ESPN shocked Donovan Mitchell 31-Pts lead Cavaliers DESTROY Bucks 135-95 without Giannis

ESPN shocked Donovan Mitchell 31-Pts lead Cavaliers DESTROY Bucks 135-95 without Giannis

Pretty much putting up triple doubles and spectacular numbers on a night night night out basis it matters but there’s no question this team is better than they showed tonight and so after seeing the last three games against Boston against Golden State against Sacramento and obviously the high that I think this

Team was riding after beating the Sacramento Kings on some dame time gamewinners with time expiring I think we certainly expected to see a better performance from Milwaukee but the energy just wasn’t there and I think when you start the game 22-2 and you’re in that kind of whole it’s obviously

Very telling of the mentality I think that the group came in with it just wasn’t good enough to win this game and giving up 135 points and losing by 40 it just doesn’t seem like it’s something that’s going to be tolerated by Giannis or by this group I think we’ve seen poor

Performances in the past you’ve heard Rumblings come out of the locker room especially from Giannis as the leader that we need to be better and he’s going to hold guys accountable so I think especially being the 41 game Mark you would see some real things change after

After a loss like this cuz this just can’t feel good let’s get to our Menard’s big money moment it is that run that you just talked about to open up the game for the Cavaliers 22-2 uh a huge lead and from that point forward Milwaukee barely in fact if you

Look at the second half of Lone steeve they never got closer than a 25o deficit but the beginning of this game almost meant it was over you know it really does seem like it because the 22-2 Run happen so fast that Milwaukee never really did get a

Chance to make that push and make it happen again and obviously when Dame Lillard is having a poor shooting night and so is Chris Middleton and there’s no Giannis you’re just not really sure where to turn and so the truth is the only Silver Lining of this game was Jay

Crowder being his first game back I think he was obviously hoping for a lot more fun of a game to play in but nonetheless seeing him out there scoring 15 points playing 19 minutes was a really good thing for him to get those reps but when it was never closer like

Like you said then 25 points and you were down by almost 50 at one point it really did feel like it was not the Milwaukee Bucks that we’ve seen especially just recently last three games this Buck team has averaged 135 points per game and so scoring 40 points

Less than that tonight certainly out of character Giannis not being out there has something to do with it you have to give uh Cleveland credit because they had a lot to do with it and they’ve actually been holding teams their last five to just 99 points per game so they

Did have a lot to do with it you got to give them credit but I think this Bucks team has got to bounce back because they’re playing Cleveland two out of the next four games and so hopefully they can turn it around yeah they have Cleveland tonight

Two against Detroit and then two more uh against the Cavaliers at home next week so everything kind of packed into this mini playoff format if you will uh midseason so the Bucs be looking to bounce back indeed how about George niang Off the Bench obviously a big surprise for the Cleveland Cavaliers

Tonight Eva Care career high 33 points hit his first 10 shots and only missed one the entire game 13 of 14 from the field yeah he was unbelievable and I and I stand by what I said when we saw him on the bench kind of playing with his

Wrist and working on things we want to confirm that he’s not a robot because the way he played tonight it seemed like he had it locked in he couldn’t do anything wrong and every single shot looked just the same and you can just see he’s playing at his Pace he’s got

The hilarious nickname the minivan because he plays so int intentionally and so adamantly shooting those shots in the corner getting the paint with the finishes you kind of know where he’s going but he’s so intentional that he gets where he wants to go so having a

Career night scoring 33 points this is a guy who had two points against the bucks back on December 29th when they last played and couldn’t really make a shot and so he obviously snapped out of that he is on this team to shoot threes to

Space the floor and to be I think who you saw him be tonight obviously 33 points is more than I think anybody on the Cavs expected from him but he had a big performance and was basically the Jared Allen from the last time the Bucks played the Cleveland Cavaliers where

Jared Allen started out nine for9 from the field it was very similar for George Nang tonight and he was on fire couldn’t be stopped indeed now if you flip the script over to the uh the Bucks bench here R now combine 57 in this game obviously uh they got a lot of minutes

Logged in that second half after that big deficit that they face but really it’s the silver L you mentioned it late in the ball game as well what Jay Crowder was able to do Steve in his first game back he missed 31 consecutive games uh with an abductor uh injury and

More had surgery uh but the production that he had in his limited time has to be a really good sign here and then you know the bench you got to make the most of your minutes don’t you you know you do and I think you saw obviously at halftime when the Bucs were

Down by as much as they were that there was going to be some opportunities for some guys and so you did want to see Maran kind of get back in Rhythm after not playing the last few games and like you said Jay Crowder coming in and doing

What he did is a wonderful thing for his confidence and just to be in the game action like this if it was a closer game yes of course that certainly would have been good but 57 bench points is something that this Milwaukee Bucks team has really needed is for there to be a

Boost from a campaign Bobby Portis has come in and done such a good job had the big 22 points and 10 rebounds against Sacramento and so campaign the same 15 points in 11 minutes in that game and so to obviously add Jay Crowder into this

And for him to be playing well I think it really is a good thing and hopefully it just translates into good play against Detroit so Milwaukee can take care of business in those games obviously games that they should win and I would certainly think that the first game against Cleveland after those

Detroit games Milwaukee should have circled knowing that they certainly want to prove that they can do a much better job and compete with these guys like they did the previous time all right Stever we have the broadcast mercy rule going on tonight so you are cleared for the rest of the night I’ll

Take it from here good job tonight and uh we’ll see you back on the air on Saturday okay sounds good we’ll see you then all right P that’s Steve Novak we’re going to take a break come back again we’re going to hear from Adrian Griffin on the way Donovan Mitchell

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ESPN shocked Donovan Mitchell 31-Pts lead Cavaliers DESTROY Bucks 135-95 without Giannis