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mrtundra posted:
MichiganPacker2 posted:

Now onto the Lakers. The LeBron love is going to be nauseating. 

So will the "Giannis should be in a bigger market" talk or "the Bucks haven't won anything," talk. It's pathetic the disrespect the Bucks get every game, by panel experts, on the sports networks, airing the Bucks' games. 

Another thing I don't get is that there is this narrative that the Bucks are somehow boring to watch. They lead the league in offense. Giannis usually has about 3-4 highlight plays every game on offense. They have a handful of highlight reel blocked shots every game. 

mrtundra posted:
MichiganPacker2 posted:

Now onto the Lakers. The LeBron love is going to be nauseating. 

So will the "Giannis should be in a bigger market" talk or "the Bucks haven't won anything," talk. It's pathetic the disrespect the Bucks get every game, by panel experts, on the sports networks, airing the Bucks' games. 

Don't forget the LeBron is the real MVP talk or that Middleton just won't get it done in the playoffs (the same Middleton that's shot 49% from 3 over the last two postseasons and completely torched the Celtics in 12 playoff games against them). 

I personally haven't heard the "Bucks are boring" talk, but I suppose the one thing that is "boring" about them is that they have been destroying teams so regularly, the game is often over well before the last 6 to 8 minutes of the 4th quarter. 

As for Lebron, to me the nauseating stuff is the off court stuff where he's trying to play GM behind the scenes.  He got burned badly by it last year.  He's just lucky the Lakers were still able to do the AD deal with the Pelicans after how badly he interfered with the whole process.

On the court.... Lebron just looks fantastic to me when I have seen him.  He conserves his energy a bit.... has to as a 35 year old man.  But when he decides it's time to take over, he still looks nearly unstoppable.  His high basketball IQ has really shown this year as much as I've ever seen it.  His passing ability and decision making ability have been incredible even though his pure physical ability may be a 1/2 notch below what it was when he was a younger guy.  The Lebron hype train can get old, but I get it.  The guy is playing some of the best ball a 35 year old guy has ever played and doing it in one of the 2 biggest media markets in the US.  Nearly 11 assists a game.... that is almost in Magic Johnson territory. 

That all said.... I agree that Giannis still should be the MVP.  Lebron has been incredible, but Giannis has been deity-like putting up the most efficient statistical season the game has ever seen.  That's not just being a homer either, the stats say Giannis is playing at the highest efficiency level an NBA player has ever played at.  You can't do much better than that.  

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MichiganPacker2 posted:
mrtundra posted:
MichiganPacker2 posted:

Now onto the Lakers. The LeBron love is going to be nauseating. 

So will the "Giannis should be in a bigger market" talk or "the Bucks haven't won anything," talk. It's pathetic the disrespect the Bucks get every game, by panel experts, on the sports networks, airing the Bucks' games. 

Another thing I don't get is that there is this narrative that the Bucks are somehow boring to watch. They lead the league in offense. Giannis usually has about 3-4 highlight plays every game on offense. They have a handful of highlight reel blocked shots every game. 

I could be wrong, but I take this as a compliment.  I think they are alluding to the games so often being blowouts and considering that to be boring.

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Tschmack posted:

I really, really hope the Bucks beat the Lakers on Friday just to change things up for a bit.   Obviously the playoffs are key but maybe it will force the critics to view the Bucks a little differently. 

Poetic license (read: I don't really mean this!), but I so hope the Bucks blow them out and if they do I'll soil my pants!

It's pretty important the Bucks win it all this year or the next.

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