blazza18 wrote:All The Bucks wrote:Zach Lowe's series preview is out...
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/zachlowe26613193/preview-boston-celtics-milwaukee-bucks-playoff-seriesSpoiler:
Wish Lowe had some balls. He spends most of the piece talking himself into an upset but goes the Bucks anyway.
You just have terrible reading comprehension.
The entire starting point is that the Bucks are the clear favorite. The title of the article is "How the Celtics will try to vanquish the likely NBA MVP." Most people who follow the NBA realize that the team with the clearly best player tend to win the series. His starting point is how the Celtics will "try to vanquish the likely NBA MVP." Even the title indicates that the Bucks are favored.
Beyond the title, look at the opening paragraphs:
This series is about trust -- how much you believe the Boston Celtics have finally come together, and how much weight you place on the Milwaukee Bucks' 86-game track record of championship-level dominance.
So, the Celtics have to "finally" come together while the Bucks have a track record of dominance stretching 86 games.
In the macro sense, this is a Bucks cakewalk. Milwaukee won 11 more games, with a point differential double Boston's. The Bucks hold home court. They have the best player, and they can play him as many minutes as they need.
In the second paragraph, he points out that, on paper, the Bucks dominate this series.
Beyond all of that, he's right. Despite the Bucks having the league MVP (I'm conceding Giannis is going to win), and despite the fact that the Bucks were extremely dominant during the season compared to the Celtics, Boston still has a chance. He does a good job of laying out how Boston could score an upset in the rest of the article.
