Bucks 2020-2021 season thread

[adambr2]

What a night for Giannis.

[adambr2]

Nice win. Brooklyn not totally out of reach.

[nate82]

If the Bucks win the next one against the Nets and then take care of business the rest of the year they will own the tie breakers against both the Nets and 76ers.

[GAME05]

76ers have a pretty easy schedule the rest of the way.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I guess I'm not super worried about the Bucks getting the 1 or 2 seed, so much as I just wanna see them over the rest of the regular season and first round of the playoffs now... really start to play like a championship/playoff ready club. They've had all season to gel and get ready for this. They can win games on the road, I'm honestly not worried about the seeding. If you're the best team, you shouldn't have to worry about beating the sixers and the Nets both.

 

Besides, the Knicks are red hot. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll take out the sixers/Nets!

[adambr2]

I'm going to guess without looking anything up that 12 three-point attempts from Giannis and 15 rebounds from DDV tonight are both career highs.

[GAME05]

The number of 3pt attempts Giannis takes is directly proportional to how big of a victory the Bucks had.

[homer]

70+ free throw attempts. yay.

[adambr2]

Fun fact #1: The Bucks are the only NBA team to have not lost a game against a team in their division.

 

Fun fact #2. I had to look up to see who was in the Bucks division. Does anyone associated with the NBA care about divisions at all?

[nate82]

Fun fact #1: The Bucks are the only NBA team to have not lost a game against a team in their division.

 

Fun fact #2. I had to look up to see who was in the Bucks division. Does anyone associated with the NBA care about divisions at all?

 

I don't think division games even matter any more maybe for a tie breaker or something but that is about it.

[adambr2]

Fun fact #1: The Bucks are the only NBA team to have not lost a game against a team in their division.

 

Fun fact #2. I had to look up to see who was in the Bucks division. Does anyone associated with the NBA care about divisions at all?

 

I don't think division games even matter any more maybe for a tie breaker or something but that is about it.

 

Surely there are Milwaukee Bucks Central Division Champs shirts floating around out there.

[DuWayne Steurer]

2nd place in the east. Tie breaker over Brooklyn

 

Also, before the season if you said NYK/ATL was going to be an anticipated first rd matchup, you'd likely have gotten laughed at.

[reillymcshane]

I haven't watched the Bucks of late - wondering if anyone has any thoughts on PJ Tucker. How's he looking? Numbers have been very modest - but we didn't get him to put up a bunch of points.

 

Just curious if anyone has any thoughts. Thanks.

[SomewhereInTime]

Fun fact #1: The Bucks are the only NBA team to have not lost a game against a team in their division.

 

Fun fact #2. I had to look up to see who was in the Bucks division. Does anyone associated with the NBA care about divisions at all?

 

I don't think division games even matter any more maybe for a tie breaker or something but that is about it.

 

Surely there are Milwaukee Bucks Central Division Champs shirts floating around out there.

 

I mean that's literally it in the NBA, you can print a t shirt or fly a banner for it but other than that there is no seeding advantage anymore and a division champion is not even guaranteed a playoff spot.

[Mr Southpaw]

I haven't watched the Bucks of late - wondering if anyone has any thoughts on PJ Tucker. How's he looking? Numbers have been very modest - but we didn't get him to put up a bunch of points.

 

Just curious if anyone has any thoughts. Thanks.

 

I love two things about him

 

1. Basketball IQ. He make sour team soooooo much smarter in terms of playing the game the right way. That will wear off on the others.

 

2. Intensity. He plays so hard all the time. I guess that is somewhat like basketball IQ. When you see the old guy getting back on defense and making the extra effort, it also wears off on the other players.

 

I hope they sign him for a two year deal at the end of the season.

[MrTPlush]

I don’t heavily watch the NBA, most just follow from afar, but this has the be the first year in like decades where the championship and even the finals is completely wide open for many teams to get there. Most years you could confidently predict 1/2 or even both finals teams...doesn’t feel that way this year. If the Nets were healthy it would probably be, once again, another predictable finish. They are far from healthy though.

 

Of course ESPN just shoves the Nets and Lakers down everyone’s throats. I don’t think I have ever seen Utah get more than game highlights on air.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Lol the Lakers are fighting to stay out of the play in

[CheezWizHed]

Lol the Lakers are fighting to stay out of the play in

 

This is absolutely the best sports news I've heard in a long time! Lakers currently the 7th seed and a game out of 6th. And since #8 is the Warriors, that wouldn't be a gimme game either... Love it!

[adambr2]

LeBron was all about the play in tourney last year. Now that the Lakers might be affected by it he wants the guy who came up with the idea to be fired.

[adambr2]

Denver blew a 21 point lead at home to the Nets tonight, because why wouldn't they.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I'd strongly prefer the Bucks wind up #2. Philly just seems far more beatable to me than Brooklyn, and if they can get home court over Brooklyn I think it helps. Any edge they can get.

[nate82]

Sigh could have tied the Nets tonight but instead get blown out by the freaking Spurs.

[adambr2]

I thought Tucker was acquired to help tighten up this defense. Feels like we've been giving up 200 a game lately.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Giannis scored 40 points on 18 official shot attempts against the Pacers tonight. Pretty hard to be more efficient than that.

 

Not a lot of defense in this one.

[nate82]

Giannis scored 40 points on 18 official shot attempts against the Pacers tonight. Pretty hard to be more efficient than that.

 

Not a lot of defense in this one.

 

I think the Pacers were short handed tonight? Still rather sloppy defense on both sides but it is nearing the end of the season so most are probably just mailing it in right now.