The Milwaukee Bucks have completed the largest comeback in the NBA this season! After being down by as many as 26 points in the third quarter, the Milwaukee Bucks came back and defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, 108-102. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points and pulled down 16 rebounds while Damian Lillard scored 31 points in his first game against his former team.
On today’s episode Camille and Justin discuss what the Bucks did differently in the second half to get the win, look at how new injuries have impacted the Bucks rotation and discuss some interesting postgame comments from Giannis.
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Can anybody explain to me why Jackson Jr is good enough to start but not good enough to play any more minutes after that? I don't understand coach Griffin's rotations. It's different every night. Guys like to be in a routine and this doesn't seem to be helping!
griff need to go, you cannot be down so bad against the blazers
I like how both Giannis and Dame took it upon themselves to lead the comeback and the close out.
Loving the positivity from Justin, filling in nicely to Kanes role of Aussie sunshine 😂
I’m not that encouraged by what I’ve seen in the last week, but I’m still confident in the top4 of this team. Still lots of time and I expect some wing protection to come soon!!
I hate to be a doomer, but barely beating two of the worst teams in the League and needing Giannis and Dame to play 37 plus minutes to do so is not a good sign for later on, no matter what our team record is rn
We can celebrate the comeback but the real topic is the atrocious performance that resulted in the -26 deficit. The team was unable to pass the ball without turning it over. The ball slipping off their hands. Dame and Bobby missing dunks. Bobby came alive in the last quarter but he was horrible for the first 3 quarters
Coach needs to go. He is hurting the team not helping. Team is winning despite coach not because of coach.
when is Khris coming back?
Come trade deadline I think Pat's time is up.
If Celtics shoot 3's well, they will win. If not, we will.
We can all be happy with the W, the character the team shown in the comeback and the 4th quarter, Dame and Giannis in particular… but!.. at home vs Portland, we should't have been in this position
When you are a good to great team everybody's going to bring it to you every game. Even bad teams will try to play their best game against you because it's like their championship. The in season tournament is giving players $500,000 a piece if they win it. Ask Denver about what it's like to be a Target. Championships are won in June, not in November.
we need to trade for Matisse Thybulle cuz we need a defensive stopper in the starting unit. because it’s the opposing backcourts who be killing us .
I start getting a feel that we went 360, like from last year having Giannis scoring 40+ 1 vs 5 and everyone else shooting bricks from 3 and defend to now where we seem like we have too many offensive options and no defence…lol…I think between Giannis, Brook, Malik and Dame offence is pretty good which means Ajax or Jae need to be in there starting. I would even consider having just Giannis, Dame and Brook on the scoreline and Jae/Ajax together for that D and just optional shooting….Kris might need to take the high ground and come of the bench to give some offence and minutes. Cam, Malik are better offensive options and honestly as kris is now, he might not be a better defender either..
This was the best defensive effort Giannis has had all year he was engaged in the 4th and did dirty work which is what makes him elite – I also think this was a 25 free throw game for him and the coaches went away from it in the 3rd – we had Portland in the bonus with 9 minutes – they can’t make threes if guys are sitting down due to fouls
When Brook plays bad, nobody talks about it. When Brooks put up stats, everyone wanna talk about how phenomenal Brook is. Is 15 and 12 too much. No, I don't think this is too much to ask. If this was AD, Andre Ayton or Tristan Thompson, everyone would be talking about how there aren't rebounding. How about defense? Is he the defender that the media talks about or just hypes? Yeah, just hypes.
Do you agree with Giannis? Are the Bucks building good habits when it comes to facing adversity?
What up with Frank and Justin's connection always dropping?
The Bucks marketing department probably wants to promote "Dame Time ⌚" This is why we always start slow and then close it out in the forth quarter 😉
I wouldn’t mind trading Middleton for Jeremy grant … ✅
The last two season Bucks were crushing opponents routinely… And that proved to provide little help in the playoffs. Despite the opponent, Bucks are proving to be more resilient. Years past Bucks would have punted the game down 26. For example, last year when the Buxks played Boston in Boston, they went down by 20+ in 3rd quarter, Bucks in up losing that game by 42 points. Signal a lack of fight. This year AG has this team a little more gritty and resilient, it's almost impossible to put them away. Bucks came back against Bos, Mavs, Portland and 6ers. No lead is safe. Sure, you can look at the opponent however this trend is for both good and bad opponents. Bucks avalanche is coming, and Giannis and Dame are starting to mesh. Also, Buck's 2nd half-defense was great!! Blazers only scored 14 points in the 4th. Bucks are capable of locking up, In my theory the scheme requires so much energy that players are waiting for the second half to turn it up. The fact that the Bucks have the best 4th quarter offense in the league is a huge positive playoff indicator. The 4th quarter is the closest thing to playoff basketball. Honestly, the Bucks will breeze through the East playoffs. Boston is okay but the Bucks are in a learning phase and could've still won that game.
Bucs fans remember, it's easier finding defenders like Matiss Thybulle level players then finding top tier offensive talent
Defense has to improve. Earlier. I noticed in the box score. Milwaukees shooting percent was not very good at all. And free throw percentage in the 70s. Im willing to give them the benefit of the doubt things will improve.
This is a worrisome problem, even vs the Celtics
We had to use 2 successful challenges because the refs completely suck this year. The league should allow teams to challenge more than 2 times and keep their timeouts if the challenges were successful. But they would never do that because they like to fix games.
Marcus Smart was screaming "This is Embarresing" during his game last night and is clearly very unhappy in Memphis. I'd love to see Hort pull of a deal and get Marcus Smart to Milwaukee at the deadline. Only way this could work financially is trade Bobby Portis + Pat Connaugton. I love both those guys but Marcus Smart would give us elite perimeter defense were sorely lacking RN. This would give the Bucks and Elite Defense Guard in Smart, Forward in Giannis and Brook at Center. This trade would complete the circle of Jrue to Boston and Smart to Bucks.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN HORST!
It was Beasley's Birthday and it was said on Twitter that Dame, Beas, Bobby and Marjon were sighted out drinking at 1AM the night before the game Celebrating. Good chance those 4 guys were hungover going into the game which might partially explain their sluggish start.
Bro peaced out during the ad break lmao
T.A should not be on the floor and they can’t have any minutes without one of Giannis or Dame on the floor when Khris is out.
Bucks executed their offence nicely to start the game.
It's pretty wild to see what vans has done to brewhoop. He's deleting very basic comments with even the slightest disagreement with him. I don't remember if it was Chud or last first but they replied about how the site was better before Van made disagreement with him illegal, Theo replied, and he deleted the comments. What a shame.
Trade middleton for mikkal
I don’t feel good celebrating these types of wins. If it continues to take this type of effort to win games (especially against poor teams) I don’t see them making it past the first round. They’re going to be exhausted and injured