2018-2019 NBA Season Thread [Archived] Basketball • Page 916

Robert Sarver read that some people thought Sacramento's front office was a bigger dumpster fire than his, so he took action.

 

Yup I want nothing to do with a guy who would hire this lawyer

 

obviously I am biased but I think after last spring Bledsoe is going to play the best basketball of his life and completely destroy Boston

 

Anything could happen between Boston and Milwaukee and none of it would surprise me

Except maybe like if Boston won in 4 or something like that but yeah Bledsoe could put up anywhere between 0 and 40 PPG against Boston and I'd be like "Yup that makes sense"

 

I'm not worried about Boston. I'm not worried about any team in the East. I'm starting to trust the analytics and the numbers from this past season and that's says the Bucks are elite and no other team in this conference is close to that (maybeeee Toronto). I don't expect to sweep the Celtics but I don't see it going more than 6 games and honestly think the Bucks win in 5. I know Boston was missing Irving and Hayward last year but our coach was Prunty and we were bringing bums like Dellevadova Thon Maker Jabari Parker and Shabazz off the bench. So unless Boston hits 15-20 3's every game they aren't winning this series.

Bucks in 6

 

they don’t have a defensive answer for middleton or giannis, which will be key

 

Middleton going mega cold like he can is a defensive answer. No one has an answer for Giannis.

I think for the Celtics to win their bench needs to be better. Need to be like +15 when Giannis is off the court.

 

Boston in 7

but also nothing is stopping Giannis so what even do I know

 

yup and as long as the Bucks control the rebounds they'll dominate

The Bucks only played one good game against the Celtics this season and beat them by 14 in Boston - Boston's only win was an outlier performance hitting 24 3's and still only winning by 4 at home (Bucks only made 9 3's and shot under 35% from beyond the arc)

the 3rd close game in Milwaukee featured one of the Bucks' worst offensive performances of the season. People will point out that Kyrie shot 9/27 but that's actually in line with his shooting percentage when Bledsoe is defending him.

 

also the Bucks dominate the 3rd quarter while that's when Boston usually falls apart.

 

Morris and Hayward need to do what they did in game 4 against Indiana. Except you need that consistency over an entire series. Boston will need Kyrie to step up every single game. Tatum will have to continue playing well.

The Bucks have much more room for error than Boston does in this series.

 

If I had to predict I'd say Bucks in 6 but anything between Boston in 6-7 and Bucks in 4 would make sense

 

bucks/blazers finals gonna be nuts

 

Houston beating Golden State makes this entirely possible and I am interested.

 

Wow the absolute dream

 

Adam Silver might explode if we got a Bucks/Blazers final

 

middleton “going cold” isn’t going to play much of a factor - he’s had some of the best performances of his career against the celtics.

i’m only “worried” about not having brogdon and the potential of bledsoe falling apart, which i don’t actually think (hopefully) will happen again. actually, add Brook’s mobility on defense to the list, though i think his offense and rim protection will make up for it.

 

Lopez is the difference maker in this series imo (which seems wild to say)

 

I promise that @Jason Tate and I will remain friends

 

sounds like Brogdon will play this series but he'll definitely be on a minutes restriction but having him come off the bench would be huge.

and even if Middleton "goes cold" we have plenty of guys who can make up for that on a game-to-game basis (Ersan Sterling George Hill Pat C etc)

 

he cost the Bucks 3.4 million lol

 

Which is insane considering he’s an important piece to a finals/title run for the Bucks.

And LA was just like “see you”

 

they needed to retain KCP lol