If you are the Bucks you have to feel OK about where you are. 2 points down at half and 4/19 from 3 and Irving has been unconscious. The Bucks have owned the 3Q.
Helluva half… took their best shot, can’t make a basket to save their lives… down 2.
@Blair Kiel posted:Bucks really only need one game of the first two to take control, yes?
Yes- you seize home court by getting one on the road. They say that any series doesn’t really start until a team wins a road game.
4 for 21 from three now.
Fight all the way back to get it to 2 and open the second half playing like crap on both ends. Pathetic start.
They’re suckering the Bucks into iso-ball…
The 4 guys that generally provide perimeter offense for the Bucks (Holiday, Middleton, Forbes, and Portis) are 11 for 37. Very lucky to still be within 5.
Still cold from 3, now 4 for 22.
@Music City posted:They’re suckering the Bucks into iso-ball…
It would work if they just iso'd Lopez and Giannis down low. That's a good shot every single time.
Move the ball, cut, move, reverse, cut, screen, move… you are not good enough to go iso for iso with these guys. Move the fucking ball!!!
@MichiganPacker2 posted:It would work if they just iso'd Lopez and Giannis down low. That's a good shot every single time.
They need to keep the guys outside involved. It’s advantage Nets if you try to just iso them to death.
Just take it inside every possession
The Nets can’t defend it
Middleton really struggling against a team that he really shouldn't struggle against.
Bench has provide nothing.
The refs are starting to get involved now
Let then play
Nets are the most finesse team ever and getting calls like crazy
It’s shocking this game is still single digits. Bucks have been terrible on offense.
Giannis missed two FTs and leads to a transition 3 from Irving. Then GIannis with a turnover and a transition layup. Giannis with essentially gives up 7 points on 2 possessions.
Down 11.
@Tschmack posted:It’s shocking this game is still single digits. Bucks have been terrible on offense.
They haven't been that much better on defense in the 3rd quarter. I'm not sure they can play much worse.
I would be interested in an analysis of Giannis’ FT shooting with extended rest. It seems like he loses rhythm.
Giannis has played perhaps his worst 2 minutes this year the last 2 minutes.
The Bucks will be down 13.
I know others on this forum are saying that they only have to win 1 of 2 in Brooklyn but this is a game they should win.
Bucks need to quit this iso bullshit
You aren’t the Nets. Play your game and you stomp these guys
@MichiganPacker2 posted:That was a dumb challenge by Bud out of frustration.
I'm shocked they overturned that.
Giannis with another turnover. He's completely fallen apart the end of this quarter. It started with the missed FTs. If he hits both FTs, the Bucks get within 3. Instead, missed both , Irving 3, Giannis turnover, transition layup, and then another turnover and two Durant FTs. Durant cooks him for a three
Game over. Down 14.
@Tschmack posted:Bucks just all out of sorts
And another foul
It's mainly Giannis out of sorts. He looked like a deer in the headlights the last 4 minutes of that quarter.
Holiday and Middleton have been awful in this game. The stat line for Giannis looks good but he hasn’t been good tonight either.
The good news is it’s one game. Irving can’t play any better. Get the next one.
Giannis with another really bad turnover. Griffin has outplayed him. In the first half it looked like he couldn't guard him.
Terrible gameplan tonight… iso iso iso and don’t make them work at all on the defensive end.
What’s the NBA record for missed 3s in a playoff game? Bucks might have that tonight.
Bud needs to get his head out of his ass
Throw it down to Lopez and Giannis on the block every possession. The Nets have no answer.