Bucks vs Suns: The NBA Finals

Guys like Pressey and Pierce and obviously Moncrief played with such reckless abandon and aggression defensively that it doesn’t translate to the modern day game.  Those guys got really physical and they make Tucker look like Reggie Miller defensively.

Marques Johnson and Ray Allen and even Big Dog would be effective in the current day NBA because of their ability to shoot and score.   Same with Towns and Embiid and Tatum.  But they all want to step back and shoot 3s. Just score and forget about everything else.   Giannis is like Shaq.  Just dominate within the restricted area. Those other bigs could learn a lot from Giannis.

I think it’s ironic that King James and his posse attended Game 5.  That’s not an accident.  That banana boat crew bullshit needs to die a slow and painful death.  These guys hate Giannis because he’s not a kiss ass buddy and not the AAU type.  He does just about everything right as teammate and leader but hey he’s unselfish and from Greece so fuck him. To that I say fuck them.  I hope Milwaukee beats them by 40 in game 6 but you will never see LeBron in Milwaukee because he’s a punkass bitch.  34 gives him props and no response.

Team U.S.A. will get worked because it’s the Booker syndrome.  Score 40 and look good but don’t play D or rebound and pass and lose.

If the Bucks come out for Game 6 in these sweet bastards it’s gonna be game, set, match. pic.twitter.com/LdLGdRHnSD

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 19, 2021

those are sweeeet,  Dandridge is checking out the floods on Lew

in the words of LeRoy Butler, 'Get em Bucks'...let's get it tonight.  bucks in 6

BUCKS IN SIX!!!  Jon McGlocklin

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

Bryn Forbes minutes have been 12, 6, 4, 0, 0

Teague's have stayed roughly the same.

Connaughton has been at 28, 33, 30, 32, 33.

Portis has been 14, 4, 18, 20, 19.

The adjustment has been to shorter the rotation to 8 and give those Forbes' minutes to Portis.

Makes sense if you are putting an emphasis on defense.

@Tschmack posted:

Guys like Pressey and Pierce and obviously Moncrief played with such reckless abandon and aggression defensively that it doesn’t translate to the modern day game.  Those guys got really physical and they make Tucker look like Reggie Miller defensively.

Marques Johnson and Ray Allen and even Big Dog would be effective in the current day NBA because of their ability to shoot and score.   Same with Towns and Embiid and Tatum.  But they all want to step back and shoot 3s. Just score and forget about everything else.   Giannis is like Shaq.  Just dominate within the restricted area. Those other bigs could learn a lot from Giannis.

I think it’s ironic that King James and his posse attended Game 5.  That’s not an accident.  That banana boat crew bullshit needs to die a slow and painful death.  These guys hate Giannis because he’s not a kiss ass buddy and not the AAU type.  He does just about everything right as teammate and leader but hey he’s unselfish and from Greece so fuck him. To that I say fuck them.  I hope Milwaukee beats them by 40 in game 6 but you will never see LeBron in Milwaukee because he’s a punkass bitch.  34 gives him props and no response.

Team U.S.A. will get worked because it’s the Booker syndrome.  Score 40 and look good but don’t play D or rebound and pass and lose.

Many critics, some players and a few journalists are pissed that Giannis plays for Milwaukee. They think he should be with LA or Brooklyn. They can't stand it that a small market team, has a big time player, like Giannis, on that squad. After tonight, they will really be pissed! BUCKS IN SIX!!!

All I know is I’m 61 years old and this is the 3rd time I’ve woken up on a morning where the Bucks or Brewers could win a championship today. Pretty special day.

I’m going to eat an edible and hallucinate that the Bucks, Brewers and Packers all win championships this year..I’ll then decide to move back to Wischampsin.

https://www.nba.com/bucks/vide...x-bornv216x9-3183136

@Blair Kiel posted:

All I know is I’m 61 years old and this is the 3rd time I’ve woken up on a morning where the Bucks or Brewers could win a championship today. Pretty special day.

I’m going to eat an edible and hallucinate that the Bucks, Brewers and Packers all win championships this year..I’ll then decide to move back to Wischampsin.

I'm 51 and this is the only time in my life a Wisconsin team can win a title in a game that is happening in Wisconsin. They'll be 65,000 people in the Deer District. That type of atmosphere was unthinkable even 3-4 years ago.

We should have a measurement of how many edibles a game requires. Game 7 of the Nets series would have been the highest amount for me so far (even though I don't do edibles). That game was exhausting to watch.

LOL.

Scott Foster is working the game tonight as the lead official.

Bucks fan needs to chant "Foster, Foster, Foster..." every time Paul touches the ball.

Hope Foster can stay healthy tonight, no injuries, please!!

No one mentioning Badgers basketball v Duke for national title?   I was pretty jazzed for that game.

This is a little different though.  For this team to have faced and overcome so many obstacles - including playoff disappointments in 2020 and 2019- to have a chance to win it all (at home) is really special.

Make it happens Bucks!

@Tschmack posted:

No one mentioning Badgers basketball v Duke for national title?   I was pretty jazzed for that game.

This is a little different though.  For this team to have faced and overcome so many obstacles - including playoff disappointments in 2020 and 2019- to have a chance to win it all (at home) is really special.

Make it happens Bucks!

I was excited for that Badgers game as well. But I knew that at some point Coach K would work the refs enough to get some calls and it all happened during the first few minutes of the second half. I knew when they called that blocking foul on Dukan when the Duke player literally launched himself into Dukan from 3 feet away that the Badgers were going to have to overcome a lot.

Tonight just has a different vibe. After all the crap that Milwaukee has gotten (with the ESPN personalities complaining about having to go to attend games there), it is a beautiful site to have 65,000 people downtown to show the world. It is going to have long-term positive effects on how people in the country (and the world) see Milwaukee. It's not all because of Giannis, but obviously there is no way this happens without him. You could argue that without Giannis and Middleton arriving 8 years ago, there may not even be a team in Milwaukee. The fact that the team is built around two guys that have been with them for 8 years makes this even more special. It's interesting to point out that if the Bucks win tonight they will have won more games in this post-season (16) than they did the entire first year that Giannis and Middleton were on the team in 2013-14 (15-67).

Of course, they have to win tonight. I don't want this Game 6 to end up being the start of the last 15 minutes of some Chris Paul 30 for 30 ESPN special where the announcers talk about how everything was against him (down 3-2 on the road, Scott Foster reffing, etc.) but Paul rose to the occasion and really became a legend. Don't get me wrong, I'll take any kind of win, but a coronation where they jump on them early and where Jordan Nwora is making garbage time 3s with the Bucks up 25 at the end would be the way to get this done tonight.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

Bryn Forbes minutes have been 12, 6, 4, 0, 0

Teague's have stayed roughly the same.

Connaughton has been at 28, 33, 30, 32, 33.

Portis has been 14, 4, 18, 20, 19.

The adjustment has been to shorter the rotation to 8 and give those Forbes' minutes to Portis.

I like that change

That’s why LeBron attending game 5 is so ridiculous.  “I’m here for CP” yeah great.  Good for you.  Everyone knows LeBron can’t stand Giannis and neither does his banana boat buddy CP3.

Then there’s Paul saying “everyone anticipating a miss even him” BS but hey if that’s true, then you did a terrible job trying to get the rebound.

I’m sure the narrative will be “Scott Foster” if the Suns lose tonight instead of anything the Bucks have done.  The simple fact is since game 2 Milwaukee has outplayed and outworked Phoenix.   You could also make a case Bud has outcoached Monty these last 3 games.

I’m 69, so when I was a little kid the Braves won a World Series. Back then we’d drive from Madison to Milwaukee once each summer to catch a game. Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, Eddie Mathews, Lou Burdette, etc. were such a great team. Got to see stars from other teams, too, like Willie Mays and Ernie Banks. Then of course we got to see the Pack win 5 championships in 7 years in the 60’s. We never got to attend a game but watched on tv every Sunday. The years following the 60’s were such a challenge. Seeing the Pack (as well as the Badgers) come back strong and stay strong since the 90’s has been a real kick in the pants.

@Tschmack posted:

That’s why LeBron attending game 5 is so ridiculous.  “I’m here for CP” yeah great.  Good for you.  Everyone knows LeBron can’t stand Giannis and neither does his banana boat buddy CP3.

Then there’s Paul saying “everyone anticipating a miss even him” BS but hey if that’s true, then you did a terrible job trying to get the rebound.

I’m sure the narrative will be “Scott Foster” if the Suns lose tonight instead of anything the Bucks have done.  The simple fact is since game 2 Milwaukee has outplayed and outworked Phoenix.   You could also make a case Bud has outcoached Monty these last 3 games.

The Bucks entire team is filled with guys that have been disrespected by the national media and the AAU-type players. One exception among the AAU-types is Durant, who has been very complimentary about Giannis well before most guys were acknowledging that he might be pretty good. Lopez was a highly rated recruit and +10 overall pick, but he and Holiday are the only ones like that.

That's why these narratives are out there. None of these guys grew up playing all summer on AAU teams touring the country and getting shoe contracts. Paul, Booker, and Ayton are all top HS recruits that were part of the elite AAU culture from the time they were 15 or 16 years old.

We all know Giannis' story.

Middleton was the #99th ranked high school recruit in his class, a second-round pick, and a G league player, and a throw-in in the Jennings trade.

PJ Tucker was a second-round pick and had to spend his early 20s playing in Israel, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, and Germany. He didn't get much more than the NBA minimum contract until he was 29 years old.

Connaughton was a baseball prospect, 2nd round pick, and is basically a vet minimum guy.

Holiday was the #2 overall recruit in his HS class (behind Brandon Jennings), but he kind of faded from the limelight down in New Orleans. He was part of the narrative about how Anthony Davis never got to play with any stars as a Pelican. I think that probably pissed off a guy like Holiday, but he's too professional to say that. The Sixers also traded him away because they felt he was too good to not allow them to tank, but not good enough to be a key player on a team that could make deep playoff runs.

I really hope the Bucks win because I've been a fan since the mid-70s and lived and died as a teenager with the Moncrief, Marques, Cummings, Pressey, Pierce, Lanier, Sikma, Bridgeman, Catchings, etc. era players from the 80s. All those teams were great to watch and filled with guys that played hard, but they just couldn't get past the Sixers or the Celtics.

But I also hope that the Bucks win so that the new narrative can become about having guys like Giannis being the standard. Win where you started without assembling a superteam with your agent pulling strings. Zion's people are already starting to leak things about his future in New Orleans long-term. It would be great for fans of teams from 20+ cities (non-big markets) to have the media start pressuring guys like Zion to stay with their original teams and build to a championship than the media being ready to drop articles as soon as a season ends about how guys like Giannis need to leave town to win (Malika Andrew 2019 Toronto series).

Blair's Promise Tonight:

When some pants- wetting, Chicken-little, panic stricken cry baby Eeyore declares the game (and/or season) over if and when the Bucks fall behind by 6 points in the 1st quarter----I will say *nothing.

*But you'll be on my list. Trust me, there's a list.

Enjoy the game!

Some of my earliest Buck's memories are listening to Jack Baker sports talk and it seemed like every third caller was asking about Dave Meyers and when he was coming back from his injury.

Didn't he have a chronically bad back?

@CHEEZE posted:

Some of my earliest Buck's memories are listening to Jack Baker sports talk and it seemed like every third caller was asking about Dave Meyers and when he was coming back from his injury.

My first Bucks memory is listening to 1977 NBA draft on the radio (I don't remember the Kareem years as they traded him when I was 4). I remember thinking that with Kent Benson, Marques, and Ernie Grunfeld titles were on the way.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Blair's Promise Tonight:

When some pants- wetting, Chicken-little, panic stricken cry baby Eeyore declares the game (and/or season) over if and when the Bucks fall behind by 6 points in the 1st quarter----I will say *nothing.

*But you'll be on my list. Trust me, there's a list.

Enjoy the game!

I really need some of Music City's edibles.

We listened to Eddie Doucette on the transistor.....when they lost to the Knicks in the play-offs in Lew's first year, the Knicks fans taunted him with "Good bye Lewie, good bye Lew, Good bye Lewie, its good to see you go." As a 9-year-old I thought that was so mean.

LOL, I remember the douce!

Bucks understandably very tight to start.

Just need to settle in. Lucky the Suns are also tight.

What a sloppy start by both teams.

Chris Paul already screaming at hte officials.

OK Giannis, no more 3s.

That steal got Middleton going

Bucks take out Giannis and promptly blow the pick and roll coverage.

Frank Kaminsky sighting.

7 turnovers so far.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

7 turnovers so far.

And still up 7

@Blair Kiel posted:

We listened to Eddie Doucette on the transistor.....when they lost to the Knicks in the play-offs in Lew's first year, the Knicks fans taunted him with "Good bye Lewie, good bye Lew, Good bye Lewie, its good to see you go." As a 9-year-old I thought that was so mean.

And now we know when the list started.

Still sloppy play by both teams. I think that plays into the Bucks favor.

Now Middleton has two fouls.

Damn it. Cameron Payne