Bucks V Lakers

Splash mountain strikes again!

Why does Giannis insist on shooting 3's?

Bucks having a hard time containing Davis.

Bucks down 2 after 1. Lakers have been shooting well.

Middletons looking good. He just passed Marques on the Bucks all time scoring list.

Bucks down 12 midway through the 2nd. Need to step it up.

Seems like the Lakers make every shot they put up.

Bucks trail by 8 at the half. Davis has 23 points.

Holiday keeping the Bucks in it.

Midway through 3Q Lakers shooting 54% from field?  Not sure that will last

James injured. Not a big deal since he's been a non factor tonight.

Pretty sure the Lakers won’t shoot like this in a game the rest of the year.  

Grayson Allen should not be creating offense at crunch time. Gives up a killer turnover. He's elite at catch and shoot, but not when he puts the ball on the floor. Do that with Holiday, Giannis, or Middleton, not Grayson

And, of course, Bud calls a play for Grayson and misses a wide open 3.

And then Holiday misses a wide open look.

Good game, but a tough loss.

Two bites at the 3 point apple.

December loss.

Yawn.

Allen and Holiday miss 3s at the end

Lakers are a fucking joke.  They will probably shoot 20% from the field in their next game.  Rodgers needs to quit attending games.

God I hate the Lakers.  LeBron goes down and acts like he blew out his Achilles.  AD will probably strain his back ordering a coffee tomorrow and miss the next 10 games.  But they saved their best game of the season for the Bucks.

There is a reason Khris Middleton is the guy taking clutch 3s in the NBA Finals. Grayson hit a big 3 in New York on Wednesday, but the pressure goes up a notch in a national TV game against the Lakers. His shot was closer to the mark than Holiday's was, but why not set that play up for Middleton?

Allen missed a wide open 3 that was totally uncontested.  Holiday shouldn’t have been taking that shot in the first place.  I Agee get the ball to Middleton in those situations.

@Tschmack posted:

Allen and Holiday miss 3s at the end

Lakers are a fucking joke.  They will probably shoot 20% from the field in their next game.  Rodgers needs to quit attending games.

God I hate the Lakers.  LeBron goes down and acts like he blew out his Achilles.  AD will probably strain his back ordering a coffee tomorrow and miss the next 10 games.  But they saved their best game of the season for the Bucks.

This was the equivalent of the Lakers' Super Bowl this for the first couple months of the year. It was a great regular season game, but they played about as well as they can play and it was a one possession game near the buzzer with their two HOF players not missing any shots in the last 5 minutes.

The Bucks played well too. Grayson Allen didn't execute in the final 3 possessions. He had a good look at a tying three and just didn't hit it. A good shot and it looked good leaving his hand. You can't hit them all.

The bigger problem was the play where he drove inside and had no idea what to do and ended up throwing a ground ball to Middleton that resulted in a layup on the other end. Holiday driving into AD with less than 3 minutes left and thinking he could shoot a layup against him was a really poor decision as well. That was a layup on the other end as well.

Bud also didn't run a single play with Giannis as the primary ball handler the last 4 minutes. He had a putback dunk, but other than that was a decoy.

Did anyone say #12 of the Packers was at the game?????  He’s a curse.  AND he’s an owner right??  The Bucks Lost.  Just saying.

On the flip side Middleton looked really good.  He was moving well with and without the ball and his shot looked good as usual.  

Davis looked like the guy 5 years ago that some thought was the best big man in the league.  When he and LeBron are hitting outside shots like they did and Westbrook is making good plays and decisions you know it’s their night.  My guess is if these two teams played 10 times the Lakers might win 2 of them.  As it was Milwaukee still could have won but just not good play calls and execution in the final couple of minutes.