Game 63: Sixers at Bucks - 3/4/23 - 7:30 - ABC

CharityStripe34 · Post #21 » by **CharityStripe34** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 7:42 pm

BigO wrote:I'll be at the game, so if they lose, you're welcome.

Talk some trash to Embiid. Maybe have an oxygen mask and show it to him after every Bucks fastbreak

BucksFanSD · Post #22 » by **BucksFanSD** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 7:58 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Both teams should be at full strength (Wes is unknown). Sixers have flaws but are a good team. A 16 game streak on national TV will be motivation for both teams.

I am really looking forward to this one for these reasons. Let's go get 17!

BigO · Post #23 » by **BigO** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 8:20 pm

CharityStripe34 wrote:
BigO wrote:I'll be at the game, so if they lose, you're welcome.

Talk some trash to Embiid. Maybe have an oxygen mask and show it to him after every Bucks fastbreak

Maybe have an oxygen mask? I don't leave home without it.

But I'm in the upper deck so no player ever sees me. I had a really good seat once or twice in my life. If only I could have a seat next to Bud, just think how good this team could be.

H2tObes · Post #24 » by **H2tObes** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 8:25 pm

Bud vs. Doc? We can all agree who wins that matchup. Also the reason Philly does not scare me in a series

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mediocrityrules · Post #25 » by **mediocrityrules** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 8:27 pm

The ladder has this one circled

CharityStripe34 · Post #26 » by **CharityStripe34** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 8:30 pm

Both Bud and Doc have great "exasperated deer in headlights" faces for the camera.

Magic Giannison · Post #27 » by **Magic Giannison** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 9:11 pm

All this team needs is health and i promise you its gonna be FANTASTIC year for us

Post #28 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 9:18 pm

Bucks opened as 5.5 favorites, now 5.

Magic Giannison · Post #29 » by **Magic Giannison** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 9:22 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Bucks opened as 5.5 favorites, now 5.

Did Giannis crack a dad joke which lowered our margin ? :lol:

BigO · Post #30 » by **BigO** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 9:40 pm

I think we all know who the wild card is for the 76ers and it's not Embiid or Harden. Guard Maxi the taxi and we should be good. Don't give him open looks after the high ball screen.

Also, the Bucks will start in the drop, watch Embiid have as many open ten foot jumpers as he wants, and then figure out that isn't working. Hopefully, we'll be able to outscore them at the beginning.

Gianstoppable · Post #31 » by **Gianstoppable** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 10:20 pm

thomchatt3rton wrote:So the Iverson Sixers in addition to holding and grabbing would also “bump and grind”? Jeez I don’t remember that at all

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I don't see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

CharityStripe34 · Post #32 » by **CharityStripe34** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 10:26 pm

BigO wrote:I think we all know who the wild card is for the 76ers and it's not Embiid or Harden. Guard Maxi the taxi and we should be good. Don't give him open looks after the high ball screen.

Also, the Bucks will start in the drop, watch Embiid have as many open ten foot jumpers as he wants, and then figure out that isn't working. Hopefully, we'll be able to outscore them at the beginning.

I think Brook is at least able to contest better and get a hand up on Embiid. I wonder if Embiid misses a few if that goads him into trying to go at him at the rim.

Post #33 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 10:44 pm

Wes is still out, everyone else is a go.

blazza18 · Post #34 » by **blazza18** » Fri Mar 3, 2023 10:49 pm

Can't believe how much Bud has aged in 5 years.

HKPackFan · Post #35 » by **HKPackFan** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 1:24 am

There's always something extra special about beating a Philly team.

There's also something special about beating a team with James harden on it.

Giannis beastmode incoming!

emunney · Post #36 » by **emunney** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 1:38 am

Gianstoppable wrote:
thomchatt3rton wrote:So the Iverson Sixers in addition to holding and grabbing would also “bump and grind”? Jeez I don’t remember that at all

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I don't see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

30 year Federal prison sentence disagrees

AussieBuck · Post #37 » by **AussieBuck** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 1:50 am

Holidaying so I'll have to watch this one on my phone later. Love beating Embiid and harden

CharityStripe34 · Post #38 » by **CharityStripe34** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 2:08 am

AussieBuck wrote:Holidaying so I'll have to watch this one on my phone later. Love beating Embiid and harden

Philly also about to be Holidaying. :eyebrows:

HKPackFan · Post #39 » by **HKPackFan** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 3:45 am

Celtics lost! Makes this game even more exciting to win. We can start stretching out that #1 lead.

Bucks 45-17
Celtics 45-19

46-17 after Saturday night would look really good.

th87 · Post #40 » by **th87** » Sat Mar 4, 2023 7:39 am

paulpressey25 wrote:Nostalgia Time:

Sixers v. Bucks played a national TV game on Saturday, February 2, 2002. This was our revenge game for the ECF. All the celebs were there (including me). We had the Snapper Jones, Bill Walton, etc.

https://www.espn.co.uk/nba/recap/_/gameId/220202015

After the Bucks loss, George Karl said there needed to be changes made to the team, or else he'd quit.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Philadelphia 76ers resorted to the tactics that were successful against the Milwaukee Bucks in last year's playoffs. They achieved the same results.

Allen Iverson scored 25 points, and Derrick Coleman added 19 as the 76ers rallied late to defeat the Bucks 86-81 Saturday in a rematch of last year's Eastern Conference finals.

"As the game transpired, it slowly moved into their kind of game," Bucks coach George Karl said. "By the fourth quarter, it was totally theirs. They're a great defensive team that holds and grabs, bumps and grinds. Our offense was stubborn and selfish. It
was a hell of a game. It had playoff mentality to it."

In the past, such negative comments from Karl about his team were directed at the so-called "Big Three" of Ray Allen, Glenn Robinson and Sam Cassell.

"I'm tired of talking about it. We've been talking about the same thing for 3½ years," Karl said. "We'll keep showing them film, we'll keep showing them opportunities. But if they were to continue to refuse to change, there's probably going to have to be a change.

"That means trading one of them or firing me. I think it's come to that, to be honest with you."

No Load Management back in those days:

Iverson, listed as probable before the game with flu-like symptoms, played 47 minutes, but made just 9 of 30 shots.

The trade deadline came three weeks later. The Bucks made no deals. Since the team didn't back up Karl with a trade, at that point they went into the super spiral and ended up missing the playoffs. Was an unbelievable collapse. This day was where it all started.

Looking back on that as an older man now, WTF is wrong with Karl? Who says that in public like that?