Eastern Conference | Round 1 | (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (6) Chicago Bulls (Bucks WIN 4-1)

[ch434355]

Playoff Lavine and playoff derozen good lord should’ve benched them both.

There was an assault on the rim in that fourth quarter with all those bricks.

you're really saying "playoff lavine" after literally one game?

[MetalFingaz]

Billy should be fired if DeMar plays 40+ minutes again in this series.

[tsherkin]

It's how each had played before teaming up. When DD played for us he was a solid facilitator and moved the ball far more because Pop required it. Had a career high in assists and efficiency. I see he's back to his pre-Spurs ways. At least for this game (haven't watched the Bulls to know if it's more a this game thing or a whole season thing).

He improved his passing over time, but he's an iso-heavy player and always has been. I had said some years back that if he went to the Spurs, he'd have a better time of it because Pops wouldn't take his BS and it ended up happening. He's got it in him, but under pressure, players revert to well-ingrained habits. Hopefully he can sort himself in this series for Chicago.

[DonaldSanders]

Nice game from the Bulls, can't see them winning more than 1 game though.

[1st banana]

Playoff Lavine and playoff derozen good lord should’ve benched them both.

There was an assault on the rim in that fourth quarter with all those bricks.

you're really saying "playoff lavine" after literally one game?

Lol obviously joking.

[Wolfgang630]

The Bulls are going to run this team back next year with a healthy Lonzo? You’re not getting anywhere with Demar as your best player.

[slicedbread2]

Playoff Lavine and playoff derozen good lord should’ve benched them both.

There was an assault on the rim in that fourth quarter with all those bricks.

At least with Lavine you could cut him some slack considering oddly enough that this was his first career playoff game. I'll give him a break here as it's a huge adjustment going from a regular season game to a playoff series knowing the opposing team will have plenty of time to scout the crap out of you.

Derozan on the other hand man it's like he ditched everything that he learned in San Antonio and went back to his bricklaying ways in Toronto. Though then again seeing him up close and in front on the Raps it's not surprising. 6-25?! My god he's learned nothing.

The real winner is the Spurs for somehow getting a 1st+2nd out of him and then Thaddeus Young to Toronto and upgrading their DET 22 2nds to a TOR 22 1st.

I feel for Caruso b/c he laid it out there and is a player that every team should kill to have. If Ball weren't injured, maybe Lavine stays more composed and isn't forced to do things he simply isn't capable of doing as Ball is the perfect complimentary piece to Lavine who does a bit of everything and doesn't need the ball to thrive.

[falcolombardi]

bukls vs bulks has been a intetesting game

caruso is a insane guard defender, at some point he was straight up dominating with steals, deflections, charges and good reads in seemingly every possesion, i actually think bulls wasted a trascendent role player game by alex

giannis has grown so much as a passer, he now makes the right reads most often when swarmed or doubled it takes him a half/full second more compared to someone like jokic but he does. that is a diferentiator between him and embiid who is more likely to take a hard double teamed shot or panic and make a bad pass

caruso and bulls totally shut down regular passing lanes for bucks, but bucks totslly locked down the interior, bulls bad shooting down the stretch ruined their great effort as they wasted a lot of of beatiful plays by bricking open jumpers

brook lopez is still a fantastic defender and a strong scorer whenever bucks go to him

derozan was antartica cold, hopefully just this game, i am rooting for him to shake off his choker rep

lavine, middleton and jrue didnr have the most brilliant games

vucevic was good but also started missing some bsck breaking open jumpers late in the game that hurt chicago, couldnt stop or deal with lopez in the paint either

grayson allen passing was really bad, dude needs to show he is more than a spot up shooterfor the bucks and clean his passing, i dont know how you mess a fastbreak pass to giannis like that, dude has a half court catch radius

like jevon carter defense amd hustle for bucks

coby white seems a skilled player

overall i think chicago dropped this really badly, this was a great effort they couldnt capitalize on

[JayMKE]

Think this was the one for the Bulls, Bucks had 21 turnovers and shot like **** don’t think they play that bad again. Bucks suck off lay offs.

[1st banana]

Playoff Lavine and playoff derozen good lord should’ve benched them both.

There was an assault on the rim in that fourth quarter with all those bricks.

At least with Lavine you could cut him some slack considering oddly enough that this was his first career playoff game. I'll give him a break here as it's a huge adjustment going from a regular season game to a playoff series knowing the opposing team will have plenty of time to scout the crap out of you.

Derozan on the other hand man it's like he ditched everything that he learned in San Antonio and went back to his bricklaying ways in Toronto. Though then again seeing him up close and in front on the Raps it's not surprising. 6-25?! My god he's learned nothing.

The real winner is the Spurs for somehow getting a 1st+2nd out of him and then Thaddeus Young to Toronto and upgrading their DET 22 2nds to a TOR 22 1st.

I feel for Caruso b/c he laid it out there and is a player that every team should kill to have. If Ball weren't injured, maybe Lavine stays more composed and isn't forced to do things he simply isn't capable of doing as Ball is the perfect complimentary piece to Lavine who does a bit of everything and doesn't need the ball to thrive.

Yea he doesn’t have any experience so he was definitely tight he wasn’t as bad as derozen was.

Ball would be nice to have as a shooter and wing defender. Him and Caruso is a nice pairing.

[greekbuck34]

Coach Bud took out Giannis in the 3rd quarter having only 3 fouls not 4.
The Bulls come back.
Giannis returns and the Bucks take another lead.

Coach Bud bench Giannis for too long in the 4th quarter with just 4 fouls.
The Bulls come back again and take a 5 point lead themselves.

Coach Bud bench the b2b MVP and DPOY with 1 minute to go because he has 5 fouls while the Bucks have a small lead and they need one or two more stops to close the game.
The game doesn't stop with a call so Giannis just stands and watches the game for 6-7 plays in a row.

[picc]

It's how each had played before teaming up. When DD played for us he was a solid facilitator and moved the ball far more because Pop required it. Had a career high in assists and efficiency. I see he's back to his pre-Spurs ways. At least for this game (haven't watched the Bulls to know if it's more a this game thing or a whole season thing).

He improved his passing over time, but he's an iso-heavy player and always has been. I had said some years back that if he went to the Spurs, he'd have a better time of it because Pops wouldn't take his BS and it ended up happening. He's got it in him, but under pressure, players revert to well-ingrained habits. Hopefully he can sort himself in this series for Chicago.

You just appeared back out of nowhere.

[tsherkin]

You just appeared back out of nowhere.

About a week and a half ago, yeah.

[picc]

You just appeared back out of nowhere.

About a week and a half ago, yeah.

Welcome back. A break from the internet is never a bad thing.

[tsherkin]

Welcome back. A break from the internet is never a bad thing.

Thanks

It's been nice popping back in and seeing all the discussion and everything still thriving as strong as ever. Trolls as hilarious ever, gem posters all over. Wild time in the NBA to be talking ball, too; tons and tons of crazy talent.

[Bruin]

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[DonaldSanders]

The Bulls are going to run this team back next year with a healthy Lonzo? You’re not getting anywhere with Demar as your best player.

Maybe the Lakers will take him

[tsherkin]

We'll see what happens next game out. It's funny, if Demar was authoring seasons as efficient as he's been the past three years like 5-7 years ago, we'd have been having very different discussions about him. League average scoring efficiency has risen considerably (like 2-3%) since he was drafted. But yeah, he has some really rough habits and he doesn't really have an elite skill set to prop up his efficiency. He doesn't generate tons of shots around the rim (although he is quite good typically at finishing when he gets there, tonight notwithstanding), he isn't generally a good 3pt shooter (this year's RS notwithstanding). He's been a very good mid-range shooter for a couple seasons, but that's more about opening up better options and enabling volume than it is about creating efficiency.

1 game is 1 game. The one series Demar played with the Spurs, he was hit or miss. He was at about 55.7% TS on the series, which was actually +1.5% over his regular season TS%, and only 0.3% below league-average that year. He had 3 games of 25+ points, and a very efficient 19-point game (albeit in a loss).

The point is that he may well bounce back, and maybe even adjust to how Milwaukee is defending him. Will he wow and amaze? Probably not, but one wretched game doesn't mean he won't have a couple better games and open up the chance that Chicago might make a more entertaining series of this. I think everyone knew that it was likely that the Bucks would stomp on Chicago, but yeah, we'll see.

[falcolombardi]

The Bulls are going to run this team back next year with a healthy Lonzo? You’re not getting anywhere with Demar as your best player.

Maybe the Lakers will take him

lakers would of course take derozan, he would be a huge improvement over current west

[MrBigShot]

Meh the bucks are the defending champs. They have two of the best defenders in the entire league. Middleton is no slouch defensively either. They are supposed to win and dominate.

Bulls def miss Lonzo. Lights out 3pt shooter on high volume, impact defender, good passer, doesn't need the ball in his hands to be effective ect...All things considered losing by 7 when all of DeRozan, Lavine and Vuc had more shot attempts than points is pretty good.