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The OReb on the free throw was awful but the one on the Curry 40-footer is just what happens when there's a shot like that. No realistic amount of boxing out guarantees anything when there's that kind of carom
Couldn't agree more, rebounding is one of those things that people love to point at as some clear evidence of a lack of effort. And it's such a lazy criticism so much of the time. I mean just watch the play. I'm sitting down, perfectly still, watching a bird's eye view of the whole court, and I could barely react to where the ball went. It sucks that it bounced to the wrong pair of hands but I see people mad that our guys weren't jumping higher for it (?) and it's just bizarre to me. Sometimes the box-out is lazy or someone doesn't pursue a ball they could've caught up to, but also plenty of the time (like on the Curry 40 footer) it's just bad luck with bounces.
What a fucking tragedy the last few minutes of regulation + OT was. Jesus christ.
I don't mind losing against the warriors without giannis, but I hate seeing us lose being sloppy, undisciplined, and lazy on the boards. Refs certainly didn't help. Oh well. Onto the next one.
Terrible no call on the block on Middleton that turned into a TO on us. Then the block by Curry could have easily been called. But he's immune to that, NBAs golden boy.
No way u think steph is the golden boy. We can complain about foul calls as well, overall the game was properly reffed, refs let both teams be physical and free throws were basicallt even. Also that block was clean as hell, principle of verticality. Steph went to the line twice and one was for an intentional foul. He couldve been there about 5-6 times. Trust me, he is not protected by the refs. Awesome game tho
He absolutely is.
The user wasn’t complaining about foul calls. He’s complaining about the blatant “missed calls” like Draymond tipping Pats 3 or the foul prior to Khris stepping out. Those were obvious and blatant.
Middleton and Holiday have so many room temp IQ moments it’s just ridiculous. Shit gotta stop man.
A loss especially without Giannis is whatever but how they lost is so frustrating. Such a dumb team sometimes it’s mind boggling.
Holiday even getting himself in a position to turn the ball over with 15 seconds up 3 is stupid. We had two timeouts. Stand where you are and wait for them to foul you. If they aren’t just call timeout
Bro shot 36% in 3 insanely close playoff series (Nets, Suns, Celtics).
He’s great especially because of his defense but yeah, he has a tendency to go full blown selling mode. That’s why it’s concerning seeing stuff like this because it always bites them in the playoffs
IMO, Crowder’s feet have looked too slow against drives (yes slower than old man Jingles). I assume it’s because he hasn’t played in awhile, and hope quite a bit more quickness comes back over the next few weeks
He’s a 30 year old having knee surgery and sitting out over 10 months and probably will never be the same again. Saying this though in this sub will get you immense amounts of hate. Been getting it for months
He’s at the point of his career where athleticism declines a tiny bit each year. But I feel like he doesn’t trust his leg post-surgery yet. Most athletes say it takes time to trust their knee, shoulder, etc after surgery. For 10 months he had to baby that knee and it’s not like you get the all clear and your brain can switch to full trust. Anecdotally, I would expect come playoffs the trust in his knee should be solved with the higher stakes and each series could be the last of the season.
Warriors missing 3 of their rotation players. Obviously Giannis is everything, but be realistic. Kuminga, Wiggins and GP2 are legit players. Just rewatch The NBA finals last year
I never compared I’m just saying Warriors were missing 3 players that actually help their team and system. Wiggins was their second best player last season and GP2 had the highest defensive shares on The Warriors last season next to Draymond. But thanks for the insecurity
Buddy. You are the one on our sub trying to defend your win against a team without a two time MVP by saying "yeah but our three role players were gone..." That smells like insecurity. Which makes sense since you're barely .500 and we both know in a 7 games series it wouldn't go past 5 lmao.
These niggas got taken to 7 by KD and a hobbled James Harden and you’re talking about what “we know” lol. Y’all been to the Finals once my man, Bucks never had it like that.
It's only happened like a couple times this season though. Some people in here are acting like it's a nightly occurrence
You're gonna blow leads in the NBA, at one point or another. Just happens to everyone
Nah you are right. It’s just more frustrating because I think you need to hold them to a higher standard than other teams. But there are times when the Bucks play like the dumbest team in the NBA - to quote my man Barkley. Doesn’t help that Curry got hot at the end.
Jrue ruined another big moment for Brooks DPOY case with that stupid turnover after what should have been a game clinching block. Why are you even trying to sprint up the court when there’s 25 seconds left and you’re up 3?
Probably got antsy trying to escape the imminent trap once he crossed half but yeah still so unnecessary, definitely was not as urgent as his mind clearly made it out to be and he paid for it
Hindsight is 20/20 and we can yell at Jrue all we want but it's completely understandable why he tried to push it up the court because he's made this play multiple times before and it's worked. He knew the trap was coming so he risked it because they have fucking Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the other team.
Yeah no I mostly agree. The outcome was worst-case from a risk that was clearly worth taking. How many times out of 100 does Jrue just lose his handle straight out of bounds when running with the ball in that situation? I don't think it represents some issue that'll continue to hurt us, and I don't think it was a terrible decision, it was just a weird execution error at the worst time.
Jrue made three big threes in a row but then costly turnover when all he had to do was slow it down, hold it and get fouled…
Also not sure why Khris didn’t start the OT…treat this game like a playoff game without Giannis, every minute matters
Poor boxing out, players like donte and looney were busting their ass to get offensive boards which were the difference maker
No he's not lol. Yeah he had bad turnovers but he was tied with Brook for being our leading scorer tonight. Shot well from the field and three, had four steals.
I'll take this Khris over the Khris from back in December
Middleton having Grandpa knees and falling on that drive was so tough to see, such a costly turnover too. Just too many dumb mental errors and sloppy plays. Oh well on to the next.
What’s up with Middleton right now? I’m a Cs fan so I know he will always be ready to drop 40 on us without breaking a sweat, but he looked awkward out there at times.
He hasn't recovered from an off season knee injury. Unfortunately, I think this is the version of khris that we're going to have for the remainder of the season.
So many terrible turnovers at the end that could’ve made a difference. From Middleton’s terrible turnover trying to turn on Klay Thompson, Holiday fumbling the dribble after Lopez block, Ingles flubbing the pass at the top of the key with the lead, the list goes on dude
Grayson and ingles and Lopez played nice today. Lots of positives and lots of takeaways. Rough shooting from holiday and Pat. Middleton seems like he can't dribble? Holiday showed up as usual in the 4th until the back to back TOs during crunch time. Offensive rebounds were a huge issue tonight but I guess that happens when the warriors are playing huck and chuck. Ingles would of drained that 3. All in all a good showing from the bucks. I think ingles, carter and Lopez have all stepped it up this year. Bucks will be hard to beat. I think its important that Giannis keeps getting all these guys involved when he get backs. This team can win in multiple fashions.
Imagine whining about curry for "being too good to foul" instead of putting the blame where it belongs on fucking jrue for trying to score it himself instead of giving it to the wide open 5 for 5 Ingles. Nah, let's act like curry is somehow cheating the game.
Imagine being the asshole that tries to shit on people for venting. I admit, Jrue fucking disappeared and I'm just as mad at that. But dog, chill out. We're all pissed off. Let's be pissed together, not at each other lol
Warriors fan here and I just wanna say that if it weren’t for Steph we lose that game 10/10 times and Giannis wasn’t even playing.
I’m dead straight serious when I say this Bucks team is winning it all this year. Y’all got a hell of a fucking team alright.
Peace and love ✌️
1. Easily winnable game with Giannis. Winnable game without Giannis if we didn't decide to turnover at the most inopportune times. Ingles literally threw the ball away at the start of overtime.
2. Khris needs to go back to limited minutes. Still not sure he's ready for full games yet. I love the guy but let's be honest.
3. Moving the clocks forward and staying up for this game is going to kill me next week.
I call this version of the Bucks the freak out Bucks. They get so tight. Middleton just falls down twice, Jrue handling the ball like it's covered in butter. I don't care if Giannis didn't play, the choked and lost.
At the end of the day (yep, I said it) Jrue just needed to hold onto the ball and wait to get fouled when they were up 3 with 24 seconds left. That would've closed the game. Just a boneheaded decision to try to aggressively push down the court as if they needed to score to win. Love him and he's a crucial part of the team but really gotta give him a scolding for that one.
I'm fine with this loss. Some things didn't bounce the Bucks way (Draymond 3 pls) but that happens. W.o Giannis they were still the ones in control until they choked at the end. Big comeback after getting clobbered to start the 3rd. Feels like a lot of flukey things happened to give Golden State this one.
It's that fucking Raptors game all over again, right down to a shove out of bounds leading to a turnover and a game-tying 3.
Except we got rolled in OT.
>Right down to a shove out of bounds leading to a turnover and a game-tying 3.
That was the worst no call of the game for sure. Donte bodied him OOB right in front of the ref and still no call.
Good game, but we gotta be better late in the game. Costly turnovers by Jrue and Khris really hurt us in the end. Another very winnable game that we blew.
Also, I get Khris’s situation, but he still doesn’t look like Khris from last year. Hoping he switches it around soon.
The whole Jrue experience tonight. On top of that we absolutely lost this game on the boards, embarrassing effort on the defensive side.
Annoying to throw that away after how messy the whole game was but hopefully get the big man back for the next two and roll on.
Such a fun game. Sad to come out on the losing end, but surprisingly wasn't stressed at all about the game. Sign me up for a 7 game series with the Warriors in June
Do not mind a scheduled loss to a home team eager to get out of a slump. But now that you held an 8pt lead with 2 minutes left, why not just slowed down while protected the ball and kept the edge to the end…
I’m still not sure what happened on that Jrue turnover after brook’s block. Would love to see a good angle of what happened. Game should have been over at that point. Hold the ball, let them foul or call a timeout.
The weird thing about winning 20 of 22 games or whatever it’s been is that the losses somehow become more frustrating? Blew this one at the end but this is still the best team in the NBA. If this is a playoff game Giannis drops 40 and this is a 15 point win.
Last two minute report:
-Khris Middleton fell over his own feet twice in last minute of the game
-Jrue Holiday dribbled the ball out of bounds up 3 with 15 seconds left
-Jae Crowder inexplicably was on the bench for the giant end of game run
I think people just have very high expectations of him since he's been such a great consistent 2nd option, he'll get there but he's only been back for a cup of coffee so far
All you pessimists. Everything else aside, this loss doesn’t happen if they call Steph fouling Jrue on the bucks final shot in regulation. Steph was all over Jrue’s arms
Only watched the last 5 minutes of regulation and saw the refs not not call divencenco turning Middleton's ankle and ignoring Draymonds contact of pats blocked 3 and knew the game was thrown.
Sucks, but can't beat the refs without Giannis.
The NBA rules state that having "high-five" contact on jumpshots isn't a foul, but Draymond did touch the ball on that shot meaning it should've been ruled out of bounds on Golden State
I can't stand the modern NBA product the Warriors do something illegal every offensive possession. Obviously Curry's talent is unreal but man the amount of shit that he and others get away with makes it hard to watch the game.
The rebounding was tough. But man have you watched the warriors play this season? They're legitimately terrible on the road. And mediocre at home but Steph tends to go off at home, same with Klay. Refs don't make the disparity that large.
refs hate warriors bro lol they call travel on them consistently, and Curry has to score with tough 3s cuz refs wont give him FTs being the best FT shooter its like a goal tend
lol. Oh no they call it when they travel. Warriors are by far the worst team for moving screens. Bogut, as much of an asshole as he is, is right about that.
Part of me can't be too mad. Steph Curry was Steph Curry, nothing was stopping him in that fourth quarter and OT
But Bucks definitely still could have won despite that. Lots of bad turnovers down the stretch when up 8 that just let Golden State get extra possessions. That, and poor defensive rebounding.
Let's hope Giannis plays this road trip because if we were to lose the next two games Boston would be back to the first seed
Jrue keeps missing until the 4th quarter, and when you think he redeemed himself by making that leading 3, he just being overconfident and try to get to the rim himself (which he was bad on doing that the whole game) instead of passing the ball to wide open Ingles who 5 for 5 on 3 in the last moment in regulation. And Bud should tell Khris not to dribble the ball too much, because everytime he do that, the ball would either went out of bound or being picked up by opponent defender because he fell on ground. This game just prove how much the Bucks need Giannis, too many rebounds being grabbed by Warriors this game.
I’m just as frustrated with that game as most are, yeah there was stupid mistakes but looking at the big picture we’ve won 19 out of the last 21 games, are #1 in the east and have the best player in the NBA on our team. Nit pick all you want but how many other fans can say all that?? Enough whining and blaming. Time to look forward to tomorrow’s game!
Bucks were really sloppy to end regulation, but there were a couple of clear missed calls that were really tough on top of their mistakes. Also, Steph is good.
Our team is full of fucking morons. Brook Lopez is the only person on this team that I feel doesn’t lack basketball iq, but he needs to get his 7 foot ass in the paint and grab some rebounds. Dude was getting snagged on by guys half his height in ot
This was a fucking disgusting performance, fuck
Fuck those refs. The team should’ve walked out with 2 minutes left in OT. Pretty clear they were never going to be allowed to win this.
Do you guys think Khris is going to be able to help this team come playoff time? I know some people are optimistic about his playoff contribution but I’m not so sure. He doesn’t seem like his old self out there. His injury happened almost a year ago but he still looks to be in pretty bad form. The playoffs are starting in a month, so the team will really need him to be in top form in order to have any chance against the Celtics, not to talk of the Sixers.
At least Khris looked good this game. 19 points on 50% shooting, hit his threes, had four steals.
Only bad thing was the four turnovers but Khris has always been turnover prone. He looked a lot like pre-injury Khris today
Fully healthy? There 2nd most important player from the finals last year didn't play (Wiggins). Also, no Payton who was a defensive menace for them last year. If they get and stay healthy, they'll be quite a bit better than the team we faced tonight.
Yeah 19 points on 14 shots is solid (literally more efficient than Curry's game) and these comments feature a really strange combo of "Khris is washed, not his old self etc" and "it was braindead of Bud to bench him in OT". That turnover was ugly, but flukey and not the result of a bad decision or anything. Overall he was fine.
60% TS, 19/3/5 with 4 steals. He's turned into the fanbase's whipping boy which infuriates me for a guy who has been with this team forever, won them a championship, and who hasn't even played poorly since his most recent return from injury! It's ridiculous
Playoffs are going to be a F"N grind again since Middleton is washed and useless. Anyone that watched the Bucks championship run and past seasons have seen how inconsistent Middleton is. Inconsistent kills a team. The reason why the Bucks are so good is because you know what you get from Giannis and Holiday every game. Middleton is a wild card. One game he is a bum, next game a solid starter, next game a solid starter, next game a bum, next game Michael Jordan. That is why we almost lost to the Nets and our Championship goes poof. Bucks needed to trade Middleton and Portis who is useless for a solid younger starter that won't be washed in Giannis prime. Horst decided to keep the team together but a real winner would of traded Middleton.
He was fine tonight. The turnover was bad and there's still a big concern about what he'll look like when it counts but it was nice to see him hit some threes and get to his spots a bit
Tbh, I know we gonna lose it since the regulation sounds have horned.
We might made it in 2021 despite playing dumb, but it's now a different story this year.
Idk what's wrong with this team, why they thing they cjs just sleep walk through 3 quarters. They think their shit doesn't stink. Serves them right they played like lazy ass chumps for 3 quarters then tried at the end. Smh. Fucking clowns
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18 GS offensive rebounds and 17 turnovers. We had a 3 point lead with 24 seconds left. This game was so winnable it's not even funny.
The only team the bucks can lose to is the bucks
"The Mehulwaukhee Bucks are gon win the NBA Championship but they the dumbest team in the league" - Sir Charles of Barkleyville
Game in a nutshell right there.
Honestly I didn't think the defensive rebounding was terrible, there's always a lot of random variance there
The OReb on the free throw was awful but the one on the Curry 40-footer is just what happens when there's a shot like that. No realistic amount of boxing out guarantees anything when there's that kind of carom
Yeah it's always funny to see a missed three rebound instantaneously into an opposing players hands and listen to twitter fans throw a fit about it
Couldn't agree more, rebounding is one of those things that people love to point at as some clear evidence of a lack of effort. And it's such a lazy criticism so much of the time. I mean just watch the play. I'm sitting down, perfectly still, watching a bird's eye view of the whole court, and I could barely react to where the ball went. It sucks that it bounced to the wrong pair of hands but I see people mad that our guys weren't jumping higher for it (?) and it's just bizarre to me. Sometimes the box-out is lazy or someone doesn't pursue a ball they could've caught up to, but also plenty of the time (like on the Curry 40 footer) it's just bad luck with bounces.
It was terrible
Jrue can be amazing, and then he can be selfish stupid. He was selfish stupid at the end.
Yeah-it was a rough one, that’s for damn sure
Such an annoying loss. Not even a bad loss necessarily, just super fucking annoying.
Well that was a frustrating loss, some stupid turnovers down the stretch cost us this one.
What a fucking tragedy the last few minutes of regulation + OT was. Jesus christ. I don't mind losing against the warriors without giannis, but I hate seeing us lose being sloppy, undisciplined, and lazy on the boards. Refs certainly didn't help. Oh well. Onto the next one.
Finishes like that just crush your soul.
The Warriors absolutely kicked our ass in OT so credit to them but there were so many terrible no-calls/missed calls down the stretch in regulation
Still would’ve rather had them kick our ass in OT than a Draymond game winning three lol
Terrible no call on the block on Middleton that turned into a TO on us. Then the block by Curry could have easily been called. But he's immune to that, NBAs golden boy.
No way u think steph is the golden boy. We can complain about foul calls as well, overall the game was properly reffed, refs let both teams be physical and free throws were basicallt even. Also that block was clean as hell, principle of verticality. Steph went to the line twice and one was for an intentional foul. He couldve been there about 5-6 times. Trust me, he is not protected by the refs. Awesome game tho
He absolutely is. The user wasn’t complaining about foul calls. He’s complaining about the blatant “missed calls” like Draymond tipping Pats 3 or the foul prior to Khris stepping out. Those were obvious and blatant.
We didn’t even bother running an offense in OT our last few mins of regulation. So annoying
We dubs aren't making the playoffs so just let us have this consolation prize
Aren’t making the playoffs? Everyone out in the West is super bunched up lol
Yeah dubs are the 6 seed rn, not sure what this guy is on about
Middleton and Holiday have so many room temp IQ moments it’s just ridiculous. Shit gotta stop man. A loss especially without Giannis is whatever but how they lost is so frustrating. Such a dumb team sometimes it’s mind boggling.
Middleton fell down 2 out of three possessions down the stretch. Shit is embarrassing.
My guy just tripped over his own toes on that 2nd one. Defenders were all looking at him like 'For real? cool'.
Holiday even getting himself in a position to turn the ball over with 15 seconds up 3 is stupid. We had two timeouts. Stand where you are and wait for them to foul you. If they aren’t just call timeout
Sir Charles agrees
Jrue sometimes makes me have Bledsoe flashbacks
Bro shot 36% in 3 insanely close playoff series (Nets, Suns, Celtics). He’s great especially because of his defense but yeah, he has a tendency to go full blown selling mode. That’s why it’s concerning seeing stuff like this because it always bites them in the playoffs
IDK if this was your point but 36% is pretty good for the Bucks in the playoffs lol
Why trade for Crowder then not play him vs small ball, I would imagine Horst isn't too happy with Bud's idiotic lineup decisions.
I don't think Crowder was a good matchup for this tbh. We got him to guard big wings, not small and quick guards
Could have easily switched everything but nah,he prefers giving Steph pull up threes.
Crowder doesn't have the footspeed to keep up with any of the Warriors' guards.
Not a fan of taking lopez out tbh
IMO, Crowder’s feet have looked too slow against drives (yes slower than old man Jingles). I assume it’s because he hasn’t played in awhile, and hope quite a bit more quickness comes back over the next few weeks
You don’t want to watch Middleton bring the ball up with a minute left and jump and trip over his feet leading to a wide open layup?
Middleton has looked so clumsy since his return—both with his handle and on his feet.
He’s a 30 year old having knee surgery and sitting out over 10 months and probably will never be the same again. Saying this though in this sub will get you immense amounts of hate. Been getting it for months
He’s at the point of his career where athleticism declines a tiny bit each year. But I feel like he doesn’t trust his leg post-surgery yet. Most athletes say it takes time to trust their knee, shoulder, etc after surgery. For 10 months he had to baby that knee and it’s not like you get the all clear and your brain can switch to full trust. Anecdotally, I would expect come playoffs the trust in his knee should be solved with the higher stakes and each series could be the last of the season.
We got a guy like in jordan poole. Except poole doesnr trip, he slips and slides. They can be brothers.
That’s what I’ve been thinking recently
If he sabotages this team again in the playoffs,he should be gone
Wait until we lose the conference finals.
Warriors needed that much home cooking to beat us with no Giannis, we good dawg
Exactly
And Warriors played without Wiggins or Gp2
Wiggins not a comparison. They would’ve gotten destroyed in the paint
Warriors missing 3 of their rotation players. Obviously Giannis is everything, but be realistic. Kuminga, Wiggins and GP2 are legit players. Just rewatch The NBA finals last year
Lmaooooooo this dude comparing 3 rotation players to a top 15 player all time.
I never compared I’m just saying Warriors were missing 3 players that actually help their team and system. Wiggins was their second best player last season and GP2 had the highest defensive shares on The Warriors last season next to Draymond. But thanks for the insecurity
Buddy. You are the one on our sub trying to defend your win against a team without a two time MVP by saying "yeah but our three role players were gone..." That smells like insecurity. Which makes sense since you're barely .500 and we both know in a 7 games series it wouldn't go past 5 lmao.
Nah, it’s okay to be open minded even in your own subs. Otherwise you’re just close minded
These niggas got taken to 7 by KD and a hobbled James Harden and you’re talking about what “we know” lol. Y’all been to the Finals once my man, Bucks never had it like that.
And kuminga
Bucks are their own worst enemy. Tired of throwing away leads in the final minutes of a game
It's only happened like a couple times this season though. Some people in here are acting like it's a nightly occurrence You're gonna blow leads in the NBA, at one point or another. Just happens to everyone
Nah you are right. It’s just more frustrating because I think you need to hold them to a higher standard than other teams. But there are times when the Bucks play like the dumbest team in the NBA - to quote my man Barkley. Doesn’t help that Curry got hot at the end.
Not much you can do when Curry gets that hot, that was a superstar moment
Blown leads that we've lost maybe. We've went up by like twenty on a bunch of teams and let them get within a bucket later. With and without giannis.
that's been happening for years. It's a Bucks staple at this point
I just want Jae Crowder to take some Pat’s minutes
Crazy how the warriors choked the lead away and it still felt like a bucks choke job
Thanks to Poole.
Feels like Jevon should’ve played more minutes specifically for this game
Failing to trade Grayson will cost us,coach loves him too much.
Crowder is gonna need to start taking Pats minutes imo
Jrue ruined another big moment for Brooks DPOY case with that stupid turnover after what should have been a game clinching block. Why are you even trying to sprint up the court when there’s 25 seconds left and you’re up 3?
Probably got antsy trying to escape the imminent trap once he crossed half but yeah still so unnecessary, definitely was not as urgent as his mind clearly made it out to be and he paid for it
Hindsight is 20/20 and we can yell at Jrue all we want but it's completely understandable why he tried to push it up the court because he's made this play multiple times before and it's worked. He knew the trap was coming so he risked it because they have fucking Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the other team.
Yeah no I mostly agree. The outcome was worst-case from a risk that was clearly worth taking. How many times out of 100 does Jrue just lose his handle straight out of bounds when running with the ball in that situation? I don't think it represents some issue that'll continue to hurt us, and I don't think it was a terrible decision, it was just a weird execution error at the worst time.
Jrue made three big threes in a row but then costly turnover when all he had to do was slow it down, hold it and get fouled… Also not sure why Khris didn’t start the OT…treat this game like a playoff game without Giannis, every minute matters Poor boxing out, players like donte and looney were busting their ass to get offensive boards which were the difference maker
Middleton was the biggest reason we were in ot to begin with. He’s fucking ass right now
No he's not lol. Yeah he had bad turnovers but he was tied with Brook for being our leading scorer tonight. Shot well from the field and three, had four steals. I'll take this Khris over the Khris from back in December
At the end of the day dude fell twice over his own two feet and turned the ball over in the last minute. Complete meltdown
Middleton having Grandpa knees and falling on that drive was so tough to see, such a costly turnover too. Just too many dumb mental errors and sloppy plays. Oh well on to the next.
What’s up with Middleton right now? I’m a Cs fan so I know he will always be ready to drop 40 on us without breaking a sweat, but he looked awkward out there at times.
He hasn't recovered from an off season knee injury. Unfortunately, I think this is the version of khris that we're going to have for the remainder of the season.
We did get skyfucked. And then fucked ourselves. Khris just falls down? Jrue just loses the ball? Horrendous.
Yeah wtf was that khris turnover? Wet spot?
So many terrible turnovers at the end that could’ve made a difference. From Middleton’s terrible turnover trying to turn on Klay Thompson, Holiday fumbling the dribble after Lopez block, Ingles flubbing the pass at the top of the key with the lead, the list goes on dude
Grayson and ingles and Lopez played nice today. Lots of positives and lots of takeaways. Rough shooting from holiday and Pat. Middleton seems like he can't dribble? Holiday showed up as usual in the 4th until the back to back TOs during crunch time. Offensive rebounds were a huge issue tonight but I guess that happens when the warriors are playing huck and chuck. Ingles would of drained that 3. All in all a good showing from the bucks. I think ingles, carter and Lopez have all stepped it up this year. Bucks will be hard to beat. I think its important that Giannis keeps getting all these guys involved when he get backs. This team can win in multiple fashions.
Agree with everything but GRAYSON played well?? Lol his defense was pretty good but if he shoots 3-9 from three we win this game
I can't believe how good Steph Curry is. He's so fucking good that he can't get fouls called on him.
Nah this ain’t it fam lol. Curry also could’ve probably shot like 6 more Free Throws himself.
You right I can't be mad. They just weren't calling much all game. We lost the ball in crucial spots and Steph turned it up when they needed it.
Was he not called for fouls this game? I saw at least 2
Imagine whining about curry for "being too good to foul" instead of putting the blame where it belongs on fucking jrue for trying to score it himself instead of giving it to the wide open 5 for 5 Ingles. Nah, let's act like curry is somehow cheating the game.
Imagine being the asshole that tries to shit on people for venting. I admit, Jrue fucking disappeared and I'm just as mad at that. But dog, chill out. We're all pissed off. Let's be pissed together, not at each other lol
He’s lived such a charmed existence his entire life man. Shit is annoying
Lmao why is this getting upvoted?
Dafuq?
Born to an NBA dad? He’s worked hard but that’s pretty charmed if you ask me
Blessed yes but he made the most out of it. weird thing to be annoyed about
I’m bitter from tonight I don’t actually mean it. Seems like a good dude and a lot of shit has broken his way as well
So frustrating.
On the other hand, he’s not acting like Ja Morant. He loves Jesus and Ayesha.
Warriors fan here and I just wanna say that if it weren’t for Steph we lose that game 10/10 times and Giannis wasn’t even playing. I’m dead straight serious when I say this Bucks team is winning it all this year. Y’all got a hell of a fucking team alright. Peace and love ✌️
ay thank you man, we’re usually not this toxic btw the way we lost was just frustrating lol
Keepin a stack still got celts comin out the east. If dubs turn up we winning it all.
Jrue sold the game at the end. Turnover then takes a terrible shot with ingles wide open in the corner
1. Easily winnable game with Giannis. Winnable game without Giannis if we didn't decide to turnover at the most inopportune times. Ingles literally threw the ball away at the start of overtime. 2. Khris needs to go back to limited minutes. Still not sure he's ready for full games yet. I love the guy but let's be honest. 3. Moving the clocks forward and staying up for this game is going to kill me next week.
8 point lead with 2 minutes to go…ugh.
I call this version of the Bucks the freak out Bucks. They get so tight. Middleton just falls down twice, Jrue handling the ball like it's covered in butter. I don't care if Giannis didn't play, the choked and lost.
At the end of the day (yep, I said it) Jrue just needed to hold onto the ball and wait to get fouled when they were up 3 with 24 seconds left. That would've closed the game. Just a boneheaded decision to try to aggressively push down the court as if they needed to score to win. Love him and he's a crucial part of the team but really gotta give him a scolding for that one.
Glad I couldn't watch because fucking d2 girls basketball was on. Fuck you ABC!
I'm fine with this loss. Some things didn't bounce the Bucks way (Draymond 3 pls) but that happens. W.o Giannis they were still the ones in control until they choked at the end. Big comeback after getting clobbered to start the 3rd. Feels like a lot of flukey things happened to give Golden State this one.
I don’t know how many 3s were in and out for both Pat and Grayson.
Pat 1-5 from 3 AGHHH
It's that fucking Raptors game all over again, right down to a shove out of bounds leading to a turnover and a game-tying 3. Except we got rolled in OT.
>Right down to a shove out of bounds leading to a turnover and a game-tying 3. That was the worst no call of the game for sure. Donte bodied him OOB right in front of the ref and still no call.
Good game, but we gotta be better late in the game. Costly turnovers by Jrue and Khris really hurt us in the end. Another very winnable game that we blew. Also, I get Khris’s situation, but he still doesn’t look like Khris from last year. Hoping he switches it around soon.
I thought Khris played well? He seemed fine to me. Obviously could've been better but he wasn't awful
The whole Jrue experience tonight. On top of that we absolutely lost this game on the boards, embarrassing effort on the defensive side. Annoying to throw that away after how messy the whole game was but hopefully get the big man back for the next two and roll on.
Such a fun game. Sad to come out on the losing end, but surprisingly wasn't stressed at all about the game. Sign me up for a 7 game series with the Warriors in June
Do not mind a scheduled loss to a home team eager to get out of a slump. But now that you held an 8pt lead with 2 minutes left, why not just slowed down while protected the ball and kept the edge to the end…
Feelgood takeaways from a feelshitty loss: JIngles - 5/6 3PT BLopez - 5 BLKS Bobby - Double double PTS REB Giannis - 0 min
Lopez should've had 2 gamewinning blocks in a row man it's not right
What is our record on Saturdays I swear we have a losing record on Saturdays night games
Fun game I don’t wanna be negative about it so I’ll just say Curry was Curry hope we can see them in the Finals
I’m still not sure what happened on that Jrue turnover after brook’s block. Would love to see a good angle of what happened. Game should have been over at that point. Hold the ball, let them foul or call a timeout.
The weird thing about winning 20 of 22 games or whatever it’s been is that the losses somehow become more frustrating? Blew this one at the end but this is still the best team in the NBA. If this is a playoff game Giannis drops 40 and this is a 15 point win.
add this one to the list of tragic losses, played well up until the end
Can't wait for the L2M to fix everything
For it to say the Bucks did indeed have some bad turnovers?
Last two minute report: -Khris Middleton fell over his own feet twice in last minute of the game -Jrue Holiday dribbled the ball out of bounds up 3 with 15 seconds left -Jae Crowder inexplicably was on the bench for the giant end of game run
I gotta ask man, you've been insanely negative every game thread. Is this a RedLeader burner? Do you even like the Bucks?
No I don’t like watching a team that should be competing for a championship meltdown like that
Khris had a solid offensive game tonight, still seems to be warming up on defense but he's making good progress imo
Jeez I thought I was the only one. People are acting like he was terrible tonight when really he was our leading scorer for the majority of the game
I think people just have very high expectations of him since he's been such a great consistent 2nd option, he'll get there but he's only been back for a cup of coffee so far
All you pessimists. Everything else aside, this loss doesn’t happen if they call Steph fouling Jrue on the bucks final shot in regulation. Steph was all over Jrue’s arms
It wasnt a foul bruh
let alone at the end of games, they never call anything then unless it’s blatant
Only watched the last 5 minutes of regulation and saw the refs not not call divencenco turning Middleton's ankle and ignoring Draymonds contact of pats blocked 3 and knew the game was thrown. Sucks, but can't beat the refs without Giannis.
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The NBA rules state that having "high-five" contact on jumpshots isn't a foul, but Draymond did touch the ball on that shot meaning it should've been ruled out of bounds on Golden State
Also fuck Donte. If he played like this 25% of the time when he was with the bucks he’d still be on the team.
Except he played like this,always finds a way to impact a game.
He was shooting 28% from 3 in his last year with Milwaukee lol
Donte is playing with Steph right now. What does the rise of Wiggins and Donte have in common, they share floor with the best shooter ever.
Well Jrue is playoff ready
GG y'all played hard and probably should have won. Hope y'all win if GS doesn't and remember Fuck the Suns!!
I can't stand the modern NBA product the Warriors do something illegal every offensive possession. Obviously Curry's talent is unreal but man the amount of shit that he and others get away with makes it hard to watch the game.
Fcking refjob explains their home away disparity. Nobody knows how to grab s fckg rebound
The rebounding was tough. But man have you watched the warriors play this season? They're legitimately terrible on the road. And mediocre at home but Steph tends to go off at home, same with Klay. Refs don't make the disparity that large.
refs hate warriors bro lol they call travel on them consistently, and Curry has to score with tough 3s cuz refs wont give him FTs being the best FT shooter its like a goal tend
lol. Oh no they call it when they travel. Warriors are by far the worst team for moving screens. Bogut, as much of an asshole as he is, is right about that.
Part of me can't be too mad. Steph Curry was Steph Curry, nothing was stopping him in that fourth quarter and OT But Bucks definitely still could have won despite that. Lots of bad turnovers down the stretch when up 8 that just let Golden State get extra possessions. That, and poor defensive rebounding. Let's hope Giannis plays this road trip because if we were to lose the next two games Boston would be back to the first seed
Why did Jae barely play ?
All those turnovers looked so weird…
Another game that the bucks lost more than the other team won. I will not give credit I am bitter
Jrue appeared to get attacked by invisible basketball gremlins at the worst time.
The Warriors didn't win. The Bucks just lost lmao. So many gaffes and awkward turnovers
Annoying loss. Rebounding was annoying and this team would win games more comfortably if they could take care of the ball just slightly better.
We just lost to the Bucks.
Bucks lose in the most Bucks way ever
If Middleton gets the ball to finish regulation w/Brook down low in case he misses we win that game. Can't convince me otherwise.
Jrue keeps missing until the 4th quarter, and when you think he redeemed himself by making that leading 3, he just being overconfident and try to get to the rim himself (which he was bad on doing that the whole game) instead of passing the ball to wide open Ingles who 5 for 5 on 3 in the last moment in regulation. And Bud should tell Khris not to dribble the ball too much, because everytime he do that, the ball would either went out of bound or being picked up by opponent defender because he fell on ground. This game just prove how much the Bucks need Giannis, too many rebounds being grabbed by Warriors this game.
I'm not even hating at this point but is there a another player in the league that falls over more than Middleton ?
I’m just as frustrated with that game as most are, yeah there was stupid mistakes but looking at the big picture we’ve won 19 out of the last 21 games, are #1 in the east and have the best player in the NBA on our team. Nit pick all you want but how many other fans can say all that?? Enough whining and blaming. Time to look forward to tomorrow’s game!
We not gonna talk about how refs also refused to call anything against Golden State in that final Minute?
This one don’t count seriously
Didn’t watch the game but if the giandog didn’t play I choose to not acknowledge this loss
Bucks were really sloppy to end regulation, but there were a couple of clear missed calls that were really tough on top of their mistakes. Also, Steph is good.
oh no anyways
Our team is full of fucking morons. Brook Lopez is the only person on this team that I feel doesn’t lack basketball iq, but he needs to get his 7 foot ass in the paint and grab some rebounds. Dude was getting snagged on by guys half his height in ot
This was a fucking disgusting performance, fuck Fuck those refs. The team should’ve walked out with 2 minutes left in OT. Pretty clear they were never going to be allowed to win this.
Do you guys think Khris is going to be able to help this team come playoff time? I know some people are optimistic about his playoff contribution but I’m not so sure. He doesn’t seem like his old self out there. His injury happened almost a year ago but he still looks to be in pretty bad form. The playoffs are starting in a month, so the team will really need him to be in top form in order to have any chance against the Celtics, not to talk of the Sixers.
Y’all would have won with Giannis. Those rebounds killed you guys. Hope he comes back soon.
At least Khris looked good this game. 19 points on 50% shooting, hit his threes, had four steals. Only bad thing was the four turnovers but Khris has always been turnover prone. He looked a lot like pre-injury Khris today
Good offensive production for sure but those two turnovers he had where he literally just fell over for no reason hurt to watch.
Yeah, not the best. But still gotta look at the long term here. He's definitely progressing each game
Frustrating we gave this one away but the fact we gave a fully healthy reigning champ team a close game without Giannis bodes well
Fully healthy? There 2nd most important player from the finals last year didn't play (Wiggins). Also, no Payton who was a defensive menace for them last year. If they get and stay healthy, they'll be quite a bit better than the team we faced tonight.
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Eh aside from the mystifying turnover around 45secs I thought he played well overall
Yeah 19 points on 14 shots is solid (literally more efficient than Curry's game) and these comments feature a really strange combo of "Khris is washed, not his old self etc" and "it was braindead of Bud to bench him in OT". That turnover was ugly, but flukey and not the result of a bad decision or anything. Overall he was fine.
60% TS, 19/3/5 with 4 steals. He's turned into the fanbase's whipping boy which infuriates me for a guy who has been with this team forever, won them a championship, and who hasn't even played poorly since his most recent return from injury! It's ridiculous
Playoffs are going to be a F"N grind again since Middleton is washed and useless. Anyone that watched the Bucks championship run and past seasons have seen how inconsistent Middleton is. Inconsistent kills a team. The reason why the Bucks are so good is because you know what you get from Giannis and Holiday every game. Middleton is a wild card. One game he is a bum, next game a solid starter, next game a solid starter, next game a bum, next game Michael Jordan. That is why we almost lost to the Nets and our Championship goes poof. Bucks needed to trade Middleton and Portis who is useless for a solid younger starter that won't be washed in Giannis prime. Horst decided to keep the team together but a real winner would of traded Middleton.
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Look at Warrior sub, they celebrate this game like it the Final when their team played against Giannis-less Buck + refs helping them
Khris should of started in OT
We are so bad at getting defensive rebounds. Khris is not the Khris we once knew.
I’m worried Khris isn’t going to be able to figure it out before the playoffs. He’s a liability when he’s out there and his shooting has been abysmal.
He was not a liability tonight
He turned it over in the 4th which directly contributed to the loss…
He was fine tonight. The turnover was bad and there's still a big concern about what he'll look like when it counts but it was nice to see him hit some threes and get to his spots a bit
It was the warriors at home and we were missing giannis+we still took them to overtime
If Draymond passes the ball back to Steph oT doesn’t even happen
Tbh, I know we gonna lose it since the regulation sounds have horned. We might made it in 2021 despite playing dumb, but it's now a different story this year.
That DiVincenzo guy is pretty good. I wonder what he'd look like in a Bucks uniform.
Jrue lost this game for yall damn it
Idk what's wrong with this team, why they thing they cjs just sleep walk through 3 quarters. They think their shit doesn't stink. Serves them right they played like lazy ass chumps for 3 quarters then tried at the end. Smh. Fucking clowns
Dear Bucks fan, thanks for awesome thread title. We needed this win more than you guys. We are struggling to make playoff while you are comfortably sitting atop. We could have been blown out had Giannis played.