The Milwaukee Bucks were destroyed by the Boston Celtics at Fiserv Forum, leaving the door ajar in the race for the No. 1 seed in the East. What does the loss mean? Are the Celtics a terrible matchup? Is the schedule any excuse? What role will Brook Lopez play in a series vs. Boston? Is Grayson Allen a concern against this team? Kane and Frank discuss some of the key talking points from the game and also dive into some MVP chat at the end of the show.
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Did tonight impact your confidence about the Bucks in the postseason?
Not even worried one bit. Bucks will beat Boston in a 7 game series. Mark it down.
Go Bucks 🦌
Milwaukee gotta figure out how to use Giannis more off the ball…like Toronto did in the 2019 EFC, Boston has figured out how to slow Giannis down when he has the ball…the bully style of play ain't going to work. ..I still have faith in the Bucks, but coach Bud need to make some serious adjustments
It's a frustrating loss, but we'll be fine. Boston was on a mission last night and we didn't show up after our track meet against the Pacers. It was a worst case scenario for us. I'm not going to read too much into it. I have confidence that we'll be better prepared if we face off in the playoffs.
Came back just to say I've decided to call this type of loss a "strategic loss". No need to show our top competitors our strengths right? Let them think they got it easy then get 'em with the sneak-up.
Lol
That's my story. I'll be sticking to that. This was a bullshit game with no real bearing on what we know the team is capable of.
FIRE BUD HIRE IME UDOKA!!! He wouldnt want any of the owners wives here anyway. GO BUCKS GO
This reminds me of that 142-101 loss to the Grizzlies. When that happened I stayed off of ESPN until their next win. I'll be doing the same again. I will not be watching NBA Today later on today that's for sure.
Problem is we don't have an elite #2. We have a 7th man SG and we trot him out as a starter. I say let Khash go and try and get a true elite SG instead of plugging the hole with a turd.
Jae Crowder was a traffic cone last night
Eff you Frank!
The Celtics came into Milwaukee last time off a back-to-back, without most of their starters. Tight, OT loss….Seems like everyone talked about Middleton missing last season as the difference-maker this season… People are sleeping on the Brogdon upgrade for the Celtics. They have replaced Payton Pritchard's minutes with Brogdon and Hauser this season. The Celtics were also re-built from last season to play a 5-wide 3-point shooting machine that exploits drop defense. Brook Lopez isn't nearly as effective against Boston.
As a european and a Milwaukee Bucks fan I cannot for the life of me understand the immunity coach Bud gets, Boston have obviously got his number, last time the two teams met Bucks barely won playing against no one of the fundamental parts of the Boston team, today they lost 50 point difference, that's disgraceful. Kane and Frank are analysing the potential of certain players in certain situations which is kind of pointless. Bucks players are scared of the Celtics, the 50 point void doesn't represent the two teams potential but if the two meet in the playoffs it will be over for the bucks and in an embarassing way, period. The only way our Bucks wear a ring this year is if they don't meet with Boston..
I have felt the same way after the Nets Blowed us out 2 years ago in the playoffs. Remember everybody thought Bucks will lose the series but we ended up Champions. The same will happen this year playoffs. We have seen the best of them. Now we can prepare to the best we can. It is very hard but I prefer this loss now. Much better than on the 1st game of the ECF finals.
The only 3 people who looked like they cared about being blown out by the Celtics and showed some heart were Giannis, Khris and Thanasis. This sh1t is not gonna fly in the playoffs…
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Terrible take by Frank on Giannis. Wtf do u expect him to do when noone is hitting 3s and the opponents clog the lane??? He is not Superman, the team needs to back him up. Last night he attempted 2 3's in a row cause noone else was hitting anything
They have lost to all the big 3 teams in the last month (Nuggets, Celtics and 76ers). It was a 2nd game on a back to back so there is that excuse.
Now they have a 2 days break until the 76ers and there will be no excuses left for losing.
Get Beauchamp in the rotation. He's big enough to be factor against Brown/Tatum. He's a defensive upgrade over Connaughron and Allen. You can't allow BOTH Tatum/Brown to get off!! Beauchamp has great upside, I'd already a solid defender and has size athleticism. Brown and Tatum score at will against Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, we have a problem. Unfortunately, Crowder seems to not be the answer as Boston's forwards kept getting by him in the match last night. Here is an idea: we need more scorers, to this end lets move Jrue to the shooting guard position and bring in Dragic as our point guard. In this role Jrue is free to produce points more consistently as we leave the job of distribution to another experienced point guard.
Defense has taken a step back the last couples weeks or so.Rough schedule is something but getting embarassed like that sucks. Boston aproached this game like a playoff game with the lineups and minutes and everything and we were relaxed even going 10 deep in the lineups.The think that scares me is that our guys even seem to be afraid to shoot at times when we face boston.We shot fake wide open shots its so frustrating
Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum scored more points than the entire Bucks team combined before they hit the bench, so unless Bud is going to make the playoff adjustment and have Giannis guard Tatum and put Jrue on JB in the playoffs…"Get ready to learn Chinese buddy"
WAKE UP CALL !! THANKS BOSTON!!
Its good that the loss came now (rather than later in the playoffs). This will be a wake-up call.
Defensively we're not good enough for a while now, bad habbits are creeping in plus Boston has more athleticism and youth. People look at the 3pt shooting but our defense is the problem.
Boston are better i'm afraid.
Hear me out, I think the Bucks "intentionally" lost. They didn't run any of there typical offensive or defensive schemes amd the didn't even try to work on either end. I think the plan was, go out and play and we won't run our stuff so that the celtics won't have recent film on how they guard us or how we guard them.
I've watched almost every bucks game this year. Watching this game I didn't get the impression that the Celtics are all that better than the bucks. The bucks really didn't look like themselves in any way. The number of wide open buckets for the celtics and lack of defense from Milwaukee was astounding. Offensively they weren't running the same actions they usually find success in. I'm not sure if bud wanted to hide those for the playoffs in a potentially matchup but they just looked completely different.
Bravo Kane 👍
Milwaukee was Manhandled at home, they couldn’t win last night so ofcourse there not gonna win in the finals don’t get sucked in, the bucks suck.don’t waste your money…….
The boys seem really tired,last night
This game was beyond frustrating to watch. Boston matches up so well with the bucks and they get whatever they want offensively. Still think it will be a tough series for both teams but looks like Boston has the edge and will be favored.
I am sick of Khris Middleton being nowhere to be found against really good teams, thats awesome that he can put up 34 on the Pistons but where was he when we needed him last night? He had an extra day off and looked just as lethargic as the dudes who played the night before. I'll save the rest of my judgements until after the Sixers game on Sunday but if he puts up another bad game I'm gonna lose a lot of confidence in this teams ability to win it all this year, and in Khris's ability to be a reliable 2nd piece on a championship caliber team for future seasons.
Ass whipping!!!!!4 straight
What an embarrassing loss. In milwaukee. I know they were on b2b. But to lose by 40 though ? This is unacceptable.
Defensively, since that loss against the Sixers, we are not good. It seems like we just focus ourselves on the offensive side but let the other team take their shots w/o contesting.
The 2nd thing is the case of Middleton. Idk about you guys but he played 30 games i think and with this new injury, i dont know how he gonna play the next games. Clearly, he is not the Lhris we used to see. He needs time but the playoffs are in 2 weeks.
w/o a great Middleton, i dont see us winning the chip bc he makes many tough shots.
Play Goran and Jrue as the starters. Mid, Giannis and Crowder.
Grayson Allen doesn't compete!!!!
Not much, celtic fan
dragic can play against celtics
This Frank Madden dude will make me unsubscribe from this channel.Terrible take and a hater as well,given how much Giannis has done for Bucks
In 2020-21 with everyone healthy they had a worse record than last year. The difference in defensive rating from last year is half a point. What he says makes no sense. This is Giannis' best year both offensively and defensively since he got the mvp last time. Same accuracy as last year, he has 55% shooting and scoring more in fewer minutes. Especially when he has the third most injured team in the league and the best record. Last year Jokic had the tenth record. I don't know what everyone in the media is smoking but there shouldn't be a debate, it's not even close .Send the beard guy to the the Locked on Nuggets and Philly podcast.
Remember when they lost to the nets by like 40 in a playoff game and then won the series? They’ll be aite. Just win as many down the stretch as you can hope for boston to drop a few and get the 1 seed. Go bucks.
This was the Charlotte Hornets game 2.0 . For me there's nothing to worry about . Besides that fact that when we face Boston , Brook won't be able to be on the floor for more than 20 minutes ( which it hurts tbh because he's the 3rd best player on this team )
Really wish we would have got Patrick Beverley
Bucks fans been saying their team was tired,from back to back games, cry me a River, EVERY team has back to backs in their schedule,stop making excuses for a poor performance.
What I’m concerned about is the huge losses 15-20+ against the top teams such as, Boston twice, Memphis, Denver and there may even be a few more. We need to tighten up in big games or we are looking at another early exit.