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@lambeausouth posted:8 minutes left in the game, our bench has scored 2 points. How is that even possible?
And Holiday is 1 for 10 from 3. Can we get Bledsoe back?
This team is ahead for now, but they keep finding ways to underwhelm me.
Holiday is 1 for 10 from 3 and 7 for 10 from inside the arc. Seems like a pretty simple decision on what to do for the rest of the game.
Giannis does not look timid like he usually does in the 4th qtr of playoff games. He’s going at them.
I reboot my iPhone, and what do I see? A scoring burst by the Bucks?
Oh, please God, let them hang on.
So, good Khris Middleton has shown up tonight. Thank God for that.
Glad to be rong
Beat these bitches in Crooklyn
This should be the win for this series, but fir the game 5 choke job
@Goalline posted:This should be the win for this series, but fir the game 5 choke job
Game 5 was terrible, but it evened up the fact the Bucks won a Game 3 they had no business winning.
Not over yet. They just cut our lead in half. Why is Forbes tossing up 25 foot shots?
Little brother with the three. That should do it.
So. Is Bud's job now safe no matter what happens?
How many 10-second violations will Giannis get called for in Game 7?
Will Bobby Portis take off his warmups in the next game?
KD free throw attempts in game 7. 18. Over or under?
The Bucks won a game where everyone but Middleton combined to go 2 for 25 from 3.
@lambeausouth posted:KD free throw attempts in game 7. 18. Over or under?
Bet the over.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:So. Is Bud's job now safe no matter what happens?
How many 10-second violations will Giannis get called for in Game 7?
Will Bobby Portis take off his warmups in the next game?
I think he knows it’s over. The management never approached him about an extension, and he’s deserving of a lot of criticism. With Carlisle available, I think his fate is sealed. He’s got that desperate look… he’s never won an elimination game.
The Bucks always had to win one game in Brooklyn.
Might as well be the last one.
(Although, not blowing a 17 point second half lead in game five would have been cool too.)
@MichiganPacker2 posted:So. Is Bud's job now safe no matter what happens?
How many 10-second violations will Giannis get called for in Game 7?
Will Bobby Portis take off his warmups in the next game?
I believe unless Bud wins it all, he's gone.
He has to adjust.
Maybe I don't know WTF I'm talking about but whenever Giannis is at the 5, the Nets have no answer for it & the Bucks go on a run.
Is it just me??
The last 6 minutes of Q4 in Game 7 should be Giannis at 5. And like tonight, Giannis should have zero 3-point attempts
Even though they made some decent adjustments in Game 6 they still did a lot of stupid shit like Holiday continuing to shoot from 3 despite going 1 for 10. I mean, no one has been able to handle him off the dribble and once he gets in the paint it’s over. Yet there he is camping out on the perimeter and bombing away from 3.
This is why Bud has to go. Either he’s completely oblivious to what’s going on or he’s just not very bright.
I’m really torn about Game 7. I want them to win as I think they have a real chance to win a title but I am also looking at the next 3-4 years and clearly Bud is not the answer so if losing this game means he’s gone and they can get a real coach then I’ll probably lean in that direction.
@Tschmack posted:Even though they made some decent adjustments in Game 6 they still did a lot of stupid shit like Holiday continuing to shoot from 3 despite going 1 for 10. I mean, no one has been able to handle him off the dribble and once he gets in the paint it’s over. Yet there he is camping out on the perimeter and bombing away from 3.
This is why Bud has to go. Either he’s completely oblivious to what’s going on or he’s just not very bright.
I’m really torn about Game 7. I want them to win as I think they have a real chance to win a title but I am also looking at the next 3-4 years and clearly Bud is not the answer so if losing this game means he’s gone and they can get a real coach then I’ll probably lean in that direction.
Wow, that reminds me of the days where we would pull for Packers to lose after a bad start so we can get the #1 pick in the draft. They could move off of him EVEN if they win the title.
Well, given that this franchise rarely wins any game 7s I think there’s a good chance it will happen anyway. For the Bucks to win, a guy like Middleton needs to show up and have a repeat like game 6 and that’s just not him.
Chuck B nailed it. They just do not play smart, disciplined basketball and that’s 90% on Bud. We’ve already pissed away the 2019 playoffs due to his coaching. My fear is that they win the title or get close and stick with him ala Mike McCarthy and that’s all she wrote.
This team has the talent in place for the next several years to win multiple titles but that’s only if they have a HC that knows what he’s doing with this talent.
Please fellas...I know peeps get emotional in a game, but for all things holy...stop comparing holiday to Bledsoe! 🤯
@MichiganPacker2 posted:The bench scored 4 points, 1 FG, and no 3 pointers.
Forbes played a few min, but the rest was Connaughton- and he sure as hell wasn’t going to score much. The Bucks went 1 deep into the bench into garbage time.
@Music City posted:Forbes played a few min, but the rest was Connaughton- and he sure as hell wasn’t going to score much. The Bucks went 1 deep into the bench into garbage time.
Connaughton is the safe guy to play. He doesn't have any glaring weaknesses, but he doesn't have any elite characteristics either. He won't make mistakes on rotations and he's athletic enough to at least bother most non-Durant guys on defense.
Forbes is a guy that can win a game for you by erupting like he did in the Miami series (Games 2 and 4), but he can lose games for you because his defense is so poor. He's the high-risk/high-reward guy.
@Boris posted:I believe unless Bud wins it all, he's gone.
He has to adjust.
Maybe I don't know WTF I'm talking about but whenever Giannis is at the 5, the Nets have no answer for it & the Bucks go on a run.
Is it just me??
The last 6 minutes of Q4 in Game 7 should be Giannis at 5. And like tonight, Giannis should have zero 3-point attempts
It ain’t just you. you’re 💯 on 🎯.
The Bucks have been maddening all season long this way. They get away from what they other team has no answer for just for the fuck of it. Giannis should have 50 on Saturday if they just stop trying to be something they’re not. And he also has to know they’re going to call fouls on him. No bullshit plowing into 3 dudes… he was great last night side-stepping and going in under control. The few times they slid out, he got the blocking call. Now maybe a couple of those go the other way, but like all great players they have to put the official on the spot to make a call. Put the pressure on them.
And Giannis is not a guy screaming at officials after every foul, either. He’s the only star player that doesn’t. That should count for something…
@Sufferinginmn posted:Please fellas...I know peeps get emotional in a game, but for all things holy...stop comparing holiday to Bledsoe! 🤯
For all Bledsoe's faults on offense, he has always been an elite defender. He defended Kyrie really well in the 2019 Boston series and was exceptional guarding Harden in regular-season games against the Rockets. He can't guard bigger guys as well as Holiday can, but Bledsoe is better against the quick guards.
The third option on the Bucks has to be respectable from 3 to space the floor. Holiday is 10 for 37 from 3 in the series and 13 for 52 from 3 in the playoffs. He's been terrible from there. In the two series the Bucks got eliminated in (Miami and Toronto), Bledsoe was 8 for 43 from 3, so I guess 25% from 3 is an upgrade from Bledsoe, but it is still a very weak link.
In Game 7, the Nets are going to build the Giannis wall and do everything they can to prevent Middleton from getting open looks. For all that we (some more than others) complain about Middleton, his game last night was one of the top 5 games in Bucks playoff history. In the 3 Bucks wins, he's the main reason they won two of them. I'm sure any Nets fan watching these games is thinking that they'd rather have anyone else on the Bucks besides him taking shots in a close game.
All of this means is that something other than Giannis on drives or Middleton knocking down jumpers is going to be needed to win a Game 7. Holiday needs a signature performance. He dominated Dame Lillard in one of his playoff series with the Pelicans and scored 41 in the closeout game of that Pelicans-Blazers series. This Game 7 is exactly the reason they mortgaged their draft picks for the next half-decade to get him. He needs to step up.
I actually think Lopez and Portis and maybe Teague become key players on Saturday. Maybe Forbes and Tucker as well.
You know the Nets will pack the lane and make the Bucks beat them from outside. Middleton is certainly capable of doing that, but he can’t do it alone. Holiday has been awful from long range. Lopez has been OK. Portis is a decent shooter and Teague is reliable but for whatever stupid reason Bud isn’t playing them.
To win this game, at least two of the Big 3 need to have monster games and I think the bench needs to give them 20-25 points on good shooting. I fully expect Brooklyn to score more than 100 and for the Bucks to compete they need contributions from guys like Tucker and Portis and Forbes.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:For all that we (some more than others) complain about Middleton, his game last night was one of the top 5 games in Bucks playoff history. In the 3 Bucks wins, he's the main reason they won two of them.
His game last night in an elimination game was on par with Ray Allen’s 40 point performance against the Sixers in game 6 in ‘01. He’ll need to do it again…
I bet the Nets in Vegas.
Let's see if the Bucks prove me Rong
P.S. I also have the Bucks to win it all 😆😉
Home teams have won about 80% of game 7s in the NBA playoffs and the Bucks are 2-8 in game 7s so the odds are not good for Milwaukee.
Hoping for the best but expecting an L
@Tschmack posted:Home teams have won about 80% of game 7s in the NBA playoffs and the Bucks are 2-8 in game 7s so the odds are not good for Milwaukee.
Hoping for the best but expecting an L
Usually, the team that wins Game 7 of a relatively evenly matched series is the team with the best player. That's Durant. Especially at home.
This is where conceding some of those regular-season games by sitting all the starters may come back to haunt them. It was a balance between staying healthy and winning regular-season games, but a home Game 7 or being able to play the Hawks right now would have been nice.