Austin and Pausha discuss the latest incident involving the Milwaukee Bucks and the Indiana Pacers after Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 64 points against Indiana just a week after being eliminated from the in-season tournament by the Pacers.
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Two time mvp finals mvp and you’re asking about a game ball from a regular season game?
Wrong Indy started to come back with the bench players in then the bucks starters came back until the end
TA with the hold me back bro 😅😂😂
Just to clarify… the Bucks DID pull their starters with 3 minutes to go (yes it was 2 minutes after Indiana did), but the Bucks reserves squandered the lead and it was back down to a 10 point lead with a couple minutes to go, so the Bucks starters checked back in to close out the game. The Pacers came back and beat the Bucks in the final minutes in their first meeting. They were not going to let that happen again.
No one here wants the truth. There is footage of the equipment manager grabbing the game ball it was in the locker room during all the crazy stuff. The pacers grab a secondary ball that was not even used in game. Gianiss chased the staffer who had the secondary ball and the pacers protected him. And then we're petty and said you not getting this ball. Mind you it's the secondary ball not even used. Gianiss was wrong about the ball and caused chaos. The equipment manager is even seen telling him they already have the ball he just was too mad. Facts are they took the ist loss personally and tried to show the pacers up by running up the score so they assumed the pacers were retaliating by taking the ball. He was wrong. And every camera angle shows it.
Giannis, as soon as he broke Michael Redd's record (at 58 points), immediately fouled on purpose so he can be subbed. That was a class act. He went to the bench. The coach decided to put the starters back in since Indiana closed the gap in the final minutes. It wasn't for Giannis to Stat pad. It was for making sure they didn't lose the game. Then he scored 6 more points. Just to clarify.
It is funny hearing to guys try to cobble together what happened through highlights just having literally no clue what happened and talking like they watched it live lol
Bet Thinasis and Portis keep their asses on the bench now that Blood Sport is back on the Pacers.
Bucks needed every one of those 64 points from Giannis. Hes averaging 53 & 12 against them and all he had to show for it was 2 L's
To be fair, oscar tshiebwe also had a career high that night.
Well first of all, Giannis and the Bucks were BIG MAD over being knocked out of a tournament that suddenly stopped mattering to the guys that were finished by the Pacers, second of all Tyrese Hali had some of his hometown peoples in attendance from Oshkosh that were chanting MVP and hollering for Hali, so that also got in the Elks heads. They are that worried about the Pacers and that mad that they have officially arrived in the NBA, postseason bound team that they were playing bully ball the entire game thinking they are something lol it looked real good for the Pacers, being honest with ya here to know they are in those Bucks players and coaches heads lolol fr and you wanna call what Tyrese did with that big mfr elbow a little flop, and assume that a 6'5 small guard Nesmith straight clobbered big ass Giannis with no flopping going on.. right? I agree there prob wasn't a flop there but Nesmith tried to reduce the damage to Giannis by hanging on preventing him from slamming too hard on the court. There will be an interesting next two games against these lame ducks I mean bucks I'll give ya that lol
The Bucks started off with the pettiness by knocking Pacers star down, elbowing Pacers players, being lil salty b____es over an IST game that "didn't matter" and they wanna bring their starters in against the Pacers third string unit to basically statpad lol come on where does the pettiness start and end? I don't agree with either side in this how they handled this game. The Pacers should have stuck up for their leader and so on and so forth. They ended up signing their enforcer from last year which every team has one