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MILWAUKEE BUCKS @ PHOENIX SUNS
Thursday, February 10th @ 8:00pm
Footprint Center
Phoenix, AZ




BUCKS STARTING LINEUP

F - Giannis Antetokounmpo
F - Bobby Portis
F - Khris Middleton
G - Patt Connaughton
G - Jrue Holiday

Reserves:
Nwora/Monroe/Matthews/Hood/DiVincenzo/Wigginton


SUNS STARTING LINEUP

C - DeAndre Ayton
F - Jae Crowner
F - Mikal Bridges
G - Devin Booker
G - Chris Paul

Reserves:
CamJ/Elf/Javale/Bizzy/Ish

Milwaukee and GSW are the 2 teams I'd like to beat before playoffs.

I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

bwgood77 wrote:

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The timing is really good. I think I hear the announcer calling them out just as it ends.
I wonder how long they've been doing this for.

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

I just want our guys to be healthy. They may be tired, but I expect them to be up for this one. The crowd will be electric, and they certainly had this one marked on their calendars.

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

As long as they drug test all the players, I am fine.

The overreactions regardless of the outcome of this game will be epic.

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It should be a good game. Both teams are very solid.

It doesn’t kill us if we lose a regular season game but mentally if we are to face them again in the Finals could be a huge confidence boost.

RunDogGun wrote:

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

As long as they drug test all the players, I am fine.

Add the refs while we are at it.
Will Giannis be allowed to offensive foul his way to the rim all game while the other end we get beat up with no calls? Stay tuned!

Bogyo wrote:

RunDogGun wrote:

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

As long as they drug test all the players, I am fine.

Add the refs while we are at it.
Will Giannis be allowed to offensive foul his way to the rim all game while the other end we get beat up with no calls? Stay tuned!

With our bigman depth, I expect he'll be spending more time at the line than we'd like. He'll have to beat us from there again.

WeekapaugGroove wrote:The overreactions regardless of the outcome of this game will be epic.

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If we win, I think there will be more, 'nobody can stop us' discussion.
If we lose, it'll be, '3rd game in 4 nights' talk.

King4Day wrote:

WeekapaugGroove wrote:The overreactions regardless of the outcome of this game will be epic.

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If we win, I think there will be more, 'nobody can stop us' discussion.
If we lose, it'll be, '3rd game in 4 nights' talk.

We lose, I’ll bet you nobody in the national media or casual nba fans will even recognize that it was 3rd game in 4 nights for Suns. And probably crickets if Suns win.

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

You seem overly worried about rest, or making excuses for a potential loss. Our starters didn't play much in the first game. Conditioning hasn't been a big issue unless coming back from injury. We are solid on b2bs and I don't see with a day in between it should be an issue. The issue will be if we can't shoot 3s like last game.

And the main guy (other than Crowder who often shoots poorly) is Cam, who doesn't play a ton of minutes.

Honestly I don't think it matters that much if we beat them. It's a regular season where we are 44-10 and we know we could have beaten them in the finals with a couple of different bounces of the ball or Giannis not going 17-19 or whatever from the line in game 6. If we lose it might give us more motivation in the finals. But the good thing about our team is we want to win every game. I think these teams that rest people or whatever are just more accustomed to losing and it could hurt them in the playoffs. I don't mind the occasional loss because I think it continues to make us even hungrier.

bwgood77 wrote:

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

You seem overly worried about rest, or making excuses for a potential loss. Our starters didn't play much in the first game. Conditioning hasn't been a big issue unless coming back from injury. We are solid on b2bs and I don't see with a day in between it should be an issue. The issue will be if we can't shoot 3s like last game.

And the main guy (other than Crowder who often shoots poorly) is Cam, who doesn't play a ton of minutes.

Our starters did play a lot in the first game. Every starter except for Ayton played 35+ mins because of the Bulls comeback with Booker closer to 40 mins iirc.

Back to backs matter. Suns probably don’t lose the game to the Warriors earlier in the season if it’s not a back to back. And it’s not just me, even Warriors HC Steve Kerr attributed their win because the Suns were on tired legs.

And equally as important as the back to backs is the traveling. Even with their first class travel accommodations, traveling to Chicago then to Philadelphia then back to Arizona all in a span of 4 days can be tiring.

Not making excuses for a potential loss because I don’t think a loss here means anything in the grand scheme of things. If anything whichever team wins the reg season series (if a sweep happens), may underestimate the other in a potential playoffs series.

I just think if their gonna have prime time matchups between two elite teams then they should schedule it in ways that’s fair to both clubs. Instead of it being a back to back (like the Warriors game) or 3rd game in 4 nights (this game).

Suns conditioning is actually really underrated aspect of this group.

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It's 4th game in 6 days for the Bucks and Suns played an earlier game last night. CP3 is a concern, hopefully Payne is back for this game.

Bucks are in a good form - 137, 137, 131 points scored in last three games. A great test for our defense. It should be entertaining. Just another game though, so much time to a potential finals rematch.

Revived wrote:

bwgood77 wrote:

Revived wrote:I wish the dumbass NBA wouldn’t have scheduled this game for us where it’s our 3rd game in 4 nights. It’s probably the biggest game of the entire reg season so far all across the NBA, both teams should have had equal footing schedule wise coming into it. But whatever.

You seem overly worried about rest, or making excuses for a potential loss. Our starters didn't play much in the first game. Conditioning hasn't been a big issue unless coming back from injury. We are solid on b2bs and I don't see with a day in between it should be an issue. The issue will be if we can't shoot 3s like last game.

And the main guy (other than Crowder who often shoots poorly) is Cam, who doesn't play a ton of minutes.

Our starters did play a lot in the first game. Every starter except for Ayton played 35+ mins because of the Bulls comeback with Booker closer to 40 mins iirc.

Back to backs matter. Suns probably don’t lose the game to the Warriors earlier in the season if it’s not a back to back. And it’s not just me, even Warriors HC Steve Kerr attributed their win because the Suns were on tired legs.

And equally as important as the back to backs is the traveling. Even with their first class travel accommodations, traveling to Chicago then to Philadelphia then back to Arizona all in a span of 4 days can be tiring.

Not making excuses for a potential loss because I don’t think a loss here means anything in the grand scheme of things. If anything whichever team wins the reg season series (if a sweep happens), may underestimate the other in a potential playoffs series.

I just think if their gonna have prime time matchups between two elite teams then they should schedule it in ways that’s fair to both clubs. Instead of it being a back to back (like the Warriors game) or 3rd game in 4 nights (this game).

OK, I guess I had mostly remembered Ayton's minutes.

Ultimately I don't think it matters as I think our guys are well conditioned and don't have nagging injuries and have no problems playing those minutes. It's not like we get winded at the end of games. They just made a nice comeback down the stretch last night.

I know you are really worried about minutes every year and want/think CP3, etc, will and should rest but I think they want to play and make sure they are well conditioned enough to do so.

They will be pumped up for this one.

And it's also the Bucks' 4th game in 6 days to end a 4 game road trip.

Just not a fan of excuses before the game. Sounds like fans of other teams in the playoffs we beat, even ones with more legit excuses.