no confidence in Middleton. I donât see him as a true #2. Just goes ice cold at the most inopportune times, and turns the ball over way too much.
Bucks up 35-16 in the 4th quarter... wow.
Middletonâs line looks good- 10/19 and 26 points... but his sloppy play after Giannis got his 4th foul really allowed Memphis to go nuts in that 3rd quarter.
For a team that does most of their damage in the paint, Memphis hits 20 threes. Theyâre the 7th worst in makes, and 8th worst in %. 20/49 tonight against the Bucks.
lambeausouth posted:I just have no confidence in Middleton. I donât see him as a true #2. Just goes ice cold at the most inopportune times, and turns the ball over way too much.
I like him more than you do, but I agree that at times his turnovers can be annoying. I look at it like this, Middleton may not be one of the elite guys in the league, but he might be at the top of the list of guys who fall just below the elite line. Will that be enough for the Bucks to win a title? Time will tell, but overall I think Middleton has played well this year.
Music City posted:For a team that does most of their damage in the paint, Memphis hits 20 threes. Theyâre the 7th worst in makes, and 8th worst in %. 20/49 tonight against the Bucks.
Think about it. Their only shot at beating the Bucks is making like 30 3's.....They only made 20.
That's right Memphis...You lose .....again.
NBA officiating.....
When Jaren Jackson hit the bank 3 that increased Memphis' lead, I thought this just wasn't the Bucks night. They still found a way to win, showing how special the team is.
Not just win... blow them out. 37-19 4th quarter with Giannis taking over and dropping 17 points to put the game away is just massive.
Thatâs MJ level shit... Memphis blows their load when Giannis gets his 4th foul, then he comes back in the 4th and shuts the game down.
17 wins in a row... one loss since Halloween.
Giannis was +26 in 27 minutes tonight.
10-13 from the line. 3-7 from 3. That should scare the rest of the league.
In a way, the foul trouble holding his minutes down might help in the back to back tomorrow night. Very unlikely we'll see Bledsoe tomorrow, so it would be difficult to load manage Giannis or Middleton tomorrow even against the Cavs.
4 quarters
Memphis couldnât have played any better through 3 quarters and the Bucks turned it on and dropped the hammer in 4Q
Keep it rolling a terrible Cleveland team coming in letâs make it 18
The game at Boston is about their only game this year where the other team really outplayed and beat them. One game. They melted down in Miami OT loss and lost on a 3 in Utah.
Has anyone watched what the Clippers have done since getting worked by the Bucks? They are busting up fools left and right.
This team is good. Scary good. Just need to stay focused and healthy and keep it rolling.
Hope Bledsoe is ok. That was pretty violent.
A lot of what theyâre doing is attributable to Giannis. I mean, heâs MJ 1990. Heâs the most dominant player in the NBA, heâs at his best in q4, and he is on both ends of the floor.
But you have to give Horst and Budenholzer a lot of credit for whatâs going on around him. Weâre in year 2, and they have a roster lacking the ârequisiteâ second superstar. I mean, everyone on the planet says that you have to have 2 superstars, right? They gotta join forces if they want a title.
But what are we seeing? Are we seeing a variation of the Pistons title teams, especially the 2000s one- I.e., the right mix of players and coach- this time with the gameâs best player?
Or is it the Spurs? Would Parker/Ginobli have been stars without Duncan? Is this Bucks supporting cast- complete with a PG thatâs is dynamic defensively and able to get in the paint but makes some questionable decision- similar to the Spurs 2 decades of contenders and Champions centered around the gameâs best team player?
Those teams regularly dismantled teams. Overwhelmed them. And were at their best when they were unselfish. Those of us who watched the league then, and envied those fan bases as they bucked they bias and the odds and the officials to 8 titles the last 30 years understood that these models were the only way the Bucks could be Champions. The league wants the big 5 markets in there (LA, NYC, MIA, CHI, and BOS), and to push them out of the way for a San Antonio, Detroit, or Milwaukee would sacrifice so much of the market share theyâd be fools to endorse it. But as the Mandolorians say- THIS IS THE WAY.
At the way he is trending, Giannis is likely to be the most marketable international superstar in NBA history. The league may want him in NYC, LA, etc. for US market share, but it doesn't matter where he plays for him to appeal to Europe and Africa. The NBA is starting an NBA Africa league soon. Giannis, Siakam, and Embiid are going to be the favorites there.