6:00 on ESPN. I wouldn't want to be the Pacers tonight
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You know Giannis has been seething the last 48 hours. This team does not like being pushed around or being bashed in the media.
If the Bucks don’t come out and stomp the Pacers I would be shocked
So far so good. Up 12-2 with 8 mins left in q1
The Bucks are 21 for 89 in their last three games from the 3 point line.
Bucks run it back up to 14 and then fall asleep on the defensive glass and Bud calls a timeout looking very annoyed.
Fond du Lac can deliver Pastitsio to Mowaukee.
Pacers cut it 10 after Marvin Williams misses two uncontested 3s in the last minute.
What the hell is going on with Bledsoe? He’s been a complete liability on offense lately. The run down the floor and jack up a brick routine is getting old
MichiganPacker2 posted:Pacers cut it 10 after Marvin Williams misses two uncontested 3s in the last minute.
He's 6 for 22 from 3 as a Buck.
Lopez is 9 for 37 in the same stretch.
You have to figure that's about as poorly as they can shoot.
Tschmack posted:What the hell is going on with Bledsoe? He’s been a complete liability on offense lately. The run down the floor and jack up a brick routine is getting old
He's made this a blowout almost singlehandedly the last 3 minutes
Lol I jack him up and now Bledsoe comes alive
This is another game where Giannis has struggled, but he's at 29-12-6 in 28 minutes.
There’s the ass kicking we thought could happen
The good news is Brogdon was a difference maker and he got paid
The Pacers do not match up well at all with Milwaukee
If these teams played 25 times the Pacers might win one or two games
Tschmack posted:The Pacers do not match up well at all with Milwaukee
If these teams played 25 times the Pacers might win one or two games
The Bucks were 13 for 46 from 3 and still won by 19.
phaedrus posted:Giannis 7/7 FT's.
I like Bud having him take the technical FTs.
Tschmack posted:The good news is Brogdon was a difference maker and he got paid
And durability is an important trait. He's already missed 14 games this year and missed the second half of 3 others.
He missed 89 games the three previous years.
Now onto the Lakers. The LeBron love is going to be nauseating.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.