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

[greekbuck34]

That game never felt in-doubt. Bulls just don’t scare you offensively.

A disingenuous take after nearly losing to a fish-out-of-water team. This is, of course, after the Bucks showed their true colors of cowardice by avoiding the Nets in the first round. The irony that they nearly choked to their hand picked opponent wasn’t lost, I promise you that.

We were cowards and avoided the Nets because we didn't want to play our starters with nothing to gain.
In the meanwhile the Mavs will probably lose their series because they played Luca in the 82th game of the season... with nothing to gain.

[Plossum]

Bucks continuing their tradition of sucking it up in game ones.

[CobraCommander]

Lmao the Wire never disappoints

No doubt. Marlo was serious lol


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Best gangster on tv ever, he stole every scene he was in. But that’s the Wire for you haha

Lol y’all see marlo and I’m seeing Zack and Demar lol

[Perseus1966]

Bud with one of the dumbest subs I’ve ever seen. Suns Giannis out because he has 5 fouls with 90 seconds left. What happens? Giannis doesn’t come in until the 15 second mark.

He is not a good in game decision maker. He can’t think on the fly

exactly

I like what Bud did,clean your **** and win the game,you can't expect everything from giannis.
The press asked bud for this decision?

[Perseus1966]

I am not gonna lie ,when i saw tony brothers my spine danced Lambada.

[Kash22]

That game never felt in-doubt. Bulls just don’t scare you offensively.

A disingenuous take after nearly losing to a fish-out-of-water team. This is, of course, after the Bucks showed their true colors of cowardice by avoiding the Nets in the first round. The irony that they nearly choked to their hand picked opponent wasn’t lost, I promise you that.

We were cowards and avoided the Nets because we didn't want to play our starters with nothing to gain.
In the meanwhile the Mavs will probably lose their series because they played Luca in the 82th game of the season... with nothing to gain.

I mean to be fair, you would of had home court advantage in the second rd which is a lot to gain but I would have avoided the nets as well, who wants a hard series in the first rd??

[DutchManDanFan]

Middleton is lucky Demar stole the spotlight and the bucks won this game. He was garbage

Khris shows up when he needs to show up. That’s the case for him so many times. But as Bucks fans we’re never sure about it.
There’s never enough urgency in game 1.

[DutchManDanFan]

Bucks worst games quite often are when they start with a big lead. As if it’s too easy and they can cruise the rest of the game. So I hate these early leads.

[vinnymate]

Man what is with Bucks and game 1s. Is it the players or the coach? they always look so unprepared.

Bucks will most definitely win this series, but they are making it way harder than it should be. Since ASB Bulls were pretty much a lottery team. They couldn't ask for an easier first round match up, the champions should be steam rolling them.

I had a Bucks fan very confidently argue with me that this year's Bucks team will be better than last because of "championship confidence". That this championship confidence was going to turn Giannis into a 75%+ FT shooter, Jrue was going to carry his regular season efficiency into the playoffs and the Bucks weren't gonna be chokers from the 3 pt line.

Instead they look exactly like last year. They won because of how bad the Bulls were, not because they looked good at all.

1. Giannis was dominant, but shot 55% from FTs
2. Jrue stunk up offensively again and shot 38% from the field
3. Khris is inconsistent again, 11 points and 7 freaken turnovers! Man if Giannis had a true and consistent number 2 option they should steamroll through the East.
4. Yes bucks shot sub 30% from 3 again. 26% to be exact.

Bucks need to be better. The next 3 games need to be resounding wins with solid performances from all of the big 3, so they can carry that into the next round. Jrue needs to show he can shoot more than 40% from the field and that Khris will show up consistently. The East is better and the Suns are better this year. If the Bucks played like they played last year throughout the whole playoffs (minus the last 4 games vs the Suns), they will not repeat barring injuries to other teams.

[jc23]

neither team played their A game and no way around bucks being the better team, but i think Chicago has more room for improvement based off of game 1. With that said i see a 15 point win for the bucks in game 2 and Chicago taking game 3.

[Pachinko_]

Oh my god,what was that ,it must be the worst play off game in this millenium

Nah there's plenty claiming that title, especially G1's when teams are kinda feeling each other.

wow that sounded dirty.

[Perseus1966]

thanks god bulls shot 18% from 3.

[ellobo]

How could the Bulls end that game without using their challenge, either on Giannis's potential 6th foul on the rebound that was called on Williams, or on Lopez's and1 that could have taken two points off the board?

Why foul down 3 points with 4 seconds difference between the shot and game clocks?

If you are going to foul, why let 10 seconds run off the clock, while you are sitting back passively and not pressuring or trapping to force a turnover?

[LegenW84ITBOBBY]

How come Ibaka didnt get any playing time?

[Perseus1966]

How come Ibaka didnt get any playing time?

who knows ,only Bud knows.

[EastSideBucksFan]

How come Ibaka didnt get any playing time?

He's just not very good, certainly not better than Bobby or Brook

Last extended minutes was vs Clippers and he got absolutely torched

[Profound23]

If you are going to foul, why let 10 seconds run off the clock, while you are sitting back passively and not pressuring or trapping to force a turnover?

I did not understand the foul at all.

There was a 4 second difference between the game clock and the shot clock.

I agree that if you are going to foul you do it early, but at that point I am going to let them shoot....hope they miss and my team can hit a miraculous 3 to tie it.


Poorly played, coached, and reffed game on all aspects. Giannis and Lavine both in trouble due to touch fouls early was ridiculous. Middleton, Jrue, Derozan, and Vuc all disappeared for large portions of the game.

Bucks always pull this sh** in game 1 and it will catch up to them if they don't fix it.

[Dick Tate]

That game never felt in-doubt. Bulls just don’t scare you offensively.

A disingenuous take after nearly losing to a fish-out-of-water team. This is, of course, after the Bucks showed their true colors of cowardice by avoiding the Nets in the first round. The irony that they nearly choked to their hand picked opponent wasn’t lost, I promise you that.

The irony will be the Bucks punting away HCA in the 2nd round and ending up with it anyway.

[Dick Tate]

How come Ibaka didnt get any playing time?

3rd string. You'll see him next game when the Bucks are up 25.

[CharityStripe34]

Ugly game from both teams. It felt like they hadn't played in three weeks. It was made worse by the immortal Tony Brothers calling touch fouls on both teams' most important players then swallowing his whistle for two straight quarters.