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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... 

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Middleton’s 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. They’re 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 don’t 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. They’re 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.....

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. 

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. 

A lot of what they’re doing is attributable to Giannis. I mean, he’s MJ 1990. He’s the most dominant player in the NBA, he’s 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 what’s going on around him. We’re in year 2, and they have a roster lacking the “requisite” 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 game’s best player? 

Or is it the Spurs? Would Parker/Ginobli have been stars without Duncan? Is this Bucks supporting cast- complete with a PG that’s 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 game’s 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 they’d be fools to endorse it. But as the Mandolorians say- THIS IS THE WAY. 

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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. 

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