Eastern Conference Finals: (3) Bucks vs. (5) Hawks, Part 2 | Tied 2-2

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[Profound23]

It's funny because I watched the game with a couple of Hawks fans. They were laughing as Giannis was grimacing and struggling to elevate like his usual self. They told me not to use Giannis' injury as an excuse. I didn't use injuries as an excuse.....simply stated we just have to play better.

Boy did that all change when their star player got hurt huh? It was awfully quiet all of a sudden watching Middleton drain shot after shot with Trae back in the game.

[Pachinko_]

Everybody is hurt to an extent. Giannis looks fine and not compromised at all.

Please don't compare Divincenzo being out to losing Kyrie, Harden at 20% and the Hawks playing with Bogie and Trae at half strength.

The Bucks have been extremely lucky when it comes to injuries. Just own it.

Yeah but it wasn't fair that you had too many great players to begin with.

[DrWood]

The Hawks looks terrible at home. They should play all remaining games in Milwaukee to have a slim chance.

Looked terrible in a game they led most of the way until Trae went out?


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please stop this lying narrative. Trae had the worst +/- of any ATL starter, even before he went out.

[GSP]

Trae has only committed 4 fouls in 3 games so far. So many times whether Middleton, Jrue or Connaughtom have him only an island with little to no help and they don't post his little ass up? Players like Luka, Jokic and Trae are too good on offense with how they can score, shoot and pass. You have to exploit them on defense and make them work.

[skones]

Trae has only committed 4 fouls in 3 games so far. So many times whether Middleton, Jrue or Connaughtom have him only an island with little to no help and they don't post his little ass up? Players like Luka, Jokic and Trae are too good on offense with how they can score, shoot and pass. You have to exploit them on defense and make them work.

They've been hiding him on Tucker.

[DutchManDanFan]

Hawks did very well to win game 1 and have the lead in game 3 for a long time. But I don’t think they have a chance if Bucks bring their A game. Bucks win game 1 if Middleton makes a few 3’s (in stead of 0-9). But more important it’s their dumb plays they have during games. The Dutch (objective) commentator questioned Buds coaching several times during game 1. Too many iso ball lead to bad decisions. It also feels the Bucks play up or down to their competition a lot of times. I’d like to see the Bucks with a different coach. But we need to take this opportunity now, because next year it will be a lot more difficult.

[RiotPunch]

Goodbye Brooklyn

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A comment about all this "Bucks luck" narrative:
This team made an effort to be a multi year contender building on every failure.
Statistically, a season will emerge when luck is on their side.
Especially after last year when having secured playoff home court all the way the bubble happened and Giannis got injured on top.
Some teams are just lucky. Some work to earn this luck. You have to be always there, knocking on the door. If you get a slit open you must be competent enough in order to exploit it.

[falcolombardi]

yeah, every year some injury or controversial reffing in sone games (or inusual circunstance like a bubnle, usually stacked teams like 2017 warriors, shortened seasons) happens that makes people want to devaluar the winner

and every year people forget we go through this yearly and nothingh comes of it, rings and banners remain untouched

leave the asterisks for when there is actual cheating or controversy like houston astros im baseball

[Profound23]

A comment about all this "Bucks luck" narrative:
This team made an effort to be a multi year contender building on every failure.
Statistically, a season will emerge when luck is on their side.
Especially after last year when having secured playoff home court all the way the bubble happened and Giannis got injured on top.
Some teams are just lucky. Some work to earn this luck. You have to be always there, knocking on the door. If you get a slit open you must be competent enough in order to exploit it.

That is what I am saying. People want to tell me how lucky we are. While we were playing lights out and for the most part some of the best basketball we ever played....homecourt advantage locked up.....it took a pandemic and a Giannis injury to destroy our season. I don't want to hear how lucky we are.

Like I said, even in game 3 Giannis was hurt for the entire game. You could see he was not able to explode off his left leg the way he normally does. Nobody cared then.....but all of a sudden we won because of Young's injury?

[MrPerfect1]

The large majority of NBA Champions benefited from injury luck. It is similar to how in the NFL, often teams that advance far in the playoffs had insane health that year compared to the others.

The Bucks were beating BKN even if Kyrie had 100% health. Heck, him going down might have helped BKN. As a Bucks fan, I would have much preferred Kyrie taking tons of shots instead of those shots going to Durant instead like they did.

[The Warrior]

The large majority of NBA Champions benefited from injury luck. It is similar to how in the NFL, often teams that advance far in the playoffs had insane health that year compared to the others.

The Bucks were beating BKN even if Kyrie had 100% health. Heck, him going down might have helped BKN. As a Bucks fan, I would have much preferred Kyrie taking tons of shots instead of those shots going to Durant instead like they did.

Okay so as a neutral fan, I had Bucks winning even if Nets were fully healthy mainly due to the Bucks defense. After watching the first two games I now realize how wrong I was. Milwaukee did not have an answer and could not keep up with them. If Kyrie had stayed healthy they would have beat the Bucks in 5 or 6 games max and would not need to rely on a compromised James Harden.
It's absurd to suggest Kyrie going down means a better chance for Brooklyn. Kyrie taking shots away from Durant isn't necessarily a bad thing either. It allows Brooklyn to have one extra weapon and it also opens things up for the rest of the team while giving Durant a breather. It's sort of like the argument that a lot of people make around here about how team A scored 115 points without player A, and now imagine they had player A's 25 points per game on top of that. That's just not how it works.

[Hardenstepback]

The Bucks were beating BKN even if Kyrie had 100% health. Heck, him going down might have helped BKN.

whaaaaaat?

[jayu70]

Back to regularly scheduled programming Bucks vs Hawks:

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[Chanel Bomber]

A comment about all this "Bucks luck" narrative:
This team made an effort to be a multi year contender building on every failure.
Statistically, a season will emerge when luck is on their side.
Especially after last year when having secured playoff home court all the way the bubble happened and Giannis got injured on top.
Some teams are just lucky. Some work to earn this luck. You have to be always there, knocking on the door. If you get a slit open you must be competent enough in order to exploit it.

That is what I am saying. People want to tell me how lucky we are. While we were playing lights out and for the most part some of the best basketball we ever played....homecourt advantage locked up.....it took a pandemic and a Giannis injury to destroy our season. I don't want to hear how lucky we are.

Like I said, even in game 3 Giannis was hurt for the entire game. You could see he was not able to explode off his left leg the way he normally does. Nobody cared then.....but all of a sudden we won because of Young's injury?

The Bucks weren't lucky.

But the Nets were unlucky with the Kyrie injury.

[Castle Black]

Damn. Trae out for Game 4.

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[Hardenstepback]

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Yea…wrap this one up

[Bruin]

Alright not even gonna bother watching this one

What an unfortunate postseason with all the injuries