Apparently this is a "road" game for the Bucks.
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How come the NBA doesn’t let white people sing the national anthem anymore?
@Blair Kiel posted:How come the NBA doesn’t let white people sing the national anthem anymore?
Why do you care? As far as I'm concerned they should do away with the national anthem before all sporting events. If they're going to do it, who gives a rat's ass who sings it?
@Mnpackman.
Agree on the non-singing...it’s become too politicized. As to my comment, it’s because it’s about race....everything is about race. All day, every day. It brings us together.
Fair enough. Let's agree to keep this thread about the Bucks game. Doing well so far, by the way.
Harden is such a trash gimmick player
Clanks an off kilter 3 but George Hill “fouls” him despite no review
And he thinks he’s better than Giannis. Fuck that
@Mnpackman Deal.
Houston being in the 6 spot in the West tells everything you need to know about how tough that side of the bracket is.
Based on what? Houston isn’t going anywhere in the playoffs when the pace slows and halfcourt D matters
The top 4 in the East can easily match up with the top 4 in the West
Houston just isn't missing this far. Bucks might have to get to 130 to win.
Man the Bucks allow a lot of wide open 3's......
Bucks killing them on the glass but 14 turnovers in the first half is totally unacceptable
Westbrook sure is full of himself and the beauty of his own shot. He poses for a statue after each attempt.
What a lucky shot by Harden. Then gets the cheap foul call.
Wes Matthews getting completely hosed in the last minute. Unreal. He never. Even touched Harden. Fuckin ridiculous.
How many times are the Bucks going to allow the Rockets to drive the lane and kick it out for wide open 3's?
DJ Wilson getting meaningful minutes in place of Matthew's. Tells you all you need to know.
I'll say it again. Brook is the unsung hero of this team.
LMAO....😆 How many turnovers are you going to have tonight bucks?
22 turnovers won’t get it done it’s as simple as that
Playing Korver 16 minutes and DJ and Sterling Brown 16 minutes likely won’t happen once Pat C and Bled come back.
Bledsoe is one person that’s strong and quick enough to check Westbrook and they had no answers last night for him. Harden got some points but 3-12 from 3 and 5-14 from the field isn’t anything special.
@Tschmack posted:22 turnovers won’t get it done it’s as simple as that
Playing Korver 16 minutes and DJ and Sterling Brown 16 minutes likely won’t happen once Pat C and Bled come back.
Bledsoe is one person that’s strong and quick enough to check Westbrook and they had no answers last night for him. Harden got some points but 3-12 from 3 and 5-14 from the field isn’t anything special.
Westbrook is like the basketball version of 1999-2005 Brett Favre. He'll have games where he's unstoppable and you wonder how he just doesn't dominate every game and then he'll have some games where he singlehandedly shoots his team into a loss.
Agree that Bledsoe would have made huge difference. They probably aren't going to ever match up against the Rockets in the playoffs, but they need Bledsoe against guys like Kemba Walker and Kyle Lowry.
For all of his playoff and shooting woes we forget what an elite defensive player Bledsoe is. DDV and Hill are solid but they aren’t as physical as Bled. Pound for pound Westbrook might be one of the toughest guys in the league to guard given his quickness and strength.
Just out of curiosity, what incentive is there at this point to be the #1 seed.
The first two seeds in the East will play the Magic or Nets in the first round (there is a huge gap between the Heat at #6 and those two). It doesn't matter whether you play the Magic or the Nets.
That sets up a second-round where the 1 seed would likely play the Heat or the Pacers and the 2 seed plays the Celtics or the Sixers. I guess you'd rather face the Heat, but they've been a difficult matchup for the Bucks.
With no home-court advantage, do you want the Celtics/Sixers or Heat/Pacers? That's six of one or half a dozen of another, and it's not like you are fighting to get a Game 7 at home in the ECFs.
Milwaukee and Philadelphia and to a lesser extent Miami lose the home court advantage they had playing in the bubble. Those three teams were almost impossible to beat at home during the year.
However, with the exception of Milwaukee the Heat and Sixers were terrible on the road so while the bubble isn’t a road game I have to think that it will negatively impact those teams that thrive on home court advantages but don’t play particularly well on the road.
Now, teams that play well on the road which is Toronto and Boston and Milwaukee I expect will play well in the bubble. Ironically, the two teams best equipped to match up against the Bucks are Philly and Miami but it would not surprise me one bit if Boston beat the Sixers and Indiana beat the Heat. In fact, I expect that.
In the end, the 2 teams that will realistically pose the greatest challenge to the Bucks are Boston and Toronto. Nothing new there. What’s key is finding a way to avoid playing both of them IMO.
At this point, we are fairly certain the seeds will look like this.
1. Milwaukee
2. Toronto
3. Boston (2.5 clear of the Heat)
4-6. Miami, Indiana, Philly (2 games separate 4 from 6)
7-8. Orlando and Brooklyn.
Both the 7 and 8 seeds (or the Wizards if they someone got to a play-in game) are really weak. Something like the Nets top 4 players are sitting out, and Beal is gone for the Wizards. The Magic just lost Isaac. The 1-8 and 2-7 games are basically byes (if you couldn't beat those teams even without Giannis playing you don't deserve to be in the playoffs).
Clearly, the Bucks and Raptors are the strongest teams, but I think 3-6 are pretty much equivalent. Any of them (and the Raptors) are capable of beating the Bucks if a 3 point shooter really goes off because the Bucks defense is designed to give up 3s and assume that it won't happen too much. If a team shoots even a normal percentage from 3, the Bucks probably win a series 80% of the time. If a guy goes Van Vliet 2019 ECF on them, then its a different story.